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I found this book engaging, with practical tips to introduce into my own life.
Tips to remember:
-When you're having trouble processing a situation with some emotional distance: try visualizing the situation in your mind's eye, then "zoom" out of your body and look at the situation from outside your body's perspective. Removing yourself from the event's first person perspective should offer the opportunity to reflect more objectively. It should quiet the chatter in your head and encourage productive thinking.
-Another distancing technique to calm yourself down or problem solve: refer to yourself in the second or third person, or with your own name. That can often allow you to realize that you're overreacting to a problem.
-If you can't stop thinking about a current issue, pause to reflect on where you'll be in a week, month, year, or decade from now. Is this current problem still going to affect you then? Hopefully this will provide perspective by reminding you that this current crisis isn't permanent.
-The best way you can help a friend is to offer tangible ways to resolve their issues. Listening/commiserating with their emotions is only helpful to a point.
Tips to remember:
-When you're having trouble processing a situation with some emotional distance: try visualizing the situation in your mind's eye, then "zoom" out of your body and look at the situation from outside your body's perspective. Removing yourself from the event's first person perspective should offer the opportunity to reflect more objectively. It should quiet the chatter in your head and encourage productive thinking.
-Another distancing technique to calm yourself down or problem solve: refer to yourself in the second or third person, or with your own name. That can often allow you to realize that you're overreacting to a problem.
-If you can't stop thinking about a current issue, pause to reflect on where you'll be in a week, month, year, or decade from now. Is this current problem still going to affect you then? Hopefully this will provide perspective by reminding you that this current crisis isn't permanent.
-The best way you can help a friend is to offer tangible ways to resolve their issues. Listening/commiserating with their emotions is only helpful to a point.
As someone with anxiety and who deals with chatter on the regular I really enjoyed this book.
It had a nice blend of research and case examples mixed with personal anecdotes and reflection.
What I liked most about it though was how practical it was. This book is a toolbox with broken down suggestions and exercises that you can apply in your everyday life. So much so that Ethan Kross created a dedicated section at the end with a concise summary of all the tools that you can use that were scattered throughout the book.
I've already recommended it to others I know who struggle with the chatter.
It had a nice blend of research and case examples mixed with personal anecdotes and reflection.
What I liked most about it though was how practical it was. This book is a toolbox with broken down suggestions and exercises that you can apply in your everyday life. So much so that Ethan Kross created a dedicated section at the end with a concise summary of all the tools that you can use that were scattered throughout the book.
I've already recommended it to others I know who struggle with the chatter.
hopeful
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challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I think I will read this again. I checked it out of the library and have to return it. So much makes sense - why are people in therapy for years, why do some veterans cope better than others -
Book comes with good tips on coping with chatter. I like that there's a section with what was covered in a summary which helps bring me recall the story and case study of each tip.
Nuts and bolts, easy to follow advice on how to shut up that mean, sabotaging voice in your head. Not too much filler.
informative
inspiring
informative
reflective
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Lots of great tools and examples. Also very interesting information about research behind ruminating and both positive and negative consequences of "chatter" and reducing it.