June 18, 2022

EP 028 | Confronting Your Inner Critic

39 minutes

"I have a harsh inner critic." This is one of the most common challenges we hear from clients coming to work with us in our plant medicine integration programs. A savage inner critic is not just painful to live with, being super hard on yourself can manifest in the body as illness. So many of our most prevalent and mysterious health problems have roots in the mind-body connection. Many people suffering from chronic pain, stress illnesses, fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and more, all have something in common... a brutal self-critical voice, perfectionistic thoughts and needing to be seen as a good person. It's no wonder putting all this pressure on yourself to be perfect is taking a toll. In this episode of The Psychedelic Integration Podcast, you'll learn about confronting your inner critic with psychedelics so that you can transform this negative habit energy into a powerful ally for change.

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

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By Sinclair Fleetwood | Spiritual Mentor and Psychedelic Integration Coach

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