open mic night for musts & have tos (6:07)https://youtu.be/vu--BHRVYzg Compulsive thoughts arise, insisting I must & have to. E.g. "I have to be on time," or "I must have a...
distinguishing thought from inner voice (4:58)We know the experience of hearing a voice within. Sometimes we recognize the voice is clearly our own, the same voice we speak with from...
ocean metaphor for the thought process (28:39)Here I sketch out a metaphor for the thought process: mind as sea, thoughts as swells, brain as reef/sandbar, thinking as surfing. I map...
thought subscriptions & falsehoods (1:25)My experience is that the mind works, in part, on a subscription model: we consciously or unconsciously train our mind to feed us certain...