Do our impulses come from outside us or inside us?

Question do our impulses come from outside us or do they also come from inside us? this question is based on the Gita Delhi article let intelligence guard the path from impulse to intent so there I had mentioned that impulses are what come to us and intent is what comes outside of us so do our impulses come from outside us or do they also come from inside us? they can happen from both generally when we think of ourselves if we think of ourselves as our body then we think of what is outside coming from the outer world is outside and when whatever is inside we consider as inside of us but when we understand that we are the souls then we understand that the physical and the mental are both outside so even the thoughts that are inside our mind not all of them are our thoughts many of them are coming from the mind which is outside of us and they are impulses coming from the mind and they are sort of the results of the past actions that we have done one of the results is that certain impressions are created those impressions create certain patterns of behavior and one such pattern of behavior is that whatever we have done or whenever we have exposed to certain temptations and we have done certain things then we feel like doing them again so when we say the impulses so certainly many impulses come from inside us that means even without being exposed to certain tempting object we suddenly start feeling that suddenly feeling agitated so that is because of the impressions which are in the mind which are now surfacing so the solution to this situation is to recognize that even our mind is external to us and to guard ourselves from our mind's suggestions not mistake them to be our own if we are to assume responsibility for our inner life then it has to begin with challenging our assumption of about our inner life what is that assumption? we think that whatever is inside me is me but actually no inside me there is the mind and the mind is not me by recognizing this we can gradually differentiate between what are those ideas and activities which are actually mine which are of my higher self and what are my impulses which are coming from the mind and which are part of my lower self and which I should avoid, neglect starve and exile from my consciousness thank you.