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Bernardo de La Paz

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22. It is a useful internal function that easily gets out of hand, like a million things like say vehicle maintenance

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or disease processes or political polarization.

The mind is just a system. A very special system and a precious system, but a system. Because mind is more like software than hardware it is abstract and slippery.

So the severity and frequency that "we do this to ourselves" is imperfection in the system. It happens, and often when it is partially buried it keeps coming back. We have to accept that stuff happens, and some of the stuff is thinking about things negatively or harmfully to some degree more or less.

When stuff happens, we deal with it and get back on track. That happens best without self-flagellation, excessive self-blame, repeated rut tracing, etc.

Practice it. Practice doesn't make perfect, but it does make better.

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