Looking at the human beings, it is evident that there are many traits, behaviours, illnesses and diseases, dramas and destructions, not to mention wars, rape, murder, corruption…. and the not so extreme behaviours such as comparison, jealousy, lack of appreciation etc, many of which are not replicated anywhere else in nature or as presented by Serge Benhayon, indeed in the Universe.
Take self-doubt as an example – Does self-doubt occur in nature? And/or the universe?
- When was the last time a bird didn’t leave a branch because it was having self-doubt issues about flying?
- When was the last time a flower bent away from the sun because it became concerned it wasn’t facing the right way?
- When was it that a Star wriggled itself out of the constellation because it wasn’t dead certain it was making the right shape?
- When did Planet Earth stop spinning even for a moment because it couldn’t convince itself it was running on time?
- “When did God give up on us because He wasn’t sure we were quite worthy of love?” (Dragana Brown)
Ok, so let’s admit – perhaps not all of the questions would have scientific evidence-based answers, which we humans have come to champion like they are going out of fashion, however, the fact remains the only reason they all sound ridiculous is because they are not truly occurring in nature.
Self-doubt seems to be largely composed of an insidious set of thoughts we get fed in order to erode the most magnificent being down to something of the stature of a particularly shrivelled prune.
Self-doubt is conniving. Here is why:
When one is down and out, hitting rock bottom, given up on life and searching for anything to get them back up – it’s kind of obvious what one is going through and there is a level of honesty about the situation. From that space, it feels easier to address the issue/issues, seek support because everything is much more in-your-face, so to speak.
Self-doubt on the other hand, which by the way does not discriminate or have any particular selection process, can permeate into the most picture-perfect scenarios; amongst individuals and groups that to an onlooker could easily look like Oscar Award Winning Lives.
Self-doubt can meander and move in all circles; where there’s money, successful careers, long-lasting marriages, old friendships and promising new ventures. And yet, often-times, its presence is not so easy to spot, or at least not as obvious as is the case with those we see in despair.
Self-doubt can go on and on and on… without so much as a bleep on the awareness radar and therefore it can remain an undetected virus eating away its host for a long time.
The real question then being – why do the questions asked above sound ridiculous when in truth they are very apt and on the money? We are constantly congratulating and taking pride in ourselves as the most evolved species and yet, birds, stars, dolphins, bees… display intelligence that would never go against their nature or do anything to their own detriment.
So, do the questions sound so absurd because deep down we know that nature and the Universe co-exist in alignment with the same intelligence human beings can attune to, but who are, more often than not choosing not to tap into that source, and as a result we have, on Earth, created disharmony and mayhem. And yet, we are always a choice away from tuning into this multidimensional rhythm, which we know to be true and therefore any self-doubt cannot and does not enter because it does not belong to the source the bees, the birds and the buds are showing us we all come from. Is it possible that we as Human Beings also have that same innate knowing which can be manifested in all that we do, say and how we move that plants and trees, birds and bees, whales and stars, the sun and moon have, and are constantly reflecting back to us?
And if so, what on Earth are we doing with these reflections?
This blog was inspired by Self-Doubt: It’s not a Little Problem by Maree Savins and the teachings and philosophies of Serge Benhayon.
By Michael Brown, 21-Year-old Student, Retail Manager and Amazing young man.
Related Reading:
All of Nature is Here to Support us to Return to Who We Truly Are
No Doubt
Nature: The Ultimate Reflection
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
There are so many lies that are there to keep us from feeling our magnificence and although many are now aware of this the majority of humanity are still stuck in self, which can bring many things to us to keep the truth of who we innately are away from us, as you have shared Michael.
I like this analogy of self-doubt, ‘Self-doubt can go on and on and on… without so much as a bleep on the awareness radar and therefore it can remain an undetected virus eating away its host for a long time.’ So true.
I have discovered that self-doubt is all in the mind, like so many other crippling patterns, we get fed these thoughts because we live in our heads most of the time and not from our hearts. I can say from personally experience that the more I live from my heart the more confidence I seem to naturally gain. It is a very beautiful energy to be in because no matter what negativity comes my way I can deal with it because I know the value of me by the store of love in my heart. I can definitely recommend this way of living.
So there we have it. Self doubt is not an energy that belongs to our truth. Therefore no need to entertain it.
That sums it up Vicky, I agree, no need to entertain self doubt.
When we play one up man ship, comparison, being better than or keeping up with the Jones to name just a few we are in a place that is controlled by the individual that also brings in self-doubt and this is no where near the Space our Soul, Essences / Inner-most-heart offers and the lived Harmony and Joy we innately are.
Self doubt comes from an alignment, an alignment with a consciousness that has warped itself into an activity that is not in keeping with Divine Creation. When we align to Divine Creation then self doubt isn’t an option, it’s quite simply not on offer.
“When was the last time a bird didn’t leave a branch because it was having self-doubt issues about flying?” Good question! What I appreciated about your blog is that there is a shared universal intelligence that nature is a part of, and the alignment to that is absolute, there is nothing else and nature is completely obedient to the order. This highlights to me that if human beings are not aligned to the universal order then they must be aligned to something else, that something else being everything that is disordered – from ill health to crime, corruption, abuse, war, etc. None of that fits into the order that nature is a a part of, so why have we made disorder our way?
Melinda I feel there is a pulse to the universe not so much an order and we are either aligned and living to or within the pulse or not. I feel that it is quite obvious that on this plane of life we are living out of the pulse or rhythm of the Universe and so is it possible this is why the Earth has to continuously adjust itself because as human-beings we are incapable of living within its rhythm.
Great ridiculous self-doubt observations in nature, like a pigeon suddenly doing a belly-flop on the lawn as it doubts whether it knows how to fly. Self-doubt is like a dead-weight that holds us back from the amazing light that we are.
Self-doubt is fed to us to hold us back from our amazingness.
Good question, when we are the only species that indulges in it, we have to ask if we are conditioning ourselves to avoid connecting to the greater plan because then we would have to take responsibility and more accountability for our choices.
The self-doubt thoughts we are being fed are constant and therefore become normal until we choose to pay attention to the thoughts running round our head and change the channel. It all starts with a choice to be aware of what we are saying to ourselves and questioning where that thought might come from. I love that nature offers us many reflections if we forget what we were supposed to be paying attention to.
Michael you have just shown humanity their total arrogance
“We are constantly congratulating and taking pride in ourselves as the most evolved species and yet, birds, stars, dolphins, bees… display intelligence that would never go against their nature or do anything to their own detriment.”
We think we are so smart that we have it all sussed out, but actually we are killing ourselves, our lives are becoming more bestial as we lower our standards we are in the throes of a moral disengagement from each other.
Our way of living frequently makes me wonder if we really are an intelligent species; our actions speak louder than words.
Self doubt is a great game to play to stay small.
Animals know what is needed and just get on with it, whereas, with people we allow the doubtful thoughts to take over and cause havoc with our lives. If we don’t know ourselves and hold ourselves in that knowing, we are easily played with by the astral plane.
Yes, and when we are played with by the astral plane, we really are just a puppet controlled to act as it wishes, ‘We are constantly congratulating and taking pride in ourselves as the most evolved species and yet, birds, stars, dolphins, bees… display intelligence that would never go against their nature or do anything to their own detriment.’
‘When was the last time a bird didn’t leave a branch because it was having self-doubt issues about flying?’ In this context and with the other examples you mention, Michael it does seem very unnatural to self-doubt, yet this is what most of us slip into far too easily.
The more I have connected to that same universal intelligence the more ridiculous it gets when I do slip back into doubts or emotions or such. I remember being told once “It’s not like to not want to get to the root of something” while I was having a mini meltdown. The more I connect the less these games that have become normal in humanity play out in my own body.
If the animal kingdom is there to reflect back to us who we really are, and if self doubt is not in or part of the animal plant and planetary spheres then where does self doubt come from? It has to be a human creation, a creation to make sure we don’t ever connect to our divine origins and the magnificence of our true and beautiful selves.
Also we have to ask ourselves if God ever doubts Himself because we are sections of Him, slithers of the consciousness of God and so when we are being our original nature there is not an ounce of self doubt in us. We know who we are and we are that knowing. Absolute absoluteness.
We can try to dissect an issue like self-doubt but what if it all comes back to what energy we are aligning to? That totally turns the thing around and it is more about our choices and less about our issues.
Our choice of which source of energy we are aligning to affects everything in life.
It’s funny when you put it like this – that an animal does not have self doubt issues. They do their part and that’s what is needed. They just get on with it. From this perspective we can learn a great deal
We would all benefit from observing the qualities that nature reflect to us as something we can live and be connected to. Rather than believing we are separate to nature.
Reading this I’ve realised that despite removing a lot of doubt out of my life it actually has snuck in again and I haven’t realised because it’s felt so familiar. Doubt is so pervasive we could easily say it is ‘normal’, and a big part of the emotional roller coaster of life. Whether we doubt ourselves, our partner, friends, etc, each doubt introduces the poison of feeling insecure.
Doubt is very pervasive; many people have a lack of trust of life and humanity which does not support love.
We as humans can be super intelligent when we connect to the true source- our body, the vehicle of communicating it, is magnificent. The moment we align to the source that caps us from the universal wisdom we can be the most dumbest, disregarding, hating and out of rhythm being here on earth. We are nothing without the true alignment to our soul and the universe. We have the choice- either being a true genius and genuine philosopher or someone not even considering, that there is more than to this human life and what we see.
“….it can remain an undetected virus eating away its host for a long time…” – I like that comparison, it truly is like that. Self doubt pops up and then it seemingly disappears, but in fact it always drowses underneath the skin. We can fool ourselves in many situations but the root cause will never disappear by ignoring it to the bone.
Isn’t it interesting how we all indulge to some degree in living against the rhythms of the universe yet we are completely and utterly dependent upon them beholding us. For without them our little creation would not exist.
This is very true Joshua and I wonder just how arrogant are we as a race, that scientists feel they can send a spacecraft to land on Mars and other planets without perhaps stopping to consider that there may be unforeseen consequences for doing that. Why is it we seem to think that we can trash the universe just as we have trashed this planet by our wanton greed? There is now so much space junk circling the earth that the scientists have invented a gadget to try and collect at least some of it.
‘Our little creation’ is far from little it’s a monolithic masterpiece of gargantuan proportions. The whole world works tirelessly to keep the production going, night and day, no not night and day, breath by laboured breath!
There is much that we have created in this life that is the opposite of who we are in essence, self doubt is one of them. We only need to look at nature as you have Michael to get this reflected to us. And yet in the exposure of the manyfold expression of pure self we still maintain the arrogant stance of ‘being intelligent’ Perhaps it would be more honest to say we are immensely clever and cunning in how we use creation to sustain the lie of self.
There is indeed a beautiful synchrony, harmony and order constantly all around us from nature and the universe itself so it is a great question you are asking here Michael what are we doing with these reflections? I would add to this, why do we keep insisting we are somehow separate from this clearly divine order?
That is a great question Andrew! We keep insisting, that we have to do it and disrupt the flow by our non according movements. To align to the universal order is effortless- to block it and disrupt it requires so much effort and energy, which we could use for expanding in the order easily.
The universe and nature offer us great reflections, what are we reflecting back to the universe?
‘Self-doubt’ – such an interesting combination of words. Who is doubting who? So, the one that is doubting self is in doubt??? That’s a giveaway. It’s a game of indulgence.
Who is doubting who..i love that Fumiyo, as it is a pertinent question, when we are with ourselves, present and aware, how could there be any doubt? Yet when we are not present all kinds of energy is allowed to express through us and they are what fuels our mind.
It’s a great question Fumiyo about self doubt “who is doubting who?”, because when we are connected to ourselves there is just who we are, one whole being, when we separate from ourselves we can introduce another energy.
The opening for self doubt is the movement away from that connection to our true selves.
This is great Michael the level of deceit and harm Self-Doubt has on us… I really liked how you summed it up to be like a virus eating away at the body. – ‘it can remain an undetected virus eating away its host for a long time.’
Yes and therefore we would do well to be in constant observation of ourselves so we don’t let arrogance get in the way of our awareness.
Great observation that self-doubt does not exist anywhere else in nature or the universe. Everything else just gets on with doing what does and being itself. WE can learn a lot from observing this in nature.
That is actually the reason for nature- to reflect us human beings the truth we are all coming from.
I just love the silliness of the suggestions of nature and self-doubt. It just sounds so absurd… And yet here we are, the so-called top of the chain, exhibiting absurdity in every choice, in so many ways.
We certainly don’t see an animal walking around in self-doubt. They value who they are and do not try to be anything other than themselves. There is much we can learn from them.
Describing self-doubt as a virus is perfect. Viruses are quite insidious and undetectable, just as self-doubt. It robs us of knowing who we are and what we are capable of. It keeps us very small, which is nothing like our true nature.
And like a virus, self doubt can hide in the smallest corners, ready to break out, whenever it is wanted or needed. How important to clean every little corner and allow and accept being so clear.
To think that God doubts Himself is laughable and yet we doubt ourselves and we are His living body on Earth. So here we all are, the collective consciousness of God riddled with self-doubt, racked with guilt, hammered by hate, wisened by sadness, tortured by regret, hardened by anger, screwed up by jealousy, capped by comparison and all for nothing because none of these things are real and they are all fabricated by us. We have the power to pull the plug on the whole stinking lot and pull the plug we shall.
“Does self-doubt occur in nature? And/or the universe?” The impact of this happening would be catastrophic on a Universal scale…. What is important to clock here though is that even our own individual self doubt does have an impact on the world around us, so if we all allow it to be part of our lives, its clear to see that it can and does have an impact on a global and eventually, a Universal scale.
There is so much for us to learn from, everything given to us to support our evolution yet we tend to ignore and dismiss events and reflections as coincidences or accidents.
Self-doubt can be so crippling if we let it take a hold of us. But in complete contrast when we dont allow it even a moment of glorification, then the fact that it even exists seems almost ridiculous.
There is no doubt that self-doubt is not the true us. It seems black and white yet it introduces its tendrils into so much of life that we overlook it as ‘normal’.
