The Metaphysical Causes of Confusion & Self-Doubt

Confusion and self-doubt are common feelings that can overwhelm us, leaving us feeling lost and doubting our intuition. In the metaphysical realm, confusion with its self-doubt has a deeper cause than simply not having enough self-confidence or feeling overwhelmed by life’s challenges. It could be that we are unsure of our true identity, and what our life purpose is. Discover the seven metaphysical causes such as uncertainty about our life's purpose, not knowing our true identity, or never being taught how to manage our emotions.

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Causes it,

What causes confusion,

Is important to explore.

One of the seven things I'm going to talk about in what causes confusion,

These are not the only things that cause confusion,

But they are the common ones that I've discovered working with clients for many many years and working even on myself and looking at and exploring my own issues with confusion in the past.

What causes it,

It is to over identify,

To be overly identified and grounded in the ego's need to control.

I go into confusion because I don't open up to connect with the wisdom of my soul,

So that can lead me darker into a spiraling,

A downward spiral of confusion when I'm enraptured by my ego's games of control,

Which is an illusion.

The ego wants to pretend it's in control,

But it's not about control.

Your life isn't about being in control,

It's about being in charge,

But it's also about trusting that life is continually growing and evolving,

And as it grows and changes,

There's going to be chaos in your life.

But when you try to control it and shut it down,

Then confusion can often come in to try to shake loose that control.

The second thing is that it comes from a lack of personal empowerment,

Meaning as I've talked about the seven steps to the empowered self to be fully empowered.

The first step being self-awareness,

The second step self-worth,

Self-esteem,

And self-love,

And then out of the self-love comes self-confidence.

Well,

Your personal empowerment,

Confusion can emerge from a lack of self-confidence,

Thus a lack of trust.

When I do not trust myself,

When I don't feel confident in me,

Then I often go into confusion,

Because what I do then is I start to thirdly seek the approval and praise of other people to make up for my lack of confidence.

I'm not going to decide this,

I want other people to decide for me.

I want to get their approval,

I want to get the praise of other people,

Which again is the ego's lack of esteem,

But it is the seeking the approval and praise of other people,

The oops,

The opinions of other people's statements,

Meaning the things they say to you,

And I'd rather listen and hear rather than think and feel.

I want to be told what to do,

Because I'm so confused I go after,

You know,

Trying to figure things out and looking around trying to get approval and praise,

But it's often what causes it is this lack of responsibility,

Because I'm trying to get other people to make my decisions for me.

So seeking the approval and praise of others is what causes confusion when I do it too much.

Now granted,

This isn't black and white,

This doesn't mean you should never get somebody's feedback or opinion,

But you know the difference when somebody is avoiding responsibility and trying to ask everybody what I should do,

What I should do,

What you know,

I'm so confused here,

I don't know what to do,

Give me an answer,

Tell me what to do.

Do you ever think about why does the ego like to do that,

Avoid responsibility?

Well the number one reason is if it doesn't work out,

Then I'm not to blame,

They are.

I can blame them,

I don't have to take responsibility.

What causes confusion is seeking the approval and the appraise,

The oops,

The opinions of other people and their statements,

And the fourth one is what causes confusion is too many emotions competing with each other at the same time.

You see,

The emotions aren't linear.

You can only think one thought at a time,

You know,

And that's why the thoughts go on and on and they go very fast sometimes,

But you can only think one thought at a time.

But you can feel many emotions all at once,

And when there are too many emotions at the same time,

I get very confused and thrown off.

You see,

As an example of this so you understand what I'm talking about,

Emotions are multi-dimensional where thoughts are linear.

Thoughts are very linear,

One after another,

You don't have three thoughts at the same time,

You have three thoughts that happen one after the other,

But they're very linear.

But emotions don't happen that way,

You can feel several emotions all at the same time.

It's for example like with a little child.

You know,

You've all,

Those of you who have been parents and raised kids,

You know that you get angry at your children from time to time,

Something they did or they're being dishonest or whatever they did,

You can get angry at them,

But that doesn't mean that you stop loving them.

You can love them and still be angry,

But see,

To a child and the ego,

The ego says,

Oh,

Mama stopped loving me,

She's angry at me so she must not love me anymore.

But that's not how it works.

And see,

That's where we make a conflict in our consciousness and our ego and that's a lot of where not feeling good enough come along.

When you're a little child and you were totally loved and everything you got from the time you're born to the time you're like two when you start to explore the world,

Then you're told don't,

Stop,

No,

Who do you think you are,

Get out of that,

You're gonna hurt yourself,

You know,

All the things.

Very innocent parents trying to protect their child,

But the child says,

Oh my gosh,

What's wrong with me?

I'm bad,

I don't deserve to be loved,

I'm not good enough to be loved.

And that's sad,

But it's also a part of our spiritual journey as I've talked about in previous classes.

It's not a mistake,

You know,

If it were a mistake everybody has gone through it.

It's the reason that we go through that.

The fourth cause and the most common is when there's too many feelings that I can't sort through.

Why is that?

Why do people have difficulty sorting through their feelings?

Because most people ignore them,

They deny them,

They repress them,

They refuse to feel them.

So they build up and build up and they build up this all these emotions and all of a sudden I'm like I'm confused,

I'm depressed,

I'm stressed,

I'm anxious,

Anxiety is unidentified emotion.

Well,

Too many emotions competing with each other fosters and produces confusion.

So to clear out my emotional body,

To sort through and to release the anger,

To release the doubt,

The fear,

The hurt,

So I don't have all that competing emotion can clear my mind and open up to greater clarity versus being mired and stuck in the mud of confusion.

