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Discussion:
1. How often do you hear a self-critical inner dialogue or voice?
2. How can you change your self-critical messages to self-empowering
messages?
3. In what types of situations and environments are you more likely to
criticize yourself? (Example: school, home, hanging out with family
members, with peers or colleagues, work, parties, etc.)
4. Are you critical of others?
5. How has your self-criticism impacted you in various situations?
Ideas:
Each time you drive or pass by a stop sign, be reminded to give your-
self a compliment or reframe a negative message with more positive
ones.
Print out the stop sign photograph from the QuietMind disk and place it
somewhere that you will see it every day. Use this photo as a reminder
to reframe your negative thoughts to positive ones.
Below is a sample list of common negative self-definitions that have
been reframed:
I am fat.
versus
I am shapely.
I am ugly.
versus
I am unique, interesting, or exotic.
I am dumb.
versus
I have my own style of learning and expressing myself.
Make a list of your most common self-critical statements or messages
and then reframe them into the positive.