How to Monitor and Control Your Inner Dialogue

Your inner dialogue - the thought you think to yourself and about yourself - contribute greatly to your level of wellbeing. Monitoring and controlling the quality of this dialogue is essential to create a more happy and healthy approach to life.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Take two to three days to pay close attention to your thoughts about yourself and your current life situation. Do you often bring up past transgressions into your thoughts? Does your thinking pattern tend to be negative, for the majority of the time? How to do you think about yourself?

2. Compose your personal stop signals. Now that you are aware of your thought patterns, it is essential to stop yourself in the midst of negative self-conversation, by implementing a stop signal. Such a signal can be - snapping a rubber band you put around your wrist (check tightness, so you will not cut circulation), a phrase such as "Cancel that" or a simple word, like "Stop". Use this signal each and every time, you catch yourself in negative thoughts.

3. Replace those negative thoughts with personal chosen affirmations and words of power. These simple sentences are important, as they fill the empty space left, created by the removal of the negative sentences, and allows you to move into a more positive thought pattern.

4. Follow through on using the control words and affirmations for at least 21 days, as it takes some time for new habits to form. If you miss a day, begin counting once again. It is worth the effort!

Tips & Warnings

• You can use affirmations from books such as Louise Hay's book "You Can Heal Your Life", or write your own simple statements of power.
• For best result, start with a small collection of affirmations, between 5 and 10, that pertain to your situation, and change them only after a 21 day period to form them into a habit.