Be Careful What You Say to Yourself—Your Mind Is Listening
Psychology Today | 12.05.2026 20:16
When you put yourself down, your mind believes what you say—that you are inadequate, flawed, incompetent, destined to fail, and so on. Your mind doesn’t take a moment to reflect, sift through the facts at hand, evaluate premises, and examine evidence to determine whether self-talk is true or not. It believes what it hears, and what it hears is what you say to yourself under your breath. What you say to yourself has sticking power, affecting your deepest feelings about yourself and sapping motivation to move on with your life.
