Banishing self-doubt
QUESTION: Masters, I doubt myself and my decisions so much that it is interfering with my life. I have been studying and reading about self-awareness and manifestation but the authors only confuse me further. I was laid off from my employment and I am having a hard time finding another position. What can I do?
ANSWER: While you have had this “doubt” in your mind your entire life, the act of being laid off thrust the belief of your worthlessness to the forefront. Your big lesson this lifetime is to find your significance as a soul and your worth as a soul having a human experience.
Trying to find an answer to solve all your feelings from a book or motivator is sitting back and saying, “Even if the answer might be inside of me, I wouldn’t trust it. Somebody tell me what to do.”
The concepts you currently accept as your own came from outside of you. They are the things people have told you about yourself or the material you have read. It is like data entered into the hard drive of a computer—it remains until it is erased or overwritten with something else.
You are dealing with the ego, that part of the human brain that deals with issues of fitting into society. Throughout life, various sources have imprinted their beliefs upon your brain. You have accepted them and adopted them as your own. Some of those beliefs dealt with your insignificance and worthlessness. You may continue to claim these as your own values, or you may rewrite your beliefs to include the power of your soul.
The true sense of who you are resides inside of you in that essence which is your soul. All souls were broken off from Source and therefore all are equal and magnificent. It is just a matter of accepting that fact and writing it into the belief system of each life you live.
Venture inside yourself in meditation. Connect with that fount of unconditional love which is the core of your soul in the body. Sense that the negativity, the uncertainty, the unworthiness, the worthlessness, cannot exist here. Then bring those feelings out into the light as your understanding of your true nature.