Are you aware of how you talk to yourself? Your inner speech, either as self-talk or inner dialogue contributes to the formation of your beliefs and influences your mindset, mood, feelings, behaviour and actions. It is important to be aware of your inner speech, stop negative inner speech each time when you catch yourself talking in a negative way to yourself, discover the roots and triggers of your negative inner speech and work on them to release them. The presentation gives you a few tips on how to process in both cases.

1. Put Your Inner Speech at the
Service of Your Success
CSILLA PATAKI
PERSONAL STRATEGY & SUCCESS MINDSET COACH
MANIFESTATION TRAINER & COACH

2. Topics
 Inner speech – a bit of theory
 Self-talk
 Inner dialogue
 Inner speech and your success
 Belief formation
 Self-criticism
 Ruminating on the past
 Imagining the future
 Recognise, stop and change your inner speech,
learn from it

3. What’s the aim?

4. “
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Our real identity lies in inner speech, in that ceaseless stream
and generation of meaning that constitutes the individual
mind. It is through inner speech that the child develops his
own concepts and meanings; it is through inner speech that
he achieves his own identity; it is through inner speech,
finally, that he constructs his own world.
OLIVER SACKS, SEEING VOICES. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1989.

5. 1. Inner speech – a bit of theory
Inner
Speech
Self-talk Inner dialogue
 Self-criticism
 Self-reinforcement
 Self-management
 Social-assessment
 Identity Dialogues
 Maladaptive Dialogues
 Social Dialogues
 Supportive Dialogues
 Spontaneous Dialogues
 Ruminative Dialogues
 Confronting Dialogues
 Change of Perspective
”…self-directed or self-referent speech
(either silent or aloud) that serves a
variety of self-regulatory and other
functions” (Brinthaupt, 2019)
”Internal dialogue means an exchange
of thoughts or ideas between at least
two I-positions representing specific
points of view” (Hermans, 1996).

6. 2. Inner speech and Success
 Self-discovery
 Self-confidence, self-worth
 Belief formation
 Ruminating on the past
 Imagining the future
 Solving problems, taking decision

7. 3. Recognise, use, or stop and change
your inner speech
Negative inner speech
 Be aware of your self-talk and inner dialogue
 Stop your negative inner speech when you
recognise it
 Change it into positive (gratitude,
affirmations)
 Deeper work: release, change beliefs,
visualise desired future, reinforce self
confidence, learn from the negative inner talk
Positive inner speech
 Reinforce it
 Make it more conscious and prevalent

8. Practical tips
At the moment / On the spot
 Live in the present and be aware of your
feelings and thoughts
 Use gratitude and/or affirmations to change
your negative chatter on the spot
 At the beginning you can prepare gratitude
elements and affirmations
Deeper work
 Track your inner speech for 1-2 weeks
 Journal
 Analyse the main topics, types of inner
speech
 What can you learn from them?
 What do you have to change?
 What can you reinforce?
How do you address yourself in your inner speech?
First or third person, or by name?

9. Would you like support in the process of analysing and changing your inner
speech? You are welcome to join the “Change your inner speech: Tal
yourself into success!” online course available as a self-study course or a
master course with additional workshops and support in a dedicated group.
Find out more about the course:
https://www.genie-academy.com/change-your-inner-speech/

10. Thank you for your
attention!
Website: www.genie-academy.com