THE
INTERNAL DIALOGUE
There
is an ever-present dialogue that takes place in
all creatures that
use language. For healthy, well-adjusted people that dialogue is filled
with
positive statements about themselves, the people around them and the
universe
they live in. For others, this internal conversation is filled with
negativity.
They don't trust themselves, their feelings, other people or life. For
these people,
life is a daily dose of misery and drudgery. Many of your fellow
humans, most
notably those in: mental hospitals; prisons; reform schools; and menial,
boring, life draining jobs,
have internal dialogues that are literally bankrupt of the possibility
that is
each human being. After you complete the following exercise I will list
a few
examples that will help to set the record straight as to where you
might fall
in the continuum between these extremes.
Exercise 1
In
a moment, I am going to ask you to stop reading and take a few minutes
to
consider some of the thoughts that "come" into your head on a regular
basis. Try to recall some of the more common things that you "hear"
yourself saying about you and the people you come into contact with and
the
world in general. Keep a pad of paper in front of you and a pencil or
pen in
your hand. When one of these thoughts
pops into the foreground write it down on the pad of paper. When you
finish
that, turn to the next page of your pad and let the next
thought come into the
foreground. Do this for fifteen to twenty minutes or until you have
about
twenty such thoughts listed. If a thought recurs, write it down again.
NOW: get a
pad and either a pencil or pen;
stop reading and do the exercise.
If you
finished the exercise you did "good". Pat yourself on the shoulder
and .......Back to IASHH
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