Hello and welcome to the meditation on your inner critic. In this meditation, we're going to observe your inner critic and get to know a little bit and then we're going to transform it into something very positive. So get yourself comfortable and situated with your spine straight. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath and will begin to relax. I know that sometimes it can be difficult to relax To learn how to relax more than you ever have before.

And so as you lie or as you sit there with your eyes closed, breathing easily as you begin to become aware of your own thoughts and your own sensations and I begin to wonder if you ever had the pleasure of sitting on the bank of a river or the shore of a lake or an ocean Because there is something very comforting about just sitting there listening to the peaceful sound of way, washing on the show as they move in and as they move out in a continuous flow it just seems to go on and relaxing in the sun. Feeling the soothing, warm and just letting the mind drift effortlessly Without almost quiet and silence in the background of awareness. I'm not sure you've ever done it that way. Relax just that way listening to the peaceful quietness and water washing on the shore or perhaps it was a waterfall or just a silent place in the center of the woods a happy man I have deep content or maybe it was just a dream of a place so comfortable.

Have a place so safe that it was easy to allow the body to relax. Everything to relax into a state of calm peace and effortless awareness where you become calm content very deeply relax. very deeply relax. very deeply relax. What I would like you to do now is to imagine yourself above some beautiful place a healing place, a sanctuary place. As I count backwards from five, using the words down and deeper.

I'd like you to drift down to this place and into a very deep and peaceful state of calm and peaceful relaxation. Number five Feel yourself going down, down drifting deeper and deeper. For drifting down, down, drifting deeper and deeper. Three, drifting down and down deeper and deeper to drifting down, down deeper and deeper and one drifting down, down deeper and deeper and deeper if you're now in your sanctuary place Just ask that you imagine yourself being there as if you were actually there. And with every detail that you notice, I'd like it to take you into a deeper and deeper place of calm and peaceful relaxation. So you become calm, peaceful and deeply relaxed, calm, peaceful, and deeply relaxed.

Calm, peaceful, relaxed, calm, peaceful. Relax as you continue to breathe, and to unwind and relax. I'd like you to call up your inner critic, and whatever way it comes to maybe a person or you may be aware of your voice inside of your head. Or you may be aware of someone else's voice inside your head. But however it comes to you, I'd like you to just pay attention to it, to observe it and to be aware of it. Because when you become aware of your inner critic, you then realize that you don't need to listen to it.

And that puts you into a position of power and control. take just a few moments of silence and just observe your inner critic. Now as you continue to breathe and to relax Now that you're aware of your inner critic, I'd like you to begin a conversation. And at first, I want you to just listen to what it has to say. And then, when your inner critic is finished speaking, I want it to listen to what you have to say to what you need from your inner critic. And then after the two of you discussed with each other, I want you to make an agreement to do whatever it takes to create and maintain inner peace.

So just take a few moments and have that discussion now. With your inner critic. Now as you continue to breathe and to relax and know that you've come to an agreement into an understanding or a place of peace and understanding Your inner critic. I'd like you to allow it to transform into something incredibly positive. It may turn into a very wonderful and positive person could transform into this incredible spiritual being. It could explode into color.

Or whatever your imagination comes up with. Just allow your inner critic to transform into something positive now When your inner critic has completely transformed I would like you to allow to do one of two things. One, it can either release and dissolve and float away into the ether or, if it's appropriate can have a dissolve into your heart and into your mind so that you can become one with your transformed inner critic. So take a moment or two and just pull out one of those two things. Just take a moment to reflect and to be at peace with the transformation that has happened inside of you to be aware of it and to recognize that it goes with you from this day forward to improve every aspect about your life. So just take it in deeply for as long as you can.

And when you feel like you're ready and when you feel like you've had enough you can slowly open your eyes drift back in the conscious world