Hi, my name is Andy and welcome to Radiohead Space and to Monday morning in the start of

the week.

I hope you had a good weekend.

Last week, somebody messaged me through social media and they said, look, you talk a lot

about storylines in the mind, but normally you talk about negative storylines, what about

the positive storylines and what I don't know about you, but more often than not, the

mind is not inclined to get very involved in the positive storylines in our mind.

It's a bit like the news, you know, when we turn on the news for whatever reason.

We don't necessarily see lots of good news.

We kind of tend to see the bad news.

We tend to see the drama in life and the mind likes drama and this is focused very much

on our sense of self, if you take a moment to think about how you feel, when you feel calm

and relaxed in your life.

My guess is that sense of I, me, myself and I is not that strong, but when you feel angry,

that sense of I is almost empowered, there's a really strong sense of I and identity.

So from the mind's point of view, the mind wants to keep that sense of I alive so it pays

to have drama in the mind.

And so the more involved we are in negative storylines, the easier it is to keep that sense

of identity alive.

But when we let go of that, whether it's through meditation, training the mind, some

other kind of relaxation, we start to lose that attachment to the identity.

We're less concerned with the eye because we're more content.

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