If we were able to hear the constant chatter in our heads -- when we're driving, for example -- it would probably sound something like this:

Is that guy going to pull in front of me what an idiot how do these people ever get their licenses my god if that woman could just see herself in that hat it's getting warm in here better turn on the air i wonder how my presentation will go bill will hate it of course but he hates everything including me but will my boss like it she's hair-brained but she told me my last presentation was good so at least she has some taste oh no the traffic's slowing down some idiot has had a wreck these people ought not to be allowed on the road what if i'm late ....

But in fact there is a way of hearing this chatter -- and putting a stop to it. It's called Step 10, and many practitioners of Step 10 will place as much, if not more, emphasis on the continuous working of it as they do on the reflective inventory we may perform from time to time.

When practicing Step 10 continuously -- or as continuously as we can -- starts to become a habit, we stumble almost immediately upon this incessant chatter, chatter, chatter that's going on in our brain. Interestingly, almost the moment we become aware of it, it ceases. Our crazy minds don't like being looked at, and looking at our crazy, over-inventive minds is a very basic part of Step 10. So we shouldn't be despondent when we turn the searchlight of the Tenth Step on our chattering minds. As we practice it routinely, that ceaseless chatter begins to stop from time to time, to be replaced with a sense of awe and wonder at what is happening in our world right now.