Ep.5/ Inner Saboteurs - Which one best describes you?
Saboteurs manifest as the inner critics inside us that produce pessimistic feelings amidst life's routine trials. They act as ingrained thought processes dictating your reactions, emotions, and mindset.
These internal narratives are responsible for inducing stress, self-doubt, anxiety, frustration, discontent, and unease, thus impairing your achievements, health, and interpersonal connections.
How do we recognise these saboteurs and siege the influence they have over us, so that we start living the life we desire?
Ever get them days where you feel that annoying voice in your head telling you “ Im not good enough” or “Life’s so unfair ”.
That negative self talk keeps us stuck and pessimistic, but we can change the influence they have on us though identifying them and finding ways to improve our mental muscles in order to operate from our logical and positive mind.
The human mind operates from two different brains that do two completely different things - One is known as the ‘chimp’ or ‘limbic brain’ , which is where our saboteurs live. This part of our brain is emotional, irrational, unconscious, reactive and programmed from past experiences. When we operate out of this brain we tend to get triggered, stressed and emotional.
The chimp brain thinks for you and without your permission. Sabotuers act like broken records of untrue stories and lies.
Then we have the ‘Logical’ brain which is located in the frontal cortex. This is where our true self resides and where we want to operate from. This part of the brain is logical, rational, non reactive, finds solutions and accepts reality for what it is.
One simple and easy exercise that can take the power away from the ‘Chimp’ brain and get you into your ‘Logical’ Brain is by putting a line down the centre of a piece of paper. On one side write down all the things your Saboteurs say to you and on the other side of the paper write down what your ‘logical’ or true self would say in response. This exercise is great for discrediting the Negative self talk of the ‘Chimp’ brain and decreasing its power over you.
Which Saboteur are you?
Pleaser, Victim, Controller, Avoider, Hyper Rational, Hyper Acheiver, Restless, Stickler, Judge and Hyper Vigilant ?
