INNER CRITIC Short summer course 1/3

The objectieves of this short training are:

• Help you become more aware of the existance of your inner critic (lesson 1)
• Show you who the inner cirtic really is and why it does what it does (lesson 2)
• Suggest ways you can improve your relationship with your inner critic (lesson 3)

Do you know your inner critic?

(Wikipedia) The inner critic or "critical inner voice" is a concept used in popular psychology and psychotherapy to refer to a subpersonality that judges and demeans a person. The inner critic is usually experienced as an inner voice attacking a person, saying that he or she is bad, wrong, inadequate, worthless guilty, and so on.

Do you recognize any of this? Do you know what your inner critic says to you?

Your inner critic is probably diminishing the value of what you do and expecting you to do more and more, better and better. It probably has strong opinion about your looks, your ability to function and to relate to others.
The critics you have received from influential people in your life growing up have helped the critic develop and now these people are not anymore in your life, the critic works on its own.

The first important lesson of this course is: learn to look at your inner critic from a little bit of a distance, learn to take a step back.

The inner critic is talking to you this way:
"...you are stupid! Dam it, you did it wrong again, there is no hope.

Would you even speak to another human being the way your inner critic speaks to you?

Probably not. Why accepting passively that kind of talk then?
You could instead talk from your strong adult self:
"...this was not the best choice, I see how I can do this differently next time."

In the video a nice example of how the critic works even in people that know to be great at what they do.