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Wednesday 6 March 2019

Insecurity

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 choices we make...read more>>>...