YOUR CONSCIENCE

WHAT IS YOUR CONSCIENCE?

• The voice in your head telling you what to do
• The scientific name for the voice in the back of your head is called 'inner speech'
• Inner Speech: A form of internalized, self-directed dialogue: talking to oneself in silence.

THE IMPORTANCE OF INNER SPEECH

• Talking to ourselves is important in developing a sense of self
• When one loses the ability to talk to themselves, the brain and person simply exist
• To simply exist means that that person would lose the capabillity to foreshadow

WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU LOSE INNER SPEECH?

• To simply exist: the inability to talk to themselves about what is happening in their mind
• Quote from Scott Moss, a victim of stroke who lost his inner speech
• "I had lost the ability to engage in self talk. In other words I did not have the ability to think about the future...
• ...to worry, to anticipate or perceive it- at least not with words. Thus for the first 4 weeks after hospitilization..
• ...I SIMPLY EXISTED."

I BET YOU DID NOT KNOW...

• That the voice of your 'conscience' is the brain predicting your own voice
• Inner speech makes it possible to form a relationship with ourselves
• The way your conscience speaks to you is based on the way people talked to you as a child
• The voice in your head is influenced by your emotions