{"id":6986,"date":"2013-09-10T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=6986"},"modified":"2016-07-05T17:57:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T21:57:07","slug":"our-inner-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2013\/09\/10\/our-inner-critic\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Inner Critic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ihardlyflickr\/2598713149\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/InnerCritic.png\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A reflection of our disdain for authority in our own life.<\/p>\n<p>The things our critic says are likely things we heard from an authority figure.<\/p>\n<p>Things we did not agree with \u2014 but heard anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Things that once were someone else&#8217;s ideas about us, that have now become our own.<\/p>\n<h1>It&#8217;s not the truth.<\/h1>\n<p>It hurts us anyway.<\/p>\n<p>We hurt when we allow those ideas to have power over us again. Whether they come to us from an external source or from inside.<\/p>\n<p>Our pain is our disdain for the un-truths we believe.<\/p>\n<h1>Our pain can be a tool.<\/h1>\n<p>If we observe it, it can support us in letting go of what we are holding onto inside. <\/p>\n<p>It can show us where we can create more freedom. From authority. And from our own critical self.<\/p>\n<p>When we drop the disdain, the judgement of authority, we can too drop the pain.<\/p>\n<h1>If we let go.<\/h1>\n<p>Of thinking we aren&#8217;t good enough. Of the stories we tell our self.<\/p>\n<p>Can we accept that all the people in our life, even the most controlling, have added value?<\/p>\n<p>Are we willing to let go of our pain around the authority that hurts us, and release the power our inner critic has over us?<\/p>\n<p>Can we accept that our greatest pain can be our greatest power?<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ihardlyflickr\/2598713149\/\" title=\"photo credit mason bryant\">mason bryant<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ihardlyflickr\/2598713149\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/InnerCritic.png\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A reflection of our disdain for authority in our own life.<\/p>\n<p>The things our critic says are likely things we heard from an authority figure.<\/p>\n<p>Things we did not agree with \u2014 but heard anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Things that once were someone else&#8217;s ideas about us, that have now become our own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[256,253,255,201,99],"class_list":["post-6986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-creativity","tag-disdain","tag-inner-critic","tag-pain","tag-power","tag-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}