Do you have an inner voice?

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My inner voice works overtime, but apparently not everyone has one! :open_mouth:

@Thammenator

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Would you switch off your inner monologue (or duologues, thanks @Thammenator) if you could?

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Iā€™ve never considered the possibility of not having one. How do you make decisions?! What do you ā€œhearā€ when you read?!

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I have a very active inner voice which is frustrating at times but I canā€™t hear music in my head. Is there a term for that @Thammenator ? I can never get a song stuck in my head which is convenient, I suppose, when my kids played Baby Shark for yearsā€¦

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How do you quieten your inner voice/s? They can be rowdy sometimesā€¦and so argumentative!

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@AletLaw @Editrix - by sheer coincidence, my research at UCT is on this exact subject ā€¦ Iā€™ve got some great lay person reading material on this including the excellent book ā€œChatterā€œ by the U Michigan researcher Ethan Kross (here is his Ted Talk if you are interested)

If people are interested I could also do a bit of a session or something. I have read at least 150 scientific papers on Self-Talk in the last six months or so to do this research.

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@FranBeighton see above

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Iā€™d love to turn down the volume from time to time, but I wouldnā€™t want to switch it off completely ā€“ how would I cope without all the self-doubt?!

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Not hearing anything when you read :scream:

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@Thammenator shouldā€™ve interviewed you for this video!

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Sometimes I wish all the inner voices in my head who constantly argue with each other about whatā€™s right, wrong and the many more than fifty shades of grey inbetween will shut up and let me have a life, but alas, the inner voices of priests, angels, devils, scientists, critics, artists, children, wounded, triumphant, tricksters, jokers and the powerful justice and peace warrior voices of my ancestors make our parliament of country clowns feel like a picnic. I value the voices in my head immensely because they keep me on my toes, keep me humble, keep me questioning myself, and help me consider the many shades of grey between right and wrongā€”which means trying to walk a mile in another humanā€™s moccasins before writing them off.

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