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• There’s this nonstop voice in my head narrating and judging everything as it happens
• While I’m actually performing there’s this running commentary telling me I’m blowing it, and I take every word of it as fact in the moment
• The voice in my head never shuts up
• There’s this voice in my head that never shuts up
• There are all these voices in me

Practices that may help

1. Quieting the commentary track
   Notice the layer of continuous inner commentary on experience and practise resting in the experience itself.
   Pu: Taoist Simplicity and the Uncarved Block
2. Identify your Self 1 interference in real time
   Notice when your inner critic is instructing, judging, or catastrophizing — and name it as Self 1.
   The Inner Game: Quieting Self 1
3. Watching the thinker
   Observe your own thoughts as a witness, instead of being lost inside them.
   The Power of Now, In Practice
4. Noticing the inner voice
   Recognize the constant mental narrator — and the fact that you are the one hearing it.
   The Untethered Soul, In Practice
5. Take an initial inventory of your parts
   Name the recurring inner voices, emotions, and reactions — one per part — without judgment.
   IFS Parts Mapping, Made Practical
6. Replace judgment with non-judgmental awareness
   Observe what is actually happening with curious interest rather than approval or disapproval.
   The Inner Game: Quieting Self 1
7. Give Self 2 a concrete focus anchor
   Occupy Self 1 with a specific sensory observation task so it stops issuing unhelpful instructions.
   The Inner Game: Quieting Self 1
8. Name and disarm the inner critic
   Give the critical voice a name and recognize it as a character, not the truth.
   The Artist’s Way, Made Practical
9. Catching harm before it reaches speech
   Notice aggressive or condemning inner commentary and name it before it shapes what you say.
   Ahimsa: Non-Violence as a Daily Practice
10. Name and externalize the inner critic
    Give the critic a name and treat it as a character, not the truth about you.
    Working With Your Inner Critic

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