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talking to yourself..
ThailandTom
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Yea so basically I have noticed that I have been talking to myself a lot recently. I was wondering if anybody else ever has or does talk to themselves and if so how regularly
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Sometimes I give a good answer to the students and other times I can't answer their question so I have to read more.
I typically feel odd when I notice this happening, but allow it anyway.
My niece has a habit of verbalizing everything in her head, but she'll probably quit once she realizes that it's polite to keep the contents of the head inaudible.
'Woohoo's', 'curses', and 'shall I buy those beans?' aside, there's other stuff too that I don't say like 'nice pair of tits' or 'learn how to drive dickhead' and somewhere in the middle that insidious internal dialogue somehow sparks off a nice conversation somewhere.
me too. i also laugh a lot to myself. i mean... REAAALLY often... i think i either look crazy half the time or just really jolly, lol. i've gotten into this habit of laughing at everything, especially when something makes me mad. instead of cursing, i just laugh at myself for allowing such a little stupid thing to get to me.
It is possible but quite difficult and takes a lot of practice. This is what is needed to learn how to "speed-read" effectively. I tried to learn it once, it was way too hard.
See, I told you so
a) To talk to a kind person
b) To hear a kind person speak
2) Secondly, reading to oneself is a modern notion. Many ancients found it necessary to read aloud in order to comprehend what was written and the style, meter, or whatever.
3) Lastly, as we grow older or are not getting enough sleep it helps to name what one is going after in order to remember what prompted the "go fetch" command inside. The act of saying the word aloud —and the subsequent act of then hearing it— use two senses which can be relied on to carry more weight than just a few brain waves being fired in the middle of a potentially overwhelming day. Efficiency sometimes counts on more than just thinking.
I heard a guy doing exactly what Jason does...talking into a phone. it sounded like a really important call - until his phone rang, giving him such a shock, he nearly dropped it.....:D
me too! i constantly have to edit out "lol" and "haha" out of my posts/emails because i try to write them exactly how i would say them, and i laugh too often.
Yea I do laugh a lot, probably too much and I do try to stop myself now and then, especially when writing on the net as you can go back and change things before you click post lol. Can't exactly do that in reality whilst mid conversation. I guess you could but then maybe you would look even more silly
In one of Luang Pu's branch meditation monasteries there lived a group of five or six monks who wanted to be especially strict in their practice, so they made a vow not to talk throughout the Rains Retreat. In other words, no word would come out of their mouths except for the daily chanting and the bi-weekly Patimokkha chant. After the end of the Rains they came to pay their respects to Luang Pu and told him of their strict practice: In addition to their other duties, they were also able to stop speaking for the entire Rains.
Luang Pu smiled a bit and said,
Luang Pu Dune Atulo - Gifts He Left Behind
Today I have spoken to myself a lot more than the past few days lol, I even have goen as far to tell myself to shut up!
I don't know if this sort of picturisation is correct or not, but I have arrived at many answers
Love And Light,
Nidish
Probably because I live alone... well, except for the pink rabbit of course, but he doesn't count because he's a ghost.
I refer to myself (when talking to myself) as "us". I understand having separate components of the mind, they all conflict and speak amongst themselves, I use the "us" to address my 'self' as a whole.
"self", however...probably better discussed on another thread lol