The harsh critic inside your head is a lie and a phantom. It is the inner personification of every external criticism and rebuke, every perceived failure and mistake you have ever known. Its denigration of you knows no bounds and its toxic gift to you is crippling self-doubt and self-loathing. It is a lie and a phantom and it has no business living inside you.
When you discover the always present ocean of peace and silence within that is your true nature and you remain there undisturbed, this phantom of lies will evaporate as if it never existed and in its place you will find an inner kindness, an inner caring that encompasses all of you with compassion and understanding. In this environment of self-caring and self-love, the wounds and warts of the personality can begin to unfurl and transform – not through punishment and division, but healed and nourished through your own heart.
Reject the phantom's voice and begin to offer your own suffering the self-kindness and love that is already present within you, just waiting for you to recognize and be embraced by.