If we would simply stop and never allow any thought of self doubt, the moment it arises- our own development and moving, accepting our power would be going out of the roof. In fact it needs the acceptance of ones own truth, power and its resulting purpose first- then not entertaining of any thoughts like self doubt, not being good enough etc will be much easier.
‘Self-doubt can meander and move in all circles…’ True, Michael it’s a germ or a weed that can fester, spread and take hold if we do not pay attention to the infection or infestation.
Self-doubt comes from self – it is all about the individual – which can trap us into thinking something is bigger than it is. The bird who does not leave the branch is not considering the reflection it is giving to other birds. When we are in self-doubt we say it is OK for others to be in this too – when in fact living without self-doubt is to live with other people, knowing our part in the bigger picture without holding back.
There is a grandness that lies within us that Nature is here to remind us of, but as Michael asked at the end of this blog – what are we doing with this reflection of divinity?
Self doubt can be super damaging to us – and this is a great blog in reminding us that no animal in nature doubts itself, its role or its purpose. There is much for us to learn from this as a reflection.
Whenever I watch a nature programs like the blue planet, I am always reminded that there is a universal grandness going on something that leaves we wondering in awe and we too can be part of that grandness if we could live guided by the Soul instead of our spirit and our minds.
Well said Kevin, and the other day I was about to drive home and happened to look out over a valley as the sun was close to setting and I was blown away by the view and the lights and the colours – the scene looked like a painting and felt unreal and at the same time was so breathtaking and so natural – I really got to feel the amazing reflection that is on offer all of the time around us, but like Michael has said in this blog, how much of it do we actually use to support ourselves and be reminded of the grandness that lies within.
And how much do we take nature and all it has to offer for granted? Growing up in the beautiful place where I was born, I didn’t appreciate it because it was all I knew, it took travelling the world for a number of years to get back home and be in awe of the beauty I had left behind which was hardly matched anywhere.
Self-doubt is designed to make us feel small and insignificant when we are in truth magnificent being.
If self-doubt are thoughts that are fed then where are they fed from? Somewhere so far removed from our true nature makes it laughable. Not such a laughing matter though, more of a travesty, as self-doubt is something that we have allowed in and has kept us away from who we truly are for a very long time. Now that I recognise that these traits in myself and that they are not coming from a place of love, I can say no to them and align with the flow of the Universe.
I am so appreciative of the constant reflections – the steady, unwavering reflections that come from the sun, the moon and the stars, not to mention the divinity in nature. I love reminding myself that they didn’t decide to not get out of bed and therefore neither should I. Who knows who might just need to see me that day – even if it is to complain to me 🙂 !!!
Haha this is cute, and super wise Lucy.
When self-doubt becomes our normal way of behaving, it can insidiously grab us without us realising we are allowing it. The negative thought can come in, in an instant, but we can learn to catch it when we are walking, and access our inner wisdom instead that does not ever entertain self-doubt.
Yes it is very much a choice to self-doubt or to feel there is not doubt. It is like black or white, we can’t self-doubt a little bit and then know the rest. This is very significant because often we say we doubt we can do something new but think the doubt is not affecting us in other parts of our lives, yet it is very much so in my experience because once it is in it makes me doubt everything.
True Lieke, there is ‘no one foot in one foot out’ stance with self-doubt, it is either absent or reigns supreme in our lives.
Self-doubt is a real destroyer, chipping away our self-esteem like the drip, drip of water eroding rock. It can be so easy to slip into self-doubt, even subtly… it can sneak in. It means that we have to be ‘on it’ in every moment choosing self-awareness all the time, choosing to self-confirm and appreciate instead.
I don’t know how much longer we, as humans, can go on believing, and even championing, that we are “the most evolved species” on this planet. If we are, why do we continue to treat others so abusively: why do we eat foods that are making us sick, sometimes fatally; why do treat the earth and its precious resources with so much disdain and disregards; the list is endless. We have so much to learn from the way animals live, but to do so we will need to let go of the arrogance that has us believing we are so much more than they are
I love this offering. There is no question for me that the reflections we get from nature are reminders of the order we come from. The self doubt brings chaos and disorder!
And thank God that it does bring chaos and disorder… for if it were ‘symptom-less’ we would surely be in a very stuck and in dire straight.
Just feel how self doubt leaves us feeling and we know it is not from heaven and is not a part of a son of god.
When we do not live in harmony with the natural order in life, it is easy to be prey to self doubt and indecision.
I doubt that there is a single person in the world who has not experienced self doubt at least once – if not regularly. You are totally correct in that it doesn’t discriminate and it’s embedded into every layer and circle in society, and the crazy thing is that we accept it as normal that we constantly doubt and berate ourselves rather than appreciating that wherever we’ve come from and whatever we’ve done there is always something truly beautiful and grand within us.
How is that we have come to live in a way where we can ignore what is natural, and give greater attention to the normal of society regardless of the fact that it is plainly not working?
Perhaps it is because yes, on one level it is not working, but on another level it is working i.e. we are getting something out of the mess we are in, otherwise as a so-called intelligent species we would shape ourselves up very quickly.
The nature of our very way is to know it all – and by all I mean we are experts on the world, each other and the universe as these are not seperate elements to us, we are all connected. So HOW can all-knowing beings of the universe doubt themselves and what do we actually get out of playing dumb?
Comparison, Jealousy and other forms of separation and contraction are just as extreme behaviours as the heinous crimes you listed for without them we would not have the other.
For example if we all truly loved and appreciated ourselves and each other we would not be able to murder, rape and go to war with others or with our own body.
Crimes against ourselves and the order of the Universe – they do catch up with us at some point.
We never get away with anything (thank God literally) we only fool ourselves that we do – time brings everything around.
A beautiful appreciation of nature, the stars and the universe, and a great reminder how self-doubt has no place in that, yet we create it in order to keep ourselves small, and not from the grandness of who we are.
The analogy of a virus is great to get an understanding that doubt is actually not anything that belongs to or comes from one self but is an intruder from outside infecting self to be identified with what we are in truth not. But such is the poison of identification, we make something our self or ourselves something whereby we lose the sense of our true self.
There is even pride in this derogatory identification, for example it is not uncommon to hear (especially young) people say things like “I’m so petty” or “I’m such a jealous person” with such a glee.
Agreed, equally I have such a bad temper – there is much less willingness to address why and choose not to be identified by a something that is not part of who we all are but rather the individuality we are choosing.
For self-doubt to enter we must have left the room first; there is only place for one.
This gives a new angle to the phrase “The lights are on but no one’s home”. Would it be more home-hitting (pun intended) if we worded it, as it should be, “The lights are on but someone else is at home”…
Haha, well put. We are the host inviting the ‘force’ to enter by not being at home ourselves.
Such a simple observation, yet the depth of it cannot be discounted as it changes our perception of everything.
When we dishonour our connection to who we are in essence, our Soul, our multidimensionality and all we are a part of, we lose sense of knowing all that we are and the direction we are impulsed to move. So, with our true knowing a miss enter self-doubt and we begin seeking identification through our supposed insecurities and playing small-ness. The more I have been exploring this relationship the more I have realised and confirmed that the greater the honouring of our connection to our essence the lesser the self-doubt enters and has an effect.
This is just the most amazing expression of science and religion intertwined, delivered with such authority.
In order to self-doubt, you have to first have a self, and herein is the key to this malaise. Based on what is so wisely and humorously presented here in this article, we can say that self-doubt is a human condition and does not affect the animal kingdom for the simple reason that the animals have not fallen as man has; from a Son of God to a ‘son of man’, but instead each reflect by way of their specific characteristics, a message for us humans to help us back on our path back home to our divine origins.
The truth is as Serge Benhayon presents – we are a god that has forgotten we are a god and thus forsaken our own godliness and in the ache of this separation we have individualised a part of us – a ‘self’ – that we then champion as the ‘be all and end all’ of our existence, without once considering that we belong to a far greater whole of which we are an important part of. Animals have a natural and healthy adherence to this whole – the universal order and rhythms that all of us here on Earth are governed by, but it would seem we humans collectively still have a lot to learn in this regard.
Perhaps instead of self-doubt we should try ‘doubting for the all’ haha… Oh the ridiculousness of our separation from God.
What a simple yet profound extension of this blog. Thank you Liane. To consider this even for a moment offers an opportunity to see how much less we hold each other (and ourselves) than the magnificence we innately are from.
When we look at the night sky we cannot help but know we are part of a vast universe. Any moment away from that awareness is telling us that we have slipped into something that is not true and we do not need to languish in self doubt but just know we need to re-connect with the grandness of who we are.
What a beautiful appreciation for nature and all it reflects to us and our divineness where there is absolutely no self doubt only harmony flow and joy expanding with the all we are part of.
It is our awareness that dictates us the questions we pose. It is our awareness that gives us the answers.
Hence philosophy is the deepening and expansive expression of all that is already known rather than a venture into the unknown as some would want you to believe.
In reply to your question Michael… “…what on Earth are we doing with these reflections?” We are all aware of the harmony within nature… we are surrounded by it everyday – even in cities we feel the wind, the warmth of the sun… and if we were to stop and truly feel these reflections of nature, we would be confronted with the disharmony we all choose to live.
There is intelligence way beyond the recall mechanism we have come to champion in this society.
I love the ridiculousness of comparing our behaviour with that of nature… just makes it so obvious that these emotional games we play are not our natural.
Ditto Simon… that is what nature truly exposes… the games we choose to play.
We have to be aware of what feeds self doubt. Once I nominated my “wanting to be liked’ in a particular situation, I was able to knock out self-doubt out of the park and express what needed to be said.
Just contemplating that we too as human beings can command the same intelligence and innate knowing of nature and the birds and the bees, highlights the being that seeks to separate from this for their own difference and individuality.
Self doubt can be our normal, but we don’t realise how it becomes embedded in our every movement. When we choose not to allow it to keep its hold on us, we can feel how powerful we are without it.
The seed of self doubt can very quickly grow into something way beyond our control if we let it. But by living in a way that constantly confirms who we are, there is not even room nor the conditions for this seed to take hold let alone flourish.
How true …”Does self-doubt occur in nature? And/or the universe?…” and what a marker this is for human beings as we too are a part of this Universe… so why entertain self doubt when the rest of the Universe does not, and exposes the separation we have made from it.
There is an element in us, an aspect that fights our nature and our Love and wishes to create its own theme park in life, instead of realising it’s already part of the greatest natural wonder you could ever see.
‘Does self-doubt occur in nature?’ an interesting question Michael. Nature is absolute, never apologises for itself and works in perfect balance. No self doubt there! only an amazing reflection for us to learn so much from.
When we voice our self doubts we dispel the hold they have over us and often through a conversation with a friend we realise that they come from outside of us and are not part of the truth we know.
With awareness we can dispel self doubt with or without a friend to converse with, Our own innate wisdom is our inner friend and walks with us constantly.
Thank you Kehinde. This, of course, is so very true – we have it all within us.
Love this blog. I also had moments when I realized the absurdity of self-doubt when I was listening to birds. Do they ever not know what there tune is? Do they ever stop and doubt or even check with their fellow birds? I had to laugh. No, they don’t. They just wake-up and start to sing in fullness – all of them – together.
It is very cool to expose self-doubt as a human indulgence, something that we have created and perpetuate. And if we created it we absolutely have the wherewithal to release it.
Self-doubt does eat away at its host for a long time. And it takes up quite a bit of energy as well. It is quite draining, and time consuming.
Self doubt is by definition about the self, and so also by definition it requires us to disconnect from the universe and the divinity we are. That alone tells us that self doubt is not part of the souls we all are.
Nature is a great reflection for us during those periods when we have lost our awareness and connection with the stupendous multidimensional expression that we are a part of. It offers us a stepping stone to remember the gloriousness of our essence.
Another example from Nature that came to me while reading this great blog was I observed the other day when I huge flock of Starling birds were flying together in absolute unison, sweeping up and down, left and right, in an elegant undulating way as if every single one of them were glued together. It was perfect harmony, yet there could not have been any time for ‘thinking’ or ‘doubting’ about what move to make next. They were simply being impulses by a Divine source.
I love watching that happen Michael, it’s mesmerising.
Beautiful Michael – not something that can be comprehended by the thinking mind, only possible if we are connected to something larger than ourselves.
When birds do this they reflect to humanity the flow and harmony of energy and oneness. One Unified. When we are with this there can be no room for doubt.
What a beautiful reflection of the truth for us.
So self-doubt is something we ‘learn’ as it is not something we experience as/in little babies.
Self doubt is crazy when we look at it. We are the so called most intelligent species on the planet yet often question ourselves. I know for me this comes with a ‘what if I get it wrong’ after having been shot down on numerous occasions when I have expressed what I have felt. And this is because intelligence, at least the one we commonly call intelligence from the mind, wants to be right and so it can be a war of words, yet when you make it about energy 1st then the truth is clearly seen. This is true intelligence and with this there is no doubt, no weighing up, there is an absoluteness.
This topic makes me think of young birds that dive out of the nest for the first time to fly, there is no self-doubt just a knowing that it is a time to try their wings and fly.
You’ve raised a great point Michael which is that self doubt can be hidden for many, many, many years, without any obvious signs or ‘rock bottom’ moment. It can be corrupting from the inside, and this is why it’s important to talk about it. What if we were able to say to someone, “I’m having these thoughts and they make me feel awful”
Starting a new job recently I am noticing how easy it is to go into self-doubt due to the fact that I do not know what I am doing! If I let the self-doubt take control I start to shrink and lose my confidence, but if I remind myself that I am in a period of learning I can actually appreciate how fast I am learning and feel more confident and more like myself. It really is a choice as to the kind of thoughts we allow.
It’s a beautiful reflection nature provides of what it is to live in the simplicity of being in alignment to all we come from.
Love it, I have often thought that but you have taken it further and the absurdity is very real and that is why it exposes so beautifully.
When we doubt God’s love for us we have disconnected from the love we are and as a result self- doubt enters.
Knowing nature is always here to support us through its reflection is to appreciate all the gifts we have here from heaven on earth.
