This is very good advice. I think meditation allows you to reconnect with your lower level perceptions, both in terms of better understanding of past events and a better ability to remain calm and fully present in the midst of current events.

"I believe that true meditation is about detecting self-deception." Jorn Barger http://www.robotwisdom.com/weblogs/selfknowledge.html

Sounds like a line edited out of the original Matrix ;)