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From the moment we all wake up to the moment that we fall asleep, our minds are buzzing

all day long and constantly moving with activity.

And a massive portion of that is mental chatter in stories that we tell ourselves. It's us

talking to ourselves. It's us creating stories in our heads. And, you know, it's stories about

who we are, what we think, other people think of us, how we fit into the world, good things about us, bad things about us,

if we're good or bad, if the world is good or bad, if your boss is good or bad, what they think

of you, what you think of them. And there's these entire stories and story lands that are basically

being built in our minds all day long. And if you're unaware of it,

hopefully with this episode, you can start becoming more aware of it. Because these stories

aren't just like little thoughts that just happen in your head. They shape all of the feelings

that you feel. Every thought that you have creates a feeling of some sort

inside of your body. You have a thought that's an electrical signal from one place to another

inside of your brain. Your body creates these things that are, that basically send,

and the easiest way I think about it sends a message from your brain to your body and tells you,

hey, this is how you should feel. Your body creates hormones. And then your body creates, talks back to your brain and says, hey, yes, we are feeling

this way. So you have an anxious thought or you have a thought about what if, what if the person

doesn't like me? And you have that thought, your body's going to then click on the hormones of

stress, anxiety, and then those stress and anxiety hormones are going to, you know, trigger your brain to think, yes, we are feeling anxious right now. We should continue this,

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