Ep #73: Listening and Talking to Yourself
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
All day, we are thinking thoughts. Thousands of them. Some just pop into our minds, others we think on purpose.
When our thoughts are just happening, we're listening to ourselves. But when we take charge and think on purpose, we're talking to ourselves.
In this episode, I'm talking about the difference between listening and talking, which is more important, and how to listen to yourself effectively. This is crucial when it comes to making deliberate changes in your life so listen up!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 73. |
| 0:04.8 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin |
| 0:10.3 | feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating |
| 0:15.8 | binge eating from your life. And I'm going to show you how by giving you simple tools and |
| 0:20.2 | insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host show you how by giving you simple tools and insights that you can |
| 0:21.3 | apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get to it. Hi, are you ready to listen |
| 0:31.8 | as I talked to you today? Because that is what this episode is all about, listening and talking. |
| 0:40.3 | So a coach in my coaching community once shared something that I thought was so insightful. |
| 0:46.8 | It was a quote made by a man named Dr. James Gills. |
| 0:50.9 | He's an ocular surgeon who has completed six double Ironman triathlons. I cannot even imagine |
| 0:58.9 | completing one regular one. And this guy has done six doubles. What? Anyway, when he was |
| 1:07.1 | asked how he did it, his answer was, I talk to myself more than I listen to myself. |
| 1:12.9 | So brilliant. |
| 1:15.1 | This is what mind management is, people. |
| 1:18.4 | If you are stuck in binge eating, then it is highly likely that you are not doing this. |
| 1:23.9 | You are listening to yourself far more than you are talking to yourself. So what does that mean |
| 1:30.1 | and why is it a problem? We are thinking thoughts all day long. It is estimated that we think about |
| 1:36.5 | 60,000 thoughts a day, both consciously and subconsciously. That is a lot of thoughts. Most of them are |
| 1:44.0 | ones that you have trained and programmed yourself to think. |
| 1:47.4 | Your binge eating thoughts are ones that you've trained and programmed your brain to think. |
| 1:52.0 | All the excuses and justifications you think as well as thoughts about you needing to eat, |
| 1:56.6 | needing something sweet, wanting more and more and more. I don't care. It doesn't matter. I've |
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