Such a great article and in the claiming of who you are as an author – By Michael Brown, 21-Year-old Student, Retail Manager and Amazing young man. I can’t imagine self doubt is going to get in your way in life and that deserves to be celebrated.
Love this. Although self-doubt does enter and sway me from time to time I feel like that is all part of the process, and writing definitely supports the process of closing the doors of entry. At the same time, being a part of the learning process means I can write about these topics with great understanding for all the readers too! But yes, a life without self-doubt is most definitely one to be celebrated.
I love your transparency Michael. Yes, as we learn to overcome our places of struggle we are able to present this to others who may struggle with the same things. Definitely a great service to humanity.
It seems to me that if we committed to living in tune with our natural rhythms, the rhythms of nature and of the universe then self-doubt would be made redundant. After all, the many rhythms that are unfolding around us in every moment are endlessly reflecting to us that we actually have every compass for life we will ever need with us, always.
‘When did God give up on us because He wasn’t sure we were quite worthy of love?’ Truth of course is, we give up on ourselves because of not feeling worthy of God’s love. I have held an old belief of not deserving God’s love, so it is a great question for me to check in. Yes I am 100 percent worthy of his eternal love.
Instead of going into self-doubt and kidding ourselves that we are no good we can remind ourselves that everyone we come into contact with today is totally blessed! And indeed we are blessed to meet them too. Bringing a sense of equality into our interactions puts a stop to comparison and holding ourselves as less.
I love how you blow self-doubt apart especially in relation to self doubt in nature and the universe. When we choose something less than love, the question is always, what are we getting out of making that choice? Being honest supports us to unravel the answer and then adjust with a different choice.
The real question to ask is, What do we GET out of choosing self-doubt?
A great question and I reckon there will be many variables for us all. For me self-doubt offers a vacation from responsibility; an arm’s length from the constant learning that life offers.
Self doubt the killer to our true beingness and purpose and the reality of its insidiousness in our lives is very real. The reflection of nature and God is magnificent and allows the reality of who we are to be felt inside touching us with the grace, beauty and sacredness we come from divinely.
If I am ever in self-doubt now I know the truth has already been felt and been there for me it just has not been acknowledged and been authorised by me. I give myself space and apply absolute honesty to claim myself back. Self-doubt can be a confirmation that truth has been there and I authorise myself to go back to what was felt.
I love the reminder that self-doubt can be a confirmation that truth has been felt, which offers a different perspective and the awareness that we are constantly being showered with truth, but how open are we to receiving God’s magic?
Beautiful Jacqueline – You Are – We All Are.
Thank you Rik, that is a really supportive comment to read.
If we take ants for an example, they work as one and reflect teamwork to us but just imagine if a few in that team decided to have self-doubt? The food or shelter that would need to be worked on that day would be fraught with complication as not all the ants would be bringing their much needed qualities to the job. But, like other animals and nature… this just does not happen with ants. However, it happens in our work places every day yet we see that as normal and just what happens in groups.
“Self doubt…. can permeate into the most picture-perfect scenarios; amongst individuals and groups that to an onlooker could easily look like Oscar Award Winning Lives” – This is so true, and in the last few years there have been more actors, celebrities and literal Oscar Winners sharing the fact that deep down they feel a sense of emptiness, self doubt and anxiety. The important thing is to not spin these feelings as therefore being ‘normal’, but see that the way we are living as a whole society – not just in disadvantaged areas per say – is not working, and that there is another way.
As devastating self-doubt is we still choose it for a good reason that obviously is more important to us than the harmful consequences we suffer. The moment we call out and admit to the ‘self-abuse’ self-doubt actually is we are already undoing it.
I love your list of questions Michael about self doubt not having a place in nature. What perfect reminders that there is nothing for us to do to prove who we are, other than be our magnificent selves.
When I am doubting myself, I know that I am gone. I have stopped connecting with my true nature and wisdom.
To stop for a moment and consider the universal rhythm/pulse/flow that we are, as part of nature, all living in, does a combination of things: fills me with awe and wonder; settles any nervousness and/or wayward thoughts because I can feel the grander something that I am in and held by and dissolves my sense of individualisation and isolation. Humbled and inspired by a bee and loving it. Thank you, Michael.
I am feeling what you are saying. Saying no to self doubt is a steadiness within myself. This process and practice takes some challenges and to keep feeling Truth and staying solid.
It is the creep and insidiousness of self-doubt that I find so ugly… drip-feeding in until it has a firm grip on our sense of self-worth. Thank you, Michael, for going there with this.
I have found that having a deeper connection and feeling to my body in terms of presence instils a greater amount of self-confidence. As a result, there is far less room for self-doubt.
Could God ever give up on us when he has given us every thing including reincarnating and self-doubt is a killer of reincarnation.
I love how nature offers us a message just when it is needed, truly magical, it offers me a reflection that I am always supported in every moment.
Self doubt is an insidious player in our lives so deeply hidden and ingrained and effects us so much buried and unseen and yet does not come from us and the mightiness and glory we are from . An amazing sharing showing what is really going on and hence the honesty to call it out in our lives and live with the magic of God and all this offers us with nature and animals reflecting to us the way.
The sense of being at ease with itself when observing nature may be one of the very balancing effects and or reflections nature has to offer – there is definitely something to learn for us from nature until we realize that we can have the same ease within ourselves and then go even beyond that back to who we originally are before we allowed or chose to be de-natured, i.e. to act against our very beingness.
As human beings, I reckon we are the only species that suffers from the condition known as doubt. And I do not know of any animals that ‘beat themselves up’ if they have made a mistake. If a cheetah does not catch his prey, I have not seen him stop and doubt himself and then treat himself poorly because of this! Michael, I love the angle you have taken to write this blog, for it does so expose the intricacies of self sabotage that we indulge in as human beings and how silly this really is! We all will make mistakes as it is not about perfection, however, it is always about appreciating ourselves and asking to go deeper with our natural connection.
How often do we access and use the very intelligence of nature and the universe that is at our fingertips all of the time? This is a great question for it exposes to me that so much is given and offered and yet we can turn a blind eye and not see it or access it all. But in so doing we make things that much harder for ourselves. And when we tune in deeply and connect truly, then so much opens up like a blossom. This does not take away our challenges, but it gives us the tools to see that the challenges are not actually challenges at all, but in fact opportunities for growth and that they do not have to be hard when we connect and work in line with our natural essence.
Self-doubt can be such an old deep pattern, that it feels like an old friend who checks whether what you have decided to do is the right thing for you. But when we know inside that something feels settled in the body, there is no need for self-doubt to be in our consciousness at all.
When we let in self doubt, we can quickly and easily spiral into self-bashing, feeling like we’ve made grave mistakes from which we’ll never recover. It’s a great trick to demean and demotivate ourselves. The worst thing we can do is to isolate ourselves and try to work it all out on our own, yet that’s the very thing we so often try to do, because in self-doubt we attack ourselves with our own judgment. Remembering that no matter what we’ve done, said or thought, we are still totally amazing beings in our essence, really helps to get us out of self-doubt. Sometimes the easiest way to be reminded of that is being honest and opening up to others, who rarely judge us as harshly as we judge ourselves.
Yes, beautifully revealed Bryony. We keep things to ourselves but with that we let the problem/story spin itself into a big web. When we start sharing with others what is going on it is in the open and exposed to what it is.
I agree with you both and find that the moment I verbalise what is going on for me with another it brings it into context and takes away any sense of overwhelm and doubt. It is like by giving it expression we are giving it an opportunity to show its true colours and often having someone there to reflect back to us is all we need and I find they do not even need to say anything and I have already seen it for what it is. We are here to work together and not be alone so to isolate ourselves at any time is never going to end well.
“It is like by giving it expression we are giving it an opportunity to show its true colours”. Yes, beautifully said.
‘Self-doubt on the other hand, which by the way does not discriminate or have any particular selection process, can permeate into the most picture-perfect scenarios; amongst individuals and groups that to an onlooker could easily look like Oscar Award Winning Lives.’ – How true, self-doubt strikes even where there is a picture perfect facade, perhaps even more so, they have just learnt to be more clever at covering it up.
It’s really interesting what nature can reflect back to us if we are prepared to be open to what is being shown to us. Very often I am given messages and I am bowled over by how they are sent it is truly magical and even if I do not chose to be aware of the message in the symbology there is no doubting that something or someone is communicating with me. And just to know that there is another energy that is in communication with me that is encouraging me to reconnect back to all that I naturally know is very reassuring it’s like having an unseen best buddy walking with me.
Nature reminds us of our true nature, not the self-created version that creates all of our problems. It is in the separation from our Oneness that anything other than love can enter.
Being an individual with self-doubt is not our true nature which is oneness, therefore as reflected by nature, it is something that as humans create and bring into our lives.
Self-doubt is a clever trick as it takes us away from the very thing where there is no self-doubt – our inner essence, full of truth and wisdom.
So true Paula, the minute we step away from our true inner self, self- doubt manifests to take its place.
It may well be a clever trick, but we choose that way.
I like your description here Michael of self doubt not being a naturally native occurring thing but an ‘introduced toxic species’ that can devastate whole populations if we allow it to spread and thrive.
Yes me too. With this clarity we know we are dealing with an imposter that has no place in our lives.
There is nothing in nature that does self doubt or complication, unless it’s interfered with by us humans, and yet we think we’re better yet we tie ourselves in knots with self doubt … it’s a dis-honouring of ourselves, and an arrogance that thinks it can go against the rhythm and flow of life and make it our own, rather than being with the oneness of where both we and nature come from.
Yes exactly, and we call ourselves the intelligent species? We are not necessarily encouraged from young to appreciate, to honour that we are an equal part of the ‘whole’ we belong to, and this is the seat of many of the issues we face.
A brilliant blog Michael, it is great to expose self-doubt and how it can eat away at us and reduce us in many ways. I experienced self-doubt for many years, and it was obviously something I choose as it was a great way to hide and hold myself back, learning to build a relationship with myself and appreciate my unique qualities has been key to letting go of these thoughts that used to keep me small.
The wonders of nature never cease to amaze, how animals instinctively know how to get places build amazing nests, webs or whatever when humans seem he’ll bent on reducing our natural instincts by getting machines to do everything, no wonder we have time for self doubt. Anyway if we do or can connect to the source we are capable of absolutely anything and more and self doubt would be one thing we know nothing about.
I agree we are surrounded constantly by such order, harmony and magic every day and yet we keep insisting as a human species that our way is the best way even though it is clearly not working. We are capable of so much more if we were to let go of our pride filled current form of intelligence.
I hate those insidious little thoughts that I allow to creep in to tell me I am not good enough, but being aware they are there stops them taking such a hold anymore.
It is so true no bud or branch holds back in growing and blossoming and yet as humans we are constantly holding back from living the love that we are. In the process allowing the space for self doubt and lack of self worth to creep in.
This is so ‘on the money’ Michael. It is simply written but makes it glaringly obvious that ‘self doubt’ does not belong as part of the multi-dimentional beings we are. Self Doubt does not feel natural to our way of being and is ‘evil’ in its intent to separate us from who we truly are. The birds, bees, nature etc do not live self doubt, they do not allow it and in truth it does not exist naturally as part of our world – we make the choice to create and live it in our lives. This has been in it amazing simplicity ‘very exposing’ of the choices Humanity make. Thank you Michael.
This is great Michael and my I add to the conversation by asking what would happen if every time we had a negative we always turned it around so we no longer do that so life became about being positive? Maybe we should give it a go for a week or two and see what happens? What would be the best outcome and would we be able to live in that new energy? It is possible and it is not about being perfect for we can also turn a negative into a positive as we can learn not to indulge in that level of abuse again?
Self-doubt needs a twin sibling to have any existence – an ideal, a picture of some kind, a perfection to compare with and strive for. Identifying the sibling for what it is – the deviation away from who we are – makes self-doubt futile.
I am just beginning to realise how self-doubt is not natural and not something that can’t be avoided – it is actually introduced because otherwise, like in nature, if we put nothing in the way, we would naturally be who we are and there is no doubt in that.
It is always great to review ourselves and take stock, but by holding ourselves in love with all our learnings, and with the great appreciation and joy that we truly can take the next step that is offered.
Self-doubt is like a worm eating you up from the inside without you knowing what is going on while your confidence and sanity are emaciating. And even when you know you carry it you usually feel helpless to get rid of it. It literally gnaws on who we are for us to not know who we are. As long as we feel being the victim to it we will not be able to stop it, but when we step up to the honesty that it is us dismissing ourselves by not honouring what we truly feel we are instantly empowered to put an end to it.
Self-doubt kills. It kills our sense of self and our own natural inner power. It’s an insult to all that we are.
The game we play at being small is so ridiculous when in fact we are magnificent and as you so succinctly say Michael we play this game of being small in doubting our power when the truth is we are each of us perfect in our imperfection and as that at one with the Universe.
You don’t see a Lion try to eat 4 gazelle, or a monkey attempt to uproot a tree. So just as illusionary as doubting ourselves, thinking we can carry out superhuman tasks and the weight of the world is just as ill.
Hahaha that made me laugh Joseph, very funny imagery.
Too funny Joseph, just as silly as the self-doubt examples Michael has offered. Someone could do a whole caricature book on the theme of “what if nature behaved as humans have been?”.
The bottom line shown by all of these is our refusal to just stop and get the grandness of our true nature without a need to dismiss or embellish all that we are.
It seems like the only thing we need to do is surrender to the same impulse that is permeating the rest of the universe. But it seems hard so there must be a part of us that does not want to give up being the masters of our own creation slash fate.
We find it so easy to just reel off the amount of abuse in the world .. because there is so much of it ‘Looking at the human beings, it is evident that there are many traits, behaviours, illnesses and diseases, dramas and destructions, not to mention wars, rape, murder, corruption…. and the not so extreme behaviours such as comparison, jealousy, lack of appreciation etc’. I am looking forward to the day when this becomes less and less but the truth shines out more and more that we can no longer deny or ignore it.
A powerful confirmation to know that God is Love and forever consistent in holding space for us to be held in and return to our essence in full. Only we choose to keep stepping away from it with every tendril of self doubt we allow.
