Pay attention to your inner dialogue...

Try this exercise.

Take a few minutes to sit down with a piece of paper and a pencil and write down all the things you are aware you are saying to yourself in your head.

They might be things like:

"This is silly"

"I don't have time for this"

"I must look stupid".

"I can never find a pencil in this messy house".

"I will do it later, after I ...."

"I wish I was..."

"I wish I could..."

"I should be ...".

"My mother/father, friend/partner would laugh if they saw me now"..

"I'm sure what I am thinking is nonsense"..

"I could have done that better".

I cannot stress enough how important it is to be aware of our internal voice and dialogue- after all it is the voice we hear the most.

If we can become aware of our patterns and habits we can then choose a different path, a different way to communicate with ourselves.