Personal Development Answers

                    Did you need to re-read any of the material, especially the Introduction, or any of the Visual?

 Auditory, of course, has to do with sound, what you hear, and how other people hear you.   

Sound has two components, an external component and an internal component.  

The external sounds are those that you hear that are outside of you, those originating from the numerous environments within which you interact on a daily basis.  There are sounds that your conscious mind has become so desensitized to that you are no longer aware of their effect on you.  

But that doesn’t mean that they don’t surreptitiously try to enter your being and still have an influence on you. For better or for worse they do, that is, if your nonconscious mind, through your neurology, allows it.  

Let me explain what I mean by ‘desensitized’.  

Only about 20 or so years ago, when people heard a car prang into another car, they would turn around in shock-horror, stop in their tracks, and have an urgency about going to have a look, sometimes running there.   

Now, people casually look in that direction, if it’s worth looking at, they’ll dispassionately stare, but that’s about it. 

Or, if someone tooted a horn behind you, you would be concerned that that person was inconvenienced and you would drive aside and let that car pass.   

Now, people do several things, some not very polite, and continue driving in th same lane with a “too bad buddy I’m not moving” attitude.   Isn’t that so? There are many examples of desensitization that we witness on a daily basis. 

When it’s to do with external sound, it’s your auditory receptors that have been desensitized. 

The second, and in my view the most empowering or disempowering one, is the internal component, your self-dialogue or your self-talk, the chit chat that you indulge in when you aren’t talking to someone else. 

This internal component, your self-talk, is so important that there will be a posting just on that alone in the future. 

Suffice to say at this point, that the way you talk to yourself in your head, the comments you make about yourself in your head, what you say about others in your head, what you say about anything occurring in the external world in your head will add or detract substantially from the quality of your life. 

You know what I mean - thinking:  

• “Oh, I can’t do this versus I’ll just give the task more of a go”.
  
• “Heck, what’ll happen if …….? versus I’m in control of this task and can deal with any challenge”.
  
• “Crumbs, I feel fat today, off beam, in a terrible mood, unmotivated, useless versus I feel great today and able to handle anything”.
  
• “S/he is such a so-and-so, what a grump versus saying nice words and/or asking if there is anything you can do for her/him”.
  
• “Hate her/his new hairdo” - It’s none of your business, don’t go there.
  
• “I wish they’d buzz off versus I’d love to help but not right now as I have something I need to finish”.

 Get the picture? 

Do these sound familiar?

How do they make you feel, the ones you can really identify with? 

Ever “heard” yourself say similar disempowering phrases?  Of course, we all do at some time or another. 

But it’s the behavioural pattern of how much you engage in such self-talk that is in question here. 

What are you reinforcing into your nonconscious mind about who you are and about how you respect yourself?  

It has been said that the way we treat and respect others is an indication of how we treat and respect ourselves, and vice versa.   Interesting, isn’t it?  I wonder.  

Here’s an exercise for you:  

Over the next few days to a week, take a note of what your self-talk is about, even jot down some of it down.  You’ll be amazed. Next time: the Kinesthetic receptor.

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