Winning The Inner Game

Winning The Battle In Each Of Us

Winning the Inner Battle

Inside every person in the world there exists a conflict between your two selves.  Students of psychology have several different names for these “voices” , some refer to them as your ego, or perhaps your super ego, but for my purposes I will address these two voices as Self I and Self II. These two entities are constantly battling for control of your thoughts and your actions.  If you don’t believe it, who answers you in your head when you ask the simplest question?  One voice asks, the other one answers.  It happens all of the time.  Now let’s get to meet your two voices.

Meet Your Ego

Self I(ego, primitive self, jerk, whatever you want to call it.) is your stern voice, it is a know it all, who does nothing but issue commands and judges every result.  This is the voice that will tell you that you are stupid for trying, or that will never work, or call you an idiot when things don’t quite turn out the way that you hoped.  This voice has been building inside you since you were born to protect you from disappointment, to keep you safe.  It doesn’t mean to stagnate your growth or cause you to carry around an impossibly negative attitude towards everything and everybody.  You will see this voice in evidence in people who are continually judging others and always believing that their way is the best way.  Now their way may be, in fact the best way, but if someone is dominated by this voice, they will never seek anything outside of their experience because to do so, would put at risk the status quo and that would be too scary for them to deal with.  Fear of the unknown can make many an individual cling to their old ways and habits, simply because although they may be bad, they are a known entity, and better to feel bad continually by something that you know than to risk something new.  Raising your level of hope that things can get better only to be disappointed is just too scary for most people.  It is much safer to never try and not know how you would fare than to try and fail.  Failure is only one more step to success, and without taking steps you may never find it.

Say Hello to your true self

Self II is the voice of your subconscious mind, the absolutely human part of your mind that will create creative scenarios and ideas for you to follow.  This voice will urge you to pursue your talents and try to create something great, ignoring the critical Self I voice and all of it’s defense minded musings.  This voice will tell you about all of your natural potential as well as informing you about the skills and capabilities that you possess that will enable you to act and achieve most anything that you have put your mind towards accomplishing.  This ability to rely on ourselves and continue to develop and release our potential, I think is what most people are looking for in life.  We have the skills and talents to achieve most things we set our minds toward doing if we just allow our true talents to shine through the naturally negative expectations of  ourselves and others.   People who have achieved greatness in any field, to some degree, and at some point in their life were able to find, listen to and follow this positive inner voice.

Simple Path to Success

The simple path to success involves, recognizing your own limiting voice, and choosing to ignore it and listen to your inner positive voice which will allow you to succeed in most things that you undertake.  Allowing your abilities to rely on yourself will enable you to continue to grow as a person and release your nearly unlimited potential to do whatever it is you set your mind to.   Ignoring the negative voice in you that says, nothing but negative and judgmental things, will allow your positive attitude to bloom into whatever you dream for it to be.  Being the best that you can be is within you.

All people have the ability within themselves to be a great and powerful person.