> Also; what the heck are the head voices people talk about? There's an unfortunate language collision here, where "voices in one's head" are used as an analog

> Also; what the heck are the head voices people talk about? There's an unfortunate language collision here, where "voices in one's head" are used as an analogy for both diseases like schizophrenia as well as a way of explaining one perspective that mindfulness meditation can bring. After a few years of meditation, I think of my brain as a sort of legislature or voting assembly, and a particularly rowdy one. There's a sense in which my Brain Senate speaks with one voice when they "vote" for a thought. But there's also individual factions / parties / politicians in the legislature, which have their own agendas and goals about what I should think. Personally, in my own brain, I have a pretty strong Social Anxiety Party. It makes speeches on the Senate floor about how we should cancel those first date plans because it'll probably not work out anyway. This perspective helps remind me that the rest of my brain can listen politely to that speech, and then say "yeah, we've heard that speech before, we're tired of your bullshit" and then vote down the Let's Cancel That First Date Act of 2019. Losing "votes" like this, in turn, makes the Social Anxiety Party less effective in my Brain Senate. It's not gone entirely, but it's less likely to win support for its proposals.