February 16, 2009

  • Want to know the truth about yourself?

    I am a very analytical person blessed with occasionally impressive powers of rationalization. However, I've developed a fool-proof way to get me to stop lying to myself and tell the truth. Take yourself on a car ride or otherwise distract yourself, and then start talking non-stop about whatever is bothering you or the girl you like or the fears you have. Don't shut up for a few minutes, just keep talking. It can be a little scary to hear yourself say some things, but I usually learn more about what some of my deeper thoughts are on a topic. Give it a try sometime!

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  • hahah...I feel like that's what I do on here. Or sometimes in my written journal. I did talk to myself a lot more in my house though.

    This entry made me miss my car.

  • Sounds kinda frightening - I'm not sure I'd like what I found out if I did that. 

  • One should park though when talking because I think this one-sided conversation might get a little emotion for one to concentrate on driving. Good advice, truly! 

  • I do that every day on the way home from work. Heck, sometime on the way TO work, too.

    Yeah. It works. I learn a LOT about myself that way.

  • That's great.  I discover more about myself when I start rationalizing and arguing against actions, behaviors, feelings, and etc.   When I start arguing against something then I know I need to do that which I'm arguing against.   I guess it's the same principle. 

    Blessings,

    BP

  • lol, the power of talking to yourself. XD Everyone always thinks it's so weird, but most people DO talk to themselves, so I don't get it. But this sounds like a pretty cool idea.

  • this sounds like a wonderful idea.

  • Great advice! It works ... I have done it before!

  • This can be helpful at times; I know I've done my fair share of it.  Another thing that's work for me (takes someone that you trust to do this though) is to just get some to keep asking: why, so what, and, or how.  They don't argue they don't respond they just keep pressing you on.  

  • I have been doing that for years...supposedly when you start answering yourself is when you know you are in trouble

  • I do that on a daily basis as I walk to and from work.......I have a LOT of growing to do.

  • would you say that prayer accomplilshes the same thing?

  • Ever read Till We Have Faces? Your suggestion is like a shortcut to the end, toward which Orual struggles for years. Talking to ourselves is a good way to help us hear how we sound to other people -- usually small, superficial and in denial. Or wait. That was me I was talking about.

  • I did that all the time when I was driving.

  • I always do that. And I think it is perfectly healthy.

  • am I the only one who hasn't done this??
    interesting concept...

  • I think a lot when I drive and realize the crazist things... I don't speak them outloud though.

  • Meh. I do that all the time and I'm still fine with myself. Wehehehe.

  • Sounds like a good idea, I'll try this today when I'm driving home.
    @Kontzicles - Nope, you're not alone :)

  • That is an interesting way to do it. I often have trouble verbalizing like that - I do better writing it down - but next time I'm confronted with an issue, I shall do this.

  • Oddly enough, I thought you were probably very close to 28...maybe a year younger.

  • Yup.  Good method. 

  • oh man, I knew I couldn't be the only one who does this. Those long commutes were starting to get to me, so I started talking to God about anything and everything that bothers me -- out loud. It is rather humorous for me to hear what comes out, and it definitely beats trying to find a scratchy radio station to kill the silence.

  • a new persona just comes out of me whenever i talk at the throne... i don't know why but words just flow in my mind there. 

  • Sometimes I address God at the end of my session but the message isn't entirely meant for God. It's to fool myself into thinking I'm rationalizing to something else, but I'm just afraid to admit that I think aloud at times. People might mistake this for talking to myself. This tones my introspection, but at the end of my session, I say, "Look at me. I'm talking to myself..." Besides, if I did have multiple personalities, I think they'd all kill themselves from having to listen to me all the damn time. Thus, I'd be cured or dead.

    That was more morbid than I meant for this to be.

  • Haha. I do that. A lot.

    And there's always a surprise.

  • Thats a pretty good idea. I'll have to try it

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  • Do you have any idea how much you just cost the psychology and medicine industries?! You can't tell people that they can figure things out themselves! You must charge and drug them!

    Great post though! :)

  • I don't think I want to know that much about myself... and really, I don't think there's anything I don't already know. 

  • you so crazy!

  • I do this many times actually. It just brings out who I REALLY am, just like you said. :]

  • You are absolutely right. I've been doing this my whole life! And yes, sometimes it hurts to hear the truth.

  • I agree that you would find out some interesting things about yourself or that I would find out some interesting things about myself.

  • Wow, that is a neat idea haha!  I'll try it and then get funny looks while driving down the road haha! :)

  • I love talking to myself. End of story. 

  • very very true, when you keep talking some thoughts you didn't even know you had start surfacing like seamonkies.
    also true about the previous post! our 'types' are nothing like what we think they are. of course there are commonalities in what we find to be attractive about each crush let's say, something that links all of them together, but for sure it requires digging to get to.

  • When the men in white coats come to take me away, I'll be coming to you. Teehee

    Anyways. Now that I got that out of the way. Talking to yourself is great for when your conflicted about something. I do it all the time. Its when I start answering myself with different personalities that it gets a little confusing...

  • Oh my goodness! I've been doing that for years. Sometimes I even talk to God while in the car.

    Suddenly I don't feel like a maniac-- not in the slightest.

    Thanks for rationally justifying my guilty pleasure.

  • @Tom@revelife - LOL. So true.

  • I sort of do that same thing... Hee hee.... But I do it while running in the woods.....

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