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Taken From Jonathan’s Blog: The Road To Mental Wellness
The Power of Self-Talk: Rewriting Your Inner Script
You wake up in the morning full of hope and conviction. “Today is going to be a great day for me.” This may seem like a passive statement, but if you stop to think about it, statements have real power.
But like the humans who conjure them up, they can be, for all intents and purposes, good or evil. Perhaps it’s better to say that the things we tell ourselves can either be good for our well-being, or they can chip away at it—leaving us in a state of angst, depression, and so on.
We often hear: “If you say something to yourself long enough, you’ll start to believe it.” In my experience, this is almost always meant in a harmful sense.
But why is that? Well, I tend to think it’s due in part to what’s known as social contagion—a process by which certain ways of seeing things (like self-talk) get filtered through rumour, culture, and group norms. In other words, we inherited the habit of seeing self-talk primarily in a negative light.
There may also be a neurological reason. Being wired to be human means, in large part, being wired to survive. When seen from…. (Read More)
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