Inner Monologue Pt. 2

More thoughts to the inner monologue… Why do we have this part of us? What purpose does it serve? Is it something that just develops as we develop our language or is it preprogrammed into us as humans, part of how we process information?

I guess the answers to these questions are somewhere online. Before I go search them out, it fascinates me how we move between emotions and thoughts. It’s physical, emotional and then thought based information. In Bessel van de Kalks book “The Body Keeps the Score”, I learned the idea that the physical has the most influence on our being, then emotional, then our thoughts. Influence can move in the other way but it is a much slower process and takes a lot of time. It’s when we have physical pain that suddenly the rest of our being is influenced and our life is restricted. Yet when we have unhelpful thoughts, it takes a far longer time for them to affect our emotions (if they are around for long enough) which will eventually affect our physical posture and/or health.

So where does this inner monologue fit into this picture, and what can it tell us about ourselves? Probably little, though it perhaps provides a link between our emotions and our thoughts, the ones we direct. Seeing as the inner monologue works by itself from our subconscious, I could imagine it is helping or hindering habit formation. This is all pure conjecture and just a thought in itself that I may want to think about some more! Ideas that are going through my mind!

It is fascinating to observe and be aware of, unfiltered thoughts that spring up as I reflect!