Silence Your Negative Inner Voices
by The more we listen to the negative voices in our heads, the more susceptible we become to their subtle devices. Unless we silence them, we are doomed to remain their victims.
Lately I’ve been thinking about voices. You know the ones – the voices in our heads. Sometimes they serve us well. They speak the truths we need to hear and bring to our minds, pleasant thoughts and memories to encourage us at just the right moment. They shout warnings to steer us away from danger and help us to make wise decisions.
But those same voices have a dark side and from there they speak lies. They hammer discouraging messages that limit our progress and keep us stuck. Their veiled deceptions chip away and eventually erode our continued efforts to live lives true to ourselves, our beliefs and our passions. Sadly, we believe the negative stories our inner voices tell us, even when the stories run cross-grain to who we really are and the consequences of that reality.
I confess that although it doesn’t happen as often as it did before, I still fall victim to the negativity from my inner voices. The words they speak throw a heavy, dark, cold, wet blanket on my most ambitious goals. They keep me in a negative state of mind even when I am knee-deep in some positive circumstance and staring success in the face in one area or another. When I make the mistake and listen, I open the door for their negative messages to engulf me until positive realities loom as negative experiences.
When our inner voices are dripping with the negative stories that make us fearful even in the arena where we are most capable, we must silence them. Each of us can devise our own ways to do this, and I share four below that I continue to use to minimize the effect my negative inner voices have on me.
Reveal Your True Identity
If you listen to the negative voices in your head for too long, the real you becomes a distant memory. You may have to dig deep or travel backwards to recover your true identity and resume the life you should be living.
Your most significant self-recovery will be found in your spiritual beliefs. From there you can assess the history of the negative stories in your head and adjust them to ensure that they no longer define you.
Raise Your True Voice
Refuse to cower in silence while your negative voices rant and rave and spew all manner of falsehood and limiting statements. Your true voice can talk you into stepping out and walking away from the negativity that is keeping you stuck.
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