Coaching practices for There's This Voice in My Head That Never Shuts Up Commenting Judging Rehearsing and I've Always Just Taken it as Me and It's Only Now Occurring to Me That I'm the One Hearing it Which Means it Can't Be All of Who I Am

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• There’s this voice in my head that never shuts up
• The voice in my head never shuts up
• 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 feels like just me
• There’s this nonstop voice in my head narrating and judging everything as it happens

Practices that may help

1. Noticing the inner voice
   Recognize the constant mental narrator — and the fact that you are the one hearing it.
   The Untethered Soul, In Practice
2. Watching the thinker
   Observe your own thoughts as a witness, instead of being lost inside them.
   The Power of Now, In Practice
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. The inner critic dialogue
   Give the inner critic a voice on paper and then respond — the goal is dialogue, not silencing.
   Shadow Work
9. Shift identity from self-concept to awareness itself
   Experiment with "I am the aware space" rather than "I am my thoughts and feelings."
   Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical
10. Identifying your parts
    Notice the distinct inner voices and reactions as separate "parts," each with its own agenda.
    Internal Family Systems (IFS), Made Practical

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