Your Negative, Ruminating Mind: Here's Your Way Out | Sister Dang Nghiem

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey gang, how are we doing? I think a lot about how I would talk to the version of me at 30 or 35, a guy who was kidless, obsessed with fitness, obsessed with his career, massively ambitious.

That dude would have been deeply skeptical of the idea of speaking to himself lovingly, which is what we're going to talk about on the podcast today. So what would I say to that version of myself? I think what I would say is, bro, get over yourself. There is a ton of scientific evidence to show that rewiring your inner dialogue and counterprogramming against your inner critic has pretty serious psychological and physiological benefits.

It'll probably help you with your overall fitness and your career and your general levels of happiness. I might also quote something I heard secondhand from a meditation teacher. This is apparently something a meditation teacher said to a frustrated student who didn't like loving-kindness meditation. The teacher said, if you can't be cheesy, you can't be free. So anyway, that's, I think, what I would say to the old me, and it's what I would say to you if you have any skepticism about the seemingly cheesy but very much evidence based notion of rewiring your inner dialogue.

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