I am taking a few rest days but I plan to still stretch and maybe walk and do some extra mobility. I have been super busy at work too — and the holidays are coming. Nothing like the perfect storm of stress to get you moving right? HA!

I have been thinking about the voices in your head. Not the crazy ones that tell people to go out and do crazy shit. These are the voices in your head that tell you you aren’t good enough, thin enough, pretty enough, smart enough. The little self defeating, negative nagging voice that isn’t there to help push you. It’s there to put you down, to make you lose your nerve and continually distorts your view of yourself.

One of my favorite songs of the past few years has been Pink – F’in Perfect 

You’re so mean when you talk about yourself
You were wrong
Change the voices in your head, make them like you instead…
Pretty pretty please
Don’t you ever ever feel
Like you’re less than f—in’ perfect

Have you ever stopped and realized how many times a day your voice inside your head is mean to you? You wouldn’t let your family or friends talk to you like that – so why is it ok for you to talk to yourself like that? What happened to us that created this ugly, mean voice and what can we do about it? Is it as easy as being present in the moment and changing the tone of the voice as it’s talking to you?

Sometimes I play this game with negative people. I am sure you have a few in your life too — they are just Debbie Downers, Eeyores. Their filters on life are just skewed. Everything is half empty if not completely empty. It used to drive me crazy to be around them until I started playing this game — that I learned from one of my boot camp friends Mary Ann. She told me when you come across someone like that — turn what they are saying around into a positive. The Eeyore will either stop talking to you about stuff or they will see the light -and start seeing it in a much more positive light. And it’s a good, fun mental exercise for you as well.

You can play this game with your own little voice. I constantly have to remind myself to stop the crap talking about myself — and there is a difference with the voice that pushes you to new heights and the one that wants to just sit there loudly and prevent you from living fit and sore!

Here are some ideas I found about helping put the lights out on those negative voices in your head — I’m going to start focusing on it, how about you?