ignite your inner fire
STEP ONE
ingredient three - belief
Exercise #6
REWORD YOUR INNER DIALOGUE
When we think, we create an automatic inner dialogue. You are always talking to yourself. We talk more to ourselves in one day than we talk to people around us in one week. Experts refer to this as your Silent Self Talk. Words you use to de- scribe yourself and your surroundings influence thoughts you hold. The quality of your life is always in sync with the quality of your inner dialogue. The objective of the following exercise is to reword the way we habitually speak to ourselves and people around us to empower our inner dialogue and consequently our thoughts.
Instructions: For the next ten days, become aware of the words you use to communicate to yourself or surroundings. For example if in a situation you get irritated and you find yourself using the words “I am angry” to describe your emotions, de-intensify it by replacing it with “I am concerned.” Remember that the more intense the words, the more intense the images created, and consequently emotions felt. When you say “I am angry,” you envision what an angry person looks like and emulate the image you know to be true of an angry person. When you lower the intensity of the words and therefore the images created, your reactions to your surroundings will change too.
