Inner Voice Shift - Change Your Inner Voice

Change Your Inner Voice: This playful, 3 minute meditation suggests changing the tone of your inner critic to something less serious, such as the voice of a cartoon character. The goal is to disarm the negativity by making it sound ridiculous, helping you to not take negative self-talk so seriously.

Transcript

So,

Taking some time to sit down,

Make yourself comfortable,

Feet on the floor,

Hands on your lap,

Taking a nice gentle deeper breath in and out and closing down the eyes,

Allowing the eyes to rest and relax and connect with your breath,

The flow in and down and up and out.

As human beings we often have an inner critic,

A negative nagging voice in our head.

Perhaps there's one or two statements that you continually hear.

Negative self-talk.

I'd like you to allow this voice to change.

Perhaps you can think of a negative phrase that you often repeat to yourself.

Many people say,

I'm not enough,

I'm unworthy.

Perhaps you can change that voice to one that you don't take so seriously.

What would happen if that inner voice,

That inner critical voice,

Sounded like Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck or Homer Simpson?

A voice that wasn't so serious.

A voice that you can't take seriously.

Do that now.

Notice the difference.

Your homework from this session is to notice any negative thinking and in the noticing,

Gently change the voice.

You'll find this a hugely positive thing to do.

And you can bring this technique back with you to use at any point.

Having a gentle stretch now,

A slightly deeper breath in and out,

And opening the eyes,

Returning to the day.

Reviews

loved this idea. changing the voice of some heavy internal chatter does shift things to a lighter tone💕

Homer Simpson, haha.
That was pretty funny. 😄
I kinda liked this medi, Andrew.
It does make you think to change your tone if you're upset or mad.

Thank you & Namasté Andrew.
😇✨️🙏🏻✨️
☮️💖&😊ness.

Thank you! Great idea to give my inner critic a funny mouse-like voice. Immediately, it becomes less serious and it reminds me of how absurd the situation is. 🐺

I love your content and teachings! Your voice is incredibly calming! Thank you! 🙏

I’m going to give this a try in my day to day life.

I actually can't wait to try this! I gave it a little go today and it made me chuckle but as I was generally relaxed and happy at the time it wasn't much of a shift. I imagine when my inner voice is being mean I can quickly turn it into a silly voice that cannot be taken seriously. So many techniques are serious and sombre, I don't see any harm in a little silliness.

Brilliant! Immediately effective. Thank you so much Andrew.

Amazing, resourceful, creative and funny!
Thank you for this great mediation!

Love it, I thought of moaning Myrtle from the Harry Potter movies, very effective and funny.

lol, that was great. Though I have a hard time describing what my inner voice sounds like, I was able to change it and that did make it less important!

What a great idea 🥰
Thanks. Now I hear Goofy in my head..

Thank you for offering this intriguing suggestion of how to deal with the inner critic. Just thinking about which tone of voice to change it to is a fun idea.

This is a great idea and one I will certainly be trying to use!

This simple yet brilliant tip may actually work if I can remember to use it when I'm being overly critical of myself. Thank you.

That was truly beautiful! It released the stress I was holding and turned the negative voices into something light and positive! Thank you!

Great approach with helping change/rid negative thoughts. 👍