The Challenge of Consistently Updating Stories to Match Reality

The challenge of consistently updating stories to match reality is something that we're trying to do all the time. Our nervous system is constantly up against of oh my gosh how do i integrate all of this new information coming at me especially when just staying in the delusion that things are the same as they were yesterday conserves a lot of energy yeah. If i don't have enough energy to spend to be updating my stories all the time i'm going to stay with the old one because it got me to this day right? I can't be updating my story constantly doing that requires so much attention and energy and self-awareness and observation that if we're in a high stress situation  we don