The voice is the running inner monologue  and/or stream of images you hear and see inside your mind. You might believe that voice is you, many people do. It’s actually just part of your mental processing. Your brain thinks to make sense of things, figure them out and solve problems. When thoughts become so automatic they appear to run beyond your conscious control, they turn into a thought stream that can seem alive.

What makes if clear that the voice is not you, and that’s it’s not alive, is that it’s not constant. In other words, your thoughts can stop and the voice can go silent, and what’s left? The listener! You! You’re still alive regardless of whether there’s a thought or not.

The key is to create enough distance between yourself the listener and the thoughts.

The more you identify with and as the voice, the more you ...