The Negative Valence of Physical Symptoms

Having a reference point outside of your usual routine of unhappiness can actually give you a tool cognitively and emotionally to change the way you feel. The experience itself may not change, I mean, there's a few examples of this that I'll just float by you. One is that if you take physical symptoms that are unpleasant, they don't actually have intrinsic significance until you frame them conceptually. And meditation offers a kind of edge case to many of the things we've been talking about.