In the Buddhist context, craving and attachment or aversion to particular sensory or mental events, along with ignorance of the impermanent, interdependent nature of phenomena, including one's sense of Self, is what continually reinforces distortions of reality. These distortions are conceptualized as biased perceptions and cognitions of an individual's own physical or mental state and the external world. The biases can influence the present state of awareness, memory for the past, or the imagined future, and sustain a cycle of mental habit that is self-conditioning and self-perpetuating. These biases and habits of mind are described as the source of suffering in the traditional theoretical Buddhist context, and are the primary target for Buddhist meditative practice.[18, 19] The developmental model of psychopathology similarly views enduring cognitive structures and schemas of the Self and worldview as persistent negative feedback loops of negatively-biased constructions of experience, which lead to a variety of errors in interpretation (e.g., overgeneralization, selective abstraction, personalization) and an inhibition of the possibility for positive interpretation of experience