This meditation is for you to use in either times when you are feeling insecure in this moment or to generally build up your confidence if you feel a sense of insecurity in your daily life find a quiet place where you can have some solitude and get into a comfortable position allow your arms to relax by your sides and take a deep breath in as you exhale,
Allow your eyes to close let's begin by meditating on the nature of a negative emotion a negative emotion is an emotion,
Feeling or sensation we experience that burdens us in one way or another for each of us,
Negativity is subjective so the way in which we experience these negative emotions might be slightly different for you than it is for anyone else you know but at their core,
Negative emotions are universal they are experienced by all of us and have been experienced for as long as there have been human beings how do you experience negative emotions?
Become aware of how stress and other negativities affect your body is there a knot in your stomach?
Or a shortness of breath?
A common negative emotion experienced by every living thing on earth is stress you are no different than everything else so stress is a normal part of the experience of living although there might be something particularly human about the way you express stress perhaps it involves a knot or a rake in your stomach or a gritty grinding jaw stress is experienced by just about every living thing on earth even root vegetables,
When inhabiting a region,
Season or natural cycle that is not congruent to their health and growth,
Experience stress and the signs of this stress present themselves to us able to be identified by those of us who know what to look for or how to look for it such as wilting of leaves or reduced size and growth and even a lack of essential nutrients insecurity however seems to be particular to humans stress may be rooted in biology and affects living things on a biological level yet insecurity is derived from deep within the consciousness a layered reaction to a negative emotion an expression of self consciousness taken to heightened levels that can become unhealthy breathing in here exhaling letting the body settle insecurity happens when you have become too aware of your own self allowing for the self awareness to lead you into negative thinking what stories are your insecurities telling you right now?
Listen to what your inner insecure talk sounds like when you eavesdrop these thoughts may tell us for example that we are not adequate whether for the current social situation we are in or for the people we are surrounded by that we can't do something and it gives you a really good excuse why you can't here are these excuses right now and why you can't do something perhaps these thoughts fixate on one element of ourselves they want to tell us that everyone is going to notice this or that about us or because of this or that we should feel ashamed just notice these inferior thoughts right now listen to them play out perhaps this influx of negative thoughts about ourselves are enough to arrest our intuitive experience of what truly is happening restraining us from the things we want to do to say and thus ultimately what we want to become now allow for these insecurities to surface bubbling to the top,
Popping and never returning back under your awareness again perhaps insecurity for you is none of these things but whatever it is know that insecurity is universal it is a feeling that everyone has had so everyone should be able to empathize with your experience and you with theirs so right now extend compassion to your insecurities let them be heard yes it is okay to hear these insecurities how do we move past insecurity how do we free our intuition as well as our soul from this prison of negative emotion well that first step is a realization just because we feel insecure now does not mean that we need to feel insecure in the future that there is always a path leading out of this negative emotion,
Unclasping its grip on us allow this path to become illuminated in front of you now simply knowing and understanding this you are already well on your way out of the control insecurity the second step is a little more challenging it involves flipping the negative emotion to reveal its hidden other side knowing that negative emotion itself is not a whole but simply a half of something else is a second realization this is important to the development and strengthening of ourselves but what is negative emotion a half of it is a half of what you might call chaos see chaos is whenever something unexpected enters our lives this may be quite literally an unexpected manifestation of something physical something external perhaps a loved one calls us to tell us they have had to cancel their flight to come visit us perhaps we get out of bed one morning and accidentally step on something sharp that has some foul now been nestling beside our bed unnoticed these brief moments in which chaos enters our lives from the external world are almost a guarantee in everyone's life however chaos can also manifest itself internally taking the form of unexpected uncontrolled thoughts maybe we are worried that we left the stove on when we are miles away from home thinking how you cannot trust your own memory perhaps it is simply an overly conscious thought but ourselves how we look how others may see us these insecurities may seem to come out of nowhere without us giving rise to it consciously whatever it may be chaos brings with it these things this is negative emotion as a basic biological reaction to the experience in other words this is insecurity but also this is opportunity this way out of this negative emotion is to find the opportunity amidst the chaos what is the opportunity here you need to find it and that's the key all of our insecurities are actually an opportunity to do some good work to learn about how we work to develop skills that will help us for life so start to pay attention and notice when you're being driven by insecurity and then do the following work through all of this start to develop a trust in yourself that you'll be okay develop a trust in the moment that it will unfold and all will be well this develops over time by making small predictions about the moment and then seeing if the prediction comes true this moment will turn out okay this is the path you find the things you're struggling with and learn to work with them learn to shift your perspective learn to see what's tripping you turn it into an opportunity to practice new skills be well
