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There is no greater joy then experiencing the world through traveling. There is more joy in remembering the memory of experiencing the world when traveling.  Remember this for your experiences our just as significant as your memory's. 

Braden Watt

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Talking to ourselves: the science of the little voice in your head

This is interesting. I have always wondered about the little voice in my head, and much more so when I turned a meditator. I recognised that inner speech was accompanied by movement in the larynx and the toungue before I even knew that electromyography even existed (which I did, incidentally, by reading this article). So thanks for confirming what I knew already.

I have answered your questionnaire about hearing voices while reading, too. I have to say that, although I am a humanist by trade, alas, I do not experience characters' dialogues as intensely as other people seem to do. This does not seem to affect my enjoyment of fiction or non-fiction although I have to admit I find Jane Austen mortally boring.

When I was younger, my inner voice was louder, ruder, and less bearable, but now it is barely there most of the time. I suspect this is connected to my 7-year (and counting) journey into meditation and wondered whether the same questionnaire could be administered to meditators and non-meditators alike. Did my meditation habit help bring the small genie under control or is it just me and a function of my getting older? That would be an interesting paper to read.

I suspect that we tend to identify with our inner dialogue, and this inner dialogue may in some cases reinforce potentially harmful habits. The mind is a great storyteller, but whether it works for us or against us is up to each of us.

Again, it would be interesting to know whether long-time meditators experience a weakened self-dialogue and, as a further step, measure whether there is a significant difference in openness to change in people at the two extremes.

(via Talking to ourselves: the science of the little voice in your head | Peter Moseley | Science | The Guardian)

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