Chapter 2

Managing your negative emotional chatter

In Chapter 1 we mentioned the negative voice that says you can’t do something or you’re going to get found out. If you recognise this capacity for negative emotional chatter, often the source of our negative beliefs, then you’re in good company as others experience it too. In fact, the entire human race does. You may find it reassuring to know that our brain is wired to do this.

Head science 2.1: Human brain version 1.0

The brain is an amazingly complex organ and one that still holds many mysteries that have yet to be yielded to scientists. However, recent advances in scanning technology and the combined efforts of neuroscientists and psychologists around the world are such that we have ...

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