Self-Talk and Its Importance

 

                                                        Original Content: Business Upside

We have caught ourselves talking to ourselves quite often, sometimes loud and sometimes inside our heads. Some researches show that the small talks or the elongated ones that we do with ourselves have impacts bigger than our anticipation on us and our mental health. People who are found talking about the positive aspects of a situation are said to be in a healthier mental state and the ones who are looking at the negative side of the story and focused on it are with a negative mental state. 

When you wake up in the morning and start questioning your existence or the importance of your job it is indeed a negative way to start your day and hence you carry the negative attitude for the whole day around. However, it is very important to understand that there exists a very thin line between questioning if you should bring in some changes for betterment or you are questioning your existence as a whole. Albert Camus believed that human life is nothing but meaningless existence, in other words absurd. He wrote the book Myth of Sysiphus where he illustrates the problem of absurdity by talking about the story of Sysiphus who rolled a rock up a mountain only for it to fall back down and for him to carry it up again. This is a repeated process and Camus questions this to be a monotonous job that has no purpose. This questioning of the purpose of an action is called existentialism and when one is an existentialist they ponder upon the ways of life and why one needs to do what one does.

This is a very deep thought to be thinking about but having this thought daily does not reflect a healthy mental state as per researches. One needs to be quite positive about life, say aloud affirmations and only then they can continue having a positive outlook on life. Self-talking is way more important than we think it is but is also important to keep a check on the trail of our thoughts. 

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