Episode 36: Confidence
Confidence in our abilities often comes from the way the world perceives us and gives us feedback. That confidence is coming from our false self. Confidence from our true selves is when we are unfettered, unhindered by the world’s voices, and move throughout life as love. We love our neighbor as ourselves, or love our neighbor from a place of our true self, or God indwelling. Being confident doesn’t stem from our ability to believe in ourselves. It comes from our ability to shed what the false self told us who we were to begin with.
In this episode we will identify a characteristic in us that has allowed us to be successful. We will then determine if this characteristic feeds a need for control and power, approval and acceptance, or safety and security, which tells us it is a layer of our false self. We will let it go so that we can move forward from a place of our true selves – the center of stillness in us, our diamond light.
The man who cannot simply close his eyes
Knowing there is image after image
Far inside him, waiting quietly until night
To rise all around him in the dark it’s all finished for him, he’s just like an old man.
-Maria Ranier Rilke, translated by David Whyte