“When did God give up on us because He wasn’t sure we were quite worthy of love?” (Dragana Brown)
“When was the last time a bird didn’t leave a branch because it was having self-doubt issues about flying?” I love this. When did we develop the idea that we can’t fly! Metaphorically speaking of course! Any ounce of self-doubt gets in the way of our potential.
Self doubt came to me last night as the humidity of the night kept me from sleeping my normal gorgeous sleep. I started thinking about the day ahead and how I had too much work to possibly get done in one day and the money was no good and all sorts of other thoughts and I was totally getting fed these thoughts until I laughed at them rolled over and caught another half hours sleep before I got up. It is amazing where our thoughts can take us if we allow them to roll and how through movement we can nip them in the bud.
I love this example you have offered. It is so easy to just drift with such thoughts, but what a wise response to see them for the untruth that they are, instead of being hooked into a reaction to laugh at them and move under the influence of our own grace.
What a real understanding of self doubt and where it comes from and not from us and a beautiful reflection to remember who we really are and to live it joyfully in our fullness of our unique expression.
Michael, reading this I can feel that nature is truly beautiful, and that we see qualities such as delicateness, preciousness, playfulness and solidness, to name but a few and that what we are being shown is that this is also our natural way. It seems that we have come so far away from living these qualities.
I love your metaphors. I once heard a similar comparison: the birds never wonder if they can still sing their song or even íf it is still worthy to sing their song. They just sing when the morning comes day in day out. They do their thing. So simple, yet we human beings seem to have a hard time to be us in full expression. Nature offers us a great reflection for us to just laugh at self-doubt and sing our song.
I love this metaphor about the birds singing their song without one moment of hesitation or doubt.
A great model for us to learn from and express from our innermost in full.
“Nature offers us a great reflection for us to just laugh at self-doubt and sing our song”.
That’s a beautiful metaphor Caroline, a singing bird does not stop to rehearse!
Could it be we doubt ourselves because we have been going about life making so many choices that are against our true nature (as a whole) that we no longer trust we can make true choices, or even know what a true choice is.
Often I experience so-called self-doubt as an excuse to not getting honest about what is really going on as with doubt we have an excuse to not be clear and be indecisive on a matter where we probably lack the willingness to take responsibility for what we already know needs to be done. As soon as this is admitted and nominated self-doubt vanishes.
Sitting on the fence may be perceived as the safest way going forward, but all it does in the end is give us a sore bum!
Love the clarity you bring to this Alexander – a lack of responsibility posing itself as self doubt.
When we look at self doubt we have to understand that it gives us something and that is usually that it gives us an excuse to not be all of who we are and let the world see and know that.
It’s potent to use the word excuse, because that then puts the ball back in our court and solidifies the fact that it is us who is consciously enabling and choosing the self-doubt. By putting the ball back in our court, it also puts us in charge…which is huge, because so many who ‘choose’ self doubt are then crippled by it and left feeling that they have no control – when in fact they totally do. Sure, it may feel like this particular engine has a mind of it’s own (and in energetic truth it kinda does) but we can always turn the engine of!.
From this article, it’s clear that self-doubt does not exist in nature or the universe, which shows that in truth it doesn’t exist. It doesn’t make sense then that we have made it our reality?
This is so true. When the focus is not on our own individuality, and there is a bigger picture, the niggling thoughts may still try to muscle in, but they do not get access to the centre stage. At that moment responsibility is natural and a joy. A sense of purpose much bigger and steadier than that leads the way.
When was the last time a bird didn’t leave a branch because it was having self-doubt issues about flying? What if we have forgotten who we truly are and so we no longer know how to fly from our respective branch?
What I love is even when the buds bloom early, feeling a bout of warm weather, its not ‘wrong’ – it might seem like its not the right time, but they are simply following their sense of the seasons and the weather and it always works out. Whereas we set so much stock by doing things the right way, rather than the way that feels true.
Yes, a very beautiful example Rebecca, how it is never about the right thing or time but about the rhythm of the all.
Self doubt is like a poison that doesn’t taste of anything, it enters us without us knowing. Adults are quite champions at it while kids usually follow their unspoiled inner knowing.
Self-doubt is so pervasive into every part of our life if we allow it. Serge Benhayon has been presenting that ‘everything is energy’ for almost 20 years now, and self-doubt is part of this everything. I sometimes stop myself when I feel doubt and consider why I want to allow this energy. For me it’s often a way of holding back or not taking the lead.
‘Self-doubt seems to be largely composed of an insidious set of thoughts we get fed in order to erode the most magnificent being down to something of the stature of a particularly shrivelled prune.’ – This is so well described, no one that has experienced self-doubt can say they don’t recognise this pathetic feeling.
When we drop the self doubt WoWsa do we expand, its a huge huge YES to life and the universe when we drop the inner doubt that can so insidiously hold us back.
Drop the self doubt and we are say Yes to being us.
“thoughts we get fed in order to erode the most magnificent being down to something of the stature of a particularly shrivelled prune” – Brilliantly exposed, Michael. The true agenda of the self doubting thoughts; to reduce the magnificent by any means possible, even by absurd thoughts that would never be spoken aloud.
This is such a great way of exposing how self doubt is not natural to us. As you have clearly pointed out Michael, it isn’t something that is seen in nature, which is the same as so many of the loveless behaviours seen in humans, such as self harm, abuse and suicide. I remember hearing Serge Benhayon pointing out that if cows were committing suicide at the same rate as humans were there would be an outcry, but as these behaviours have become normalised in humans, it like we have almost forgotten to question them.
Brilliantly shared Michael as this impeding condition that plagues us as human beings, is retarding our evolution to live our true potential. The more we openly talked about it the more we will realise that we are more than what we are currently accepting as ‘normal’. Whenever we dishonour our connection to the multidimensionality of our Soul and the universe we are part of, we disconnect from our inner-knowing, our innate wisdom, our sense of ALL that we are and are connected to, as such no longer feel the magnitude and power of the love that we otherwise are moved by. And the greatest antidote to self-doubt is to develop and deepen our relationship with our body and being and our quality of movements, through which we can knowingly feel if the quality we are being moved by is of the vibration of love or not.
Self doubt is the best way to self-sabotage…. and in my experience, it simply means that I have ‘left myself’ and not stayed steady – connected to my all knowing body and myself.
Self doubt holds us back from being ourselves, and the more self doubt we feel the further away we find ourselves, if we could quash this feeling from early on and live knowing ourselves from the inside out, life and people would be very different.
Self-doubt also comes when there is a lack of trust of our part of the bigger picture and we try to mentally work things out. Allowing action stemming from the head rather than feeling an impulse to act from the body are two completely different ways of living. Sometimes it can be startling to feel the absolute synchronicity and perfection of following through impulses from the body without any prior planning… it couldn’t be planned so perfectly from the head. This requires a developing trust from what is felt inside from our innermost, where there is no room for self-doubt, just a following through of what is felt.
Is a bird that doesn’t fly a bird? So if we forget our divinity then who are we?
A significant question Otto – who are we then?
A chicken! Funny but poignant as we lack the courage to stare our own creation in the face to claim that we are immersed in it no longer.
An Emu. This could run and run…(excuse the pun)….as will we, until we do as you claim.
So true Elizabeth. How dare we call ourselves ‘the most advanced species on earth”. The arrogance is boggling….and entirely revelatory of itself.
I can see reading this blog how insidious self doubt can be and how much we can cover it up with other things that make it look like we are confident and in control of our life but actually are all compensations driven by self doubt.
Why do human beings get stressed out and not be in joy when we are not perfect, don’t have enough money (what is enough?)don’t have a relationship (how is this possible?) or any other reason to be in critique or doubt of ourselves? One reason: We like this! We want to find all the distractions possible to not be who we are in truth, and we are getting what we want. We want Life to be hard and a struggle so we don’t have to reflect being joyful all the time, and the responsibility that Life actually cannot knock us down really. Because we would stand out and we would have zero recognition from drama, and it would feel extremely daunting to know we are this powerful and we would need to deal with all the reactions that come our way. But this is no problem when our body is there side by side with us, so again we would attach our body when we react towards our own potential power.
“Does self-doubt occur in nature? And/or the universe?” A great question when we consider that we as a human race are an intrinsic part of the Universe and therefore if we were to live in harmony with the natural world there would be no room or no need for an ounce of self doubt. But most of us don’t live in that way and so self doubt often plays a part in our lives more often than we care to admit.
Self doubt can creep in in all walks and areas of life, and as you say Michael under the awareness radar. It is well worth sitting with this and feeling how this plays out. Awareness is the key through understanding, then there is the option to change it.
I really love this blog, it puts self doubt into perspective, into the how ridiculous it is basket of goodies along with lack of self worth and lack of confidence.
I wonder how life would be if we accepted self doubt as a choice and not something we are victim too. Everyone can have a moment of doubt but it’s whether we choose to run with it or to not accept or lower our standards to play ball with it.
A great point – how many of us are even aware that self-doubt is a choice?
Very true, even now I know it’s a choice when I’m doubting myself I don’t consider it a choice but a real dilemma. It seems like we need a complete flip reversal of how we see things, including ourselves.
Your examples, Michael, made me crack up – I mean how could the earth have doubts, how could these things every question themselves… and yet we do despite our magnificence, we doubt and question things. And so it is time to stop this game and get on with it in our magnificence with no room for doubts!
In my experience being more connected with our innate knowing comes from being more in tune with our whole body, in every aspect of life as one moment leads into the next and sets up the foundation for how connected or unsure/ off we feel in ourself, something I’ve been inspired to realise through presentations by Serge Benhayon.
Quite rightly so Michael self doubt is insidious and eats away at our very core, unfortunately we have whole industries that are built on magnifying this self doubt – take the fashion and media industry for example they thrive on people not knowing who they truly are.
And thus they actively peddle and wield their forces and extremely manipulative tools to ensure that we don’t know who we are so that we are constantly seeking, because if we are not seeking/demanding, then they cannot supply.
What you are exposing here Sam is so important. It is the foundation of almost all of commerce. A system that operates on demand-supply, a system that is reliant on the whole of society looking outside of themselves for confirmation, affirmation, reaction, escapism and comfort. If you look at almost any industry it is clear that they require their consumers to be seeking at least one of these ‘fixes’.
When we make things complicated rather than follow the natural path of simplicity in life, an opening for self doubt is made.
Imagining nature or God going in self doubt makes it completely ridiculous that we choose to leave the part we play in the universe and make it solely about ourselves.
We as humans have access to love what is naturally innate as nature shows us, yet we clearly also have access to live far less than that. We as humans seem to be choosing the less – but why and at what cost? I know when I take responsibility to connect to what is naturally me, there is no self doubt yet when I choose to not take responsibility for my quality then self doubt has room to play. It seems to all come down to a choice to live our fullness and support our bodies for us to be with the awareness that is showing us when we allow ourselves to be naturally who we are.
‘Self-doubt seems to be largely composed of an insidious set of thoughts we get fed in order to erode the most magnificent being down to something of the stature of a particularly shrivelled prune.’ I couldn’t agree more, especially after the list about how nature doesn’t ever show a sliver of self doubt. Could self doubt be self created to suit us wanting to live a lesser magnificence than we are actually created for and capable of naturally so? Living our magnificence comes with responsibility, and in this current world that is designed for us to not shine in full – yes, it does stand out.
I like your last question. Have we have stopped and considered why we are on this planet with all the nature it presents? We are always looking for reasons but never honour what is there, instead we are mightily convinced that we have the answers and that those answers lie with our brains.
Yes indeed a laughing stock. This absurdity is only witnessed in the choices of the self-proclaimed most-intelligent-species-in-the-world!
It’s all there to show us that there is another way, all we need to do is open our eyes.
I love the profound simplicity of nature, which constantly offers to us the reflection of our true nature
As quantum physicists have proven, the particles that make up our bodies originally come from the same source as those that make up all the stars and planets, but are just arranged in a particular configuration to form a human body (for now) until they someday return to their source, and are all being shared with all the other particles in the Universe at a rate that is beyond human perception. So if that is true, then having any doubt about anything and not allowing the true knowingness that is innate in us to occur at all seems oh so very silly, does it not?
So well said Michael. I love what you share here.
It’s easy to agree with what you say Michael – you makes the absurdity clear but then when we look at our own life – it’s confronting because you realise self-doubt is draped over so many parts – just another way to not live from our heart.
To doubt our own divinity is akin to a bird forgetting how to fly. Thus we play human only, when the truth is we are all this and so much more.
Yes we are far more than human and when we allow ourselves to see and feel this truth, it is clear that playing only human is a choice and supplies us with convenient truths to keep ourselves small to not step into our grandness and take responsibility for living that.
Another one for the Quotes from Liane compilation! There is so much freedom in seeing beyond the physicality to life that if you told me before I saw it myself I would have dismissed it in a heartbeat.
We have been given everything we need but if it doesn’t go according to plan, of what we thought the plan was, we can go into doubt about whether we are on course. Maybe we don’t need the bigger picture of what the plan is, but we can be like nature and go with the flow. For example, in UK the winter was very long this year, and spring was slow to warm up, but when the sun shone, all the plants and trees burst into flower at once. They didn’t doubt that spring was coming.
Only the self-centered self-doubt . . . . if we get ‘self’ out of the way there is no one to doubt.
Boom! Love this – so simply and powerfully exposed.
As a humanity, we do take…”… pride in ourselves as the most evolved species and yet, birds, stars, dolphins, bees… display intelligence that would never go against their nature or do anything to their own detriment.”
This really does expose the absolute ludicrous-ness of our human behaviour – and the fact that we are not as intelligent as we think and believe ourselves to be!
If we don’t doubt when we feel hungry or tired, why do we doubt when we sense someone’s jealousy or fury delivered in a ‘nice’ way?
“When did God give up on us because He wasn’t sure we were quite worthy of love?” (Dragana Brown). Brilliant question and if we are totally honest in answering the question we would see and feel how hugely conditional our love is towards ourselves and others.
This exposes how very much we have made life our own creation instead of being the part of the whole that we are.
Self-doubt sure is a killer Ariana as it voids us of all sense of knowing and essentially puts us at the mercy of forces outside of ourselves.
