Saturday, April 02, 2022
Self-talk is something people do naturally all the time. Even now while you are reading this post, you are talking to yourself. Your thoughts are the source of your emotions and mood. The conversations you have with yourself can be destructive or beneficial. They influence how you feel about yourself and how you respond to events in your life.
Too often, the pattern of self-talk we’ve developed is negative. We remember the negative things we were told as children by our parents, siblings, or teachers. We remember the negative reactions from other children that diminished how we felt about ourselves. Throughout the years, these messages have played over and over in our minds, fueling our feelings of anger, fear, guilt, and hopelessness.
You may have a negative message that replays in your head every time you make a mistake. As a child you have been told, “You’ll never amount to anything” or “You can’t do anything right.” When you make a mistake—and you will because we all do—you can choose to overwrite that message with a positive one, such as “I choose to accept and grow from my mistake” or “As I learn from my mistakes, I am becoming a better person.”
Mistakes are opportunities to replace negative views of who you are with positive options for personal enhancement.
Positive self-talk is not self-deception. It is not mentally looking at circumstances with eyes that see only what you want to see. Rather, positive self-talk is about recognising the truth, in situations and in yourself. One of the fundamental truths is that you will make mistakes. To expect perfection in yourself or anyone else is unrealistic. To expect no difficulties in life, whether through your own actions or sheer circumstances, is also unrealistic.
When negative events or mistakes happen, positive self-talk seeks to bring the positive out of the negative to help you do better, go further, or just keep moving forward. The practice of positive self-talk is often the process that allows you to discover the obscured optimism, hope, and joy in any given situation.
See you next Saturday, until then have a great weekend :)
Cheers!
👾 MY TOP 5 TWEETS OF THE WEEK 👾
Innocent and funny, this is how April Fools should be like, unlike this
It’s a stress burster though
INSANE
I’m still thinking about this
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Some things that you may find interesting-
Article: Why People Are Acting So Weird
Book I am reading: Norwegian Wood by Murakami
Song I am listening to: The Reason by Hariz
Thought of the week: "What you give away is what you get, what you hoard eventually goes to random people."
Here are the last three posts if you were too occupied to read them: