1/6 - With regards to telling if you are speaking authentically:
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2/6 - Listen to yourself talk, as if a stranger was talking. Try not to identify too much with what you are saying. Then, observe. See if what you are saying makes you feel stronger, physically, or weaker.
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3/6 - If it makes you feel weaker, stop saying it. Try to reformulate your speech until you can feel the ground under your feet solidifying. Then practice only saying things that make you strong.
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4/6 - Stop trying to use your speech to get what you want. You don’t necessarily know what you want. Instead, try to articulate what you believe to be true as carefully as possible. Then, accept the outcome.
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5/6 - Assume that your truth, as lived and spoken, will produce the best possible outcome. It’s an act of faith. But so is every other way of being.
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This part - bad advice. Just preach reasoning skills and what logical thinking is. Syllogism etc. “feelings” have literally nothing to do with logic.
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That's like saying "oxygen" has nothing to do with survival
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But what if the objective Truth makes you feel weak. Just because something makes you feel good doesn't make it true.
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This sounds like an exercise in narcissism
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The force of speech depends upon two factors: the practice of silence and the habit of studiousness. Often, one does better to remain silent in the face of the varied concerns of life. St. Maximilian Kolbe writes: «we must say only that which is necessary to settle our business.»
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This does not, however, preclude the instance of charitable speech—when a practically unnecessary word can uplift or put others at ease. As with all actions governed by prudence, experience is the ultimate teacher: what gives one life—say these things should charity depend on it.
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