Talk Kind to Yourself
Pay Attention?
Ever pay attention to what you say to yourself? Do you use kind and supportive words? Those two questions can lay the foundation to a life-enhancing process.
Many people are not aware of their inner dialogue. Stop reading this for a moment and ask yourself what would be the first thought (please make notes) that comes to your mind when you read these words:
- Love
- Emptiness
- Spouse
- Happy
- Nurturing
- Self-care
- Sad
- Work
Now take your time and give your notes a good look.
- Are these thoughts and feelings that come up often for your?
- Are they encouraging?
- Are they haunting you with unresolved or unfinished experiences?
The point of this exercise is when you start to pay attention to your self-talk, you have the means to reframe in a positive manner anything in your past, move out of future concerns, and live in the present where all your creativity and power lives—that can be healing and empowering.
Steps to Create a Self-Talk Awareness Process
Here are some steps to give you a process to become more aware of your self-talk and what to do with those areas that are troubling you:
- Zero in on a thought that feels unsettling
- Ask yourself what is this thought or feeling trying to help you understand?
- Wait patiently for the answer. Let your intuition guide you.
If you haven’t developed a trust of your intuitive nature and how it manifests for you, work on this first. Practice asking yourself questions and see what way your answers come. Does someone say something, do you read a sentence in a book, are you watching a movie and you suddenly have an aha! moment.
What Paying Attention Gives You
Each time you process another thought, feeling, experience, or reaction to a person, your past baggage is lifted and released. What replaces it is more awareness of how life works and becomes the foundation of wisdom that allows you to find a deeper meaning to your life and who you really are.
