Using NLP to Stop That Critic inside Your Head
Most of us at some stage will suffer from that critical voice inside our head. It is completely normal to self talk throughout the day but wouldn’t it be good if we could turn that critic into a more effective inner voice.Wouldn’t it be much more beneficial to you if your inner voice was one that encouraged you and helped you to succeed? Or a voice that was full of praise and positive statements that help you to be happy and enjoy your life.One thing that you should realise is that even if your inner voice is often critical, at some level it actually does have something of value to you.The way that you ‘self talk’ has been going on for years, it has been learned from an early age and is now just habit. The good news with this is that you can break habits and you can retrain your mind to make your inner voice more beneficial to you.NLP offers you techniques to retrain your mind, let’s look at this technique:Think of your inner voice criticising you and imagine where that voice is located in space. In other words, do you imagine that voice to be behind you, to the left or right of you or in front of you? Try to picture in your mind where that voice is. Become aware of exactly how it speaks to you and how it sounds. Think of this in detail, as in the quality of its voice, how loud or soft it is, does it speak fast or slow? Becoming aware of these qualities helps you to discover the structure and this is what holds the thought pattern together.Now for the fun part, we are going to interrupt that thought pattern and sabotage it. Let’s have a go at this:1. Think of that annoying, critical voice one more time.2. Imagine it being played backwards, like you are rewinding it.3. First do it fast and then slow, then hear it backwards fast, really fast. Do this about three times.4. Now replace that backwards voice with a new positive message. Give this positive message a nice, calm, friendly voice.Thought processes such as internal voices can be changed quite quickly and easily if you know how. By interrupting the pattern and changing the structure, our mind is able to access more resources and as a result makes us feel better and giving us more behavioural choices.This is just one of the many techniques that you can learn through Neuro Linguistic Programming that can help you to change your life for the better. NLP offers you amazing tools to transform your life.
This article was written by Shezz P who has successfully changed her life using self taught NLP techniques.
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