Shut Up, Mind! The Cycle of Bad Feelings and How to Come Out of It

21 July 2016

 - Have you ever screamed at yourself in your head? Have you ever yelled at your mind to just shut up? I know I have.
 
Sometimes it feels like there is a really annoying person living in our heads, who just won’t stop talking.
 
So what can we do with this voice? First of all, we can ask the following question: Who is that voice?
 
There is one person that does the thinking–us. And there the unbearable person in our minds. That seems like two selves. But we can’t have two selves now, can we? One of those has to be fake.
 
We might want to call the annoying voice the illusory self. The very first step is to recognize it.
You are not the illusory self.