What does this technique mean to you?
How can we employ this as an effective strategy for progress while also remaining sensitive to our needs and engaged in positive change?
Receiving criticism can feel like we’re walking into a brick wall – heavy handed and painful.
But self-critique is entirely within our own control. We know ourselves and our own intentions better than anyone.
We can ask ourselves the following questions:
– are we engaging in self-critique by leaving a problem at the door and feeling helpless to affect change?
– or are we meeting our own criticism with gratitude for the honesty, and a readiness to find creative solutions?
– would we deliver our criticism to others in the manner that we deliver it to ourselves?
– or perhaps even better, how would we communicate this feedback to our childhood selves?
These strategies are not suggested to give ourselves an easy go of things, but rather to engage collaboratively with the various different versions of us that have the power to find solutions – the team within us.
The phrase: “we are our own harshest critic” need not be a self fulfilling prophecy.
Click the video above to see how NOT to do this.
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