A Surprisingly Effective Way to Deal With Your Inner Critic

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey, hey, happy Friday, everybody. Today we're going to talk about one of my favorite and really most impactful for me personally. theories of the case when it comes to the human mind.

I don't know if you ever saw that movie Inside Out or the sequel Inside Out 2. The idea is that it takes you inside the mind of an American girl and shows how she's got these different parts to her. She's got her angry part, jealous part, calm part, happy part, joyous part. This is true of all of us. and learning to understand that we've got these different modes into which we go and then developing a sane relationship with the various parts of your personality.

You might call them demons, although not all of them are negative or problematic. But this view of the psyche and how to work with it has been incredibly helpful to me. And, you know, it's not entirely new all the way back to the Buddha. The Buddha was working even after his enlightenment with one of his most problematic parts. He called this part Mara, kind of the god of desire and aversion and delusion, a kind of avatar of the most problematic aspects of the human repertoire.

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