7 Benefits of speaking out loud

As a child, I realized that one of the people I enjoyed talking to was myself. This behavior was not encouraged and I did not witness anyone else doing it, so I thought it was quirky and undesirable to talk to myself.

But in college, I discovered that there were others who spoke to myself. And later, as a professor of psychology, I observed the prevalence and utility of speaking to myself.

In my class personalityassign a day of silence. Students spend the day without talking, from waking up until they go to bed. When an assignment is first given, the two main concerns are what to do in the workplace and how to interact with your romantic partner. However, many students have since reported that the most notable deprivation cannot speak with They themselves. They do not comment on their actions, do not scream, do not swear, do not provide self-direction.

Inner self-talk takes up much of our awakened life and we accept us Inner voice As the dominant form of thinking. What’s potentially provocative is externalizing this inner voice and making it vocal.

Interestingly, it is acceptable to interact with yourself in writing.I even encouraged. In the journal, we talk to other people in our imagination, and in our journal we talk to the page called “Dear Diary.” They are both in the externalized form of talking to ourselves, and they are both It is beneficial for our happiness. Therefore, it makes sense to consider the following unenclosed actions: Talking To ourselves as a healthy and positive way to externalize our inner voice.

Below is an exploration of when and speaking to ourselves aloud can help us.

1. Complex activities guidance

I speak to myself Keep focused on us For tasks with several steps, such as assembling IKEA furniture and sewing buttons, “push the needle into the hole, look at your fingers, loop the thread through different openings.” The language moves forward and progresses in stages, so speaking to yourself can help with a particular sequence of actions, while simultaneously encouraging transitions between successive actions.

Talking to yourself aloud also provides feedback, constructive criticism, and reinforcement (“The wrong direction.. Turn the wrench in the opposite direction.”

2. Take time to process anxiety and new experiences

Talking to yourself helps us Understand and manage The unusual and surprising events in the world and the disastrous developments that almost all of us experience, including difficulties and illnesses in relations.

People traveling alone Or, by engaging in activities such as hiking, speaking out loud in a new environment, you will find these environments more accessible, self-reinforced, self-supporting, and self-speaking.managementand Social evaluation.

3. Learning new materials

If you think loudly while studying difficult materials, you can learn about them and how they interact with them. For example, research into student learning To become an emergency team Speaking out loud has shown that while promoting the development of clinical reasoning skills, there is an increased level of satisfaction with learning these skills.

4. Performance improvements

Speak loudly to improve your performance with future activities. For example, basketball players Faster and better performance After they spoke loudly about their movements.

More generally, voicing positive self-talk increases motivation Before the performance, before the performance with athletes and artists such as dancers, musicians, and actors.

5. Handling past events

After annoying situations such as nasty social interactions and disappointing academic performance, we can Overcome regret and reduce self-criticism Then, it becomes more effective by speaking out loud with yourself.

6. Monitoring internal dialogue

Negative internal self-talk is Harmfuland the same applies to externalized self-talk. Importantly speaking out loud is making negative self-talk more obvious, making it easier to hear our negativity and fix it.

In this way, speaking out loud with ourselves maximizes the benefits of positive and positive self-talk by continuing to control negative dialogue.

7. Promoting self-resistance

Pronoun “you” or, better still, speaking loudly first name Promote self-relaxationwhich enhances our ability to regulate our thoughts, emotions and behaviors. In “you” or our name, we can observe the self we are talking to and act on observation.

For example, if you are questioning your emotional response, you might say, “Why do you do that?” I Do you feel this way? ” or (if your name is Emily), you say, “Why do you do that? you Feeling like this, Emily? “This second phrasing is more self-impressive and effective in using your own name to understand your emotional self.

Speaking to ourselves using the first pronoun “i” makes us charmed to speak and hear, and less likely to encourage the distance needed to self-manipulate. What appears to be subtle paraphrases on the page makes a big difference while speaking loudly.

Research by Cross and his colleaguesParticipants who said their name or “you” during a preparatory self-talk performed better in public speech (as rated by an independent judge) than participants who prepared using “I.” using the first person. Those who used the first name or “you” then experienced self-criticism about the perceived flaws in their speech and spent time anti-maining about the flaws.

The final words about our “self”

One question must be addressed before leaving this subject. We talk to ourselves, who is speaking, who is listening? After all, each of us is a single entity.

In fact, we are of course two selves. Consider some general expressions that reveal these two self. self controlself-criticism, self-deprecation, self-respect. For example, when using self-control, the regulated self tries to manage the appetite self. Self-criticism causes the judges to rate significantly false self.

The broader view of our inherent two degrees is I and myself. When we talk to ourselves, I speak to me.¹

For those of us who are used to externalization I and myselfspeaking loud can have considerable benefits. Talking to yourself can help you to be aware of complex activities, surprising or uneasy events, learning difficult material, rehearsing performances, reflecting past events, and negativity of self-talk.