GeniesLoki

Since we're doing shadow work now, try this one: what if the reason you're being nasty to yourself is that there are no real, immediately obvious bad consequences to doing so?

Would you talk this way to your friend? No, because they'd sulk and might even leave. And you wouldn't talk this way to your coworker either because, well, you might get fired. But what do you lose being nasty to yourself? You can't leave, and you can't fire yourself.

Turn this around for a greater twisst: what if this is the way you'd love to treat everyone else, if there were no bad consequences to do so? What if this is who you are when you have absolute power?

This is brutal and I love it.

Although oddly this might result in me being slightly meaner to myself.

uh... that was not the intended side effect questioning, disciplined, challenging, okay, but not meaner!

If it helps, I currently basically never engage in negative self talk. It's not a thing I do. I'm very nice to myself. So "This is how you behave with ultimate power" as a frame made me go "Hmm. Actually, zero might not be the correct number here..."