The moment at which a feeling of pleasure or pain begins to turn into a disturbing emotion is the point at which meditative awareness can be most effective. Before we describe or explain feelings to ourselves, how do they feel? What do we actually experience before we name them and are caught by them? Meditative awareness helps us to know and come into contact with that basic aspect of our experience of feeling.
Martine Bachelor
Mindfulbalance 
Our comparison machine, the ego, always feels superior or inferior to others, never equal, so we judge. Our bias adds suffering, ownership.
Great quote on awareness.