Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

Imposter syndrome is a common phenomenon where a person believes they are a fraud and really not good enough for the position they are in. In this meditation, you get the opportunity to let go of the self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy that accompany Imposter syndrome.

Music by Chris Collins

Transcript

Hi and welcome to this meditation on overcoming Imposter Syndrome.

The phenomenon known as Imposter Syndrome was originally based on a 1978 study which focused on high achieving women.

The researchers Clancyne Iames stated,

Despite outstanding academic and professional accomplishments,

Women who experience the imposter phenomenon persist in believing that they are not really bright and have fooled anyone who thinks otherwise.

Many famous women,

Including Sheryl Sandberg,

Michelle Obama and Charlize Theron have all confessed to experiencing it.

It has since been recognized that men suffer as much as women from Imposter Syndrome.

So now that you know you are among good company and that you are not strange or different to most of us,

Let's take some time out to let go of one of the beliefs that is associated with Imposter Syndrome and some of the stuck energy and emotion that is reinforcing your feelings of not being good enough.

So get yourself comfortable,

Settle into your space and let's start by letting go of all of the tension in your body.

Take a nice long deep breath in and on the exhale relax your body.

Taking another long slow deep breath in,

Physically noticing how your body relaxes a little more on each out breath.

Inhaling giving yourself permission to let go and exhaling and relaxing.

Inhaling acceptance.

Exhaling resistance.

Inhaling confidence.

Exhaling and relaxing.

You may have many beliefs that reaffirm your thoughts of not being good enough.

So I recommend that after this meditation you take some time to write them all down.

You can then repeat this meditation with the conscious awareness of those beliefs so that you can let them go with each emotional release.

For today we are going to start with the belief I'm not good enough.

So bring your awareness into your body and repeat the words in your head I am not good enough.

Notice how your body reacts to these words.

Notice what your body is feeling.

You may feel a tightness in your stomach or in your chest.

Maybe there's a feeling that's become so much part of your life you have become accustomed to it.

You may feel like you have a fuzzy head.

Whatever you're currently feeling I want you to rest your awareness on that feeling just for a moment.

This feeling is stuck emotion.

Stuck energy that you have chosen to hold on to in your body.

But if you choose to you can let that feeling go.

So as you keep your attention on the feeling let me ask you if you are ready to let this feeling go.

If you answer yes notice how already the feeling is starting to move.

Give it a colour and watch how the energy of that colour starts to leave your body.

If the feeling started at a 10 you will notice its intensity is reducing to an 8,

A 7 and now a 6.

Slowly but steadily the emotion is leaving your body.

It knows it is not part of present time.

All of this emotion belongs to the past and holding it is not doing anyone any favours.

As you release this emotion from your body release the belief and watch as the belief flows away as the emotion continues to reduce from a 6 to a 5 and a 4.

The colour losing its intensity as it leaves your body and your space.

Continue to visualise this feeling moving out of your body.

Now a 4 to a 3 then a 2 and a 1 and a 0.

Letting it all go because it is safe to let it go.

What you are doing is leaving the past in the past and allowing your body to come into present time.

Take another nice big deep breath and on the exhale just release any last bit of emotion.

And now let's replace that limiting belief with a more empowering one.

I am good enough.

And let's choose a colour that goes with that feeling of being good enough.

Now imagine that colour infused with the belief of being good enough.

Imagine it coming down from the sky and entering into your head.

Flooding through your body infusing you with the empowering colour of calm confidence.

And knowing that you are good enough,

Smart enough and worthy enough.

Continue to watch that colour fill you up,

Fill all your cells allowing the positive emotions of calm confidence to rush right through you.

I am good enough.

I am confident.

I am calm.

I am worthy of my success.

You can refill yourself with the colour and the positive belief as often as you like.

And now when you are ready in your own time take a nice big deep breath in and exhale and open your eyes.

Thank you for sharing this time with me and I wish you a beautiful day.

Reviews

Thanks Ciara. I really struggle with this imposter syndrome so these sessions are very eye opening and are really helping me overcome this nonsense. Thanks for sharing with our community! We are always enough! Blessings 🙏🏻

That really help soothe the Impoister explosion fro mearlier today

Exactly what I needed this morning. I did some hip openings while listening and combining this helped with the release. Thank you.

I cried during this meditation. Thank you so much for this.

Thank You! I cried happy tears. Going into Law Enforcement in 1990 at 23 years old my eyes were opened very quickly to the male dominated workforce and mentality. I had to work twice as hard to prove myself.
I absolutely love your work! Can’t wait to see more. You are so inspirational…

Great meditation, will return to this often. Loved the use of colour very powerful.

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V good

I feel great! Thank you! 💖

Wow! That was outstanding! I got so much from it, I could actually feel the release, thank you xx

Wonderful!

Very nice 😊 Soothing voice. Thank you 🙏🏼

Excellent. Thank you for giving us just one bit of self-talk to work on. I loved the visualizations. At first I was put off that we actually were encouraged to say the negative self-talk, but you're right... I felt exactly where it tightened in my body, which enabled me to send the opposite thought to those parts of my body and feel them release.

Thank you for this quick, confirming confidence boost 🌸

Loved this! Will do it again as it made me feel so calm!

Loved the visualization in the meditation - will be returning to this one frequently!

thank you!🥰

Highly therapeutic

Lovely. I will return to this one. Thank you 🙏