The act of thinking about stressful experience that keeps our physiological stress response activated is not a good formula for health and longevity. Mao, the problem wasn't what happened to my cardio vascular system while we were chatting. But you choose to say that we shouldn't stop the negative chatter. We should, in fact, harness it,. i think is interesting for two reasons. One is that we want some negative chatter, which is important. The second is that, like, we can control it.
It can speak to us in the middle of a work project, the middle of a date, or the middle of the night. The critical voice in our head telling us we're just not good enough and we're headed for failure. Listener Patricia Branigan wrote in to ask what we can do the quiet down this chatter.
To explain what damage negative self-talk does to us and explore some simple strategies to challenge our inner critic, Dr Laurie Santos is joined by "chatter" expert Ethan Kross (professor of psychology and management at the University of Michigan).
You can read more in Ethan's book 'Chatter: The Voice in our Head (And How to Harness it)'.
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