And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this is episode 186. It's titled Words and Language.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show. Hello people. Yet another episode. Yes. And today's

episode brings an end to the extracts from that live stream that I did.

So this one is the fourth and although you probably could get away with listening to it in a different

order to how it's all come out in, you don't necessarily need to go back to the first June episode,

which was 183 and listen to it in order.

But if you did, maybe it would make a little bit more sense.

You might get more out of them.

From July onwards now, I'll be back to the monthly episodes again, unless, of course, you're a patron on patreon.com.

And then you get one from me every Monday morning anyway but you already knew that you don't need me to to harp on about the amazing difference

that you can make to yourself and the world if you became a patron and went to patreon.com

forward slash Richard Nichols do Do you? You don't need

me to harp on about that again, do you? The link is in the show notes if you do. Now, today is called

words and language because now that we're adults, the words that we use are one of the best ways

of training the brain, how to react, how to think, which then ultimately

then controls how we feel if you give it the right circumstances and enough repetition.

Like I was saying in a previous episode, I remember quite which one it was, we could do with

paying better attention to how we talk to ourselves,

because we do listen. Even if we can block out the external influences, we're not deaf to our

own inner dialogue, are we? So we need to be careful. We need to be careful how we talk to

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