THE SABOTEUR
Your mind is your best friend but it can also be your worst enemy.
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According to Shirzad Charmaine, Stanford Professor and Founder & CEO of Positive Intelligence Inc. defines saboteurs as “the voices in your head that generate negative emotions in the way you handle life’s everyday. They represent automated patterns in your mind for how to think, feel, and respond. They cause all of your stress, anxiety, self-doubt, frustration, restlessness, and unhappiness. They sabotage your performance, wellbeing, and relationships.”
Charmaine goes on to explain that “Saboteurs start off as our guardians to help us survive the real and imagined threats to our physical and emotional survival as children. By the time we are adults, we no longer need them, but they have become invisible inhabitants of our mind.”