Practice meta-thinking by observing your thoughts instead of controlling them. Imagine your critical inner voice in a separate chair and ask if you'd befriend it. Start with gratitude to open the path toward self-forgiveness and kinder self-talk.
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If we, if we give up that much control of our biology to something that doesn't matter, it prevents us from achieving the things that do. And so a really great place for a lot of people to start who are listening to this is probably just meta thinking, right? Like paying attention to your thinking, paying attention to the language you're having. Then can we shift that more towards compassion? Many people speak to themselves in a way that they would never let someone else speak to them. And I invite people to— I've got 2 rocking chairs or swivel chairs right next to each other. And sometimes I'll sit in one and I'll imagine the person that's having the conversation with me in my head sitting on the swivel chair next to me. And so I'm almost having like this double body experience with that person. And I asked myself, is this somebody that I'd actually want to hang out with? Is this somebody I'd be friends with? Or am I waiting for this person to like get up and leave? So I can have a better day, so to speak. So I feel like sometimes we need to really pay close attention to how we're thinking and then steer the conversation in our head towards forgiveness and towards gratitude. But really it starts with gratitude and then that forgiveness
