What do you tell yourself about your state of health? Is your health excellent, good, fair, or poor? Over the last few years, the answers that people give to this simple question have become better predictors of who will live or die over the next decade than in-depth physical examinations or extensive laboratory tests. This question is a way of asking what our health means to us—what it represents or symbolizes in our thoughts and imagination.1 What does it mean to be human? What is meaning? Why should we seek out meaning? What do we do with it? How do we keep it? Phenomenology is a philosophy that is mainly interested in these “phenomenal” questions.