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How to get relief from the Judge between your ears:

For years Rico Provasoli has toured the US as workshop leader and has now developed a one day workshop to get a hands-on experience:

This work with the inner critic is unique. No one wants to admit that they are the perpetuators of their own worst life partner. We feed the Judge by giving it power when we castrate our self daily. We believe the Judge who cripples our day with tight muscles, clenched jaw and slamming our self worth. The principle has been discussed for a hundred years since Freud coined the expression Super Ego.

But no one has brought this material to the ordinary people. Ed Hipp, golf coach featured in Golf Between The Ears introduced this idea when teaching his team to notice the critical voices. The boys on his high school team successfully applied this concept whenever the pressure in competition started to get the better of them. It has been proven to work and is presented in this educational and entertaining four hour workshop.

But wait a second. What exactly is the inner critic?

Any voice which makes us feel small or belittles our value is the critic.

The inner critic is that voice in us that knows everything. This voice of authority commands what should happen, how it should happen, how we should look as it’s happening. It has become so familiar that we don’t usually notice it. Have you ever gone into a barber shop where the radio is playing background music and with radio personalities commentators babbling all the time? You ask the barber what station he’s listening to, he’ll shrug his shoulders as if to say: “Radio? What radio?

The Judge’s voice plays in our head—non stop—like a radio station that’s on the air all the time—we grow accustomed and are unaware of the music. The same is true for the continuous criticism we hear coming from our own mind: we don’t even notice that it’s not our own voice. And the most common way it speaks is by putting us down. The voice is ceaseless.

The critic or Judge is with us every step. We don’t recognize that we are feeding it power. It is the force constantly evaluating our worth and value. The Judge limits our ability to be fully alive in the moment. The voice uses opinions, advice, warnings and beliefs to keep us caught in its grip.

The voice manipulates us with comparison, another destructive voice of the Judge. We are caught in contradictory standards which we inherited from our elders and sports mentors as kids. They are not our own values and as we try to live up to them (which is impossible), we fall prey to the criticism and devaluation of the Judge. Only when we contact our own self worth and unique value as a person, can we learn techniques on how to drop our hard wired addiction to the Judge’s approval or disapproval. There is only one guide available: AWARENESS.

This workshop is about learning how to allow the fresh air into the game you play between the ears.

So, you think you don’t have a critic? Don’t know what we’re talking about?

Here’s a test. If you answer YES! to at least one question, you know your critic is alive and killing your fun and performance on the course of life.

1. Do you ever hear a stinging voice that is regularly calling yourself stupid for spilling coffee on your way to an appointment?
2. Or calling yourself a jerk for always being late?
3. Or convincing yourself that you probably can’t get that promotion you deserve?
4. Do you think that you’ll never score in life because you always screw it up after a brilliant few weeks on a new job?




Questions? Comments? Contact Rico Provasoli on the web: ricoprovasoli@gmail.com