Your mind won't shut up, and that constant self-talk is making you feel crazy. The fix is noticing thoughts as separate from yourself, acknowledging them, then letting them go. That gap between thought and reaction is where you get control back.
The mind is the cause of all of your suffering. It's constantly going. It's like your inner roommate's talking about this, it's talking about that. It's fighting for you, it's fighting against you. It's telling you to do this, it's telling you not to do this. If that inner mind was a person, you would commit them to an institution. They are insane. They never shut up. We need to develop our awareness to understand that we are not our minds. Those thoughts that come up, we can acknowledge them and let them go. And when we do that, we create this incredible internal locus of control that gives us freedom in our life. Freedom to choose what we want to do, what we want to associate with, and what we want to let go.
