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RE: Our Greatest Tool Can Be Our Greatest Weapon
What a great post, @cali-girl. It's so easy to forget how one's internal monologue can be damaging if you find yourself thinking negative thoughts/words. I'm glad I read this! You've used your words so well that I'm gonna keep coming back to your posts. Uplifting and upvoted :D
Glad I could help! :)
Most of the time we don't even realize that our internal diaglogue is toxic because it comes so naturally to us; we don't know any better...until we do. :)
"we don't know any better... until we do." I like that. :) ha ha. And thanks for correcting me too. Didn't know whether it was monologue or dialogue! Now I know better. xD
Well, you are right, too. It can be a monologue and most people would probably say it is. However, I happen to have the opinion that our egos (AKA the untrue chatter in our heads) and our authentic self (who we really are), are 2 separate entities...therefore, a dialogue.
What's funny is that I didn't even see the word "monologue" in your comment because I automatically assume inner battles are a dialogue.
I had never really thought of it like that. Food for thought!
I look at it this way:
If someone were to walk up to me on the street and say, "Hey, you're a useless human being!" I would shrug it off and not give it a second thought, and maybe even respond, "No one asked you" or something to that effect. I like to tell myself the same thing whenever stupid thoughts like that pop into my head.
Yeah. You're quite right. I suspect the most difficult thing about it is, if somebody were to say that to you, you could shrug it off because they don't really know you and have no right to call you that. But it's easy to sort of persecute yourself, for lack of a better term, because you'd have a reason to think something like that about yourself. So if you made a poor choice, you'd feel like it's totally justifiable to think something like that about yourself. But yeah, luckily, there are posts like this one to read and remind us that it's not all that bad, and that we can be our own worst enemies! :)