Principle #10
Thoughts are often one-sided and untrue. Learn to be mindful of thought instead of being lost in it.

Not only have I made up  stories, I have resigned myself to them.  Resignation is something more than accepting them as true. Resignation doesn’t allow for the  possibility that things could change. Maybe that’s what’s meant by identification. One story in particular is as much a part as of me as my skin. How do you disentangle from  your own skin? I slough off one layer, but underneath there is another layer, and another. Kornfield’s question: “What is your experience if you let these thoughts and beliefs go?” produces anxiety in me. I don’t know the answer to that question. And it’s hard to rest in the “not knowing.”