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In religions (for example in Buddhism) the body's ego is the false one, which changes with every life. In fact we probably don't even hear ourselves until we reach enlightenment. Then it doesn't really matter because self isn't exist anymore, it was an illusion in the first place.

Related to Buddhism. I think it's new age stuff. Those self help books and motivational speakers and whatevers, and this mindfulness thing copypasted out of Buddhism, they frequently talk about the quietening of the thoughts since they are interfering noises and have to be shut down. They are baed, mkay. I find this a load of bs, even tho it's a good thing if someone can concentrate when needed without getting distracted.
The basis I think is, that lots of people's inner voice isn't helpful, but say such stuff "you won't manage", "you will fail", "this is pointless", etc etc, and propel people to give up or not even start stuff, and prevent them to be successful. Probably this comes from their childhood, when they tried to explore the "world" (like little kids tasting anything they grab), their capabilities, implement their ideas, doing whatever, and their parents constantly harassed them to not do this, not do that, warning them they'll hurt themselves, or saying they can't or incapable of doing they want to do. Basically the result of faulty parenting. So in a way it isn't really their voices, but echos of their parent's, grandparents (or the teachers in kindergartens, nurseries) etc.
But not everyone has these negative voices. Someone has encouraging thoughts, or narrating, explaining ones, which helps them process what they do.
And this leads to a problem what I have this "your thoughts aren't your thoughts" thing. Thoughts are starting points of actions, and if my thoughts aren't mine, it's easy to arrive conclusions such as: "my actions aren't mine". It takes off the responsibility, "oh I did a bad thing? it's not may fault". But then we don't get just bad thoughts but good ones, we don't do just bad actions, then those people who claim their thoughts not theirs... will they disclaim their good actions? The good results, the successes?