Rewire How You Talk To Yourself | Ofosu Jones-Quartey

This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey, hey, everybody, how are we doing? I have often remarked that if anybody talk to me the way I talk to myself, I would likely punch that other person in the face.

This is super common, a harsh inner dialogue. It's been described as a kind of addiction, a habit that we believe on some level keeps us safe, but it really doesn't. It actually degrades our resilience. It burns us out and it can mess up our relationships with other people. So today we're going to talk about some Buddhist strategies for rewiring your inner talk track.

And my guest is Afosu Jones Corte, who's a great Dharma teacher. He's been on this show a couple of times, and he's always great. This particular episode was published back in the spring of 2024, but it's always a good time to talk about self-compassion, so we're pulling it out of the archives and reposting it. In this episode, you'll hear us talk about the relationship between self-compassion and a successful meditation practice, all the reasons people resist self-compassion, and Afosu's rebuttals to those reasons. whether self-compassion is selfish, how to do self-compassion off the cushion, including practices such as journaling, written reminders, and establishing accountability partners, how to do it on the cushion in your meditation practice, including practices such as body scans, meta, and a check-in practice that you can do at the start of your meditation sessions.

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