Welcome to Let it be easy with Susie Moore.

My friend, today we are talking about the importance of eavesdropping on yourself.

Eavesdropping, look, I'll admit I love it no matter what I love listening to what the

ladies say next to me at the cafe or behind me in the line as we're waiting to pick up

prescriptions at CDS or whatever it may be I love a good old eavesdrop. I love to hear what people

are talking about and what matters to them. I especially love it when someone says something

like, well my therapist told me, oh my gosh I love to lean in but that's

what the eavesdropping we're talking about today we're talking about paying attention to

your own mind and what you are thinking and saying to yourself, about yourself and about the world.

Now, this is what meditation often helps us achieve.

I'm not a meditator, but I have done it

and I know that that powerful ability

to observe our thoughts versus believing

that we are them that we're tangled up with them.

Being able to create that space and that separation between a thought and our

response, a thought and our feeling, our thought and our assumption, whether or not it's true just because we thought it in that moment,

meditation breaks down that instantaneous connection between us and our thinking.

And so the observer's mind is very powerful.

And today I'm going to call it the eavesdropper, which is something that I frankly don't believe I could get through my life without.

I know from studying self-help for so long now that what we think creates what we believe. What we believe

determines how we feel, how we act and show up in the world. And as a result,

our life is created by those thoughts right those

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