Episode 6.28: The importance of inverting the way we see ourselves for our mental health.

The habits of mind that place consciousness, self consciousness, and self awareness ahead of our nonconscious existence may without our realising it produce very serious dangers and difficulties for our mental health. We’re we to be able to unlearn those habits of mind, to rid ourselves of those habits and think more in terms of the importance of our nonconscious existence and the lives that those nonconscious thoughts govern for other people and place far less emphasis on our self-consciousness and self-awareness and self-appraisal, we might all be better off. The metaphor of the long-handled spoons.