Taming The Voice in Your Head

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In this episode, we discuss a simple technique to work with the often difficult voice in your head.

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	in today's
0:08.0	in today, I'm your host, Kory Muscarra,
0:09.0	and in today's episode, I'm going to share a simple tip to work with that voice in your head.
0:16.8	More to come on that in a moment.
0:18.8	First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. So, you know that voice in your head, the one that has lots of different ideas, lots of
0:50.0	different judgments about the situation, lots of things it wants to say to you and it wants
0:56.0	to say to the world. Yes, the voice within our head. Now this voice is often not a single personality. It usually has a lot of different
1:06.9	expressions and sometimes it can be really positive, other times it can be really negative, sometimes it could be a cranky voice,
1:16.7	sometimes it can sound like our parents voice, sometimes it sounds like what we would consider our authentic self.
1:24.8	And so I want to give you a strategy that you can use to work with these different expressions,
1:31.2	especially the more difficult ones.
1:35.0	The voices that tend to pull us down, make us feel worse, inferior, or just cranky.
1:44.0	And the strategy I'd like to share for working with these different voices
1:48.0	is to simply give them a name.
1:52.0	So let's start with cranky. I have a voice that I call
1:56.9	cranky quarry and this is the quarry that goes I don't want to do anything
2:01.7	today I'm tired or I'm bored or this is annoying or I want to do something else and just like child-like cranky quarry. And sometimes crankyry has a little bit of wisdom, you know.
2:15.0	Maybe regular Corrie has been working really hard and Cranky Corrie's coming in saying like, I don't want to do anything anymore.
2:22.0	So I sometimes listen to to do anything anymore.
2:22.5	So I sometimes listen to Cranky-Cory.
2:24.5	But other times cranky-Cory is just being cranky,
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