chatter fighting strategies
Jun. 10th, 2025 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serafaeryreviewing notes on how to shift toxic mental chatter (including "2am chatter"):
address yourself by your name (shifts perspective, narrative usually will change)
temporal distancing (how will you feel about this tomorrow morning, a week from now, ten years from now?)
higher level strategies if this isn't working: go to a safe, natural space (like a park).
call to mind people who have good insight and you care for and respect who you feel supported by, and imagine how they would respond to this negative language stream.
Reasons to do this are numerous, but one is the concept that when ruminating/being consumed by chatter, it eats up our time and energy that could be used for real problem solving.
You can also go back in time instead of forward, and think of times when something like this resolved and how that resolution came about.
address yourself by your name (shifts perspective, narrative usually will change)
temporal distancing (how will you feel about this tomorrow morning, a week from now, ten years from now?)
higher level strategies if this isn't working: go to a safe, natural space (like a park).
call to mind people who have good insight and you care for and respect who you feel supported by, and imagine how they would respond to this negative language stream.
Reasons to do this are numerous, but one is the concept that when ruminating/being consumed by chatter, it eats up our time and energy that could be used for real problem solving.
You can also go back in time instead of forward, and think of times when something like this resolved and how that resolution came about.
