Inner Critic

Yoga helps us uncover how close or far we are from being with ourselves, and helps us to close the gap.

The only thing we need to change about ourselves is to stop holding ourselves to unreasonable standards and begin to risk ourselves by being honest with those we love.

Unrelenting self-criticism often goes hand in hand with depression and anxiety, and it may even predict depression. In a study of 107 patients in the latest issue of Comprehensive Psychiatry, David M. Dunkley at Jewish General Hospital in Montreal and colleagues found that those who were most self-critical were the most likely to be depressed and have difficulties in relationships four years later, even if they weren't depressed to begin with.

I used to be afraid to write. I forgot about how much progress I've made in this area until a friend dropped by the other day and I handed him a bound galley of my book.

"Whatever derogatory things you are saying to yourself: Stop it." This is a quote from Jane Roberts, the author of the Seth Material during the 1970s ...