KEEPING IT SIMPLE - Imagine Being Whole - an excerpt
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The Inner Critic
This heart chakra issue expresses itself and gives a person the message, I am not good enough.
The inner critic is that aspect of you that makes an entrance in the early years of childhood. Some of the negative messages sent by parents, teachers, and other authority figures in a child's life might include: You are not good enough or You are stupid or What makes you think you are capable of doing something like that?
Hurting comments such as these are absorbed like a sponge into the essence of a child. In his earliest years the child is shamed.
And what happens when this childhood wound is not nurtured and healed is that it is carried into adulthood. Even though there may be no one sending these negative messages to you, the message is always being sent. And who is sending the message?
The Inner Critic, of course! Eric Berne, father of transactional analysis, may call this inner critic the critical parent within.
This inner critic does everything in its power to sabotage you. It is the inner critic, based in fear, who tells you that you are not going to win so there is no point in even entering the race. It is the inner critic who will find something negative to say about any achievement -- it is never good enough. Nothing ever satisfies the critic within.
Meditating with the focus on the heart chakra will allow you to get in touch with this inner critic. Through continued meditation and, if you choose, through psychospiritual therapy, it is possible for you to discover the source of the inner critic. It is possible to understand why the inner critic made its debut. It is also possible to honour, acknowledge, and even to thank the inner critic for all that it attempted to do in order to protect you.
And it is within the realm of possibility that you can transform the inner critic, the critical parent within, into the nurturing parent within.
You can learn to parent yourself; to offer the love, the trust, and the confidence that you never received in your early childhool period.
KEEPING IT SIMPLE - Imagine Being Whole is a book that shares with the reader, emotional healing through the trinity of Meditation, the Chakras, and Psychospiritual Therapy.
You will find this book in Kindle and Paperback formats on my author's page at https://amazon.com/author/audreyaustin
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