Hello and welcome to the lecture on the inner critic. Your inner critic is the negative voice that lives inside your head. If you take a moment to pause and reflect, you may be able to notice that your inner critic may be one of the major driving forces behind your stress. It can feel issues like gloom and doom, self hatred, comparison to unattainable ideals, feelings of unworthiness, making stuff up that isn't true, and so on and so on. And the chances are, the voice in your head may not even be yours. In the following meditation, we'll be visiting your inner critic to do three things.

First, we'll deeply deeply relax and then we're just going to observe it. When we observe your inner critic, it will increase your awareness And that awareness will decrease its power. If you know it exists, then you know you don't always have to pay attention to it and listen to it. The second thing we'll do with your inner critic is that will dialogue with it. So what I'll do is direct you to have an inner conversation with your critic. The intention will be to create a mutual understanding and an agreement to make and maintain peace.

And then the third thing we'll do with your inner critic is that we're going to transform it. After you observe and make peace with your inner critic. I'll direct you to transform it into something incredibly positive, to help heal your relationship with yourself. Okay, that's it for the introduction on the inner critic meditation. So let's go there now and create some transformative peace. I'll see you there.