When we deepen our understanding of who we divinely are them we get to a place where we understand the ramifications of not understanding the cycle of life and death so we go into mourning or regret. Do we look forward to our own passing and is passing-over a natural part of our conversation, so we can all evolve? Is reincarnation worthy of the belief by half the world’s population and if so why is it not openly discussed? Could it be that reincarnation as it has been represented at the moment is not a true representation about what returning to the physical plain of life is all about? So if we have no understanding of who we truly are, then self has a huge problem connecting to the True essence of who we are, as Soul-full beings!
Great what you share Michael why do we have self doubt when everything around us does not, worth stopping and pondering on this.
A great point about the behaviours of nature and how it just gets on with what is needed – very different to how we behave indeed- which suggest the comfort we find in self doubt – bow it keeps us from connecting to a wisdom that is profound and all-knowing
Yes, it is a great question to ask why do we have self-doubt whilst the rest of the universe and nature around us does not?
The examples from nature having self-doubt are hilarious and emphasize the reality of the game we are playing.
I love the way you have described the ridiculousness of our use of self-doubt, especially when you ask “Does self-doubt occur in nature? And/or the universe?”.
I bet the same could be done with so many other traits that humanity has adopted to reduce the magnificence of the multidimensional expression of our true nature.
What a beautiful sharing on the reality of self doubt and how it is not ultimately from us and how if we lived in the connection and communication of our natural rhythms and cycles and as reflected with nature from the universe we would not have self doubt but be in the honouring of all we are innately so.
Thought patterns can become so normal to the point that we don’t feel them running in us. When it comes down to it my connection to my body and re-connection to my inner quality have been fundamental in stopping those thoughts when they try to come in.
Your blog made me smile today Michael…it is true there is no self-doubt in nature and it would look ridiculous and would cause total chaos if there was! So something definitely to consider here about how much we accept self-doubt as normal and how it is actually not part of our makeup.
It is crazy when we look at it this way especially as we consider ourselves the most evolved and intelligent species. So how intelligent really are we?!
How evolved are we when nature doesn’t self doubt yet we do ?
Indeed! And that the example of the cows when the tsunami hit Thailand going into the hills yet we ‘evolved humans’ stayed on the beach.
Love this piece it reminds me of the natural cycles and just being present to life.
There is something that I love about your reflections on nature and in nature the game is so much clearer. Expanding on this and by way of an example, if an animal self-doubts then it would probably immediately be killed by a predator; so no room for such frivolities! But we have created a world of such comfort and distraction that we can indulge in self-doubt and seemingly not immediately feel the consequences. But just because we don’t necessarily feel the claws of a predator sinking into our flesh, it doesn’t mean that the self doubt is any less damaging.
Spot on Otto. We have cleverly created a way of delayed consequences which conveniently then can be disassociated with the original action. i.e. My lethargy can’t possibly be what I ate, all i’ve had is soup today. But what about the Tiramisu 2 nights earlier? It all catches up and we must all walk back through the footprints we leave behind no matter how long we delay that journey for.
I love your example here Otto, making it so clear that every action or inaction of ours has a consequence whether we are aware of it or not.
And I have felt it. I have literally been crippled by self-doubt, unable to move forward, as if poisoned by some snake venom…but nobody fed me this stuff, no snake attacked me, nothing actually happened…it is purely a result of me not taking the steps to look after myself and allowing (nay, you could say inviting) these thoughts in, and when one is honest about where these thoughts come from and how they get in, then one has to face the responsibility we all have. This is the evil of self-doubt – it is so cleverly constructed, so insidiously delivered that one can have it and also avoid the responsibility. That’s why blogs like these are so grand in debasing the indulgence of it all.
Brilliant expansion and exposure. Oh how we have lost touch with our purpose and traded it off for a dull and disparaging existence where we settle for an ‘ignorance is bliss’ motto. Evil in every respect as it keeps us dosed up to the eyeballs on treats and rewards under the illusion that ‘all is good’ as long as we don’t feel a thing whilst we keep resisting living the light of Our Soul, that which we are and are here to live for all.
Religious speak that I can relate to.
It’s so important to out self-doubt in this way Otto. It is a frivolity that is utterly devastating when entertained/indulged and yet how many of us even realise it’s a choice?
It’s an interesting question and whether we do or don’t, consciously or sub-consciously what is very wonderful is that there are blogs and comments like this out there that are bringing this conversation to the fore. Issues like this are crippling society and are at the very core of the gigantic malaise that we are in, so it is awesome that Universal Medicine is both shinning a light on it as well as exposing it’s potential for harm and inspiring us out of such shadows.
The indulgence of self-doubt starkly exposed. Thank you for the loving pull-up Michael.
It is great to bring it back to the simplicity of how there is no such thing as self doubt in nature so why is it in us? Self-doubt is something that we call in to avoid something and certainly not something that we were born with.
Just imagine what mankind could achieve if we all kicked self-doubt into touch and aligned to the intelligence of the universe, we would no longer need space travel because we would be space.
You have to me just highlighted the ridiculousness of spending Trillions of dollars building spacecraft to explore the possibilities of living on Mars when we cannot live together on this planet! How arrogant are we as a species when we can think that we can go and mess up another planet in the universe because we have the technology!
Yes, a very clear point. What good is it to seek another plane of life if we do not manage to live harmoniously on the one we are on right now. It shows how our seeking of advancement does not bring us any closer but separates us with every step we take. While the fact remains that we are here together.
I was watching a bird fly the other day, and you are on the money, there is no doubt there at all. I can’t imagine them going – am I going left enough? Should I turn right? etc…
This blog exposes the evil nature of self-doubt. It is a global plague that is designed to keep humanity down, shrivelling and not becoming the grand amazing beings that we truly are.
Great observation on the flight of a bird.. shows that the energy of self doubt only exists in human beings …well, more correctly put… being human.
Love this…..talking about self doubt….”composed of an insidious set of thoughts we get fed”. So therefore the self-doubt is not us or not who we are. Yes we have moved our body in a way to allow these thoughts to take hold, that’s out part, our responsibility. So really all we need is to move in a way where they do not have the hold over us they once did. Then we know that we are not self-doubt.
… so if we are feeling anything but connected, joyful, harmonious and loving then it is a simple matter of changing our movements.
I went into self-doubt the other day after working with a team of people and finding myself withdrawing a bit. I took myself for a walk the next morning and literally walked and talked myself back to myself, telling myself that what I had begun to think about myself was a load of rubbish. It totally worked, and I managed to meet the same team that day in an equal way, not holding back any of my awesomeness. Totally cool.
That’s awesome Rebecca. Highlighting that we are not self-doubt and therefore can move in a way that we are not owned by it. That way you feel that what you have to bring, which is very awesome, is equal to that of others in the team regardless of skill set.
Love what you say Jennifer “we are not self-doubt and therefore can move in a way that we are not owned by it”, so simple and so true.
Thank you for sharing Rebecca, as walking our self is a great reflection of our True Movement and thus we can turn around any doubts we have about our-self through that simple movement. It can even be said that the way we move is every-thing.
The quality of our movements are profound – either totally healing as you share here Rebecca… or harming ourselves and others… and the choice is always ours.
‘We are constantly congratulating and taking pride in ourselves as the most evolved species and yet, birds, stars, dolphins, bees… display intelligence that would never go against their nature or do anything to their own detriment.’ – We have sold out to mental energy, thinking that our thoughts are who we are and by that, dismissing our true nature and the intelligence of our own inner heart.
A lesson learnt through a proposal by Serge Benhayon is that when we self-doubt we actually have dismissed what we knew to be true just a bit earlier hence coming back to that knowing and honouring it is the exit out of doubt.
What power are we denying that even allows self-doubt through the door?
Thank you Alex, a wise and practical way to understand the workings of self doubt.
Self-doubt is like a slow release poison, like the scorpion’s sting that comes from behind and an insult to our true origins.
I like what you share about it being a slow release poison. I would completely agree it sure is a poison.
Absolutely loved all your – what if nature went into self-doubt – questions, especially the first one “When was the last time a bird didn’t leave a branch because it was having self-doubt issues about flying?” I instantly recalled the moment a young bird is ready to leave the nest and flies for the first time, so full of trust and a knowing that it has everything it needs to soar. And the amazing thing I notice is once it leaves it does not go back to the nest, it simply keeps on flying. No self-doubt, just trusting its inner compass.
When we look at nature, it is the greatest reflection. A bird has everything it needs to fly, to soar and be incredible, to know its location and return over thousands of miles to their home in summer and winter. If it where to doubt, it doesn’t remove those innate and natural qualities, it just cuts us off from accessing it. It is like walking around with our eyes closed and claiming we can’t see, that we don’t have the capacity, that we aren’t good enough etc, when all we need to do is open our eyes.
I love this invitation for us to put aside doubting ourselves and the awareness we have access to. When we connect to our heart, honour the exquisiteness that is our true nature and express that the whole world is blessed.
“Does self-doubt occur in nature?” A great and very pertinent question Micheal. Nothing about nature is unsure of itself, but as a human race we make it such a huge part of our lives. It seems like somewhere along the line we have got it very wrong. Thankfully Serge Benhayon is showing us throught the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom, that self doubt does not have a place in our lives when we choose to live in away that is fully connected to who we are.
Thank you Michael, I feel inspired to observe nature more from reading your blog, animals are obedient to their nature, to their purpose, they stay on course and express all of who they are as an integral part of the overall whole.
Ironic that the humanity tends to state we are more intelligent than the animals, exactly because of the choices we make that keep us from “being obedient to our nature, to our purpose, staying on course and express all of who we are as an integral part of the overall whole”! There is much reflected to us by nature to remind us of the true intelligence we could be tapping into.
I love how the simplicity of the questions you’ve asked of Nature in this blog so expose just how ludicrous a level humans on the whole have let their personal livingness of self worth sink to. Quite an OUCH actually!
This is great Judith, and can I play-fully explore your comment and expand it, so we can deepen our understanding of the “ouch”? Some-times we have to realise that we have dug our own hole and therefore we are fully responsible for the depth of ’self-worth’ that we have “sunk” to, so then we can extricate our-self out of life’s dilemmas. Say like in nature we have a horrendous storm and then the stillness, so we have to understand what we have to endure, and then all that we have lived that is not True can then be healed and thus we can start our return to True Stillness.
We are being reflected of everything here on earth, are we seeing it and learning from it? Or has arrogance and ignorance blinded us in thinking we are perfect? Nature and it’s wisdom is natural and self-doubt as with many emotions are not natural (not occurring in nature), but man-made and causes huge anxiety. If human intelligence is truly intelligent it would feel absurd to experience so much self-directed self-harm whilst calling it being self-important.
This is a spot on comparison of self doubt and viruses; hijacking our cells, or immune system, and using our body’s mechanisms as a means to create disarray and generate poison. Our body is a vehicle through which we can allow abuse, or set standards to allow only clarity and love.
So true Susie… we can choose abuse or we can choose truth, clarity and the love we innately are – it is always simply a choice we each make.
It is interesting what you are presenting here and the absolute rigidity with science based evidence calling us all from connecting to and living from our multi dimensionality.
We are all being called to live from our multi-dimensionality.
If self-doubt doesn’t exist, just how much else that we let through also isn’t us? Just because some bits are nice doesn’t mean that they are true.
Great point Jospeh, what if we let go of that Self Doubt? How many other things that we think are us are not.
Michael, these are great questions; ‘When was the last time a bird didn’t leave a branch because it was having self-doubt issues about flying? ‘When was the last time a flower bent away from the sun because it became concerned it wasn’t facing the right way?’ It would seem completely ridiculous for nature to have self-doubt because it is not natural. And it is also the case for us as humans that it is not natural for us, babies do not have self doubt – this would seem completely unnatural if they did and so it is something that we take on as we grow up because we are certainly not born with it.
Self-doubt is so crippling to reduce our expression and keep us small and feel insignificant. We can allow the pattern of this force to dominate us or we can choose to stop it, these questions from the head are so sneaky and harmful.
We have a choice and we can choose to stop this force to dominate us.
I love what you have shared Michael, how you present that in nature and the universe there is no one ounce of self doubt, it is all harmony and flow, if so what on earth are we as humans accepting self doubt as part of us when we see the absolute mess and mayhem humanity is living in, while all around us nature, the universe reflect another way.
Well said Elizabeth, it is the disharmony that we keep choosing in our day to day living, that keeps mankind trapped in the misery that is playing out everywhere in the world.
There is so much surrounding us by the reflections of nature, the stars and energy to be aware of yet we can remain completely blind to what’s driving human life in this blindness. For myself I can say I hate being blind when expressing judgement of myself or others. I learn so much and experience much joy understanding new levels of awareness of life. But how much does my life reflect this appreciation?
The erosion of the most magnificent being ‘down to something of the stature of a particularly shriveled prune’ is indeed a catastrophe. As all of us are that magnificent, to be living lives that are shriveled and small we can definitely say that self-doubt is an insidious quality that is deeply harming.
‘Self-doubt can go on and on and on… without so much as a bleep on the awareness radar and therefore it can remain an undetected virus eating away its host for a long time.’ – Put like this, it is a scary reality that we are choosing to play out.
Self-doubt can be crippling and lead to lack of self-worth, feelings of rejection – you can see it – the down hill slide and it can sneak it’s way in, in a small way and then before you know it – down hill slide. Our body and the quality of our movements is the way for self-doubt to pass through but not take over. You know sometimes I feel like that when I go into self-doubt it’s not even mine and that I have accepted it from another. I just goes to show that none of this stuff comes from us, but through us.
Yes, it is pretty hilarious and crazy at the same time. It looks like self-doubt is a global plague that is eating away at our ability to trust, connect and live the grandness we are. To simply align to the intelligence of the universe would make life on earth so much simpler and joyful. Why would we want to deviate from such magnificence and grandness and opt for self-doubt? It doesn’t make sense but I reckon we have all experienced this insane way of living with self-doubt at some stage in our lives. So, it is awesome to look at why and expose what is really going on.
The vast majority of what we currently accept as our thoughts is actually junk. Self doubt exposes the absurdity of what we let in and consider true when it’s plainly out of sorts with our divinity.
