Being analysed, critiqued and corrected can be difficult to deal with. Over a prolonged time it can create psychological complexes in people.
From the Gnostic point of view it is certainly a tough gymnasium, where a person can learn a few things.
Those things can be some of the following:
• To see ourselves always positively and to see our Inner Being as a legitimate reality that has the wisdom and strength to change. In many ways, the fact that we are present in that gymnasium is because of our Real Being wanting us to learn.
• Seeing ourselves as wrong provoke anger or self-pity. If we keep positive towards ourselves we don't bring anger. From within our essence we don't want to see ourselves as wrong and deeply from within our Being we are not. It is not wrong for the Being to be.
• To support ourselves while keeping open to useful advice will help us change for the better.
• To learn how to form our inner life to see that what is being proposed is good for us, will helps us to become more patient and not feel so uncomfortable during times of criticism.
• Those who criticise us believe that that is what we are doing internally - that is seeing the good in what is being said. The curious thing is that very few people do that while receiving criticism. That is the one special thing that criticism teaches us - to switch quickly to see the good in it and align with it.
• To discern between what is useful and unuseful criticism.
• To learn how to breakdown the pride and step outside of the 'myself'. We do this by letting go of the belief that we should not be corrected at all or corrected even a little, and to align with force that is going to help us change.
• The inner act of aligning our will with something outside of us (beneficial for us), in many ways catapults us outside of the confines of our personality and the 'myself'.
• To remain holding onto our values while transforming criticism into wisdom that enhances our values.
• To see what relatively new values we can develop.
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