Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Miscara, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about creating some distance from the mental storyline that can be so dominating in our experience.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the

sound of the bells. Okay, today's going to be a simple strategy to use when you find yourself overly identified with the storyline moving through your mind. I know, well, if you listen to this podcast, I probably don't have to go too deep into the storyline of your mind.

What I mean by that is just the thoughts that arise in our mind that tell us something about ourselves, about a situation, about what we perceive to be some fundamental truth about the world or whatever's happening to us. You know, when we're not aware of

that storyline, we take it as fact and we get consumed by it. It triggers different emotions,

causes us to repeat certain patterns. And, you know, that whole process is in a way, you know,

mindfulness 101.

And we learned different strategies to work with kind of unhinging ourselves from that strong identification with that storyline.

Meditation practice helps with this, just becoming more aware of those thoughts as they arise

over and over and over again, which is

essentially a huge aspect of meditation. That helps unhook us from the over-identification with those

thoughts. And today I just share something, a simple thing that you can reframe in your own mind when you find that

happening that should also aid in that process. So let's say you take a break. You're working

really hard. You're a bit of an A-type personality and you actually give yourself some space to not do anything and as you're

sitting on the couch you're going for a walk and you know not in your achievement mode you notice a

thought come up in your mind that says this is weak right like some version of i am weak but let's just

say this is weak right that? That this is weak.

That thought is like a declarative statement. It's spoken as if it's truth. And if we don't catch it,

it can continue to reinforce as as a truth for us.

And it can create a complicated relationship to taking rest, taking a break,

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