EP 028 | CONFRONTING YOUR INNER CRITIC

Join John and Sinclair as they share about: 

• What is criticism? How does it manifest outwardly and inwardly?
• The inner critic is the critical mind, your inner bully that is hard on you, puts pressure on you, and makes you feel like crap
• Shame! The second arrow of criticism!
• Criticism is programming, it’s all gathered behaviors and habits that we all have
• The way criticism and agreements get passed down through generations
• Original sin and being born broken, programming from institutions, governments, society at large
• The American dream is a program that creates self-critical people who are easy to sell things to
• None of this is your fault, we all have this, we are all hard on ourselves at some times
• Sexual shame and connecting that to the criticism program, internalizing the shame
• They don’t have to keep telling you that you’re terrible, you become the police on yourself
• Becoming aware that the thoughts and voices are not YOU
• The power of psychedelic medicines to give you the felt experience of the separation between your SOUL and your thoughts or ego
• Sinking into the core of yourself with plant medicines allows you to see things as they truly are, from an objective place of being a witness and observer
• The gift of psychedelics is the ability to step outside the symptom, step outside of identifying with the criticism
• Medicines give you awareness, this is such a HUGE DEAL
• Criticism is an opportunity, it’s a messenger. It’s a tool you can use to change how you’re behaving, to change how you’re talking to yourself, you can flip it to something helpful and useful
• The journey with the plants is about raising our consciousness, bringing more conscious choice into everything we do
• Changing your actions leads to a better life, you start healing your emotions, healing trauma, clearing out backlogs
• Loving the criticism, be loving and present with it, be kind to it
• Medicine helps you create a new story
• Instead of blaming and criticizing everyone else, we all need to look and turn that pointing finger toward yourself
• We all have the power to take responsibility for our own actions and how we are in the world
• You can’t really solve the problem without being fully immersed in the problem, you have to get all the way in it
• Having support through this process is crucial to make real changes that last
• Getting to the bottom is the weakest moment and that’s where you gather your power 
• Action, support, and community are the three pillars of making changes in your life
• Why long term integration support is so important to helping you after a ceremony or retreat
• Integration work is the path back to yourself, remembering yourself
• It’s taking away and aligning with you you really are, connecting to love