Similar to the practice of mindfulness meditation and examining our thoughts and beliefs as impartial observers, we should caution against becoming over-identified with the ego and the concept of self.
We often live in our thoughts and feelings, it becoming habituated to negative reactions to external events.
The antidote to this is self-observation, where our attention, rather than being fixed on externals, is directed inwards.
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