Intrapersonal communication

Intrapersonal communication is the process by which a person interprets and communicates with themselves through thought, inner speech, imagery, and reflection.

Inner speech: The experience of language in the mind without audible speech. It is the verbal form of internal dialogue.
Self-awareness: Attention to and understanding of one’s own thoughts, emotions, motives, and behavior. It provides access to the inner states being interpreted.
Cognitive behavioral therapy: A structured psychotherapy that examines relationships among thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. It helps identify and change patterns of self-talk linked to distress.
Interpersonal communication: The exchange of messages between two or more people. It involves communication across people rather than within one person.
Self-talk: Statements people direct to themselves, silently or aloud, to interpret situations or guide action. Its evaluative and instructional phrases make internal communication observable.
Self-concept: The organized beliefs and evaluations a person holds about themselves. Internal messages often express or revise beliefs about the self.
Mindfulness: Attending to present-moment experience with openness and without immediate judgment. It trains observation of thoughts and feelings without automatically treating them as facts.
Social comparison theory: The theory that people evaluate themselves partly by comparing their abilities and opinions with others. Self-evaluation can depend on external comparisons, not only internal dialogue.
Metacognition: Awareness and regulation of one’s own thinking and learning. Monitoring thought lets people notice and adjust their internal messages.
Consciousness: The state of having subjective experience and awareness. Intrapersonal communication occurs within conscious experience, though thought can also be less accessible.

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