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How the stories we tell ourselves powerfully influence our emotions — and how we can rewrite them to create more freedom. Like every other human on the planet, your ego likely has a habit of reigning over your thoughts and emotions. What the emotional brain doesn’t logically understand is that the ego thinks it’s protecting us by the way that it tells stories. Everyone writes stories about their past.

What an incredibly beautiful story, thank you for sharing this in response to my own. These final lines resonate with me so strongly. The human mind, the subconscious, the conditioning from a multitude of experiences - it's all interconnected, and we're on a journey of learning who we are and what we desire without those extra layers. I often ask myself, am I changing or have I always been this way? Does it even matter?