Doubt seems to have a lot of power in one’s life. It can choke out the Light that is unfolding in you, just as a weed chokes out the life in a garden. When we attach our thoughts to doubt we invite that energy to take us over. Have you ever followed a path of doubt so far into the darkness that you couldn’t see any way back to the Light? It’s easy to do because doubt in ourselves is so easily reinforced by others around us. Sometimes it is even planted by those who are supposed to be supporting us. Teachers set low expectations for a student who starts to believe that they will never be an academic success. Parents compare their child unfavorably to another child and create doubt about worthiness. Teenagers gossip about others and create insecurities in each other. Society says we must be beautiful, rich, thin in order to be successful, and we must drive a certain car, drink a certain drink, wear certain clothes to be attractive to the opposite sex. Who hasn’t doubted that they measure up to these rulers of society?
Doubt can be seductive in its attractiveness. What masquerades as humility, which we are taught is an admirable quality, can actually be doubt in our merit, our own self-worth. We are taught not to brag about our achievements or our good qualities but isn’t that a false modesty? Why is doubt a better choice than self-acceptance and self-confidence?
In a relationship, doubt can often create a chasm between people who have not developed healthy communication skills. One partner starts to doubt and holds back a part of self from the other. The seed of doubt grows with every thought, often way out of proportion to the original circumstance, but once it starts to grow it takes on a life of its own. Relationships can be ended because someone watered and fertilized a seed of doubt until it took over the whole relationship.
What can we do when we start to feel doubt? The first thing to do is to examine the source of the doubt. Did someone else create it or did we attach our thoughts to doubt as it arose in us? Sometimes determining the source is all that is needed to dismiss a feeling before it attaches and grows. If you are feeling doubt, ask yourself, ‘What is this? Is this real?’ We often react to something that is difficult to believe by doubting that it is true, without ever taking the time to ascertain the facts.
And if you are feeling doubt about yourself, your self worth, your abilities, then look at what is behind the doubt. Did it start in your childhood because of a belief you held at that time? Are you believing what someone else has said about you without checking inside yourself for your truth? Are you avoiding accepting your own inner greatness because you are afraid to claim it? Sometimes the doubt is not about worthiness but about the magnitude of your own worth in the world.
When you attach yourself to thoughts of doubt you are moving yourself away from your own Inner Light and the source of Universal Light. Think about the story in the movie ‘Doubt’ where people acted on what they thought they saw, or how they interpreted a situation without really ever determining the facts. This path led to anguish in the doubters and choices all around that caused pain.
It is time now for us to commit to dispelling doubt because it doesn’t serve the highest good of all. If you doubt that something is true, then instead of feeding the doubt, determine the truth. If you feel that you are unworthy, if you doubt yourself and your abilities, then find a way to examine the source of that feeling and accept yourself as the Being of Light that you are. Choose what you will believe and choose to believe in yourself. Doubt arises only as a flag to get your attention. Resolve today to use it as such.
I believe in your Inner Splendor! If you still have problems with doubting yourself, then just remember that!
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MUSE-INGS: Positive Thoughts Bring Light into Your Day!
September 28, 2010 — RosemaryCall me a ‘Pollyanna’ but I do like to look at the bright side of things. And I like the idea of making the first thought of the day a positive one. Imagine that your day is like a page in a coloring book, waiting for you to pick up the crayons and fill in the colors. What colors would you like to be there for you today? Now think what it would be like if the only color you could use was the gray crayon – no sunlight yellow, no bright pink, no reds, blues or greens – just gray. Wouldn’t you want to pull the covers back up over your head?
YOU create the box of crayons and the vibrations with which you color your day. Which color will you choose? Which positive thought do you want to focus your first energy of the day on? Use these ideas as tools to lift your own vibration. Go to bed with the thought that you will wake with something positive on your mind. Remember that your unconscious mind doesn’t judge what you are picturing because it can’t tell the difference between the pictures you make up and the ones you really see with your eyes. Why not make up some pictures of how you want things to work out for you today instead of making pictures of what you don’t want? Let your unconscious mind store away the pictures of what you do want and it will work for you to make those happen.
This energy is at work whether you are conscious of it or not. Knowing that you are attracting that on which you are placing your attention, wouldn’t you want to focus on something positive? I’ve heard people question the Law of Attraction but that Law is at work whether you are consciously using it or not. Think about it. How many people do you know who have talked about some fear of an unwanted occurrence only to have that very thing materialize? These people then say, “I always [lose, have a problem with X, don’t get what I want, etc.].” They are then specifically energizing what they don’t want for the next time!
Become the one who can always see the positive side of whatever is going on. Choose positive thoughts for the first thing in the morning. Catch yourself speaking the negative thoughts that flit through your mind and move on to positive ones. If you still struggle with something positive to think about, visualize something that feels good to you. Consider decorating your bedroom so that the first thing you see every morning is something that makes you feel good. Perhaps a picture of a loved one or a flower. Maybe it’s your favorite painting or sculpture or work of art. It could be as simple as having the window curtain open so you can look outside as you awaken to enjoy the beauty of nature.
Create your morning ritual around being conscious of thinking positive thoughts for the day. The moments when you are just emerging from sleep are the most creative moments of your day – make use of these moments to bring the high vibration of creative energy to what you start your day thinking about. If you have problems to solve, keep yourself in the creative mode rather than dropping down into suffering and victimhood. You have control over these thoughts. Steer them downstream so that you can go with the flow. If you start your day focusing on negative thoughts, it will become harder for you to lift yourself up later in the day.
Set the intention when you go to bed that you will move your morning thoughts into the Light and focus on the positive!
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