This will be a fight to the bitter end. No one escapes the war of the mind. The best prescription is to center yourself around good deeds. Always seek to help others. Be kind not only to people, but to all of creation. Give a smile and a compliment which can be worth more than money. Do not seek a reward, but know that your reward is yet to come, not in monetary donations, but in happiness, where the abundance thereof is infinite. No one escapes the war, just remember who your fighting for.

Hi, your question caught my eye as I suffered/still suffer occasionally from the same thing. And I know what a hell it can be day to day!! I hope this can be of help somehow.

My voices do not come from me tho, they come from a group of people who did not have my best interests at heart when i was at rock bottom a few years ago, who took up residence in my head. This is how it went for me:

At first, they berated me all the time, I always pictured myself in public, when they were all together. They were always humiliating me, saying how easy it was to take advantage, how i deserved to be in this situation because it would never happen to them, its just scum like me that atracts it. I beg them to leave me alone, they dont. I took medication to help, it didnt.

After a while I noticed this happens every time I felt quite positive. I noticed after a while that I started these scenes in my head (although not on purpose) to purely test myself. Am I strong enough to take these people on if I met them again now? What would I say this time, I imagine their games, their put downs they can become quite nasty and cruel, and every time I got a little bit further Id start testing myself in my head with my enemies.

Recently, Ive stopped fighting them. In my head I notice they are simply looking for a reaction, they want my attention. If I was weak and pathetic, they simply wouldnt bother taking me on. So therfore, they must be sniffing out something great in me that I have been missing!! I dont need to do this to anyone to make myself feel good, so why do these voices need to do it to me. Nowadays, i see them coming, I give them a rude hand gesture and when I get close to them, tell them to sort their own tragic life out and stop leaching off mine. To just shut the hell up. Then I walk home, and when I arrive I say to my perfect partner in my perfect house-remember how they would screw up my whole day, they just look so sad now. And Im always looking fabulous at this point haha.

I usually try to end it there. Seriously, you are giving them more time than they deserve. I think youre testing yourself like me-questioning your own worth. Your waisting precious time, tell them (out loud in the street if you have to) that there isnt room in your head anymore for them. Start thinking about your own life and soon you will get one. xxx

I have a theory that when people one side of their brain dominantly, for various reasons, that affects their perception of time/space and All that is. I was watching this video with Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain scientist, and discovered that it is our left brain that processes time/space, past/future, while the right brain connects us to here Now and All that is.

So the more left brain and less right brain someone is, the more separate they feel, even from their thoughts and sometimes even their bodies- schizophrenia is over here on the extreme. The more right brain and less left brain someone is, the more connected they feel to All that is and have a harder time separating themselves from their environment- autism is over here on the extreme.

I think that Two Hands Touching can help connect the two sides of the brain and connect time/space with All that is. This is my theory, so don't stop taking medication without consulting the doctor who prescribed them.

Edit 3/9/13: During the first seven years of life, starting at gestation, we receive programing from our parents and/or primary caregivers to prepare us for the world we are being born into. We also get programs throughout life, but they are more easily downloaded the first seven years when our brainwaves are more maleable. Somewhere in our upbringing, we hear people say things to us that get recorded in our mind and replay whenever we are a match to the vibration. So sometimes, even though the voices are the creation of our own minds, they are also not, because they are simply a recording of somebody else being replayed in our minds. We just need to rewrite the programs.

Just as we can talk to a cassette tape and it will not record, unless we push the record button, we can talk to ourselves and have no results, because we have to push the record button. For us, the record button is the brainwaves we had when we were easily downloading information, or hearing/saying it 1,000 times. That is why meditation is so popular for changing one's reality, it can get you to the brainwave states that allow for easy learning. THT is a fast easy way to get there also.

i would say that you need to be at peace with your self the stress and people around you that have those negative though about you they should know better they are not helping you or them self with judgement. stay in the truth. yes you need to work and talk to people but you have free will like every one else. take back control of your self first. tell those little voice of darkness to not talk to you if they have nothing positive to tell you. abide only by the truth and make your choice. anny one that is not in truth and that is judging you are standing in judgement not in truth. that is their problem not yours. i know it is not easy many are persisten with judgement they do not know better forgive them. if you think they can accept you tell them the truth. tell them you do not like when someone judge or blame you why do you do the same.

