Daily Om: There is an innate awkwardness to
being human. With each decision we make, there is the potential for
self-doubt, and it is this self doubt that forms the root of
insecurity--a complex emotion that is a mix of equal parts inadequacy,
isolation, fear, and hopelessness.
Yet these feelings of insecurity that
prevent us from fulfilling our potential by inducing us to abide by
arbitrary self-limitations are nothing more than erroneous perceptions.
We feel un-confident and unsure of ourselves because we judge ourselves
to be so. Banishing insecurity is often simply a matter of challenging
ourselves in order to prove that we are indeed intelligent and able.
When we feel insecure, we not only perceive ourselves as incapable of
meeting life's challenges but also fraudulent and unworthy of true
happiness. We move through life plagued by a sense that others have
judged us and found that we are lacking. As a result, we are robbed of
our personal power and rendered unable to feel positive about the
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