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Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It

- Ethan Kross

"We talk to ourselves. And, we listen to what we say"

This book address something I'm fascinated by and struggle with. Inner chatter's quality and effect. It's something I talk about with my clients all the time. Though, even if we're not clinically anxious or depressed, it becomes apparent that our inner voice influences the quality of our emotional state. And, for most of us, it does this all day, every day.

Chatter has become apparent to you if you've ever tried to meditate and clear your mind. It doesn't happen. The mind refuses to be quiet even if we try to give it nothing much to focus on other than our breath.

Part of Kross's point is that our chatter makes toxic our inner critic. It's not merely random inner noise. We can keep ourself down, drive ourself down with too much negative criticism. His aim is not to show us how to stop the chatter, but to train it to work for, rather than against, our better selves.

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