What is
VOICE DIALOGUE?
Voice dialogue is just having a natural
conversation or dialogue with the inner voices or selves inside you who are trying to help
you
1. Having casual two-way conversations
with your own inner selves, is
natural, positive and very helpful, particularly when you can talk
with any two selves that are both trying to help you but are locked in conflict over what
you should or should not do about life’s problems (take that new job, don’t
take it; work harder, take it easy; fight, give in; leave him now, stay on and try to fix
things).
2. Inner selves inside us have a strong desire to be recognised. They are keen to
tell us about what they want us to do or how they each think we should
act to fix things.
3. They welcome an opportunity to have a conversation or dialogue, so the process is quite
easy. It takes only a little practice, you can even do it on your own and and it does not
require special skill or training. Talking to the selves gives you the awareness you need
to separate each of them enough to bring balance back into your life, but without having
to get rid of them (because they are still part of you). They will always have important
jobs to do protecting you and you cannot and should never try to send them away. It's
better to learn to get the selves balanced and use your aware ego to enhance the drive.
4. Each of us has many inner selves, some similar to those found in other people around you, some the exact opposite of theirs. Some of yours may be quite unique, existing only in you and in no one else.
5. Neuro psychologists now acknowledge that the presence of the
inner selves as sub-personalities working inside you, is healthy and normal. In fact
everybody has them. In truth we are all the normal healthy version of a ‘multiple
personality’.
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