There is No ‘I’: How the Brain Creates the Narratives of Your Life

Your brain creates all the narratives in your life, from fear to loneliness to anxiety, etc. But it’s possible to train your brain through mindfulness to transcend its innate urge to storify everything.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Mindfulness for beginners and a respected medical researcher and professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, explains what years and years of study have taught us about the taming of the brain.

If you put people in a scanner and tell the...