Freeing Ourselves From The Tyranny Of Negative Self-Talk

This course is a series of contemplations designed to free ourselves from the negative self-talk that is running the show in our lives - that voice in our heads! The voice that seems to bother us, torture us, and run our lives at times. Many times we are completely oblivious to the fact that there is even this "voice" in our heads. This course is an attempt to shed awareness on this voice and find a way out of this suffering.

My aim is to help you understand - experientially - the nature of this self-talk, its origin, and the reason for it being here. Once we understand the details about this self-talk a.k.a. the voice in our head, it becomes easier to free ourselves from it - through wisdom and intelligence rather than struggle and fighting it.

This is a masterclass on understanding one of the deepest and most fundamental aspects of our lives. All of us suffer from this negative self-talk but none of us were ever taught how to handle it other than fighting with it.

This course will save our energy by bringing insight into this aspect of our life and slowly freeing us from its tyranny. Welcome on this rollercoaster journey!

Leçon 1: Introduction: Are You Aware Of Your Self-Talk?

This meditation is an introduction to this voice in our head, this self-talk that seems to be incessantly going on. We ease into this contemplation with this question from the author, Deepak Ramola, "What part of you do you speak to when you talk to yourself?" We explore the precursor to this question viz. "How do you speak to when you talk to yourself?" because that is where the crux of our suffering lies.

This introduction unravels a lot of intricate details about how we handle this voice in our heads!

Leçon 2: Contemplation: How Does This Voice Rules Over Our Lives?

In this contemplation, we study the role of this self-talk that plays in our lives usually narrating mundane events, judging mistakes, and criticizing other people. It is one of the biggest misery creators in our lives: bitterness, judgments, self-hate, or just white noise.

The reason it creates this misery is that we believe what is being said.

- What if we stopped believing it?
- What if we 'saw' that what is being said is not true?
- What if we recognized that this is just a habit - not an identity?
- What if we took power from this voice?

This contemplation is designed to spray insight and wisdom on this unconscious aspect of our lives to start dissolving it.

Leçon 3: The Solution: Understanding The Voice In Our Head!

This is a longer meditation summarizing the first two lessons and then nudging us into a deeper aspect of the understanding about this phenomenon. This is a potent exploration into understanding this "voice" in our heads that seems to be pestering us and "making" us suffer. We desperately want to quiet it, win over it, shut it up.

However, before we try and get rid of it, what do we know about this voice? Whose voice is it? Where does it come from?

This meditation gets to the heart of these questions and finds a way out of it. It takes the freedom from the voice and puts it back where it belongs viz. with you.

It has a lot of nuggets to give us guidance on how to reduce the suffering from our self-talk!

Reviews

Absolutely wonderful 🙏🏽🌈🙏🏽
Your thoughts and especially your contemplative questions, are so simple, however the longer I sit in quiet contemplation with them, the more extraordinarily profound the answers become and yet remain so easy to digest and put into practice in real and meaningful ways.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us Mitesh🙏🏽
May you always be Blessed…
Grace🌻

Super x3 session course that clarified and really helped me dig into that voice in my head—in all its various personas. Just what I needed at this moment of my practice as I work on countering my self-critic.