Inner voice is an around-the-clock narrator. We accept stories as a stressful nuisance Sage Grazer highlighted their potential to influence outcomes: “The story you tell yourself about a situation is going to shape how you interact in that situation, which causes a feedback loop on how it ends up going and reinforces whether your story was true or false,” she explains. “We’re generally looking to validate our own story.

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Inability to ‘quiet our mind’ is due to wrong
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2. Story
 Shivanshi enters a Geometry class thinking“
Geometry is difficult. I can not understand “ inspite
of teacher ready to explain n number of times “
mood is negative with close mindset ,lower energy
and inattentive with blocked mind.
 Spiraling thoughts feel all-consuming, making her difficult
to manage with associated suffering .
 On the contrary if she enters the situation with open
mind to learn new things as she has attended much
higher proficiency in Kumon with many kudos and
trophies ,learning would be fun ,better
understanding ready to face challenges of life i.e,
being positive frame ,optimistic and fighter with in
that she is. World would come crashing at her feet.

3. Inability to ‘quiet our mind’ is due to wrong goal rather than
less effort
 These thoughts may
 Increase our negative self-talk and
 Lower our energy
 These stories may hinder our growth rather than propelling
it.
 “You are not the voice of the mind. You are the one who
hears it.”
Michael Singer
 “awareness is the greatest agent for change,”
Eckhart Tolle
 Still, the space between awareness and change is like a
disappointing delta due to lack of .
 Awareness of inner voice
 Awareness to how to quiet it depends on chasing right goal

4. Inability to ‘quiet our mind’ is due to wrong goal rather than
less effort
 “This inner voice that we have is not something that we
want to rid ourselves of. It’s something that we want to
harness,” says Ethan Kross, professor and director of the
Emotion and Self-Control Lab at the University of Michigan.
“The challenge is to figure out if you find yourself slipping
into the dark side of chatter. How can we minimize that and
accentuate the more positive side of the inner voice?”

5. What story are you telling yourself?
 Inner voice is an around-the-clock narrator.
 We accept stories as a stressful nuisance
 Sage Grazer highlighted their potential to influence outcomes: “The
story you tell yourself about a situation is going to shape how
you interact in that situation, which causes a feedback loop on
how it ends up going and reinforces whether your story was
true or false,” she explains. “We’re generally looking to validate
our own story.
 So, if you walk into a situation with the story: ‘This is going to be
such a tough job interview. I don’t think they’re going to like
me,’ you’re not going to exude the confidence that you might if you
walked in with a sense that they’re excited to see you.”
 Grazer adds that these thoughts may increase our negative self-talk
and lower our energy, leading our stories to hinder our growth when
they could be propelling it.

6. How do we rewrite the narrative?
 Kross in his book Chatter are reassuringly simple outline and
solution.
 Relies on to rerouting on his own.
 He calls the distance self-talk practice to gain perspective.
 “I try to coach myself through a problem like I’m talking to
someone else,” he explains. “I use my own name to do it
[silently]:
 “Right Shivanshi .how are you going to manage this
situation of being scared of Geometry?”
 It’s much easier for us to give advice than to take our
own.
 Language can be a tool to help us think about ourselves
like we’re thinking about someone else.”

7. Do we really have agency over our thoughts?
 Author and neuroscientist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor had a traumatic
brain hemorrhage and she lost
 The functioning of her left hemisphere.
 Her ability to walk, talk, and remember the details of her life
 She went on to write book Whole Brain Living.
 She illustrates
 How we can link the thinking and emotional parts of our brain,
 How we feel, think, and live.
 “I can become my anger in an instant. It’s a group of cells in
my brain,” she says. “Where do I want to consciously place my
energy? Because it’s all cells and circuitry. . . . The more we
run a circuit, the more power it begins to run on its own. . . .
We have so much more power over what’s going on inside of
our brains than we have ever been taught.”

8. Enduring gift
 The freedom to choose how inner thought influence me.
 If they arise Dr. Taylor says,“We have the power to choose
who and how we want to be in any moment,” and befriend
my inner voice instead.