Homework Week 09 Dealing with Your Inner Critic
Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
- Louise Hay
- Be aware of your thoughts and pay attention to your ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts)
- Which ANTS play a prominent role in your mind:
- Always or Never Thinking
- Focusing on the Negative
- Catastrophic Predicting
- Mind-Reading
- Guilt Tripping
- Labeling
- Personalizing
- Going into Overwhelm
- Take a moment to go through the Total Truth process
- What are you angry about?
- What are you afraid of?
- What requests do you have?
- Express your love
- Whenever your Internal Terrorist rears its ugly head focus on asking for actionable steps to do better next time rather than just pointlessly beating yourself up
- Participate in the call and ask questions
Principle 32 – Transform Your Inner Critic into an Inner Coach is all about dealing with the nasty voices in your head. I recommend reading this Principle every day for two weeks to help rewrite your programming.