The Voice in Your Head

How You Can Bring More Peace Into Your Life

Jachym Jerie
4 min readJul 28, 2019

Ever noticed the ongoing chatter in your mind? If you just stop for a moment right now and pay attention, you’ll soon hear this voice saying all kinds of things to you.

‘I don’t like this pizza. He has betrayed me. I need to go to the laundry. I want McDonald’s now. She is out of line! I need to reassert my power!’

If you took what the voice was saying and let a person act it out right next to you, you would send them to the mental hospital.

It’s Not You

We have this voice in our head and it just blabs on about what it likes and dislikes, what has happened in the past, and what will happen in the future. It can be relentless. That voice has become so intimately linked to us that we believe we are the voice.

How can you be it if you are the one listening to it?

If you were the voice, you would be able to simply switch it off. Just like you can stop walking. Give it a try. You’ll quickly find that you can’t.

The voice is not you. The voice just pops up in your awareness.

The Worst Confidant

We don’t just listen to it, we take its advice. How often has it gotten you in trouble? How often…

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Jachym Jerie

Jachym helps people create ‘dream come true’ relationships where bickering, blaming, and nagging are things of the past. http://yourexceptionalrelationship.com/