I find what works for me is practicing enough to upgrade the mind and build its emotional resilience, its ability to slide in and out of difficult (and pleasant) mind-states with less and less friction along the way. What doesn’t work is indulging in story and thinking that I can solve whatever problem has arisen. To solve these problems doesn’t take more tinkering—it takes a better set of tools—and acquiring those tools, not psychoanalysis, is what meditation does best.
