YONG KANG CHAN
Can't stop your critical thoughts? Practice mindfulness and don't believe everything that your mind tells you. From an early age, many of us have this critical voice in our head which we called the inner critic. It's the voice that tells us: You are not good enough; you will never amount to anything; you are a bad person... We have tried many different exercises and techniques to get rid of it, but nothing works. These intrusive thoughts keep popping up whenever they want. And makes us feel frustrated! Instead of overcoming our self-criticism, we end up making the inner critic our enemy and blame ourselves for having such self-loathing thoughts. Some of us even believe that beating ourselves up is good for us and keeps our behaviors in check. Have you tried to stop your negative thoughts? How is that working for you?
