Month: October 2018

After reading all passages introducing self talk, let’s play this “self talk” game. It could be interesting but also crazy when you are surrounded with friends.

My idea is new so I need to carry out this study to test if this idea is real. After researching, we learn that self talk has two categories: positive and negative.

Positive self talk GAME:
1. If you are living in a dorm room with at least one roommate, please read following
2. The first thing when you get up in the morning, speak loudly “Today will be great!” (Try to get up at 7am)
3. Then you can brush teeth, wash face, and eat a nice breakfast
4. Before you go out for classes, do not be hurry
5. Find a large mirror and stand in front of it: pointing to yourself and say aloud of your name with “Make a great day!” (Like President Trump said ‘make a great America’)
6. Say “hello” to all professors everyday (specifically facing to all professors)
7. When you go to dinning hall for lunch and dinner, say “hello” and “thanks” to cashiers and servers (who serves you food)
8. Before you eat, talk to yourself “food is limited resources, you can’t make wastes”
9. When you go back to your dorm, don’t step in room first instead going to the bathroom and find a mirror and speak up “You did great today, [Your name]!”
10. On your bed, you should think what you have not done well and summarize the day, then speak up “You can do better tomorrow, [Your name]!”
Do all things everyday for a month and see the changes to yourself, physically and mentally.

Negative self talk GAME: (This game may make others really annoyed)
1. This is an all negative game, please play it cautiously
2. Don’t sleep until 12 and get up until 9, speak up “What a terrible day!” when you get up in the morning everyday
3. Brushing teeth, washing face, and eating a breakfast if you feel the day is not too terrible
4. Rush to class
5. Never talk to professors and leave the class before the classes end
6. Never say “hello” and “thanks” to dinning hall’s employees
7. Never talk to friends about your feelings and shout out to your roommates if you disagree with them
8. Go back to your room, take off your shoes, facing a mirror saying “What a bad day!”
9. Sleep without summarizing the performance
Try behave and perform like this for 15 days, see changes to yourself, physically and mentally.

Smart readers get my point, I encourage everyone can perform the positive self talk game everyday! I hope everyone will be positive and happy.

From the self affirmations of Stuart Smalley on Saturday Night Live, saying positive and nice things in front of a mirror helps a lot for decades. It helps us to concentrate. The practice in the video, the words and body movements help us to make more success and help us to achieve our goal.

David Sarwer is a psychologist at the Center for Weight and Eating Disorders at the University of Pennsylvania. He explains that, in fact, a mirror is one of the first and best tools he uses with some patients. He stands them in front of a mirror and guided them to use gentle and neutral language as they shape their bodies. “Instead of saying, ‘My abdomen is disgusting and grotesque,’ ” Sarwer explains, he’ll guide a patient to shout, ” ‘My abdomen is round, my abdomen is big; it’s bigger than I’d like it to be.’ ” The goal is to remove “negative” from the patient’s self-talk.

We all have an internal representation of our own bodies. Like reaching out a hand and picking up a coffee cup, we all need to think before take into actions and sometimes we say it aloud to remind us what we are suppose to do. Studies show that your internal sense is really powerful.

Research on what neurologists call motor imagery says that the neurological networks included both imagine movement and physical movement. Imagining a movement over and over can have the same effect on our brains as practicing it physically, and moreover we may do better on this physical movements.

In addition to a confident booster, your internal mind and physical movements will be largely reshaped. Psychologist Ethan Kross of the University of Michigan studied the pronouns people use when they talk to themselves silently, inside their minds. “What we find is that a subtle linguistic shift — shifting from ‘I’ to your own name — can have really powerful self-regulatory effects.” Sometimes you will have this experience. While walking down the street, your mind can’t stop thinking. Sometimes you talk to yourself with your own name instead of an “I”. Fun fact is, I did talk to myself with my own name. If I did well on a math quiz, I would say “You made it, Ran”. Although it is a subtle change, it greatly affects my mind and physical movements. For that rest of the day, I feel more confident and happy. And my friends who ate lunch with me, surprisingly, shared the same luck.

Self talk is Self affirmation. Talk to yourself more and think more will increase your possibility to succeed.

While I’m researching, Elite Daily’s article People who talk to themselves aren’t crazy, They are actually Geniuses explains how self talk helps people think orderly by introducing a study by Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

In the study, psychologists gave 20 people the name of objects (such as apples, bananas…), which they were told to find in a grocery store. During the first set of trials, the participants were expecting to be silence. In the second set, they repeated the object’s name out loud as they looked for it in the store. According to the results, test subjects found the object with greater ease when they spoke to themselves loudly while searching. Saying things out loud sparks memory. It solidifies the memory and makes it tangible.

From my experience, I always list out all things I need to buy before I go to the grocery store and while I’m looking for the merchandises, I always say them aloud like “where is bathing suit? Where is milk?” to strengthen my memory. Sometimes shopping guide feels strange and asks me “anything you need?” Although it looks really strange to talk to myself frequently in a grocery store along, it really makes my every shopping efficient. My mom don’t self talk and list out all things, she usually spent 2 hours shopping while looking for things silently. And I, spent only 40 minutes to finish the game.

Sometimes you have a very tricky wording problem, say chemistry. Wording problems always confuse me, however, reading the question out loud helps me greatly. This is I’m going to talk about next, reading out loud by yourself helps you organize your thoughts. Hearing your own voices actually can calm your brain and make you more focused and smart. Reading out loud can clarify the question and wordings will be easier to understand. This is always working for me and I did a lot better on chemistry wording problems in high school. Next time, when you have a complex wording problem. Just try read out loud the problem.

Craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent and efficient. We spend time listening to our hearts, do and say what we really want to do and say.

Have you ever being weird looks that talking to yourself while walking on the road alone? Sometimes you said “I can crash this exam” loudly on the way to the testing center, and others students watches you until you stop talking.

Well, if you now talk to yourself, no fear of others because you are not really going crazy during a period of self-talk. Good news! According to recent study, talking to yourself indicates a higher level of intelligence. This study happens in the UK schools. There were 28 participants, each was given instructions that being told to either read out loud or quietly to themselves. Then the researchers measured how these participants performed during the study. Researchers found that the participants who read the instructions loud were more concentrated and preformed more efficient.

Psychologists found the benefits of talking to yourself may come from “simply listening to yourself”. The auditory commands seem to be a better controller of behaviors then written one.

Unsurprisingly, I’m a self-talk person and I also benefit from self-talk. While I’m on my way to my dorm from library at night, I talk to myself about how today I perform. I also plan my tomorrow loudly. Weird looks but it helps. I did it everyday and my day and my tomorrow are well organized. Moreover, you really try to talk to yourself before an exam or a competition. By encouraging yourself “Just Do It!” is very helpful that improves your confidence.

So, when you go out into the world and find yourself having a conversation with yourself. Just keep thinking and talking, you may be the smartest one. Don’t stop the conversation; the conversation with yourself may be the one that make you happy in the future or help you get an A on the exam or win the first prize during a speech competition.

Everyone else don’t understand your conversation, sometimes is because you are smarter than others. You are not on the same level.

Just Try Talk To Yourself! You will be Profited.