When you're burnt out, you can't think your way out. The speaker explains how to stop identifying with the story you tell about exhaustion and instead face what's actually happening right now, without the mental overlay.
If I'm burnt out, how can I be present? But that's just an idea in your head. You start with the reality of this moment, which is not an idea about it. But to simply face what is without carrying some identity in your head that you are a burned out and depressed person. That's a conceptual identity. It becomes. Can become a conceptual identity. So you start with what is not a story about what is or a story about who you are. Because the story may be so negative that you believe in it and it becomes a closed door.
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