Stop Telling Yourself That Story!

Whenever we're feeling emotional pain, it's a story that we're telling ourselves about our lives that's causing it. If you can figure out what that story is, you can turn off the pain.

Let me give you an example. I play a lot of computer backgammon, against a computerized opponent; we'll call him Watson after the computerized Jeopardy champ. It's almost like a meditation for me--except that it's clear that the backgammon computer program favors its buddy, Watson--also part of the computer, see where we're going with this?