Chris Marti:
So if you're sitting in meditation and a situation plays out in your mind that would normally make you angry or fearful, what happens?
Pretty much the same thing as if I were just considering some hypothetical... there's a dispassionate, analytical posture toward it. I don't have much of an "emotional DVR", if that makes any sense. In daily life, I only get angry, fearful, etc while I'm in the moment... replaying events in memory doesn't elicit the same responses, in terms of feelings. I can have a memory of the feelings, but I don't "feel" the feelings. I'd say, the same thing applies to me while meditating.