One of the scariest things for many people is being alone. Alone
   with their thoughts. Meditation frightens people. It's
   isolation. You realize that "voices in the head" aren't for
   crazy people. They're for all people. We all have a multitude of
   voices, images, music, noise, ideas, calculations, all happening
   seemingly at once. You can experience it even walking or doing
   any activity but you have to ask yourself a series of questions
   on an ongoing basis. I have this "inner dialogue" CONSTANTLY
   going on in my head. I ask myself all the who what where type
   questions to myself. If I'm busy on a task and I suddenly get
   either overstressed or suddenly bored, I look up and ask myself,
   "Who am I doing this for?" and really trace it back. Sometimes
   I'm doing it because I "have to". Why do I "have to"? With a few
   moments of thought, I can usually trace it back to something.
   Could be a few words of mean girls in the 4th grade that I was
   trying to please. Or an art teacher that criticized my owl
   drawing in the 3rd grade. Or the piano teacher with the chips on
   the back of the hands. Much of what we do is to satisfy ghosts
   of our pasts that are far from present currently. ===