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(Before I get the schizophrenia and medications jokes, this is a serious question. Is part of your spiritual goal to help reduce your internal self-talk?)
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2007-11-26 15:08:00 · 16 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry for the typo.
2007-11-26 15:18:57 · update #1
indeed it is. i use every method at my disposal for this- meditation, chemicals, banishing rituals, jumping up and down holding a tangerine chanting "i love applesauce" and just about anything else i can try that might work. i find martial arts, yoga, and meditation to be especially helpful though. good luck in your own endeavors :)
2007-11-26 16:00:29 · answer #1 · answered by somebody 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The best way, in my opinion, to quiet the internal self-talk is to give a healthy place for it. Take at least an hour walk each day and just let your mind wander to all the thoughts it feels it needs to think. While you walk, look at the architecture in the homes you see, or observe the nature that is around you. Pretty soon you will forget that you were even thinking about anything, and you are totally distracted by your surroundings. Distraction - putting yourself in a different position, or getting involved in the lives of other people... giving service for example, are the best ways to get the focus of yourself and your own thoughts.
2007-11-26 23:12:34 · answer #2 · answered by Angie 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. When you can eliminate the "you" talking and just become an unattached observer of the dialog, you are making progress. It takes effort and repetition and I don't do it as often as I would like. I try to be conscience in all that I do, but I inevitably fail. Yet I'm am generally getting better at it and am far beyond where I was a couple years ago.
2007-11-26 23:20:12 · answer #3 · answered by Mikey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes actually, sometimes my own worse enemy is myself and I know it. I have actually learned a lot from Al-anon and AA. I am "addicted to alcoholics" is my personal joke. So, I have taught myself, in my spiritual quest and my own self- actualizing path, to Let Go, Let God....stopping the Stinking Thinking and praying instead. I say the Serenity prayer a lot, and now I can quickly recognize when my self-talk starts to get negative, and I turn it off mentally.
Good question!
2007-11-26 23:14:06 · answer #4 · answered by kittykris2002 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, if anything, I want to increase positive self-talk a bit because I don't really have any of it. I'm always calling myself a fool and stupid for making any kind of mistake. I'm trying to work thru that so I can be a better servant of Jehovah God, a better sister, friend and employee. â¥
It benefits everyone to have some positive things to say about yourself...just don't go nuts!!!âº
2007-11-26 23:15:34 · answer #5 · answered by ♥☺ bratiskim∞! ☺♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being a person that has set goals in all aspects of my life, I have to say that I really don't talk to myself, or talk myself through situations or scenarios.
My spiritual goal is to walk daily with Jesus and to show love and compassion to anyone I meet, and share Jesus with them.
2007-11-26 23:12:20 · answer #6 · answered by nicole 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm. No, not really, because I never considered this to be possible. I suppose it would help relieve some of my anxiety, since the internal self-talk is what causes me to worry excessively.
2007-11-26 23:21:00 · answer #7 · answered by Linz VT•AM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is but I continue to find it nearly impossible. I've found that the only way to quiet my inner voice is for me to be totally in the moment. The only way to do this is by performing music. The inner voice goes away and I'm just right there. I still can't do it with meditation. My brain just doesn't seem to want to work that way.
2007-11-26 23:11:29 · answer #8 · answered by oracleofohio 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I employ the authority that is granted in the name of Jesus Christ to take dominion over my own thoughts and reasonings, as it is written:
"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control."
II Timothy 1:7 Amplified Bible
and again:
"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.
We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, "
II Corinthians 10:3-5
2007-11-26 23:15:29 · answer #9 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truly internal self talk is something I thought I just did.
Seems I am not alone.
2007-11-26 23:12:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