Hello, I did a talk for the NHS recently and I thought it was worth sharing a couple of the

key insights, three specifically, because this is a universal problem what I was talking about,

which is around exhaustion and burnout and whilst

there are things that we cannot do that are structural and societal there are definitely ways to

approach and look at this issue of burnout and overwhelm that's so prevalent to give ourselves some relief. And one of the things,

and I'm going to start with the heavy stuff, one of the things is about recognizing how the

mind works. Now, we all have a thinking mind that is obsessed with the idea of me.

What's going to happen to me?

What do people think of me?

How will this affect me?

He annoys me, etc.

And this is going on for all of us.

And the me mind causes us a tremendous amount of psychological

suffering. And so if we can learn to relate to the me mind differently, we can reduce that

suffering. It's not about changing it or stopping these me-obsessed thoughts.

You're not going to be able to do that, but you can change your relationship to it.

Because so many people are identified with the me mind, with the voice in the head,

thinking this is who I am, and it's that identification that causes the problem.

Now, I spoke to, as you may have heard, and it's well worth listening back to the episode, I spoke to Chris Niebauer,

who is a neuropsychologist, who wrote the brilliant book, No Self, No Problem. And in it, he basically argues that neuropsychology and neuroscience

is catching up to what the mystical wisdom traditions of the East have been saying for two and a half

thousand years. Namely, that it is our identity, excuse me, that it is our identification with

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