Eckhart Tolle explains how mindfulness can quiet the constant internal dialogue most people experience. He describes the voice in your head as separate from who you actually are, and shows how observing it rather than fighting it creates distance from its grip.
Mindfulness is first of all, discovering the simple fact that there is a voice in your head that continuously comments on your life or on what's happening around you. The self talk. Everybody knows what the self talk is in that you talk to yourself. Sometimes you talk to yourself in the first person. I some people talk to themselves in the second person. You so you can get annoyed with yourself. And then you say, you shouldn't have done that. And then you have another thought and says, yes, but I couldn't help it. And you might even get a third voice come in. Whatever it says, why can't I get out of my self talk?
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