Most people suffer from their thoughts without realizing it, confusing the mental narrative running in their head with what's actually happening. Learning to observe your thoughts instead of believing them changes everything.
So if you want to, if you're being tortured by your thoughts, as many people are, and many people don't even know that they're tortured by your thoughts, they think they're being tortured by life, whatever their life situation is so dreadful. My life. My life is so difficult and complicated, and I can't. Just can't stand it anymore. This is trouble. And then the narrative continues and continues. And you think that's your life, not knowing that it's a narrative in your mind, it's not your life. To confuse a narrative in your mind with your life is a fundamental, very dreadful error, but very, very comm.
Why alcohol feels like relief, and what it is really giving you | Eckhart Tolle
