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Harnessing our internal chatter rather than silencing it.

Using your imagination to replay a past experience to gain objectivity.

Expressive writing about negative experiences.

Temporal distancing (mental time travel).

Distance self-talk is talking to yourself like you’d talk to another person.

Learning to zoom out and broaden our perspective.The three main categories of tools to work with chatter.Common triggers for internal chatter are uncertainty and lack of control.How we have both emotional and cognitive needs when dealing with the “chatter” in our heads.His book, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters, and How to Harness It.Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you! Ethan Kross and I Discuss How to Harness the Chatter in Our Head and… In this episode, Ethan and Eric talk about his book, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters, and How to Harness It.īut wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. In addition to countless television appearances, Ethan’s research has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and many others. He is an award-winning professor at the University of Michigan and the Ross School of Business and also the Director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory. Ethan Kross is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind.

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