Friday, 31 March 2017

How to Overcome Self-Doubt - Alan Watts




How can we increase our inner self confidence? According to Alan Watts, people experience self-doubt when they’re in the process of making decisions.

They ask whether they’ve considered all of the available information. Yet when you think about it, you can never have all of the available information as there is an infinite amount of information available.

You end up going through the motions of figuring things out, but you worry about all of the variables that are beyond your control.

Watts refers to this as mental wobbling, the state of always being in doubt about the right way to behave. It shows a lack of self confidence and you end up making mistakes through sheer fumbling.

The point is this: If you have self confidence you’ll often get away with doing the wrong things. The way to practice having self confidence is to regard yourself as a cloud in the flesh. Clouds never make mistakes. Have you ever seen an imperfect cloud?

Treat yourself as a cloud and realize that you can’t make a mistake, no matter what you do. This way you’ll develop your self confidence even when making what you previously referred to as mistakes.

And through developing your self confidence, you’ll learn to trust in your intuition. This is how you end up in touch with your true being.

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