Reclaim Your Thoughts : Conquer Negative Self Talk and Negative Thinking by Using Proven Practical Techniques to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence (Paperback)

You wouldn't shame your friends if they made a mistake or gained a few, so stop doing it to yourself.

You have between 12,000 and 60,000 thoughts a day, and research indicates that around 80% of them are negative.

A certain amount of self-criticism is both normal and useful: in fact, it developed as a survival skill and can help us with personal growth and self-improvement.

That is, until it becomes automatic and develops into negative self-talk.

• Have you ever told yourself you'll never be able to achieve something?
• Has your inner voice ever told you that you need to lose weight?
• Do you often assume something's your fault, even when you know this isn't rational?

If these kinds of thoughts seem familiar to you, you're probably one of the millions of people who has a negative inner critic.

Your inner voice is constantly narrating your life, and the chances are, it sometimes has a thing or two to say that is less than encouraging.

The problem is, the longer this goes on, the more it starts to impact your life.

When we constantly tell ourselves that we don't deserve the things we want or that it's impossible to achieve our goals, we make it impossible. We get caught in a vicious cycle, and that little voice wins.

But it doesn't have to. You are stronger than that voice, and you can break the cycle.

In Negative Self Talk, you'll find out how to tell when your inner critic has overstepped the mark and learn how to squash it into submission. You'll discover:

• Negative self-talk broken down into categories so you become of aware of when you're doing it, allowing you to move forward and make necessary changes for the better
• Surprisingly simple strategies for catching your negative inner voice right in its tracks, even when you don't realize it's talking to you
• 7 common habits that could be causing your negative self-talk, and how you can guard yourself against them
• Mindset-changing techniques used by popular celebrities to battle their inner critic (that's right, even seemingly perfect individuals deal with low self-esteem)
• The #1 thing you need to do if you want to overcome negative thoughts for good
• How you can use 'cognitive restructuring' to be your own therapist, saving you hundreds on therapy sessions
• What psychologists really mean when they talk about self-compassion, and how you can easily do it yourself
• How to implement strategies to keep negative self-talk at bay for a lifetime

And much more.

If you thought constant self-doubt, comparison to others, and feelings of unworthiness were something you just had to live with, think again.

Your inner critic has a place, but it's a small place, and it should be a friend to you--not an enemy.

The world opens up with possibility when you learn how to get control over your negative self-talk: find out how today (it's easier than you think).