Climb Down From Your Head

On the fundamentals of mental skill development

Most of us are convinced of the nature of reality not only by what we see and hear, but by the mental conversation that accompanies our physical senses.

It’s the almost relentless background mental narrative that accompanies life experience.

We identify with it completely.

The voice in your head is you; you are the one doing the talking, and it all goes on automatically. Sometimes, you can control what you think about, but most of the time, thoughts just occur, and you believe what they say.

It begs the question, who is the one who notices the thoughts?

I’ll revisit that question another time…

You may wish you didn’t have these thoughts, so you do your best to ignore them and think of something else. You distract yourself by doom-scrolling your phone, binge-watching Netflix, shopping for clothes you don’t need, injecting botox, drinking pints, snorting coke and various other non-complex frivolous activities.

When you’re stressed or when your medication of choice is unavailable, it’s more difficult to control.

The only time when the mental narrative stops is when you’re asleep or wasted.