The Importance of Internal Dialogue
The compelling reasons why you should practice regular self-talk.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment — Marcus Aurelius
Words can be mentally energizing or enervating. What you say about yourself affects how you feel about life, and how you go about it. It also influences how you feel about your job and relationships.
Talking to yourself when necessary doesn’t make you a silly person. And it doesn’t matter if people think you’re going nuts or that you’re weird each time they see you talking to yourself provided that the practice is yielding desirable outcomes.
Internal dialogue is the conversation you have with yourself in your conscious state. Folks that are into it understand its importance having experienced both the small and huge benefits of self-talk.
Voices are always popping up in your head. It could be positive, or negative voices like:
- You’re a failure.
- When will you ever get it right?
- You have nothing good to offer.
- The other person is better than you.
