Talk to Yourself
It’s always tricky, talking with yourself. If you’re a critical person, you’ll be harder on yourself than you’ll be on anyone else. If you tend to be a little too easy on yourself, you may end up sounding insufferable to others. Maybe you defend yourself, making excuses about how a problem is always someone else’s fault. You’ll push others away because you’ll end up blaming them for things you’ve done or should be responsible for.
These are dangerous social consequences of talking to yourself, but there’s another worse one. Unbalanced dialogues with the self actually poison your psyche and body. They close down your chakras, blocking the energy flow you need to live a healthy life and continue to develop. In this way you violate the sacred pact you have with yourself. Awareness is the key, awareness and balance.
Exercise
Play the role of the chronic doubter inside you. In your journal, turn this self-whittler loose with her or his language knife and let the soul-paring begin!
Once this little malignant naysayer has talked itself out, exit that body and imagine being that person’s coworker, the one who has to work in close proximity to that energy. Now write a second journal entry from that perspective. Once you have two full journal entries, compare the two. Then write a third that consists of a dialogue between the two, but heal their speech and attitudes. Write your dialogue for each as if they have suddenly awakened from the sorry sleep they’ve been in.
What have you learned inside and out?