Self-Care With Shaki

In today's era of social media, criticism, and bullying has become a top-notch issue. People have also become very sensitive to everything that is being said on social media. A single negative comment on your Instagram post would drain your whole energy for the day. Negative criticism will occupy the whole mind and people keep ruminating it over and over. Our mental health is damaged to a great extent that people even commit suicide for negative criticisms. Nowadays, it is all about pleasing people. We curl back if someone judges us or criticizes us. Our mental health is on stake because we are not taught to handle simple things like criticism. Basically, there are two types of criticisms - Constructive and destructive. Constructive criticism is something that encourages us to do better, it points out our mistakes so that we can correct them. Whereas, Negative criticism is something that tears us apart. For example, let's say you are posting a vid...

You are your greatest motivator and criticizer. The highest form of motivation and criticism comes from your within. Self-criticism is a process where you degrade your own abilities. You punish yourself with harsh words that you will never dare to rage on even on your worst enemy. Mostly, your self-criticizing thoughts are automatic thoughts. Which means that they are unconscious thoughts. They occur to you naturally like breathing. When you have too much self-criticizing unconscious thoughts, your life will sink down and all your dreams might go in vain. I have undergone the same emotional trauma because of self-criticizing thoughts. I thought I was of no use, I am worthless, I am ugly and all sorts of nonsense. My life was dark like a tunnel with no end. Once I started changing my unconsci ous, automatic thoughts that self-sabotaged me, my tunnel had a light with vision. It was coming from darkness to light. 1. Pay attention to your thoughts ...