You point out that every time the mind creates a thought that is then believed to be about the "me", so awareness becomes identified with that thought, the body will resist this. 

So any time there is this resistance, this repellent pushing away of one of these thoughts, (for example "people won't like me if they know me") this is a signal that the mind is believing something of its own creation.

And when you say the thought isn't true you don't mean that the suffering isn't valid, that it's not true that we feel bad when that thought is believed, right? 

You're saying that what's not true is the idea that what we are is this limited thought...

And the brain is just spitballing with its creative ideas - and then believing what is basically narrative noise.

What's harder to see here is that we are the awareness behind the thought, that witnesses the thought.

Can you say more about this thought not being true?