The Perceptual Database

Why is it that you would have a negative response, the conditions of the present moment and not frame it in some way that was positive or beneficial? Maybe we should switch to the word beneficial. Then we would be talking about the database, which we rely on to create our understanding of conceptual reality - what we experience as the self. How might we develop the perceptual database in such a way that we could respond in a beneficial way to whatever the circumstances of thepresent moment are rather than in an afflictive way? It's training the mind to respond in a way that's skillful and beneficial.