A little voice that reacts to what you hear someone saying, what someone does, a photo on social media. It comes as a flash, like a speech bubble or a feeling in your gut and it has the ability to completely annihilate self confidence.
We call ourselves stupid, thick, fat, skinny, ugly, an idiot.
Have you ever thought about where these words you call yourself have come from? Do you even hear the words you are calling yourself or has it become such an ingrained habit you don't even realise what you are
saying?
Imagine the effect on a child if it hears the person they think of as the best in the whole World talking about themselves in this way? A child with the replicated, generic legs of their mother's 'knock kneed, skinny' legs will believe that theirs too are 'knock kneed and skinny and only worthy of criticism. These self beliefs and values are passed on from
generation to generation...unless we stop it.
Try this little exercise if you are curious about your beliefs about yourself and your values.
- WRITE - Write down all the beleifs you have of yourself, both positive and
negative.
- QUESTION - Ask yourself Is This True? Be completely honest but without judgement.
- BE CURIOUS - Where or who did I get this information from?
You may be surprised at some of the answers and some, you may not know the answers to. They may have always been there to your
recollection
