How Do We Maintain Our Inner Critic
How do we keep this negative self-talk going? How do we continue to allow it to impact ourlives even after the original programmer is no longer around? Well, we do itby:
- repeating the messages to ourselves when we feelstressed, angry, anxious, hurt etc…
- regretting the past or worrying about the future
- setting unrealistic expectations for ourselves
- choosing behaviors that support these negativebeliefs
- criticizing, negating and discounting ourselves
- not taking risks
- discounting our feelings
- having relationships and spending time withnegative and critical people
- comparing ourselves to others
- self-criticism
- making choices that do not have integrity withour values and beliefs
- working at a job we hate or living in a homewhere we don’t feel safe
- always putting others first
How are you keeping your inner critic fed?
Posted by Barb Small at 3/15/2010 6:00 AM 
Categories: Positive Thinking, Self-talk
Tags: self-talk Self-esteem positive thinking
Categories: Positive Thinking, Self-talk
Tags: self-talk Self-esteem positive thinking
As much as I try to get rid of my inner critic, I keep her alive when I criticize others. In shifting my criticism from myself to others I still feed the inner judge.
It's only when I can be non judgmental that I'm truly free.
Imelda