Self - Criticism

Beating yourself up, time and gain for perceived shortcomings does not help you evolve… instead…

- Babita Chopra

Today I got up late again and missed my exercise session! I pressed the snooze button and when I woke up, it was already one hour up! I decide to exercise and cannot follow it even for a day! And the whole day there is this lingering sense of depression! I feel so disgusted with myself!” said Rehane in a gloomy mood.

Like Rehane, many of us berate ourselves when we decide to do something and fail to do so. Self-criticism starts when we keep procrastinating from performing important tasks, when we make our mind up to get up at a particular time but invariably miss it, when we decide to meditate and cannot sit for some reason or the other, when we choose to eat healthy and end up eating junk food, when we make a decision to exercise and miss it or when we give a time and always end up being late, etc…

When such incidents happen repeatedly, we attack ourselves and start thinking, “I am not good enough, my grammar is bad, I am incompetent, I can't manage time! I can't even do small jobs given to me; will I be always like that? I messed up my diet again - what a loser I am! Why don't I have control over myself?” …