Fifthly,

What causes confusion is the chaos of change.

Change is a part of our lives and it's a part of growth.

We're all changing whether we want to or not and we can be our worst enemy or our greatest ally when it comes to change and a lot of that often hinges upon my relationship with chaos.

All change produces chaos but what do I,

Me,

Mikael,

When I'm going through changes and I'm starting to feel the chaos,

It makes you feel what?

Uncertain,

Insecure,

The unknown.

I'm in between change,

I'm not there yet,

I'm in the flux of change and all this chaos is happening.

Well it scares the ego because it wants the certainty,

The ego wants to know what's going on,

It wants to be in control,

So it throws your ego into the mix and often the fear of the ego is what you bring into your chaos.

And guess what?

That ingredient you add to this recipe of change,

That ingredient that you add to the recipe of change called fear is going to influence the outcome of the recipe you're making.

However,

If I can realize that chaos is a part of change,

If I can realize that's my ego's fear and insecurities,

I'm gonna trust my soul,

I'm gonna trust myself,

I'm gonna trust God,

Goddess,

All that is,

I'm gonna trust life because I have moved beyond the domination into a world of dominion and I have healed and matured the ego enough where I don't have to listen to its fear patterns.

Yeah,

The fear might come up as a little signal,

Hey,

Slow down,

Pay attention,

But I don't need to be afraid of my fear and enraptured by it.

I can instead bring hope,

Add a little pinch of hope to this chaos and watch what the change happens.

Add a little pinch of trust into this this recipe of change and see how different the change happens.

See,

What I add when I'm in the midst of change,

What I contribute influences the outcome.

You are a powerful spiritual being,

You are a powerful metaphysical being,

You are a powerful person,

And most people aren't aware that what they're adding,

Slipping in all this negative ingredients and wonder why the changes never live up to what they want because they're not conscious or responsible for the fact that,

Hey,

I'm participating here,

And those people who don't want to own that they create their own reality,

They won't take responsibility.

No,

No,

No,

This life happens to me,

Change is happening,

I have nothing to do with it,

I just got to hold my breath and hope for the best.

Let's see what happens,

Let's wait and see what happens.

You have more power than that and it's time now as people around the world are waking up to the truth of who they are,

Shaking loose the shackles of old dogma and religion that says you're a sinner and you're worthless and you don't matter.

All the manipulation and control of religion to try to attempt to control and manipulate your spirituality,

That's all falling away in a new system,

A personal relationship with the divine is replacing it.

So the fifth cause of confusion is the chaos of change.

The sixth is a lack of spiritual wisdom,

A lack of spiritual connection.

When I've focused so much on my ego and given it my power and I don't know how to relate to my soul or I ignore it or I never slow down long enough to hear it or to be guided by it.

Now most of you here aren't in that situation but it is often what causes confusion when somebody has been so enamored and only listening to their ego,

Not feeding their soul,

Not listening,

Not opening up to the wisdom from within.

And that's the sixth cause.

The final seventh one that creates confusion is being unclear about your future vision,

About being unclear about who am I going to be.

When I'm not clear on who am I going to be in the future and have a sense of the future of possibilities of things getting better,

When I wait to see what's going to happen in the future,

Which kind of goes back to I don't want to take responsibility for it,

But if it doesn't turn out right then I'm to blame.

Who else is creating your future but you?

And when we move out of victim mode into empowerment mode you realize yeah I'm creating it all by causing it,

By attracting it,

Or by allowing it.

You create your own reality not always by causing but sometimes by allowing it.

What does that mean Mikael?

When I allow myself to ignore my emotions,

When I allow myself to be told that they're bad and wrong and certain emotions you shouldn't express because you're a female or you shouldn't express because you're a male,

When you've been taught and conditioned to believe in emotions are bad then you tend to repress them.

You tend to ignore them and repress them.

Well that allows for certain things to happen to you.

It allows for depression to come in.

It allows for anxiety to blossom.

It allows for confusion to arise.

So who caused the confusion in your life?

Well I didn't realize when I was repressing my emotions that that was doing it.

Yeah I know but you were still doing it and that's good news because you can change it.

If it was your mother who's making you confuse or other people or the situation and life is doing it to you then you're powerless.

And when you don't have a clear vision of your future it renders you often very depressed because,

And this is so important,

Your future is bringing energy creating the present moment.

So is the past.

The past and the future converge in the present moment.

As you heal and release the past then you have a more positive energy coming from that direction.

And as you choose and reach and connect with a positive future,

Not let's wait and see what happens.

No I'm gonna choose who am I gonna be.

I'm gonna be empowered.

I'm gonna be loving.

I'm gonna be kind.

I'm gonna be open.

I'm gonna be an agent of change,

Whatever you want to call it.

I want to have a vision of who I can be and become.

That influences and changes who you are immediately.

What causes confusion?

A real quick recap.

Over identifying with the ego's games of control all the way down to an unclear vision of your future,

To the lack of personal empowerment called self-confidence and trust,

To a lack of spiritual wisdom and its connection,

To seeking approval and praise of other people,

To refusing to deal with the chaos of change,

And too many emotions all competing at the same time is what produces confusion.

Reviews

So good! Ty and bless you for the clarity and the light this talk offered 🙏💗

This is informative and inspiring for me. Thank you for sharing 🤍

Concise, clear and helpful for processing and planning. Thank you!

Packed full with great tidbits of wisdom. The reference to multiple emotions probably needs to be explored in greater detail. Ignoring them is not necessarily the best way to moving through the challenges. Amazing synopsis overall!