Nope, I can confirm that, shutting anything up does not work for me either, it's just my first instinct with annoying stuff like the inner critic (or the inner child). That's why I said ask where it gets the idea from ... for me the answer is - all unreliable sources (I think I basically internalised every bit of criticism I ever got, and I ended up with a lot of often contradictory 'principles' that way). This makes it easier to put a huge ? to all that and try to figure out what might actually work for me.