The Mindful Way Through Depression

So I first understood how mindfulness works with regard to emotional pain and reading the book The Mindful Way Through Depression. And they go through talking essentially about the thalamus. So for you, it essentially controls the bandwidth of every signal going into your sensory cortex. You're only aware of a very tiny fraction of them. If there is a signal that it thinks you need to know, so if a large centipede started crawling up your leg right now, you would immediately notice it. That's like a built-in thing that your thalamus would alert you to. Do you think there's snakes in the grass thing? Snakes in the grass is slightly different because that's