How do you silence your inner critic?

Answer 1

A meditation practice that works with the breath can help one recognize, acknowledge, feel, and release negative emotions along with destructive thought and behavioral conditioning patterns. These thought and behavioral patterns can originate from your upbringing/environment, culture, education, religion, peers, the media, etc.

This takes time and practice. When you have freed yourself from negative, conditioned states you will be truly liberated. This is true freedom. Your mind will be one of complete clarity--like a clear, blue cloudless sky. You will not live by unconscious conditioned responses or an inner critic. You will be present in each moment. This is the true nature of our mind--as opposed to the everyday ordinary mind full of mostly meaningless mental chatter.

This can be quite challenging to achieve and takes diligent and persistent effort. Every person has the potential to attain this state. AND, once accomplished, the inner critic will simply vanish.

These ideas/concepts are derived from buddhism--which is misclassified as a religion--it is more akin to being a philosophy. "Buddha" means "awakened one." This 2500 year old philosophy is based on developing compassion and wisdom by understanding the true nature of reality.

If you have a religious practice you do not have to give this up. You can incorporate buddhist concepts into your everyday life--you do not have to become a buddhist. The ideas can help to enhance and deepen your spiritual experience.

Good luck. May you be blessed with great happiness and long life.

Answer 2

You can't completely shut it up for all time; it's part of being human. However, you can soften it. I've created an inner cheerleader whom I call up whenever I start hearing the negative stuff inside.

Also, if the i.c. comes up when I'm in the middle of something, I just tell it "later, I'll deal with you later."

Answer 3

properly, you do no longer decide to silence it thoroughly. What you opt to do is to get it off your returned in the intervening time. You first ought to pay attention it out, pay attention to what that's saying. then you definately ought to head with basically how valid the grievance is -are you doing something that needs to be corrected? if so, do it. If no longer, why are you being extreme of your self? you need to proceed and luxuriate in who you're, telling the indoors critic "so long".

Answer 4

You become happy, and love yourself. Who started that inner critic?

Answer 5

By doing things that feel right, feel good but mostly learning to love yourself

Answer 6

Everytime it begins to creep in, in your mind or out loud say, "Get away from me...I do not need you today."
Repeat it if you must.

Answer 7

Shoot the sorry son of a gun

Answer 8

i give mine drugs.