<h2><b><i>Listening To, AND HEARING, Your Inner Dialogue</i></b></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Your inner dialogue is those voices that you hear arguing in your own head, yes both are you and both may have a valid view point. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The problem is we don’t take the time to listen and hear what they are saying. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">When you are having a battle to make your mind up over a decision be it important or simply about what filling to have on your jacket potato, we have this tendency to just listen to the loudest one.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet both may have important things to consider</span>

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<h3><b>The Devil vs The Angel</b></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Mine I imagine as a cheeky little devil and wonderful angel and I like both.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Both bring reasoning to my decisions making by offering opposing views on things like when I am deciding whether to train or not, what to eat, if I should call someone now or tomorrow.   </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">It goes something like this </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Angel “.. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">you will feel better if you train</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">..”</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Devil “..</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">neh chill out on the sofa be lazy for a day</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">..”</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Angel “.. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">c’mon you LOVE salad</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ..”</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Devil “..</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">ooooo imagine the taste of those garlic dough balls</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">..”</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Angel “.. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">your pal will love to hear from you</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ..”</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Devil “..</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">they haven’t bloomin rung you</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">..”</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Angel “.. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">remember your goals</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">..”</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Devil “..</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">remember life is too short to be so serious about training, you’re doing ok for 49</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">..!”</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ring any bells for you?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Well both my devil and angel have moments of quality guidance. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The problem arises when we only listen to one or we hear one louder than the other.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">We can become lazy, sedentary and eat badly or we can do too much, under eat and suffer fatigue.</span>

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<h3><b>The Practice Of Critical Thinking </b></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Critical thinking is not something that necessarily comes easily to many and even those who have had to demonstrate this skill in a Masters degree for example will tell you how complex it is. We humans are innately biased to our own view of the world and what we see MUST be right, right?!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe, maybe not….so to critically analyse a situation and make a more informed choice based on all the information our inner dialogue offers will surely result in a smarter decision or outcome, do you think?</span>

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<h3><b>How To Think Critically </b></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Asking ourselves a whole series of questions like... </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">WHAT?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">WHICH?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">WHY?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">WHEN?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">WHERE?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">WHO?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">HOW?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">...then broadening questions to hear what our inner dialogue has to say…</span>

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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eg: What will happen if I eat that? Or don’t eat that? What will I eat instead? Who cares? How will I feel? What might be the knock on effect? To Me? To others? How can I make a better choice? Is there a better choice? Do I have a choice right now? Why? </span></i>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Challenging each decision takes time if your not practised at taking time to consider, hear, listen to your gut instincts or both the devil and angel voices. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">However you look at it, we all KNOW WHAT we should do each time, but we don’t always KNOW HOW we can do it. </span>

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<h3><b>Remember Your Diary!</b></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">This is where our strategies and understanding can become enhanced with our diary for example. </span>

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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">How did I feel when I chose to eat the doughnuts? Did I really enjoy them? How much other high calorie sugary food have I consumed recently? </span></i>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">If we write down how we felt maybe with our critical thinking notes we can start to tap into a deeper awareness of our actions behaviours towards the decisions we make and how they make us feel. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The support and motivation of you as a coach or trainer will guide clients towards a better understanding of their behaviours and how they contribute to how they feel about themselves. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We should encourage our clients to understand moderation, indulgence when it’s a good thing to be enjoyed and also when its overdone and might be negatively affecting our health. Also how to adapt things for THEMSELVES not for everyone else. One individual might be able to eat more doughnuts without getting a muffin top because of their metabolic system working more efficiently. So we have to understand and hear our own inner dialogue better to really appreciate how our choices make us feel both physically and mentally.</span>

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<b>Next Time - </b><b><i>Danger Zones &amp; Times &amp; How To Modify Our Behaviour To Avoid Them</i></b>

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