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Your mood is defined not by what you did but by what you thought about.

You’re in a situation in which you should be happy (spending time with friends, say, or celebrating an accomplishment), but a ruminative thought swallows your mind. What people are thinking about turns out to be a better predictor of their happiness than what they are actually doing. The scientists found that inner experiences consistently dwarf outer ones. My working memory is also highly impacted by the disorder.Kindle | Hardcover | Audiobook Why We Talk to Ourselves This particular point was interesting because I am diagnosed with ADHD, which makes it difficult for me to turn my inner voice off and focus on a task at hand.

Working memory is a part of executive functions that play a massive role in our inner voice.

It also serves as a tool to analyze the particular situation better. This practice is called distanced self-talk and is a neat psychological hack embedded in our language.

People can emotionally distance themselves from difficult situations by referring to themselves in the third person.

It seems that our inner voice is an essential human feature. Instead of hearing an inner voice as we do, they silently sign to themselves. They have a different form of inner dialogue.

Deaf people are talking to themselves too.

But some noteworthy instances made me go like: “Wow, now that’s fascinating!” The following are just a few examples of things that stood out to me. There is so much value between these pages that I can hardly name them all.

However, losing one’s inner voice can also lead to the loss of identity.

All of these methods are backed up by relatable stories the reader can immerse themselves in.

There are many things to combat chatter, like going out to seek what nature has to offer, organizing our spaces, or performing rituals to get into the right headspace.Hence why looking inside yourself might not always hold all the answers one would like to receive. Negative thoughts that cycle through our head, and are thus referred to as “chatter”, are destructive by nature.In constructive behavior, talking to ourselves can help us process difficult emotions and coach us to achieve our goals.This inner monologue we are having can be either constructive or destructive.However, our inner monologue can pop up while we multitask, making this constant conversation inescapable. Our brain automatically jumps into the “default” state whenever a current activity isn’t engaging enough.As a result, we spend most of our time inside our minds, chasing thoughts. Whenever we follow our thoughts aimlessly, we “decouple”, which is the default state of our brain.Therefore, we often engage in an inner monologue with our thoughts involving our past or our future. As humans, we have the ability to time travel within the restrictions of our brains.