Are you not your brain? Solve in four steps

We all suffer from sometimes from urgent ideas that inflate and branch out to completely control us so that our existence is diminished to just an automatic reflection of what is happening inside our brains. We can always resist, not by denying what happens inside our brains from neural connections but by recognizing those processes, naming them, rephrasing them, intervening in directing our attention, and then re-evaluating them. All of this is done through a wiser level of awareness that exceeds the automatic awareness of the brain's neural connections. In the book "You Are Not Your Brain," we learn about a therapeutic method of four steps devised by the doctor and neuroscience researcher Jeffrey Schwartz with Dr. Rebecca Gladding, so that we do not become our brains.