How do you talk to your inner critic? What tips or tricks have worked for you, even if it just works for a season, to not let it take control and ruin things?
@iChris hey this is BK’s inner critic.
I don’t think he’s paying any attention in the first place, and if he was, his answer would be as self serving and equivocating as you are able to imagine.
Honestly I am not convinced he is able to have a conversation about anything really. In the moment he’s running this idiotic narration about an inner critic able to burst into our dimension, you see, and all sorts of other implied nonsense, instead of what we are actually talking about. Namely, if a sense of psychological harmony is to persist we must have a way of addressing inner voices like me that yields some real value. But does he know that? Well, right now he’s just making jokes, so there’s your answer.
@iChris I assume it is on my side, there to protect me, but misguided. Sometimes it works for me to say, "thank you, I know you mean well, but I am doing this instead." If it's all upset about something I did in the past that I wish I had not done, I say to it, "thank you, lesson learned." The other thing that has been helpful for me is remembering the idea that to move a muscle is to change a thought. So I might get up and do something else for a while. None of these things work perfectly or all the time, but they have been helpful at times.
@annahavron Thanks. That's a good perspective - protective but misguided. There's always a nugget of truth in what it's trying to remind me of or tell me about myself, but it's overreacting or uninformed about the whole truth.
