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“You have no life! You have no friends!” That cruel chant aimed at me by the popular girls in my small elementary school in Los Angeles cut deeply when I was a child.

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People who talk at AND reply to themselves might actually be less stressed and more productive than those who don’t.

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Positive thinkers are more optimistic, confident, and successful. Their effect is contagious and uplifts friends, coworkers, and loved ones.

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Our thoughts are not who we are.

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Your patterns became habits because of repetition. In order to rewire your brain and break up with all those unconscious thoughts that have driven you in the past, you must repeat new behavior.

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Negative self-talk is a popular defense strategy against shame, failure, and weakness. It’s also an impenetrable wall between you and contentment.

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I am a firm believer in the mind and body connection. In my experience, there is an undeniable link between emotions, personal mantras that come by way of self-talk and daily routines, and how the body looks, feels and even heals.

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Thousands of perfectly constructed cells were molded together to create you.

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He noted that during trial, the women (we made up three out of the four mockers) mumbled to ourselves in between questioning witnesses.

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When I step back and consider some of the things that I tell myself on any given day, I’m disgusted because they are mostly things that I would never be cruel enough to say to someone else. But for some reason, it’s easy and almost automatic to talk to myself like this.