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(Continued from Part 2)
2. Monkeymind is all about control.
Acquiring control — editing the reality we have into the one we want — is monkeymind’s mission.
It pursues it by recalling old wounds and trying to heal them, anticipating new problems and trying to solve them.
Monkeymind is pain-driven and anxiety-driven, which is why the narrative it spins can feel like a bad horror movie.
It does this with the best of intentions.
It’s trying to heal us, protect us, make us happy.
Unfortunately the control it chases is an illusion.
So in the end what monkeymind mostly accomplishes is to make us confused, scared, angry, unhappy, and more than a little nuts.
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~ From “Monkeymind,” Chapter 19 of Monkeytraps: Why Everybody Tries to Control Everything and How We Can Stop (2015)
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