For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

http://bible.cc/matthew/7-2.htm

Dear SR7, A few minutes ago I read an article by a neuroscientist David Eagleman about his reaserch on Schizophrenia and I think you should read it as there is some hope for the future. The article is called "Why do Schezophrenics hear voices" and you can read it on the "Real Clear Science Blog". Would love to give you a link but dont know how. Please read and let us know what you think.

How much authority do you give the bad voice? If it berates you then you have to berate it ten times more. Tell it its options mean nothing to you. Tell the voice it is weak and its opinions are worthless. Be the dominate one, the authority that you are letting that bad voice be right now. Tell it that if it doesn't have something good to say then be gone! Take command, take back charge.

It may sound as your own voice, this gives it authority. It needs to be cast out as something else pretending to be your own thoughts (your own voice). You need to see its opinions as worthless. These opinions hold no value and therefore are meaningless garbage. Tell it that it is a figment of your imagination, and it doesn't exist so it has no authority over you.

I once was possessed and was losing control of my mind and body. At first I fought it hard which just seemed to make it stronger. But reasoning set in, if fighting this makes it stronger, the harder that I fight with the more force I use, the more force I believe I have to use. In other words I was increasing my belief it this as an authority and powerful being! So I thought what is the opposite of this? This being needs my belief to be strong! So I switched my belief right there and then. I said to it, "Your power comes from my belief in your power!" Ow it hated that with great insult and anger like a spoiled child throwing a temper tantrum! I said to it, "Your authority comes from my fear of your authority!" It hated that too! Then I really gave it to him! I said, "You have no power or authority except my belief in your power or authority! Your power and authority are false and nothing but illusion!!!" I said "You are nothing to me, you are illusion, false, weak, pathetic, a myth!" I really went to town berating it until it was practically begging me to believe it exist. Then it was gone forever!

This film is about overcoming fear through love.

In the movie Full Confidence Veronica Andres talks about these voices. I remember a part where she said, "You hear these voices telling you, you are not good enough, you can't make it etc... and you tell them to shut up. Then you turn your attention back where you want."

Notice that beneath all our confused and repetitive thinking, there is an energetic “noise”—an uncomfortable resonance that can be clearly felt when our attention is placed on it. Within this text, we call this a dysfunctional emotional signature.

When we embrace experience as a teacher, we fast real eyes it is no use attempting to forcefully change or stop our confused and repetitive thinking without first paying attention to the dysfunctional emotional signature that underlies it.

This is because, according to The Pathway of Awareness, our thinking is driven by the condition of our emotional body. Instead of trying to mentally force a change in our thinking, it is more efficient to focus our time and energy on awakening to, and then consciously adjusting, the dysfunctional emotional signature beneath these thoughts.

When we access and adjust the dysfunctional emotional signature, the thought processes we are struggling with automatically transform to reflect this causal adjustment. Approaching our experience in this manner is imbued with integrity. We are efficiently impacting the quality of our human experience because we are aware of the correct application of the components that manifest it. Once we initiate this level of personal responsibility, we are ready to awaken to the authentic resonance of intimacy.

From this point onward within this text, when we use the word “healing,” we are specifically referring to the conscious felt-adjustment of the imprinted dysfunction within the emotional body. When radiated unconsciously from the emotional body into the men- tal and physical parameters of our experience, this imprinted dysfunction manifests as symptomatic experiences such as accidents, diseases, and addictions.

When we use the word “healing,” we are not referring to physically attending to wounds or symptoms, or to mentally discussing a diagnosis. We are referring to the precise moment in which we energetically impact the causal point of any outer physical and mental state of discomfort through felt-perception.”

