An interesting article from the New York Times “The benefits of blowing up”

An interesting article from the New York Times “The benefits of blowing up”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/health/06mind.html?src=me&ref=general

The part about younger people choosing to show the emotions they are feeling because aim to be authentic and older adult choose to show the emotion they chose rings true to me. Nowadays kids are encouraged to share their feelings, because we as society have learned from the past that dealing with our feels is not only good for our mental health but it also makes us easier to deal with. Older adults raised in during the yesteryears are more prone to “instrumental emotions”, they are more likely to act as expected or in a way that does not offend or upset the statues quo and expect the same from everyone else.
I think this difference in the way the different generation chose to deal with emotions is also a bi-product of spiritual practice and teaching being accepted into the mainstream culture.