Thursday, April 11, 2013

An Ongoing Process: Calming Our Inner Critic

The hardest job we will ever do is to calm our inner critic.
Author Hannah Braime gives some tips on how to do that in her
article: "4 Ways to Use Journaling to Calm Your Inner Critic."
I wanted to post it to my blog so I can have it for reference.
Below is a dialogue tip by Braime and the link to her article.


One quick tip centers around dialogue.

"Start by asking your inner critic to tell you more about a particular statement it made recently, or with a more general dialogue about your feelings. The aim of this is to start a constructive conversation that helps you understand and even empathize with your inner critic’s motivations.

When I realized that my inner critic was trying to protect me from the criticism of specific childhood figures—people I’m not around anymore—it was a lot easier to understand, accept, and reassure the critic. Consequently, the critic’s words became less powerful."

http://tinybuddha.com/blog/4-ways-to-use-journaling-to-calm-your-inner-critic/



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