For those who suffer anxiety, if we listen to our self-talk, it often sounds something like this: “You’re such an idiot!”, “You’re worthless!” or “You’re disgusting!”. But…the good news is that this negative self-talk, with careful practice and attention, can be turned into positive self-talk. While positive self-talk is not an anxiety cure or prevention strategy, for some reason if you say positive things to yourself long enough, those things start to become a reality. Positive self-talk also has the added bonus of simply being distracting without the negative consequences of negative self-talk. The less you’re able to focus on negative, anxiety fueling thoughts, the more they seem to go away.
negativity
flip and turn your self talk ’round
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By Sarah ©2018
Prompt: A-Z Challenge, 21 April 2018 – S
By Sarah 
great advice. It’s easy for us to degrade ourselves but we shouldn’t.
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It’s the easy path to be mean to ourselves. Far harder to be kind, but with better outcomes!
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Yes.. Self talk self analysis guides us to be better mostly. S is six sigma. https://syncwithdeep.wordpress.com/2018/04/21/s-six-sigma-blogchattera2z-atozchallenge-atoz/?preview=true
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So true! It’s a hard one to remember. I’ve started writing a positive self-affirmation every morning, and it helps. A little.
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It is the hardest things I’ve had to work on! The natural inclination is to be the critic. My psych pointed out how harsh and cutting my self-talk was and I had never realised before! It was a light bulb moment and I’ve tried so hard to be gentler o myself. Some days more successfully than others, lol! Love the idea of affirmations.
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So true. I like this, Sarah. We can be our own enemies sometimes.
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Thank you. We are definitely our harshest critics!
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So true. If we’re always talking to ourselves and we are the ones on both sides of the conversation why not say nice things instead of mean ones? I would never talk to a stranger the way I sometimes talk to myself—and that’s just weird. If I can be kinder to myself I know it will (and does) make me kinder towards others.
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Absolutely…so true! Appreciate you stopping by
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