Your inner critic is a safety mechanism built by childhood and schooling, not truth. You can flip it to an inner coach by consciously reframing what that voice says, treating intuition as a feeling instead of doubt.
What's really interesting that's coming through for me is how easy we find it, and we don't judge it, to listen to the voice that says negative things to us. We don't generate that voice, the thoughts come through. But when it comes to intuition, which is still the same thing, a voice in our head sending messages to us, suddenly that's skeptical. So why is it, do you think, we're so willing to accept one side of the coin? Yeah.
Because I think when we're children, schooling system, society, all of it, we're very much programmed, and I'm sure a lot of people can recognise this, to go through the inner critic, is what we call it. Inner critic. So it's a narrative, and it's your brain's safety mechanism. Your brain isn't designed to help you follow your dreams. Its job is to keep you safe. So if there's a version of Jenny that wants to do a talk in front of all these people, and my brain has never got the information that that's safe, it's going to bring in the voice. And it's going to say, don't do it, you're going to be laughed off stage, all of those, that narrative. But I learned not to listen to that voice, and I call it a technique that I created for myself really, but now I teach. It's called flipping the script. So I trained myself to talk to myself as if I'm like, I'm an inner coach or my best friend, biggest cheerleader. And I think with intuition as well, it's, it isn't just that voice in your head, it's the feeling you get.
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