Everyone's a Critic

   They say everybody’s a critic, but happens when your greatest critic is yourself? How can possibly avoid feeling inadequacy when every time you look in the mirror your greatest critic looks back at you, straight in the eye knowing…

EVERYTHING.

   How can you hide your deepest and most personal feelings from yourself? How is it possible to convince the person that knows you best that you have changed, that you are different. All the history, the shortcomings, mistakes, feelings of inadequacy, failures and short comings are out in the open (or so it seems) for everyone to see. In reality only you know those things, but it’s hard not to think that way when you are telling yourself that it is that way.

   So how do we obtain that highly prized and highly sought after “peace of mind” that other talk about? I don’t know about you, but sometimes my mind starts to think, and think, and think to the point that I am literally unable to sleep until I am all “thought out”. That doesn’t exactly seem like a peaceful mind, and honestly I’d say you are right, it’s more like a “brainstorm” in every sense of the word (yes, pun intended) or a class five hurricane as far as the torrent of ideas scale is concerned. How do people achieve this elusive state of mind? It is a question I have thought a lot about and for a long time. Might I suggest an answer?

Peace of conscious.

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   The reality is that when we are uneasy mentally it is because our being deep down is trying to tell us there is something wrong. We need to change. We might not be doing anything necessarily or inherently evil or wrong, rather we are just not living up to our potential as human beings. When we are striving to better ourselves and progress in life, our lives begin to fill with meaning. We have a purpose and that can lead us to make decisions that will guide us to a higher plane of life.

   The converse is true as well. When our life loses purpose and we stop moving forward it is easy for our souls to grow restless, which is then reflected in our state of mind. It is easy for our conscious to determine when we are moving forwards, backwards, or standing still in life. Our conscious is inherently programmed to move us forward in life; it is given to each person for this very purpose. So when we start to give up or our lives begin to stagnate, it is there to “stir the pot” so that we continue forward.

   The rate at which we can change those things that we are doing wrong in life is the rate at which we can gain peace of conscious. And the sooner we have that peace of conscious the sooner we will be able to control our minds. This control only will come from that inner feeling of safety and peace which we have while moving upward and forward in life. The mind may rage, but the conscious will sooth the troubled mind. It is as simple as that.

With love,

Will Glade

The one walking beside you.