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Good morning friends.
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Happy Thursday to everyone joining me here on Facebook.
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This will also be a bonus episode on my podcast.
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So hello to all my podcast listeners as well.
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I do these meditations live on Facebook every Thursday, and I'm
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so excited today to bring you one that is for chronic self-doubt.
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So this is a short daily meditation practice that you can use to help
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you manage self-doubt so that you feel less anxious and more
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confident as you go about your day.
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Now self-doubt.
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It is something that when we are experiencing in it, experiencing
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it, it feels really true.
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It feels like whatever your story is, like, I'm not good enough for this job,
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or I'm not good enough for this person, or my life is just not the way that I want
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it to be and I don't know what to do.
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Self-doubt is present in so many of these challenging situations,
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and when we're in it, it can feel like we are like in the depths of
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the ocean and it's all around us.
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It is the absolute truth of who we are and of our lives, when
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in reality it is an experience.
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It is thoughts and feelings that feel true and not to not to minimize them
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because they are very powerful, but they are not the truth of who you are.
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Just like the weather.
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Even if it tends to be rainy, we have moments of sunshine, we have
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changes in the seasons and, and and that's totally natural and normal.
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And underneath all of that, like we have the, the mountains that are
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strong and stable and still there no matter what the weather is.
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So, what we will do with this meditation is to get a sense for that transitory
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experience of thoughts and feeling.
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So let's get started.
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Taking a nice deep breath in, maybe even lifting your arms up over your
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head and then letting them come down.
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Resting your palms on your lap.
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Eyes can close or lower.
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Feeling your feet on the ground, like really getting a sense
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of the firmness beneath them.
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You can lift them up, press them down into the floor, the same for your seat.
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Feel the chair or whatever you're sitting on beneath you, maybe wiggle a little
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bit or get a sense of that contact.
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And then taking a nice deep breath into the belly.
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Exhaling out the mouth.
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Do this two more times.
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Deep belly breath in.
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And the exhale, maybe even sighing.
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Ah, long, slow exhale.
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One last time.
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Deep belly breath.
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Okay.
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Returning to your natural breathing rhythm,
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noticing the breath,
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noticing that you have a body.
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You've got toes and feet, legs.
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Most of us have have legs and hips, torso, shoulders, arms, hands, neck, head.
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You can repeat internally.
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I, I have a body.
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And I am more than my body.
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You can lose a toe, a foot, a leg, and you are still you.
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And then noticing how you're feeling right now in terms of emotions.
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So this might be sad, content, stressed, anxious, peaceful, agitated,
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and repeat to yourself.
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I am feeling this emotion.
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And name that emotion, or if nothing comes up, just I am not feeling anything.
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That works too.
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I feel feelings.
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I am more than my feelings.
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I feel self-doubt at times.
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I am more than my self-doubt.
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Self-doubt is not me.
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I am me
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noticing your mind thoughts
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and being aware that thoughts come and go in your mind.
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That your thoughts are made up of words,
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repeating.
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Sometimes I believe my thoughts,
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yet my thoughts are not me.
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My thoughts are not the truth of me.
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Sometimes my thoughts are of self-doubt.
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My thoughts are not the truth of me.
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Self-doubt is not the truth of me.
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I am more than my self-doubt.
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I am me.
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My self-doubt is thoughts and feelings.
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I am more than thoughts and feelings.
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I am me.
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I'm gonna take a couple breaths to notice the resonance, the reflection of the
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meditation in your body, in your mind.
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And to close, we'll take a final deep belly breath in,
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exhaling out the mouth.
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Open your eyes.
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I'd love to know how this works for you, how it feels for you.
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The key to managing self-doubt really is to be aware of this separation,
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that your thoughts and feelings are not the truth of who you are, and that
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when you have chronic doubt, you have to have a very consistent practice
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to, to become aware of the separation.
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And you can use this meditation to help support that.
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So if you're curious about how else you can support yourself with
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self-doubt, This week's podcast, episode number seven is all about that.
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So check out the Empowered Introvert podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Or you can go to my website, the link is in the bio wherever you are watching this
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or in the comments if it's on YouTube.
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So thank you so much for joining, friends, take care, and I will see you next week.
