If we are too passionate to separate ourselves from our mind what to do?

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For example, if I have a quarrel with someone, as a relief from that quarrel, I tend to overeat. There is a genre of food, they call it comfort food. So when life makes you uncomfortable, eat comfort food.
That is the idea. So comfort food. So people do that.
They try to get some relief through food. So that is the time when I tend to overeat and that creates problems. Then I understand, okay, this has happened.
So at that time you may indulge in that. But afterwards, okay, this is the time which happens. Rather than simply asking, why did I do that? We try to analyze the object.
Okay, what happened? This, this, this. And then I understand, okay, this is the situation which prompted this. So then I try to chart an alternative.
Okay, when this happens, what can I do? When I have a quarrel with someone, maybe instead of going towards overeating or oversleeping or whatever, maybe I can, I have this friend, maybe if I call him and I talk with him, and if I, maybe I plan in advance, sometimes I may be in trouble and I need to talk with you urgently, please respond. So then we plan out an alternative way to deal with it. So it’s not that we can constantly identify this is my mind speaking.
But it is not that we can never identify it also. We are often in a mode of goodness. See, when we are in the heat of action, at that time, we constantly start thinking this is my mind speaking, this is my mind speaking.
We become paralyzed. We do have to act in life. But there we also need times when we are more introspecting, when we observe, oh, okay, this is what happened at that time.
So when we are in the mode of goodness, that is the time when we need to plan how I can, how I can deal with the mind. And then at that time, when certain things start prompting us, that time, if we have thought in advance, then we identify this is the mind speaking. Otherwise, it is very difficult.
But if you have planned in advance, contemplated in advance, analyzed in advance, then if I have eaten enough, if I have slept enough and still I am feeling tired, then sometimes that tiredness may just not be because of actually physical need, it may just be because of mental boredom. So then I can say, I need to be tired. This is the time when I sleep because of laziness.
So that time, I may not realize it. But if I have planned it in advance, analyzed it, then I recognize it. Then maybe, you know, maybe I can talk with someone.
Maybe I can go for a walk. Maybe I can do something else. So that way we can plan.
So during the heat of the moment, it is difficult. But during other times, when we are in the mood of goodness, we observe and then we learn about how the mind works on us and how we can counter it. Hare Krishna.
If we are tormented