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Listen… Can you hear it ?That voice … That harsh, demeaning voice, whispering to you, corrupting you,twisting your psyche, urging you to do what you don’t want to do, convincing you to do what you know is wrong.

Can you feel his arms? Pinning you down, hands clasping over your mouth stifling your voice, blocking your opinion and your ability to express your self.

Can you feel him ? Always disagreeing with you, always chaining you to the present while you watch everybody else catapults towards the future. That black part of your soul. The yang to your yin. The other side of the coin.

An ominous, intimidating figure formed by a history of bad experiences and an accumulation of a lifetime of rejections, failures and pent up frustrations occupying the same physical and mental space as yourself and fighting you for control over your very essence every single second of your life.

We all have our inner demons and we all have our share of battles with them. That eternal inner conflict between what you want and what should be, what is desired and what is acceptable, what gives you joy and satisfaction and what is expected from you.A centuries old conflict between following your heart and doing what your mind tells you.

Call it low self esteem, call it self-doubt, call it fear of commitment, call it what you will but the truth is we’ve all experienced them one time or another. Psychiatrists might sometimes give it another name Schizophrenia, which contrary to popular belief is not the existence of two or more personalities in one body. Schizophrenia as defined by psychiatrists as abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality, a state of severe withdrawal into one’s self with symptoms of emotional instability, detachment from reality, and withdrawal into the self.

In a way this misconception actually clarifies why we let our inner demons rampage around in our psyche letting them do whatever they please with our relationships, emotions and decisions. We always think of these inner demons as forces out of our control,we confuse them with ourselves and freely give them the reins of our mentality so that they may guide us into a state of social suicide and emotional corruption as opposed to a confused mental state where we don’t really know what we want or are too scared to make decisions and instead rely on a set of preprogrammed responses that we’ve relied on all our lives.

That’s the main problem, we give them too much credit, we give them too much power and we underestimate ourown capabilities in facing them.

A wise man once said we only suffer from a problem once we perceive and acknowledge it as a problem. In other words as long as you don’t perceive that a certain situation or dilemma as problematic then you won’t have any difficulty in dealing with it.

Realize that the recurring keyword here is perception. It’s your own perception that gives power to these inner demons. We perceive them as an inseparable part of our entity and hence lie to ourselves and convince ourselves that their decisions are in fact our own.

So what can we do ? How do we delete a lifetime of programmed emotions and fears ? How do we separate ourselves from that gangrenous entity festering within us eating away your very psyche and hindering your every attempt at healing and progress ?

The first thing is, like Isaid before, to stop empowering your inner demons, a lot of people will tellyou to stop whining, bite the bullet and face your inner demons but I try for adifferent approach, instead of facing them and acknowledging their presence andfurther empowering them simply ignore them. What doesn’t exist can’t hurt youright ?
Realize that these innerdemons are just a series of blames and punishments for past actions, mistakesand experiences given an intangible and absolutely harmless form.
The next time you feel themcreeping up on your thought process interfering with a decision or stopping youfrom doing what you want give your self a moment, detach yourself from thenormal flow of time, take a deep breath and analyze the situation :
What’s the worst that canhappen ?
Didn’t that happen already ?
Did doing nothing or succumbing to your inner demons give you what you want ?
Isn’t it time you got what you want ?
Then think to yourself :What’s the best that could happen ?
Who knows ? You might actually get it.
Afraid you might get rejected or humiliated ? What’s new ? You’ve been rejecting yourself and humiliating yourself for as long as you remember. How can you expect people to accept you if you refuse to accept yourself ?
Who knows ? Maybe having a better opinion of yourself and your capabilities will give others a reason to have a better opinion of you. It’s worth a try. Allow yourself to be a tad selfish, it’s okay to be little arrogant, it’ll throw your inner demons off balance, they’ll try to talk you down, they’ll try to belittle your efforts but you’re know better, let them pout their imaginary insults and wave their imaginary swords they can only hurt you if you allow them to hurt you.
You created your own inner demons and you can just as easily slay them.

