in my 1st week in mindfulness therapy, my T asked me to just notice the self talk that goes on in my head.

i was suprised about how much went on that i never really noticed. so this is good that you are noticing it.

we all know the power of the subconscious, so once you're aware of it you can slowly begin to change it. you can learn to add in your rational fully conscious self's thoughts into the convo's. and you can learn to add more positive self talk because thoughts do have a lot to do with reality we create.

another thing we did in the mindfulness therapy was work with breathing techniques. this is useful because you focus on something other than your thoughts when you have to focus on breathing. she started with having me focus on my natural breath not trying to change it. then we advanced to some more *very cool* techniques like focusing on the small space in between breath in and breath out. (she said that was the breath buddha was doing when he he reached enlightenment - i still get tingles when i do that one)