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That Critical Inner Voice
And what to do with it
Take a moment to think about the following questions:
Who is the person you are the hardest on?
Who is the person that takes the brunt of your criticism?
Who is the person you talk down to the most?
More often than not, that person is yourself. That critical inner voice that gets really loud from time to time — that can be so harsh, so demeaning, so defeating, so…well… critical. We wouldn’t even dream of speaking to a child or a person we love with that tone of voice, yet we allow it to live rent-free in our head.
How can we feel good about ourselves if our thoughts are telling us we’re not worthy, or we’re a failure, or no one could possibly love us the way we are? We make a mistake and that voice lambasts us. We try to change our life for the better, but that voice tells us that we can’t or that it’s safer to stay in our misery. We want to go for our dreams, but that voice assures us that they’re impossible and that we don’t have the capacity to achieve them. The problem lies in giving credence to that voice.
Our thoughts play a massively important role in how we feel, perceive, and act. What we have to keep in mind is that our critical inner voice isn’t always our own. Some of those ‘voices’ come from family, teachers…