Because we can’t quantify or diagnose ‘self doubt’, it’s being ignored as a serious concern that is affecting billions of people around the world. This is not to say we should design a medication that will ‘help prevent’ self doubt, but perhaps actually talking about WHY it is so prevalent and how it is crippling society would be a good place to start addressing it.
It feels like we have wondered so far away from our true nature, we have let in so much that is not who we are, that we have created the space to doubt. Imagine a bee deciding to collect sand rather than pollen – it is totally not its nature, but it goes against it. Suddenly through its step away, it has created space to doubt. Now look at humanity, a million steps away and is it any wonder we doubt ourselves because we live so far from what is true for us.
I had not previously realised how much a thought of self doubt affected me and others around me as much as I can now understand. When we think we are just doubting ourselves, we are standing on one foot, not moving forward. It serves no-one.
An intelligence that would never go against its true nature. Now that makes sense and sounds so easy! It certainly is for the birds, stars and plants.
It is a very true thing to look to the harmony of nature to see how perfectly it works compared to the craziness that humans can add to the place. I am no stranger to self doubt and have only learnt in recent years that it is not something that we will always have in our lives because like many other things it does come down to a choice, so there is no need to be plagued by it for the rest of our days.
‘Self-doubt can meander and move in all circles’ – And it can dress up in all different ways so you don’t even recognise it for what it is.
The frightening part is that we do not even stop at the ridiculousness there is
To not have self doubt means to be in our power and authority and not many like that because of the responsibility it brings.
A few years back I was riddled with self-doubt. I saw an esoteric practitioner and my whole life shifted when he said to me that self doubt was not something within me but something outside of me. I then knew I had a choice as to whether I let it in or not.
Yes, the body doesn’t doubt itself. It is something that the mind allows.
That confidence that smashes through any opinion or challenge comes from, and only from, the knowing that what is lived is true. Not wrong, right, good, bad, but TRUE.
Whenever we feel self doubt, self criticism, judgment and so on, it’s simply a sign that we’ve moved away from our body – perhaps after feeling something we haven’t wanted to feel. When we feel something but aren’t willing to look at it and feel what it is that we’re feeling, perhaps because we’d have to deal with it, speak up, rock the boat, etc, we can find a million distractions – like self-doubt – to take us further away from feeling and dealing with the original thing that we reacted to in the first place.
Michael Brown you are indeed an amazing young man. Thank you so much for your wonderful blog about one of our greatest plague in the moment – self doubt. Your honest words are an invitation to see that most of us are trapped in it and that there is a way to stop it – wonderful.
Sometimes I doubt if I should say something. The doubt comes in because at a split second I took another’s opinion more important than mine. I already feel what their reaction would be. But if I stand steady with my choice and don’t give energy to their reaction then doubt dissipates.
It does make me wonder what a world without self-doubt would look like… We would just walk round actioning everything knowing that the quality we do it in makes or breaks it.
Self-doubt definitely destroys our ability to trust our feelings it is a reminder that we have lost our connection to the innate wisdom that we hold within.
Self doubt seems so completely ridiculous when you see it this way!!!!! It also really made me appreciate the order within the Universe and Nature ✨
Indeed when we try to think our way out of problems instead of connecting back to our innate wisdom and knowing we only have access to recalled knowledges and our perception of our previous experiences and solutions.
We have so many amazing reflections within nature of how to be in the flow of life which are a constant source of inspiration.
When we consider the behaviour of a shark attacking its prey there is not one ounce of self doubt, the shark knows it needs to eat and it attacks to eat for this purpose. If a shark does not need to sustain itself with food, it does not eat. We on the other hand procrastinate and deliberate over what to eat, how much to eat and when to eat rather than trusting what we already know and when you put it like this you can feel the ridiculousness of the issues we create for ourselves even around something as basic as food.
We put so many obstacles in the way of our natural and innate way of being which is like a constant self bashing of we are not enough. We poison ourselves with our thoughts, what we do and say and the really bonkers part is we enjoy doing it, we enjoy the recognition we get from the struggle and the drama.
So true Fiona. We create a whole load of complication that simply obscures who we are naturally. If we left ourselves alone life would be very simple.
The reflections of nature are all around us, and there’s definitely no self-doubt there. When we can reconnect to the fact we are never alone, never needing to struggle, we know we have no need to doubt ourselves.
‘ “When did God give up on us because He wasn’t sure we were quite worthy of love?” ‘ – Not once, and yet we are very willing to give up on ourselves with the first thought of self-doubt we are being fed.
So true Eva and from doubting ourselves we disconnect from God and then believe he has deserted us. We have not been deserted ever, not by God, only by ourselves.
Self-doubt: something we do to ourselves, not something given to us naturally or by nature or that is of our true nature, but rather is a self-generated unnatural creation to keep us from being who we naturally are.
‘Self-doubt can go on and on and on… without so much as a bleep on the awareness radar and therefore it can remain an undetected virus eating away its host for a long time’ So well said Michael.
Not known how to get myself out of that when it happens. After having a session with Serge Benhayon with the walking Therapies. I now have a deeper understanding of the significance of our movements in confirming and compounding the energy we have chosen in our body.
Where does self doubt come from? It’s not in us when we feel full, open and loving. So if I feel ‘ less’, than then I’m leaving an opening for self doubt to enter.
Well said, Michael, self-doubt does not belong anywhere if we honour ourselves by living in connection with the grandness within us and all around us.
It is a great question to ask here, about self doubt and how it is only a human trait. Because if the human body is a part of nature, and there is no doubt in nature, then from which source does doubt come?
It’s almost like we walk around with tunnel vision when it comes to self-doubt because if we only put our heads up and saw the constant reflection of just being that we receive from nature, the stars and planets, we couldn’t possibly see ourselves as separate and not equal.
When we are true to ourselves, there is no space for self doubt and we get to feel how out of place it is!
Oh I LOVE this blog, you are SO nailing it Michael. Self-doubt is being fed to us and we are uncritically swallowing it.
It is truly awesome when our antennae is turned to the frequency of multidimensionality, life is a whole new experience, a truly amazing one.
We’re absolute masters at making things up. Have a look at the world around us, we’ve pretty much made the whole thing up and then like actors in a screen play, we act out lives that are as real as the backdrops that we’ve tacked together.
As human beings we have grotesquely mutated ourselves and to think that most of us consider that we’re doing well.
Very poignant looking at nature and the universe as examples here and seeing how they all have an absolute alignment to a Universal Intelligence. Instead of trying harder and doing more of the same when things aren’t working, and lets face it our world has not been working for a long time, how about we too give this Universal Intelligence a go?
There is no hesitance in nature because its occupants (minerals, plants, animals) do not pull against the divine order they are a part of, they simply move with it. Not so with us humans who use this pulling away or withdrawal from Universal Order as a space in which to create whatever the heck we like with no consideration of how it fits into the Whole we are a part of and thus how it affects every other part of that same whole. We then wonder how it is that we get smashed by the doubt that was first manufactured when the ‘part’ (our spirit) moved away from the Whole (Soul) and became a ‘self’. This self then gets further identified when it doubts its own self (note the absurdity here) and the deeper truth that regardless of its errant move, it still remains a part of the Whole it seemingly separated from. We have a lot to learn from the so-called ‘inferior species’ about being more obedient to the flow of life.
When-ever self-doubt creeps in, connect back to the body and it dissolves.
Could it be that self doubt arose when we first chose to walk a path in the opposite direction from all that is true – thus we gave up on God as we felt shame and unworthy of His love. Thank God, He knows we are worthy as we cannot be anything other than love and simply awaits our return to live from love.
“When did God give up on us because He wasn’t sure we were quite worthy of love?” (Dragana Brown)
Michael, when you put it like this it does seem crazy and unnatural for us to go into self-doubt; ‘Take self-doubt as an example – Does self-doubt occur in nature? And/or the universe?’
There are some questions we need to ask here:
1. What is the intention or purpose for us to ‘tap into’ self-doubt if as you say it actually is not a necessity, given or natural thing to happen?
2. What does create an interest or opening towards self-doubt in the first place, what is the ‘gap’ that doesn’t seem to exist in nature or the universe and how does it come to exist?
3. Could it be that we actually and ridiculously feel unique/individual when we choose self-doubt?
The title of this blog gives a new spin on the ‘birds and the bees’ story many of us got told when we were young. I like your version heaps better!
Haha that’s funny, hadn’t connected those two till your comment 😂
I remember watching baby turtles and feeling jealous of their absoluteness… I wished to know what it felt like to know exactly who I am and what to do.
I got my wish by applying The Ageless Wisdom which presents that we have all we need within and reminds us how to re-connect to our inner most where we simply know exactly who we are and what is needed of us in each moment.
Baby turtles and absoluteness – wow, I wish I had been there to see and appreciate it. I’m sure there are many more examples in nature and will keep my eyes open.
If we don’t have confidence in our body then, as humans we can pretend. That seems to happen less among animals, though young birds can hesitate before leaving the nest for the first time.
If we are forever trying to get things right we can go into doubt because right is not true. When we are connected to Truth there is no doubt.
I love what our expression can do when we open up to all that is there to be expressed.
When we allow ourselves to truly feel multidimensionality then there is no room for self doubt, we are so much more.
Would one flower blossoming next to another consider blossoming less or later because there is another one growing next to it? No way, so why do we change the way we walk when we are next to another and not express in full what we have to offer the world?
Yes, super beautifully said. There is no reason not to claim our space and hold everybody equally in it.
It is true that nature never displays behaviours that go against its truth or that is detrimental to itself… which then truly begs the question… why do we as humans do this? Clearly we are not the most intelligent species on the planet!
“Does self-doubt occur in nature? And/or the universe?” This is an awesome question to consider Michael… imagine the mayhem that would exist if this were the case! It really does make a mockery of our ideals, beliefs and behaviours.
I love how you expose self-doubt as, ‘Self-doubt can go on and on and on… without so much as a bleep on the awareness radar and therefore it can remain an undetected virus eating away its host for a long time…’ So, true Michael! Self-doubt can be such a constant nagging that it becomes so normal, not seen, recognised or felt as the virus it is. Self-doubt lives in those who are highly successful as well as those who are not.
Love how you share about nature and the fact that flowers, birds, animals and stars don’t worry about how much they shine.no self doubt there. Also they don’t compare with each other.
Love it – “When was the last time a flower bent away from the sun because it became concerned it wasn’t facing the right way?” Or afraid it would get skincancer…?
Being aware of the multidimensionality we actually are a part of, blows away any speck of self doubt, and as you say self doubt simply ” cannot and does not enter…”
Self doubt brings delay and we know it is not from a source of energy that supports us. So we can choose it, or we can choose not to have it, it is that simple.
I sometimes ask people if they have ever held a baby, and if so did the baby feel bad about it’s hair, uncomfortable in it’s body, worried about how others perceive it? It reminds them of how they have seen what it is like to not question who they are.
That is true and despite the lack of self-doubt there is very little that the baby is actually capable of. Clearly our ability in the world and our self-confidence are linked but the link may only be indirect.
I love those points to, it shows how ridiculous it really is and makes light of what we have made so heavy and burdensome.
This is the problem with disconnecting from the source, the energy we all originate from, we have created a form of self awareness that can and will be used against us. Us being who we are in essence.
For me, it’s when I dishonour what I feel in my body and go into my mind for answers or solutions that the self-questioning kicks in. Every time I come back to what I feel inside, the truth always reveals itself.
“When was the last time a flower bent away from the sun because it became concerned it wasn’t facing the right way?” – This ‘absurdity’ is actually playing out ALL of the time in humanity. In the face of purpose, honesty and even love, we often turn back and walk the other way and justify with our favourite excuses, ‘I’m not worth that’, ‘it’s too hard’, ‘I’m too busy’, ‘I don’t have the time for that relationship/project/job’. We are missing so many opportunities this way, however they are always coming back to us so we can forever choose to say YES.
true Susie, no matter how hard we try and bend away from the sun, we cannot actually escape it and it will never go anywhere. All we can do is turn our gaze in the other direction pretending we do not know it is there and that we are always under it’s rays.
“Self-doubt seems to be largely composed of an insidious set of thoughts we get fed in order to erode the most magnificent being down to something of the stature of a particularly shrivelled prune.” I love this sentence! Comical yes but such a sad reality. We need to decide that we will not allow this, and catch these insidious thoughts as they try to come in. Without them we can fly high.
The more we just focus on connecting to our bodies, the more we know without hesitation what to do and who we are. The trouble starts when we get into our heads about something and ignore our intuition.
Self-doubt is exhausting as it is in direct conflict with the fact of the all-knowing beings we truly are.
I heard somewhere someone saying that “I don’t have the luxury to self doubt”
Self-doubt is dis-honouring the truth of who we truly are – Sons of God growing into Godhood.
‘..birds, stars, dolphins, bees… display intelligence that would never go against their nature or do anything to their own detriment.’ A beautiful reminder to surrender to the guaranteed love that just is – letting go of the need to control.
Well worth considering the subtle ways in which self-doubt can lurk under the surface keeping us in patterns of thoughts and behaviour which mean we do not bring our full potential to life.
Self-doubt comes from self, if we were to relax and go with the flow and harmony of the universal like the birds bees etc living for the all and not the one there would be no self let alone self-doubt.
We have let these so called ‘human behaviours’ become a convenient excuse for avoiding truth and our divinity.
We can not, not be connected to the magnificence of what we are being reflected continually as we are designed and created from that same source. We may try with all our might to ignore and dismiss such magnificence yet at some point the magnificence that we are will call us and pull us back to its original source.
Indeed when I am seeking reassurance, I know I am in self doubt. For there is nothing more certain and confidence building that living in connection and being present and engaged in the moment.
‘deep down we know that nature and the Universe co-exist in alignment with the same intelligence human beings can attune to, but who are, more often than not choosing not to tap into that source, and as a result we have, on Earth, created disharmony and mayhem.’ – so true. In observing and accepting the alignment to the Universe in nature – why is it that we are not embracing the same multi-dimensionality for ourselves? Why do we resist accepting our own divinity? Is it because with that acceptance comes a responsibility to live it?
