Sunday, April 14, 2013

Quiet that mean little voice.

You know that little voice in your head that seems to hate you? You know the one that is so critical of you?  It doesn't let you forget all the times you've screwed up and reminds you of how you've disappointed others and will most likely do it again and probably every time you have the opportunity.

Well, that little voice can go to hell.  If you'll let it.  I'm sure it'll be hard to say goodbye at first since it's always been there and you've gotten pretty used it giving constant narration to your life.  But really, let's be honest here, it's not helping things.  It's really making things must worse and keeping you from being happy.  So, maybe it's time to tell that little voice to go to hell.

When you're ready to send it packing, then you'll need to work on how to get it to move out and stay gone.  It WILL NOT go easily.  It likes the power it has over you.  That little voice is powerful and is controlling you.  It's keeping you from feeling happy, joy, success, intimacy, connection, courage.  I'll take those feelings over feeling like a failure, lonely, miserable and weak any day.

That little voice has convinced you that you don't deserve to be happy.  It's convinced you that others will not accept you or love you or that you will not be successful and that you'll probably just screw up again.

You can take the power away from this little voice.  Whenever you hear that little voice spouting off its junk, you can stop it by doing two things. First is to become aware that it's talking- you'd be surprised how often that little voice is talking and you just accept it and don't even notice. Second is to replace those negative messages with supportive and positive messages- be kind to yourself, you deserve to feel happiness, simply because you are alive.  This is called practicing self-compassion.  Begin to practice being kind to yourself, take back the power from that mean little voice and practice being kind to yourself.  You'll feel so much happier and powerful.


With peace and love,

 Kelly