The effects of criticism can be devastating.
I was talking today with somebody who had been bullied years ago and still today is suffering from very low self-esteem, depression and his life is very limited. He is experiencing panic attacks and can’t go out.
Continuous criticism is very damaging and corrodes self-esteem, it is abusive.
If you are in any relationship where you are criticized, think about whether it is actually good for you to remain in that relationship.
The questions are: will criticism ever stop? and why do we criticize?
The reason why we criticize another person is because we have not yet welcome our shadow, we have not yet welcome all parts of ourselves, we project and also because of negative beliefs and conditioning.
There might be something in another person, in their behavior, in their beliefs that we do not like, that we do not agree with, that bothers us and we criticize.
Maybe we feel threatened by that, maybe there is a belief we hold that causes us to feel not free to be ourselves, to hold the beliefs we choose, to behave as we choose.
Also, what we do not like in another, what bothers us in another, it is in us. We need to remember or re-remember how to love ourselves, how to love all of ourselves, what we like and what we resist. And when we do so, we will find peace and we will allow what is to be.
Love yourself because you are the way you are