Another example of the ludicrous of what you are presenting to us Michael is ‘Does a dog self doubt and not bark when it sniffs an intruder in the home?
The examples outside the Human Race are endless Mary Louise, simply more evidence for the (now obviously) evidence based claim that we are not the most intelligent species or life form.
Self doubt should not be a part of our life and yet it is, at least in my life. It is a very crippling time consuming pattern which will never lead to feeling the truth that we are an equal part of the universe. Your examples will stay with me and make another choice than to doubt myself.
Such cool question: And if so, what on Earth are we doing with these reflections?
Greatly asked, we are by nature brilliant, as nature reflects to us we are brilliantly divine.. But indeed, what are we doing with these reflections? Tearing them apart or see what is really occurring.. We need more honour of who we are and so what nature reflects to us.
This statement about self-doubt – it can remain an undetected virus eating away its host for a long time – really struck me this morning. It is like a modern day plague, eating away at humanity, bringing us down and down, playing with us, making us small.
We can totally lose ourself in our own self-doubt, and all of our own creation! No one is making us question ourself – they might try, but it only has any power behind it when we allow it to, because we’ve already started to question ourselves. When we are connected to our bodies, connected to what we feel, staying present, awake and aware in every moment, then self-doubt doesn’t get a look in.
Very true Alison and self-doubt is like Michael shared, it is a virus that eats away at us internally. It can be crippling, harmful and crushing when we allow it to run wild throughout our body. It is like a self-attack that only occurs when we are avoiding our grandness, multidimensionality and responsibility.
My feeling is that our planet is probably the only planet that is ridden with self-doubt in our entire universe. Self-doubt feels so unnatural to us yet it is a very common feeling that exists in our population.
There is actually quite a lot that is not happening in nature that we as human beings do. Overeating and pushing our bodies when they are communicating to go to bed: doesn’t happen to animals in their natural surroundings. Nature is the most perfect reflection of divinity and God’s and our love.
As humans, we are trying to live as individuals building our own castles, but it isn’t working as it’s not our true way. What we crave isn’t a castle at all, it’s connection with each other, brotherhood, harmony and truth.
“Take self-doubt as an example – Does self-doubt occur in nature? And/or the universe?” what a great question, it shows how we think that we are the masters of the universe yet why do we have self doubt? Where does it come from and what if we lived obedient to the flow of life like the bees and birds?
Letting self-doubt into our thoughts amounts to the same thing as having a drink that has something harmful in it – both will have a detremental impact on our physical body.
The only difference being that the drink is an easily spotted causation and therefore can be dealt with. Self-doubt however is not on the GP’s list of questions when exploring prognosis’ and diagnosis’.
Great point Michael, it is an eye opener when you put it like this because like you shared, self-doubt is like a virus that eats away at our body pretty much undetected, and the harm this creates is yet to be fully recognised in our society.
I love the questions you have listed. I laughed heartily imagining the impact of the way we relate to self-doubt on the bird, the flower, the star and so on. Really shows how ridiculous it is when we engage in self-doubt also.
Playful example Michael, “When was it that a Star wriggled itself out of the constellation because it wasn’t dead certain it was making the right shape?” and one that highlights the beauty of claiming your place in the universe and all the steadiness and truth this ‘position’ reflects.
Yes these questions do sound absurd because we know that the creatures and planetary bodies could not entertain such thoughts, yet we humans live in a way that can and do. Knowing and choosing our inner connection starts to bring an end to these thoughts – I know when I can’t make my mind up, I’ve lost it!
It is so time that we are asking the obvious questions and stop trying to think ourselves out of our problems.
It is crazy how we so easily doubt the love we are and live less than the love we are when we are designed to be love and so much in the universe and arounds us reminds us of this fact and innate knowing. For me I find when I want things a certain way I lose sight of the magnificence around me and then can easily get caught up in my head and start to doubt when things do not fit the picture I made and wanted.
Beautifully put… it shows just how much we allow in and take on stuff that simply does not belong, and then live from that rather than from our natural essence and expression
Yes, it is crazy to think that God is deciding who is worthy or not of his love, when we are all made from the same love and reside within his body.
When put like this
“When was the last time a bird didn’t leave a branch because it was having self-doubt issues about flying?”
I have observed how House Martins fly up and into the smallest hole to nest and there is not one ounce of self doubt in their bodies that they are not going to make it. So it is a human trait and it is very insidious as it is very crippling in that it can hold us back for life time’s believing that we are not when in actually fact we are everything.
“Self-doubt can go on and on and on… without so much as a bleep on the awareness radar and therefore it can remain an undetected virus eating away its host for a long time.”
Love how you have worded this Michael, for indeed self doubt is a silent, self fed killer that has never belonged to our natural way of being, yet by playing host to the day in, day out movements of this internal dialogue, we find ourselves in a place where self doubt is simply accepted as part of the human journey.
We recognise viruses that attack our body that makes us very sick, like a flu virus but I have never considered until now that self-doubt is no different to a life threatening virus. It is a form of attack on our body that if we allow it to penetrate our body, it can have extremely harmful effects. Some people have a mild form of self-doubt which is less noticeable and can linger around our entire life, whereas some cases the damage is very evident and shocking.
I love how nature never shows us self doubt Michael. We can watch a tiny baby bird flutter on the edge of a high precipice and then drop off and start flying, it is a great reflection for us to feel self doubt is not a part of us at all, but something we have chosen to hold ourselves back.
Love this example gillrandall, it also encapsulates the condition of ‘trying’ – rather than acting from a known in the body, ‘now I fly’.
Nature is an amazing reflection and reminder for us, it doesn’t shy away from showing us how magnificent we all are. It is magical when we stop to appreciate what nature is reflecting to us constantly.
Great examples that expose the craziness of choosing to go into self-doubt when we only have to connect to our essence to banish all self-doubt. I feel I have often hidden behind self-doubting thoughts because they provide an excuse to not live my full potential but I can no longer fool myself that it is anything other than a choice I am making and that I have the opportunity to change this at any moment.
I love the points you raise here. We are a part of the universe. There is no way we can be separate to it. So we have our place in it. Why would we doubt that for a second?
Is it to avoid the truth of who we are and to avoid our responsibility to reflect absolute love to the world and the universe?
Michael, your observations remind me of a recent trip to a botanical garden. In the alpine house, I marveled at how each tiny, delicate yet magnificent flowering plant sat with it’s group without a hint of comparison, competition or jealousy. Just being themselves. A blessing to observe.
Self doubt is self indulgent and creates pictures unrelated to truth.
Nature is our greatest teacher for all the reasons you have given Michael.
Reading your post Michael, it highlights not only the sensibility that is present in nature but also too in the understanding of what you share, equally it highlights our own sense as a race of human beings, and how far that sense has escalated from simple values and truths.
Self doubt is an insidious self-destructive way of being, so deeply embedded we are not even aware of its existence until we are shown that there is another way to be. Appreciating the qualities we bring and expressing all of who we are is a way to honour and celebrate ourselves.
Michael, you raise some great points in this article; ‘Self-doubt seems to be largely composed of an insidious set of thoughts we get fed in order to erode the most magnificent being down to something of the stature of a particularly shrivelled prune.’ Reading this I can feel how belittling it really is when we go into self-doubt, comparison and competition and that this is really are not how we are meant to be with ourselves and each other. We can see with babies and young children that we are naturally confident and are full of love for ourselves and others.
When viewed in this way we can see just what an un-natural and fabricated belief Self Doubt is, a belief that we choose to prevent our selves from simply expressing all we are, with all the love we are.
We doubt ourselves when we have left ourselves, re-connection is the key to feeling more able to deal with what is in front of us.
Nature provides us with a wonderful stop check, doesn’t it! When we check in with nature we can really see where we are at.
Yes, so true. You don’t see a baby doubt whether it is hungry or needs a sleep, the message is clear with no holding back.
Self-doubt affects us greatly, much more than what we realise and are willing to admit. Self-doubt creates anxiety, a nervous tension and exposes a lack of self-worth, hence a lack of confidence. Let go of self-doubt and the world is full of opportunities to take and embrace.
When we are children, we can ride our bike on the top of a wall without self-doubt because we don’t know about gravity. As time marches on and the things taught by life, and our role models, the seeds of doubt planted and nurtured to grow. It is ridiculous as you said when you feel the reflection offered by nature.
Self doubt is a totally made up state, it has no roots in truth whatsoever.
I initially laughed at your words “…to erode the most magnificent being down to something of the stature of a particularly shrivelled prune” but that was simply because I was squirming at the realisation that I had spent (wasted) so much of my life living as that ‘prune’. I have been asking the question – why do I choose to live a lesser life than the one I was born to live – a lot lately, and slowly but surely thanks to the life-changing presentations from Serge Benhayon I am finally coming to understanding my magnificence and how it is waiting for me to claim in every moment.
Same here Ingrid, it felt quite exposing and at the same time so needed to stop living a lesser version of myself/ourselves.
It is interesting to consider that self-doubt is not natural, it is created, a learned behaviour. It therefore asks us to look at why we would adopt this undermining way of being… to excuse ourselves from embracing the ALL we are and the responsibility that comes with that ?
I agree Victoria, we choose self-doubt to avoid being our true and glorious selves.
From reading this it’s pretty obvious that we create our own self-doubt. I love the examples you use of nature, there is no doubt anywhere. We’re not born with it. I’ve never seen a baby lie there and not move when it feels to start rolling or crawling because it has self-doubt that it’s not doing it the same as all other babies or it’s not doing it perfectly.
A couple of things I have noticed about self-doubt is that it can behave like a computer program ‘running in the background’ and never rearing its ugly head on the ‘home page’ for all to see and deal with. Sometimes it’s only when the continuous running of this program causes depression, anxiety, or serious anxiousness and other psychological issues that it is finally dealt with head on and seen for what it is. Also, I know for myself I have used self-doubt about my ability to handle a certain challenging situation or even to know the truth about a life issue as an excuse to stay withdrawn from life and almost wait for someone else to do the hard work or just tell me what the answer is. But when we do that there is no true learning or evolution going on and holding ourselves back is holding everyone back from seeing how inspiring we can be.
Love that computer analogy Michael, constantly draining the power resource from the important programs.
The miracles in the natural world is a reflection always that I too am this stupendousness when I live it.
If we didn’t indulge self-doubt what would it mean? Could it be that we’d have no excuse to hide from responsibility and our power?
The more we allow ourselves to appreciate how truly amazing we are, the less space there is for these diminishing and distracting thoughts to come in. As we deepen our appreciation of our selves, so too are we deepening our foundation of love from which we live from.
‘When did God give up on us because He wasn’t sure we were quite worthy of love?’ …. equally, it would be unfathomable for us to even imagine God giving up on himself.
The patterns and habits we hang onto for dear life so that we can comfort ourselves with the ingrained thoughts that we are not good enough and doubt things that we do, which can be on any level simply exposes itself for what it truly is. An energy we are aligning to that keeps you away from being the magnificent powerful beings that we are innately designed to be. Each moment we make that choice either with our truth or not. Our truth is that it has never left us and remains as powerful as it did when we first came along.
Yes indeed it is true that we are not separated from the rest of the universe, we have a direct relationship with everything, the thoughts in our head can tell us different but everything around us and of course our bodies tell us we are part of the whole.
Brilliant blog Michael, self-doubt is so destructive and crippling, and why then would we choose to align to it? Nature doesn’t have an issue with self-doubt as you have so beautifully shared. It seems we are the only species on this planet that take on self-doubt and struggle with aligning to the intelligence of the universe. I have heard many times that humans are the most intelligent species on earth but after reading your blog Michael, it makes you wonder doesn’t it?
I love the playfulness that you expose how crazy self doubt is. Thanks Michael.
When in self-doubt we can avoid expressing, we can avoid making a cup of tea or even eat lunch. We can question whether this is right for us, or whether that is right for us. We can feel lost in not knowing where to go, how to be or what to say. But this all vanishes as soon as we connect to our heart and let that lead the way.
We have to have chosen it repeatedly on some level. How does a God leave being a God and act like a self doubting ungod?
We as a race of species have indeed created much out of the natural sphere – which is something all other species just do not do. We over eat, over consume, over think, abuse self and others for emotional reason and do much more, where as nature just gets on with living life. There is much nature can teach us if we only allowed her to be our teacher.
This exposes the fact that, as a humanity, we are not so intelligent as we think we are.
Children have not one ounce of self-doubt – they learn it from the adults around them, which exposes our role-modelling and the fact that we have a choice in every moment to reflect harmony or disharmony.
Great exposure Michael of the ridiculousness we live as a humanity. We are surrounded daily by the harmony, rhythms and cycles of nature… and yet we choose complication, confusion and mayhem here on planet Earth.
You really have crushed any credibility self doubt had.
Michael, this is a brilliant blog – the bullet points about nature really show how absurd it is to doubt. I am still chucking about these examples in nature you have shared.
“Take self-doubt as an example – Does self-doubt occur in nature? And/or the universe?”
Thanks Michael for such beautiful clarity on the insidiousness and senselessness of self-doubt.
What a great blog. I laughed out loud at your examples from nature but the larger point you make is so important – we have self doubt when we do not move in alignment to the source we’re all from. Nature is showing this in all it’s simplicity and magnificence.
And I have to say I love and totally agree with your bio Michael – “Amazing young man” 🙂
Thank you Nikki, very sweet of you
Wow, awesome blog. Imagine the world if we all lived with our innate knowing.
“We are constantly congratulating and taking pride in ourselves as the most evolved species and yet, birds, stars, dolphins, bees… display intelligence that would never go against their nature or do anything to their own detriment.” We need to question the intelligence that we think is intelligence and see what is right in front of our eyes, the refection on hand as to what true intelligence is. Humanity is in dire straights and the intelligence that we think is intelligence is what has lead us there, not the true intelligence that is all around us.
Self doubt does not exist for us as babies, but we learn it well as we grow up…
Such great questions, Michael, which expose the craziness of our resistance to accepting the grandness of each and every one of us, as well as our constant interaction and communication with all of nature, the stars and the universe.
