Don’t let doubt hold you back from everything you’ve ever wanted.

Don’t let doubt hold you back from everything you’ve ever wanted.

Everyone doubts themselves sometimes.

Doubt is to call into question the truth of what you are experiencing. In other words, you feel self-conscious, uncertain and lack confidence. A classic symptom of doubt is intensive questioning. While doubt in and of itself is an inborn trait of the brain that can actually be useful at times. The reason it can be so damaging is because it can become chronic and obsessive and interfere with our ability to make any choices at all. In the end, if we get stumped by too much doubt we feel STUCK.

I know that I’ve battled by own tendencies to doubt myself. Doubt is there instinctually to prevent us from falling into harm’s way. But, then sometimes doubt actually puts us into harm’s way. Let me explain. Again, the issue isn’t so much as to whether we have doubt because you need it. It’s more that we focus on our doubt to the complete exclusion of other mental, emotional, and physical phenomenon that is providing us with strong validation. Then, doubt swoops back in and we dismiss all of that validation and make poor choices out of fear. When that happens, doubt becomes our enemy. That is not the kind of doubt that has us instinctually asking good questions about our experience. That is the kind of doubt that is the result of, for example, being told repeatedly that you are bad or wrong or that you don’t know what you are talking about. It is the result of being made to put-up or silenced. It is the result of specific trauma, and actually represents a block in the emotional body that needs addressing in order to drop in further.

The ability to distinguish between natural doubt and introspection and doubt that ought to be honored with a question perhaps here and there is crucial to moving forward in your spiritual growth. 

Here are some steps to deal with doubt that you think is trauma-based:

1. Question the doubt.

2. Go to nature to increase your frequency. Doubt has a low frequency. By increasing your frequency, you immediately increase your powers of discernment

3. Practice yoga or other mindful physical stimulation that actually has you focusing on how you feel, rather than what you think. Feeling is your intuition’s best friend

4. Journal.

Just because you have a thought doesn’t mean it’s true. Don’t let yourself get stuck in the doubt’s spiderweb. Befriend it, and I believe you will effortlessly move forward in your life.