The way you speak to yourself matters.
@positiveheadspace
Hey guys! Apologise for being so late today!! It has been a crazy couple of days at work, but all’s good now:)) and tomorrow is FRIDAY!! Which means that the weekend is coming up real soon:))
Anyway, today I just wanted to talk about something that I tend to do quite a bit, and it’s something that has always helped me to quote. Hopefully it is a method that will work for you too!
When emotions run high (it can be anger, stress, sadness, or any of the negative feelings), it is easy to lose yourself and get stuck in a spiral. My closest friends will know that this happened to me a lot a couple of years back, but this method has helped me to regain some sort of control over what is going on when I’m spiralling.
It’s nothing fancy to be honest, but other than talking to my friends, I talk to myself.
And that was when I realised that how you talk to yourself really matters.
What I like to do is to just talk to myself from a third person’s perspective. And it’s a flexible arrangement. I used to just verbalise out what is happening, just like how I would tell it to a friend. Depending on what I felt like, I sometimes recorded it and played it back to myself afterwards. But hearing it spoken out loud is part of what helps me to figure things out.
Recently, I’ve actually just been doing something even simpler. I’ve just been repeating to myself a phrase, something like a mantra. Take for example, when I get sad or angry, I just keep repeating to myself ‘Nothing can take away your peace, Jess, nothing can take away your peace.’
That’s just one example, but of course, depending on the situation, what I say differs.
I know that everyone has different coping mechanisms and this might sound like pseudoscience to you guys, but there’s no harm giving it a try. Who knows if it might work for you!
My point is that what we tell ourselves really matters. As humans, we do tend to be a little bit harder on ourselves than on those around us. Encouraging yourself and all in all, just filling your inner narrative with positive messages will help you to have a more positive outlook on life and everything that is going on. It doesn’t help you become Superman and solve every single problem in your life and it most definitely doesn’t mean that you will no longer face problems in your life, but it gives you some strength to believe that you will be able to brave any storm that comes your way, and IMO, that is a superpower we all can have.
Have a good Friday you guys!
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