Well, I do it most of the time in a day when I feel like I need a quick pep talk about some matter that bothers me. And I remember I end up feeling embarrassed several times, when people around me think, I have gone all crazy. But this craziness is actually beneficial for your mental and emotional health. Sometimes, we don’t have any person around us to talk to about our feelings and thoughts, which can leave us overwhelmed and suffocate with our own emotions. And believe me, that becomes way too painful to digest and take in. I have my own experience of positive self-talking. It’s a very powerful tool to reduce your stress and improve your self-confidence. In your difficult times, your negative thoughts can be too much for you, and you might feel under the influence of your negative emotions. According to researches people who practice positive self-talk benefitted them by improving strong mental skills enabling them to solve problems efficiently, thinking differently and effectively, and being more efficient in dealing with hardships. People who do self-talk or positive talking, experience life longevity, reduced depression, lower levels of anxiety and distress, enhanced and better immune function, improved psychological and physical well-being, and greater content life.
What is Self-Talk?
Self-talk is actually your inner voice. In Sanskrit the word is called “Hrih” which helps in making sense of the world around you. Self-talk is the tool to communicate with your inner self or say the voice inside of your head. Positive self-talk is a way by which you can increase self-confidence by curbing negative emotions. There is negative self-talk as well, which enables your mind to think and create unnecessary anxiety and stress. If you constantly feel as there are more negative thoughts than positives in your life, especially coming from within then it is time to initiate positive self-talk.
Let’s have a clear picture of how self-talk benefits you:
1. Improved mental health
When you talk to yourself positively, every day, you enable yourself to be strong and resilient to take better decisions, to deal effectively with your issues and problems, you cope up better with your hardships and comprehend every single situation with positivity, as a result of which you stay away from anxiety and negative feelings. You stay happy and energetic which also improves your sleep quality and your mental health.
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2. Improved emotional health
Negative thoughts and feelings weaken your emotional health making you vulnerable to break down and experience depression. Emotional health improvement is very much important to cope up with life challenges and change perception towards people and life. Hence, positive self-talk makes you realize your real strength and flexibility to make you emotionally strong.
3. Reduced stress
It is obvious when you think positive and talk positive, to others or even to yourself you boost your positive belief and hopes that draws a positive energy towards you. This makes you feel happy and satisfied in your life over a period of time. Being emotionally and mentally positive with yourself makes your mentally resilient which reduces your stress levels, anxiety and other negative emotions, which is one of the most important benefits of self-talk.
4. Greater life satisfaction
Self-talking is of two types, positive or negative or maybe both. However, overall self-talk enables you to know yourself better and recognize your strengths and weaknesses. Self-talking positively reduces your stress, improves your sleep quality, mental and emotional health which brings greater life satisfaction over a period of time.
5. Enhanced self-esteem
Talking to yourself positively strengthens your decision-making ability, ability of dealing with negative situations and hardships. When you make better decisions and deal effectively with your life crisis and issues, you grow self-confidence and hence, improve self-esteem with improved personality as well.
6. Reduced pain and discomfort
Happy mind for happy health. According to studies, individuals mostly feel pain and discomfort when they are sad or dealing with negative emotions. They become mentally and physically prone to discomfort sensations in their body due to low levels of dopamine and serotonin. Thus, positive self-talk improves your mental health to maintain a happy and enhanced mood which reduces your pain and other discomfort.
7. Improved immunity
Another benefit of self-talk is it improves your self-confidence and your mental health. You feel happy as your mood gets elevated in general. Feeling happy boosts, the production of happy hormones such as serotonin and dopamine which not only relaxed your body but also induces good quality sleep that improves your body’s natural defense mechanism or say natural immune response.
8. Lowered risk of heart diseases
Researches have proven that lowered level of stress and anxiety leads to controlled blood pressure which improves heart health by lowering risk of heart attacks and strokes. Self-talking with high positive energy can reduce your stress levels and heart diseases risk significantly.
9. Maximum vitality
Positive thinking and attitude increase your body’s energy. You feel active, energetic and lively, which means when you talk to your inner voice and communicate with it on a regular basis, you actually improve your vitality which positive affects your psychological health.
10. Increased lifespan
Positive self-talk reduces stress, increases body immunity, boosts the production of dopamine and serotonin, reduces risk of heart diseases, and induces good quality sleep which means you improve your overall health and increase your life longevity.
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11. Improved overall physical wellbeing
With the lowered risk of heart diseases, reduced blood pressure, improved mental health, and low-stress levels you boost your state of mind, physical heath as well as emotional health which keeps you happy and active. Thus, self-talk benefits your overall physical well-being.
