Peter Crone and Gary Brecka argue that your internal dialogue is an environment you live in. Self-deprecating thoughts create a toxic mental space, often rooted in childhood narratives. Brecka uses the analogy: when a fish gets sick, we treat the tank, not the fish.
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Understanding that the space you live with inside of this mind that is in any way self deprecating you're living in a hostile environment. So by reframing the fact that the mind which to me is really a space that contains the narratives that typically get formed in our childhood is the space that we live in it's the ultimate environment to me there's no more valuable piece of real estate than what is within the state of our mind and for that reason I know it's a bold statement but I don't think there's anything more toxic than dialogues that are in any way self derogatory. You living inside of that 247 that's why understanding that the space you live with inside of this mind if it has a consistent persistent conversation that is in any way self deprecating you're living in a hostile environment.
There's analogy someone told me one time describes what you're saying and it says when a fish gets sick we don't treat the fish, we treat the tank.