Where does one learn this ancient power?
For a while in therapy we tried personifying my self hate and giving those thoughts an actual name. In my case that name was Maurice and I do not remember why. That was every time a negative thought happened I could be like “No Maurice, you’re an idiot. I won’t listen to you.”
Unfortunately it turns out Maurice can cite sources.
This is actually pretty genius, are there any downsides?
I haven’t given mine a name… the strangest part is it used to help out.
I don’t know if I would say downsides but for me it just didn’t work at all. I imagine it works well for loads of people but all it did for me was make me look for more scientific reasons to hate myself. Hence saying that Maurice could cite sources.
Instead of “your art is bad” I would be thinking of every little detail I was doing wrong individually as well as convincing myself that I will never be able to shake those issues. Other stuff did end up helping but that specifically wasn’t for me.
Sorry to hear, but an interesting thought experiment. At my age, there’s no reason not to give it a shot. I’ll name him, Gwen. 😂👍
do people really have inner voices that demoting?
Yes, imagine a self-critical version of yourself voicing its opinions on your failures.
