It doesn't occur to the average man or woman that throughout the course of their lives they are constantly muttering to themselves in their head. Usually, if you saw someone doing this aloud, you'd think they were nuts. But what is the difference?

Self control? The fact that the voice is usually yours and not someone else's? But are you all that different?

You both believe in what the voice is saying. You both take the voice very seriously. It seems that all that separates you from the mad woman having a conversation with the wall is the level of self control. When you hear the voice saying "I could kill him!" logic will more than likely have the stronger hand and prevent you from lashing out. However, I ask that you search for a time in your life when the voice in your head convinced you that something was happening and it wasn't. Perhaps you felt you were being deceived but it turned out you were not. Perhaps you felt guilty or ashamed for some incident that happened in the past. In either case, that voice in your head convinced you that a threat of some form was real and so you reacted to the threat via emotion.

Sit down and pay attention to how much that voice in your head is active. How much control does it have over your life? If the voice has the power to cause anger, sadness or paranoia (fear), chances are the voice in your head has more control over what you do than you do.

If you argue with the above you might want to ask "yourself": are you the voice in your head? If so, why must you talk to yourself?