Letting the negative self talk go
Yesterday I wrote a post saying how I struggle with saying a lot of negative things to myself and I got a lot of helpful suggestions.
Sometimes challenging my inner bully can be almost impossible, especially in the moment when i'm angry or upset at myself. But there is alternative, recognising that the inner bully is there and giving myself space to recognise it, accept and let it pass.
Have a look at this link where @Kaz-RO explains a bit more of the process.
@Ben-RO suggested that I make a thread so that a few us can work on this together, I know that I find doing things with other people a lot easier.
Hopefully some of you want to work on this too and we'll use this thread to talk about how we're all going with it and post some updates!
Hehe obvs! Sorry. Umm should we do the 16-22 one? Or do you want to do Bite-sized? Or something else?
Me too! Sorry got stuck in a call! Who else is here? @j95 @Bay52VU @N1ghtW1ng @Stealth_ninja @Creativegirl12 @Kaz-RO? Roll call please!
What sounds did you listen to and take notice of?
That's awesome @j95! Okay @Creativegirl12 @Stealth_ninja @Bay52VU@N1ghtW1ng i will be on this thread at 5pm ready to go. I'll start doing the very first smiling mind meditation thingy at 5:30 on the dot. Remember this is AEST, so you may have to adjust accordingly if you're not in NSW ! @Creativegirl12 Hopefully you can make it tomorrow? 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
5:30 might work for me - I'm pretty sure I get home at about that time but I never remember to check how long the bus/walk takes. Deffo can't do 2:30.
edit: typo fails a-plenty. Phone typing is the worst 😛
edit2: yep 5:30's fine for tomorrow (or any weekday really).
Yay!
Okay i want us tall to have a go at doing a smiling mind meditation at the same time (or close to it) the plan being that we talk about how we feel before and after in the thread. Who's keen?
I was thinking we could get started at 5:30pm AEST tonight, but does that work for everyone?
Good to know @j95
Anyone else good for 2:30? I know a lot of us work and while i will do this AS work (muahaha) not everyone might be able to. So it'd be cool if we could get a few more people to try a Headspace session after 5:30 as well! I will participate in this one too :).
Oops, Headspace is a different meditation app that I also use 😛 Sorry @j95! Smiling mind is free, so I'm thinking we go with that.
Hrmm maybe we should start it tomorrow when we've had a chance to wrangle all our people up @Creativegirl12 @Bay52VU @j95 ? Are there times that are particularly good or particularly terrible?
This is such an awesome idea @j95. I want to join! I should totally be trying to do this every day instead of just When Bad Brain Attacks 
Thanks @j95 it's awesome that you made this thread!
I reckon that the first step in learning to have a thought and then just let it go is a fair bit of mindfulness practice. It's a good way to get the hang of thoughts and realise they don't own you and don't always necessarily have to be true, without having to fight them in the process. SO i think maybe something cool to do would be for anyone who's keen to have a go at some mindfulness meditation once a day for a few days.
Who's keen on doing a Smiling Mind session every day for the next 3 or 4 days?
I know i have kind of talked about self-talk with a few of you and @Kaz-RO has talked to even more. So I am going to send a few @'s to see who's keen!
@Creativegirl12 @Bay52VU @redhead @FootyFan26, you folks might be interested, anyone else is most welcome to join in too!