Because the energetic condition of the emotional body is defined within us through imprinting by the age of seven, we may metaphorically view this attribute of our experience as the “child.” Being child-like, it is simple, not complex. It feels, and it accomplishes everything through feeling. The moment we restore balance within our emotional body this adjusted energetic condition is automatically radiated outward along The Pathway of Awareness into our mental processes and physical circumstances.

Restoring balance within our emotional body requires only one intent—to feel what Is. The mental body, scratching its head in disbelief, wants to ask, “How can this possibly be?” Let us illustrate how the emotional body restores balance through “feeling what is.” We will use standing up, balanced on our own two feet, as a “metaphor for a healthy, emotionally balanced human experience.

If we stand with our hands by our sides, eyes closed, and allow ourselves to gradually start falling forward, beyond a certain point we completely lose balance, fall over, and hit the ground. This experience of hitting the ground is akin to the development of a symptom of imbalance. It represents a piece of unintegrated time that may manifest within our life experience as an accident, disease, or addiction.

The reason we fall forwards or backwards to the point that we hit the ground is because we are unable to feel how out of balance we are. In other words, we lose balance because we have a diminished capacity to feel—a lack of emotional body awareness.

As we are falling, we may attempt to counteract this circumstance mentally by opening our eyes, observing the changing angle of our falling body, and saying, “I am five degrees off balance balance and gradually moving further off balance by 2.58 degrees per 3.29 milliseconds. To regain my balance, I best move my weight in the opposite direction by 1.99 degrees every 1.45 milliseconds. This approach of mentally calculating our predicament, and then making physical adjustments according to these mental calculations, illustrates the task we have placed in the lap of traditional therapy and psychiatry.

When we only invest our energy in this mental approach of thinking and analysis, no matter how precisely we calculate our predicament or chart our method of recovery, we still continue to fall. This is because when we are thinking about our condition, we are not feeling.

It is extremely difficult to think and feel at the same time. Even with our eyes wide open, thinking and analysis—because they numb our ability to feel—inevitably lead us into losing balance, falling fur- ther, and ending up on the ground. When we approach an imbalanced aspect “of our human experience only through our mental body, the consequences are in effect you all.

The same is true of approaching an imbalanced human experience only physically. Once we are off balance, no amount of flailing our arms or adjusting our posture can help us. In fact, beyond a certain point of imbalance, the more we physically engage our symptomatic experience with treatment and pharmaceuticals, the more likely we are to hasten the moment of hitting the ground.

By reawakening our ability to feel what is happening in the moment, and by trusting the impetus of our feelings, even with our eyes shut, we are able to feel how far over we are leaning and automatically counter this momentum in such a way as to restore our balance. We do not require any thinking to accomplish this, nor do we require visibly seeing our physical circumstances. Simply feeling how out of balance we are empowers us to restore our balance.

This illustration may be simplistic, but it reveals a simple secret concerning the functioning of the emotional body. When we allow ourselves to feel the authentic condition of our emotional body, without trying to change what we are feeling, we empower the emotional body to enter the process of restoring balance. We enable the suppressed energetic circumstances we have conceptually labeled as fear, anger, and grief to reenter motion so they may reach completion and bring about integration. “It is this simple. To make it any more complex than this is to become mental. Feeling is healing.

Excerpt From: Brown, Michael. “Alchemy of the Heart.” Namaste Publishing.

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@SR7 had this thought rumbling around in my head for a couple weeks now.. You ever see the word "pffft" well its more like a sound. the sound of disbelief and disregard.Short and simple. so the next time "the voices" start their trash talk respond with a pffft! Kind of what @Wade said but shorten to a nonchalant reply not giving any creditably to "the voices"
peace

Can you give specific, concrete examples? Do you remember when these voices started? My advice on the other thread was to discipline your mind because the voices are just your own thoughts projected outwardly. This however may not actually stop the voices, simply change their nature. You mentioned social interaction got rid of the voices so I think it's clear what you should do.