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Practice: Manage your inner critic

Practice: Manage your inner critic

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Practice: Manage your inner critic

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- This practice is to manage your inner critic and grow your self-acceptance. Find a quiet space and shut off any distractions. Sit comfortably, relaxing your shoulders, your feet on the floor. Close your eyes or soften your gaze. Inhale slowly through your nose. Exhale through your mouth. Start to become aware of the sensation of your breath as it goes in. Where does it feel the strongest? Place your attention there. Continue to breathe. Soon after you start this practice, you may find your thoughts wandering. Your inner critic may scold you. "Come on," it may say, "you can't even get breathing right?" Or you may bring to mind a situation where your inner critic showed up. This is the part of each of us that is judgmental and can be quite hurtful at times. As you remember the situation, imagine what your inner critic looks like. You might even choose to name them. Now notice what the inner critic is saying. Label the thought. For example, my inner critic says, "You're not worthy of…

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