To complicate matters further, we then identify with those thoughts and narratives, consider them to be "my" thoughts, "my" stories about what's going to happen to "me"; we have feelings about those mental phenomena which give rise to this sense of "me" in the first place and around we go again ad infinitum. All of these, relatively [0] subtle, automatic processes, that we're not usually aware of, are part of what leads to a lack of attentiveness. The noticing of them is the first step to seeing them clearly, and once they're seen clearly they can be let go of via further attentiveness and investigation. What's happening