Coaching practices for Inner Speech Executive Function

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• In my head I keep meaning to start and somehow never do, but on the rare times I actually say out loud "okay, I’m opening it now," my hands seem to follow the words
• When a problem gets hard my mind just goes quiet and blank and I sort of stall out staring at it
• I can do this thing fluently when no one’s watching, but the moment it matters I start micromanaging every step
• The instant my mind has nothing to hold onto it floods with instructions and second-guessing
• I run these long-versus-short questions through my head and always end up doing what I already wanted

Practices that may help

1. Use verbal self-instruction to initiate
   Say out loud — or in writing — the exact action you are about to do before you do it.
   Task Initiation: Overcoming the Start Problem
2. Use self-directed speech to regulate problem-solving
   Talk yourself through a hard task aloud; private speech is an internalized coaching voice.
   Zone of Proximal Development: Learning at Your Real Edge
3. Trust Self 2 — give the body an image, not instructions
   Set the target in vivid sensory terms and then let the body execute without conscious direction.
   The Inner Game: Quieting Self 1
4. Give Self 2 a concrete focus anchor
   Occupy Self 1 with a specific sensory observation task so it stops issuing unhelpful instructions.
   The Inner Game: Quieting Self 1
5. Write the answers rather than running them in your head
   The exercise only counters emotional distortion if the three answers are externalized and visible.
   The 10-10-10 Rule
6. Take an initial inventory of your parts
   Name the recurring inner voices, emotions, and reactions — one per part — without judgment.
   IFS Parts Mapping, Made Practical
7. Quieting the commentary track
   Notice the layer of continuous inner commentary on experience and practise resting in the experience itself.
   Pu: Taoist Simplicity and the Uncarved Block
8. The inner critic dialogue
   Give the inner critic a voice on paper and then respond — the goal is dialogue, not silencing.
   Shadow Work
9. Identify your Self 1 interference in real time
   Notice when your inner critic is instructing, judging, or catastrophizing — and name it as Self 1.
   The Inner Game: Quieting Self 1
10. Reading the body as a self-knowledge instrument
    Treat physical sensations in the moment as data about what is actually happening inside you.
    Svadhyaya: Self-Study as a Daily Practice

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