Description
Listen… Can you hear it ?That voice … That harsh, demeaning voice, whispering to you, corrupting you,twisting your psyche, urging you to do what you don’t want to do, convincing you to do what you know is wrong.

Can you feel his arms? Pinning you down, hands clasping over your mouth stifling your voice, blocking your opinion and your ability to express your self.

Can you feel him ? Always disagreeing with you, always chaining you to the present while you watch everybody else catapults towards the future. That black part of your soul. The yang to your yin. The other side of the coin.

An ominous, intimidating figure formed by a history of bad experiences and an accumulation of a lifetime of rejections, failures and pent up frustrations occupying the same physical and mental space as yourself and fighting you for control over your very essence every single second of your life.

We all have our inner demons and we all have our share of battles with them. That eternal inner conflict between what you want and what should be, what is desired and what is acceptable, what gives you joy and satisfaction and what is expected from you.A centuries old conflict between following your heart and doing what your mind tells you.

Call it low self esteem, call it self-doubt, call it fear of commitment, call it what you will but the truth is we’ve all experienced them one time or another. Psychiatrists might sometimes give it another name Schizophrenia, which contrary to popular belief is not the existence of two or more personalities in one body. Schizophrenia as defined by psychiatrists as abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality, a state of severe withdrawal into one’s self with symptoms of emotional instability, detachment from reality, and withdrawal into the self.

In a way this misconception actually clarifies why we let our inner demons rampage around in our psyche letting them do whatever they please with our relationships, emotions and decisions. We always think of these inner demons as forces out of our control,we confuse them with ourselves and freely give them the reins of our mentality so that they may guide us into a state of social suicide and emotional corruption as opposed to a confused mental state where we don’t really know what we want or are too scared to make decisions and instead rely on a set of preprogrammed responses that we’ve relied on all our lives.

That’s the main problem, we give them too much credit, we give them too much power and we underestimate ourown capabilities in facing them.

A wise man once said we only suffer from a problem once we perceive and acknowledge it as a problem. In other words as long as you don’t perceive that a certain situation or dilemma as problematic then you won’t have any difficulty in dealing with it.

Realize that the recurring keyword here is perception. It’s your own perception that gives power to these inner demons. We perceive them as an inseparable part of our entity and hence lie to ourselves and convince ourselves that their decisions are in fact our own.

So what can we do ? How do we delete a lifetime of programmed emotions and fears ? How do we separate ourselves from that gangrenous entity festering within us eating away your very psyche and hindering your every attempt at healing and progress ?

The first thing is, like Isaid before, to stop empowering your inner demons, a lot of people will tellyou to stop whining, bite the bullet and face your inner demons but I try for adifferent approach, instead of facing them and acknowledging their presence andfurther empowering them simply ignore them. What doesn’t exist can’t hurt youright ?
Realize that these innerdemons are just a series of blames and punishments for past actions, mistakesand experiences given an intangible and absolutely harmless form.
The next time you feel themcreeping up on your thought process interfering with a decision or stopping youfrom doing what you want give your self a moment, detach yourself from thenormal flow of time, take a deep breath and analyze the situation :
What’s the worst that canhappen ?
Didn’t that happen already ?
Did doing nothing or succumbing to your inner demons give you what you want ?
Isn’t it time you got what you want ?
Then think to yourself :What’s the best that could happen ?
Who knows ? You might actually get it.
Afraid you might get rejected or humiliated ? What’s new ? You’ve been rejecting yourself and humiliating yourself for as long as you remember. How can you expect people to accept you if you refuse to accept yourself ?
Who knows ? Maybe having a better opinion of yourself and your capabilities will give others a reason to have a better opinion of you. It’s worth a try. Allow yourself to be a tad selfish, it’s okay to be little arrogant, it’ll throw your inner demons off balance, they’ll try to talk you down, they’ll try to belittle your efforts but you’re know better, let them pout their imaginary insults and wave their imaginary swords they can only hurt you if you allow them to hurt you.
You created your own inner demons and you can just as easily slay them.