When most of us anticipategetting burned, our brains' pain centers reactas if we were...

[narrator] When most of us anticipate
getting burned, our brains' pain centers react
as if we were already suffering. And this reaction is so strong,
when the pain actually arrives, not much changes. Once the pain is over,
that mental anguish slowly subsides. But expert meditators
react much less in anticipation, then they feel the pain very intensely, and then activity falls much faster. Something similar is seen
in the emotional center of the brain, the amygdala. Beginners have a lot of activation there
when anticipating pain, but experts don't. [Rinpoche] There's no kind of like rumination