Michael, I love your sense of humour and how you have asked the most basic questions that highlight how ridiculous self doubt is and yet despite this, it plagues us in so many ways indeed! Self doubt can certainly wheedle its way in, like a snake, and then do its damage…it is for us to be vigilant and know that we are far grander than this.
I like what you write here Michael. It exposes self-doubt for the ridiculousness that is – those examples of nature are pure gold! It shows clearly that it is a choice, and to the best of our abilities, we can choose to align to what we innately know or keep ourselves like a shrivelled up prune. The Way of the Livingness – http://www.unimedliving.com/the-way-of-the-livingness – is our way out of self-doubt, supporting people to live as themselves, as we were intended (and born as) to be.
Michael, I love this blog…’When was the last time a bird didn’t leave a branch because it was having self-doubt issues about flying? When was the last time a flower bent away from the sun because it became concerned it wasn’t facing the right way?’ Of course, the answer is never… so why then do we self-doubt? Put into the context you have, it makes all our self-doubts ridiculous. Next time I am having a self-doubt wobble, I’ll remember this blog and change it!
These are great examples as there is nothing quite like ridiculousness to cut through ridiculous behaviours 🙂
Very true Michelle. And even when I watch very very young children, they do not move with self doubt – they just go for it.
I like how you’ve made what really IS ridiculous, sound ridiculous. A great expose on how we trap ourselves with thoughts and mental games.
And how we have made the ridiculous normal, common and to our great detriment, accepted. This all needs much exposing.
It is brilliant to expose how unintelligent we have been living due to what we have chosen to align to because we have been avoiding aligning to multidimensionality and the intelligence of the universe. When we look around, this is clear that many of our collective choices haven’t been working for us. It is evident that we are struggling as a species and we tend to behave most unnaturally. I can’t think of any other species that self-destruct and self-sabotage like humans do.
Self-doubt comes from the mind, never from the body.
Self-doubt can only we there if we are not connected to ourselves and to the all-knowing of the universe. So first step is to come back to ourselves and to claim back the truth that we know and have left behind to get poisoned by the self-doubting thoughts.
Yes when we are connected we are aware and when we are aware and let ourselves see the whole picture then we simply action what needs to be done because we an feel it is true but when we are disconnected we are only left with the indecisiveness of the mind.
I lived with alot of self doubt in the past, hesitatation and regret, fuelled it, They where self fulfilling behaviours. The shift came from being more body aware and being more caring with myself, when I listen to my body I can respond and make the next move in life, less delay or hesitation, but rather what is next?
When we are not connected to ourselves, then we leave ourselves wide open for all manner of debris to infiltrate it’s way into our lives and that debris is actually what makes up the majority of our lives and we think that it’s life itself, when it’s not. It’s an imposter of the highest order and one day it shall be called out by us all.
The way out of self-doubt for me is to be absolutely honest from my body.
Rik this makes total sense, with honesty the self doubt does not need to take hold.
I agree nothing else I find helps brings me back than being honest from my body about where I am at. Then any doubt and everything else seems to pale into insignificance compared to the love I know.
The trouble with honesty is that we’re not used to exercising it. We are serial liars. We learn to lie from a very young age and subsequently spend the rest of our lives lying. We’re not even conscious of the fact that we’re doing it. Honesty is the most miraculous of tools, as it is able to start to extricate us out of the tangled web that we have spun ourselves into. With each step we take towards honesty, we get a little closer towards truth and it is the truth that will eventually set us free.
Yes and a flower would not turn away from the sun because it thinks it is not worthy of the warmth also known as love of God.
Every part of nature is attracted to and aligns to God’s love without hesitation, but it looks like we are the only species on earth that would choose to turn away from God’s love. When you put it like this it is insane what we are choosing.
Your examples from nature and the universe make self-doubt look as ridiculous and non-sensical as it in truth is. Easier said than done at times, but very doable just the same.
Easier said than done but simpler done than not done.
‘When was the last time a bird didn’t leave a branch because it was having self-doubt issues about flying?’ I agree, it sounds ridiculous but we have made our lives so complicated with images that we can’t see the wood for the trees so to speak, in other words, we can’t see or feel who we truly are because of all the mind stuff that gets in the way. Thoughts that, as you say, we are being fed and they are not true.
This makes it very easy to see how simple it is to let go of self doubt. It doesn’t belong to us.
Self doubt is little more than an excuse for not acting on something we already know we can do. The self doubt would not be there in the first place if we did not have the energy to do something.
Is self-doubt something we set ourselves up for so that we don’t have to shine brightly?
It really makes no sense for amazing people to doubt how amazing they are, yet it happens every single moment of every single day. As you say, a star would never doubt it’s position in a constellation, yet we so frequently cripple ourselves with doubt instead of valuing our place in life.
So very true it makes no sense how we could ever doubt the amazingness we are and are from, yet we all do.
Self doubt is a signal to us that we have disconnected from our inner essence.
That’s a great way to look at self doubt, a signal that we are disconnected from who we are, then it’s simply about making our next step about re-connection.
Spot on, because our inner essence knows its glory.
A powerful red flag reminder simply stated. self doubt = dis-connection
The moment we don´t connect and not honour our innate connection to the universe/God, self doubt and as a result doubt in general creeps in and poisons us- like someone is plugging into you and pulling energy out of you slowly and unrecognised. We know everything. The moment, we think, we don’t know, first step should be, reconnecting. We often get caught in finding the answer from a place of disconnection, although all the answers lie in the connection to us and the All.
That’s correct – self-doubt can only fester when we are disconnected and thus at odds with everything that we are a part of, no matter what we think or what we do, whether we believe it or not.
I love your authority in this blog, Michael! The ridiculousness you present by those example, really expose the silliness in shying away from everyones own authority.
What I have recently become aware of is how self-doubt creeps in when I am surrounded by those who self-doubt and when in the company of those where there is very little self-doubt I am much more confident in myself. Interesting observation exposing how I allow and blame another for the self-doubt but also clearly revealing and demonstrating the ripple affect we have on one another.
Well said Caroline! When we are with others we get constant reflections from these others on how we can be, and if we are not so strong in our connection to self, then other reflections can pull us away from this, eroding rather than supporting our connection to self….and then from there we can go into doubts and self doubts. However the opposite is also true where we can be confirmed in our connection and hence the self doubts have no space to be. Confidence is another aspect that stays strong for us when we are connected to ourselves and likewise confidence gets eroded the moment we disconnect from ourselves. Whilst we stay connected, we know exactly how to be and how to move and what say as it is all there in the body felt, sensed and delivered before we even realise, so long as we hold our connection with the deepest and most treasured part of ourselves, the Soul.
I love this beautiful sharing Michael and your expression of what on earth is going on in our world as we are choosing not to live in harmony and co exist with the universe and all its intelligence and doubt all we are and all we are connected to innately by our very presence and being. The amazing reflections we are offered and the beauty of nature are all here for us to attune to and be and our inspiration and love and hence the absurdity of self doubt and where it comes from.
Self doubt is an insidious energy that does “remain an undetected virus eating away its host for a long time.” Michael, well said. We are so used to having it we don’t even blink an eye at our selves for having it and therefore do not question its source or see that nowhere else in nature does it exist, so essentially it cannot be real!
What a great look at life and everything in it, in fact the whole universe. This is how science used to be practiced or more so, this was science, where philosophy and religion was part of it. We cannot just look at one part and isolate it and say that is the way it is, as how could it be the way it is if it does not fit into the rhythm and harmony of the universe? It is time we questioned our behaviours instead of just accepting them as part of us. We are part of the universe, thus our innate rhythm cannot stray from everything that is around us. So what is driving us that it makes it look like that?
We live on such a tiny little dot in the universe we could say totally insignificant to the actual space that is out there. I would have thought this would actually make us as a species very humble and very appreciative of everything we have on this plane of life. But not a bit of it we are incredibly arrogant and scientists seem to think that when we have messed up the Earth we can buy our way out by colonising another planet taking the same mistakes there as we have on Earth. We use the same arrogance when it comes to illness and disease to me it seems that we are trying to buy our way out of this problem, which is why the health service is running out of money because we actually cannot buy our way out of anything. I do not believe we will colonise another planet and we will not be able to buy our way out of illness and disease. To me self doubt is a side issue; deal with our arrogance and I feel everything else will naturally fall away.
Thank you Mary – this puts everything into perspective – we are very small dot in the grander scheme of things and it is the arrogance that needs to be exposed and deconstructed for us to evolve with The Plan. and re-align with God and Universal Order.
Love how you have called out the illusion of self doubt – self doubt can be super crippling yet in truth it does not belong to any part of us. When we really know who we are and claim it there is no room for this imposter.
Self doubt can be hidden by all sorts of facades like money, job, looks, popularity but it sits there quietly waiting for its moment to pounce. Building a solid foundation in who you are, where you are from and what you are made of as a normal part of your day to day should be part of our upbringing.
Goodness it certainly makes me realise how unintelligent it is to have self doubt when we are supposed to be a very intelligent species!
Self-doubt is abusive, destroys and holds us back from expanding in our lives. It can expose a lack of confidence even in those we regard as super ‘intelligent’ so there has to be more to intelligence than what we see today. Could it be that true intelligence is not having the ability to remember and pass exams but living in connection to the bees, birds and buds with not one ounce of self-doubt just as Michael so beautifully writes about here?
I love your list, Michael. Pointed out in this light, it makes self-doubt rather daft, doesn’t it?
Self-doubt is a poison we allow to be drip fed into us that moment we stop being fully present with ourselves. Using the car as an analogy for our body (our vehicle of expression), it is this contraction that allows our tank to be filled with a substance that is toxic to the efficiency of our engine and thus prevents us from fully ‘flooring it’.
Like putting the Diesel of Doubt into a Petrol run Pure car… A disaster waiting to happen, not necessarily immediately, but perhaps just at the moment you need to ‘floor it’.
Gorgeous Michael. This exposes self-doubt for the absolute ridiculous unnecessary farce that it is.
Michael, you raise some great points in this article, this really stands out for me; ‘Is it possible that we as Human Beings also have that same innate knowing which can be manifested in all that we do, say and how we move that plants and trees, birds and bees, whales and stars, the sun and moon have, and are constantly reflecting back to us?’ I can feel how true this is and how so often we as human beings do not align to this natural knowing and rhythm and instead try and do things our own way which is often not in line and in rhythm with nature and the universe. There is much to ponder on here.
With those bulleted examples you give Michael .. it got me also thinking about other ones too, for example how animals are in relationship and their purpose of being with another one of their species, for example do they have a checklist of what their partner should look like, their job, profession, age, weight, look, stride and so on. No, they just get with what work they need to do together to evolve and that’s it. Simple.
Self-doubt indicates a lack of presence and connection to our all-knowing source for in knowing there is no doubt!
Are we using our get out of jail free card on the reflections from everything you have described, to not accept the responsibility that goes with it?
Its always fascinated me that world famous actors are often plagued with self doubt… they are at the pinnacle of their career earning millions, and yet feel that one poor performance and its all over. When we don’t build that sense of self worth from the inside, a super solid platform on which anything and everything else can sit, then there is no foundation and true enough the house built on sand can come tumbling down.
Perhaps an underlying cause of self-doubt is that human beings have a deep knowing that they shouldn’t be here on Earth in human form and, having been here for so long, have doubts as to how to return to where they came from.
Shakespearian-esque absurdity to deliver a powerful truth
When you dishonour your connection with truth self doubt kicks in. Self doubt poisons you more then any food or emotions. Dishonouring happens much faster then self doubt, so we need to go back to the truth and ask what was it we dishonoured when we were in the absoluteness of the truth we were connected to.
This is great Michael, as the “Universe co-exist in alignment with the same intelligence human beings can attune to, but who are, more often than not choosing not to tap into that source, and as a result we have, on Earth, created disharmony and mayhem.” And could this be because of reinterpretation of words or abuse energetically of words, thus true expression has been lost?
Semantics aside, when re-connected to our essence words start to take on a true reason for their use, and when we fantasize about words, thus giving no credence to a true universal understanding that words have their roots based on, then we are not being true to what God is offering us. So expressing in a way that unifies, which will bring the same simple understanding energetically to words, then none of our diverse languages or dialects would make us feel any lesser than another therefore this would be a great starting point to re-turn harmony on earth?
Michael I love your blog! Self doubt – its such a toxic marker that we are out of whack!!! And a beautiful reminder that nature is always offering us the truer reflection.
It is true when life is naked we have to be honest and face it, we cannot afford to be doubtful, we just have to move according to what we feel is true. Doubt comes in more when the situation is comfortable and we lose the connection with the entire universe.
Self-doubt is only there when I choose to walk away from aligning to the universe and the majesty therein.
Absolutely Michael – if these doubting statements are so absurd, how can we go on entertaining doubt as if it is true? Do we want to deal in farcical absurdity, or live as God does?
Nature does not own or identify with its beauty and majesty, it simple is and reflects such grandness… knowing it is a part of the divine order. It is when we think and live as if we are separate from each other that comparison and judgements, rights and wrongs begin to intrude giving way to self-doubt and all other false beliefs about ourselves.
Thank you Victoria for this beautiful reflection from nature for us to learn from –
“Nature does not own or identify with its beauty and majesty, it simple is and reflects such grandness… knowing it is a part of the divine order.”
Great questions that make all our human self-doubting awkwardness seem so ridiculous. When we connect to the simplicity of what we feel, and not what the mind knows, and make decisions from that place of inner knowing, we can’t go wrong: there’s a space and a stillness when we turn within, that’s so big that there’s just no room for self-doubt. Self-doubt happens when we turn away from that connection, stop trusting in it, and look outside for answers.
What an appropriate description of self-doubt..”an undetected virus eating away its host for a long time…”
Thank you for your amazing blog, Michael, a reflection of the amazing man that you are and all that you choose to tap into – which can be said for all of us too, when we choose to do so.
Self-doubt is a killer for many, not necessarily of lives, but of potential.
Self-doubt seems like a behavior and a pattern that gives us an out – a way to not be or deliver what is there to be delivered. This sharing highlights how nature and animals simply don’t have it – and it is pretty confronting to consider that as humans we call in so much that is not us.