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My twist on that is that I use 'will' instead of 'must'. Similar to Jonathan I don't think I need to alter my emotional responses and I reject such demands even from myself. "Will", "want" and sometimes "am" all work better for me. (This can just mean leaving off the first sentence there.)
I won't look for the study hyperlink, but I was also charmed by something showing that the self-question "will I X?" was interesting in that it actually movtivated people to do X (more so than something like "I must X"). That is, having a curious/wondering tone seemed helpful. I and the reporters of this result may be missing the actual cause, of course.
I've seen it, probably while reading through pjeby's work. It's one of favourite tactics. I don't recall the name he gives it but that curious wondering tone seems to work wonders.