Are you tired of that same old rehashed personal growth advice that all seems to boil down to,

think positively and all your problems will go away.

If affirmations feel like lies and positive thinking feels like denial,

then I want you to get ready.

The overwhelmed brain is here to help you create the life you want now. Hello this is Paul Kolyani host of the overwhelmed brain the personal growth show for the critical thinker.

On this show I discuss practical down-to-earth steps to help you improve your mood, your sanity, and your life. We'll talk about why we do the things we do and

what we can do to reach higher levels of happiness and lower levels of stress and overwhelm.

Today I want to go over what you say to and about yourself

inside your head.

It's that inner dialogue that puts you down and makes you feel less than who you really are.

Negative self-talk is like having a 24-hour complainer inside of you, nagging you, telling you you're wrong or dumb and will never succeed.

It's that inner voice that doesn't support you and only has one thing in mind for you

to remind you that you are going to fail. It doesn't even matter if you succeed

over and over again that voice comes in and changes your mind.

This self-talk is one of the main obstructions that holds people back in life.

It's one of the major causes for feeling inadequate, insignificant, and

inconsequential. Having a voice inside your head that says things like, I'll never be able to do

this or I'm so stupid or any of a number of awful things we say to ourselves is damaging.

Not only will it stop us from honoring what we want to do in life, it will also take away our

power if we actually believe what it says. And that's just it, isn't it? We tend to believe

the negative comments and put-downs that we make up in our head.

We make them up, yet we still believe them.

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