It is a basic, distinctive quirk of our minds that few of the emotions we carry in them are properly acknowledged, understood, or truly felt; that most of our affective content exists in an “unprocessed” form within us. Philosophical meditation seeks to lend us a structure within which to sieve the confused content that muddies our stream of consciousness. Key to the practice is regularly to turn over three large questions. The first asks what we might be anxious about right now.
