Being Truly Authentic & Believing In Yourself
Jason Moore | Authenticity & Believing In Yourself
“Meditation gives you the choice to listen to yourself.
You get true-control. You aren’t controlled by others.”
Key Highlights
1:00 How are belief systems created? Imagine a world as a blank slate - where there’s no bigotry. Bigoted belief systems are born out of fear of difference that convinces others. Hate is learnt essentially.
3:00 A belief system is something that’s masked as an objective truth based on fragments of information that are repeated until we believe it to be objectively and essentially true.
Children don’t have this bigotry. They are more open, get mindfulness more easily, write more profound affirmations…etc.
5:10 As children we have no inhibitions and loads of confidence.
5:30 Waves of self-doubt
6:45 Self-doubt is a gift once we choose to accept it for what it is and move on
8:50 Theory of creativity that empowers action. Ideas float around the cosmos. They pick people that have the capacity to make them a reality. But they choose someone else if you dawdle for too long.
10:45 Follow your intuition but we don’t. We often look for validation.
12:10 If you feel weird about something then it’s ego talking. Ego afraid of being hurt by external things. If it feels good then it’s true intuition, an intuition that isn’t hindered by external forces (judgement, taboo, conformity).
Your truth is your freedom.
13:20 Reframing of nervous energy. If you can harness that nervous energy and treat as not self-doubt or anxious energy but rather excitement then you can do it. If you’re not nervous on stage then you aren’t doing it right.
15:00 Acknowledging your fear and moving beyond it.
16:00 Embodiment Exercise:
Pick three achievements those that come to your mind. Eyes closed. What was the achievement, how did it feel, where were yuo? Let that feeling expand. Imagine it as a light. Place it in front of your stomach. Place a word at eye level that encapsulates your worry/fear. Does it have power? Raise the light from stomach so it envelopes/on the word. What happens to the word? Where does it go? You have the power to be around the word. You have the agency/power to deal with this thing. You can use self-doubt to help, if you don’t let it envelope you.
“ Your truth is your freedom.”
22:00 If you aren’t feeling it then don’t say you are.
22:30 Moving from hate to love
Wayne Dyer quote: “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change.” (Erroneous Zones book, encapsulates and uses idea from RET – Rational Emotive behaviour Therapy - https://positivepsychology.com/rational-emotive-behavior-therapy-rebt/).23:00 Go slowly between the inter-related things and you’ll get from hate to love.
25:20 Affirmations by 9 year olds
“If you stay in the dark, you’ll never see the light.”
“Don’t let illusions take over your mind.”
“Miracles are happening all around you, you just need to wait for the right moment for yours to happen.”
“I can be who I want to be, there are no limits. As long as you believe.”
“Let your mind get lost in the power of science.”27:30 Meditation gives you choice to listen to yourself. You get true-control. You aren’t controlled by others
31:00 Meditation begins…. Allows you to reconnect with why you’re great.
46:18 “Nature is the silent witness of intuition, nature speaks all kinds of languages, nature is interested in the inner eye and inner ear. The capacity to make sense out of the chaotic.” – Malidoma Some
47:40 Q&A
“How do you do discern whether it’s your intuition or something else?” `Basically, through practicing, taking a punt. Knowing yourself. What you like and don’t and whether you’re telling yourself that what you do/don’t like and what you actually do/don’t like.
“Self-doubt is a gift once we choose to accept it for what it is and move on”
💡 Key Lessons
1) Our thoughts and beliefs running in our minds will shape our outlook, we can break them down and consciously change our beliefs
2) Self-doubt can be turned into positive energy
3) Visualisation and meditation are skills to practice to help us observe our thinking and focus our mind
💭 Coaching Questions
What is your truth?
How are you taking control of your mind and thoughts?
Are you listening to your intuition or is your ego seeking validation?