Do you find that you spend a lot of time telling yourself stories? If so, you're in good company. After meditation, we read a Mindful magazine article about why this happens, and how we can work with that pattern. Here's an excerpt:

Why are these stories and personal narratives so important? By the time we reach adulthood these stories and identities are literally wired into our brains after years of rehearsal. This means that they are likely to be inflexible and habitual features of our mental and emotional landscape. We’ve also inadvertently or consciously become attached to their content, and are often no longer able to discriminate that they are, in fact, only stories