I Feel Better After Talking With Myself

The therapeutic value of self-conversations and creative ways of benefiting from recorded self-conversations

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After seeing my the title of my article, probably you think I am crazy. But I am not, as Sheldon on Big Bang Theory says, "I got my mother tested".

Coming from a cognitive science background, I act as my own therapist for my mild mental and emotional issues. Dealing with boredom and creating a spark in my life is a passion for me. Joy is my ultimate goal to live my life.

There are times that I enjoy talking to myself about a specific point that requires some personal insights. The challenge is one's own voice. Like many people, I used to hate my own voice. After trying many techniques that gained from my studies, I learnt how to accept and love my own voice.

As soon as I accepted and started loving my own voice, self conversations have been therapeutic and creative activities for me.

Constant self-conversations for many years helped me become more creative, produce innovative solutions at work, and consequently become an inventor.

Let me share some simple techniques I use for self-conversations.

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I record my conversations using a smartphone or laptop voice recording application.

For example, Google docs is a free tool I use for this purpose on my PC. In addition, as an added value, this free word processing software from Google converts my recorded voice to text. Then I can insert the converted text into my daily journal.

Listening to my recorded conversations later gives me clues about my mood and overall psychological state reflected during the recording moments.

This valuable information about my inner world helps me recognize important patterns about my feelings and thoughts.

Through recording my self-conversations and analysing them daily, I am like my own therapist who can monitor himself and make necessary therapeutic adjustment as required.

This self-healing activity can be beneficial to save money from therapy expenses.

In my opinion, being in control of one’s mental and emotional health is a fascinating privilege. Self-awareness, self-control, and self-discipline can open many healing doors when we are in search.

As a by-product of recorded conversations, I had the tremendous benefit of improving my conversational language skills.

It has been useful to listen to my own voice, detect my own mistakes based on my grammar knowledge, and correct them for better usage and improved conversational fluency.

This activity also contributed to improving my writing skills by adding more conversational content to my articles. Recording conversations for writers can be productive.

I used self-coversations for recording lectures for my postgraduate students studying remotely. Instead of using a reading tone, I use a conversational tone in these lectures. Many students found these unique lectures useful, warm, and enticing.

As a published author, I created multiple books with content generated by my self-talk. Interestingly, readers found the content created with self-conversations and they connected with my messages better than the ones I wrote with keyboard or pen. Of course, I do editing and formatting with a keyboard.

Self-conversations provided me with another by-product.

Self-talk is a lingual activity. It contributed to my cognitive reserves as prevention for inevitable mental decay due to aging. I fear having dementia and particularly Alzheimer's disease is very scary to me like many aging adults.

Self-conversations seem to help me maintain my cognitive reserves. Maintaining cognitive reserves is a broad topic hence I want to cover it another article in my interest areas of cognitive science studies.

Mindful thinking and talking are parts of my daily ritual.

I really feel great after talking with myself.

How about you?

Thank you for reading my perspectives.

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