Last week I received an email from my professional friend and teacher, Sidra Jafri about ‘that voice inside your head.’ You know the one, don’t you? It’s the one that, no matter how good or bad life gets, that voice just doesn’t shut up! It ALWAYS has something to say.
When this happens, you have a choice:
You can let that little voice make your life hell or you can love it till it lets you be.
The ball, as they say, is in your court.
Admittedly, it is not always easy to ‘love it till it lets you be’. That’s why I so appreciated Sidra’s email because she explained EXACTLY how she does it.
Sidra’s Story
I had a very busy week and did not even realise it was Thursday already! That’s when the little voice started ‘You waste so much time!’
Previously, I would have gone into the judgement of ‘wasting my week’. Now, because I am on the journey of awakening, I decided to activate the Principle “No Judgement” and communicate with that little voice because communication is the essence of life.
I connected with that little voice. I imagined that voice was a person in my mind’s eye. I said, “thank you so much for telling me that there is so much more to me than I am currently living and I appreciate your support in pushing me to do more. I now lovingly replace you with a new voice that is proud of me for accomplishing everything I have this week.” Then I imagined breathing in the new voice and breathing out the old.
That worked like magic. When I looked back at my week, I saw that I had actually accomplished a great deal and it was just that little voice of judgement giving me a tough time. I felt so much lighter and happier about how my week went.
Over to you and me
Will this work for you and me?
We will only know if we actually use the technique to address our little voice when it goes into judgement. You may be thinking “Yes – BUT … it will never work for me…”
My suggestion is give it a go. Test it out. Put as much effort into using this technique as that persistent little voice puts into keeping on judging you.
And yes, I am speaking to myself here as well! I will give it a go.
Let me know how it works for you.
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