How To Build Unshakable Self Belief

Do you ever feel trapped by overthinking, hesitation, or self-doubt? All the while some people seem naturally confident, others struggle with second-guessing every decision....it can be frustrating! But here’s the truth—self-doubt isn’t a personality trait, it’s a pattern. And the good news? You can break free from it. In this episode, we’re diving deep into: ✅ The neuroscience of confidence – How anxiety, depression, and self-doubt rewire your brain ✅ Why self-doubt is a learned habit (and how to reprogram your mindset for success) ✅ How to stop second-guessing yourself & trust your instincts ✅ Daily confidence-boosting habits that rewire your brain for positivity & success Want to mute the mental chaos and take control of your mind in just 6 minutes a day? Get the FREE Anxiety "OFF" Switch 3-Part Audio Series 👉 https://www.megan-nolan.com/offswitch Please find the show notes below. Since it is a transcription there may be spelling errors and/or weird grammar. Ignore that and enjoy! How to build unshakableself-belief is what weare discussing today on the MovementMind and Meaning podcast Mind BodyTools to Thrive Beyond Anxiety andDepression. I am your host Megan Nolanand we are going to get into it becausethis is a conversation that I've had manytimes with myself and other people, howsome people just have this unshakableself-belief and other people like myself.Ourselves needed to growthat skill set along the way. But beforewe get into this conversation, have yousigned up for Flip Your Anxiety OffSwitch yet?Hello. Oh my goodness. Thefeedback, the takeaways, next level. Ifyou haven't yet, it's totally free. It'sbrand new. It's designed for you tolisten on the go, to give you the toolsto become a nervous system ninja, tostop the spiral. 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Thatand a whole lot more actually, to learnto mute the mental chaos. Cause if yourmind sounds like a group chat that neverstops, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing,you're not getting to experience thepeace and the. Deepknowing and wellspring of wisdom that iswithin you because the mind is justjibber jabbing. Speaking of jibberjabbing, I'll stop trying toto convince you and just go sign up. OK,just go sign up. Totally free. You'regonna love it. So let's talk aboutself belief and it's opposite Iguess. Or I was gonna say distant cousinself doubt. Why is it that some peoplejust. Get on that self-belief train andthey're like unstoppable, right?So I'lltell you where this came from. The otherday I was doing a really incrediblebreath work practice. I lovebreath work. It's something that Iinclude in a lot of my sessions. I doeveryday for myself and Icame out of thepractice with this deep knowing inmy soul that I am experiencing amassive. Integrationand shifting within myself and a bigpart of that isdeciding to no longer listento the lies of my mind at an even deeperlevel because I've made that decisionyears ago. But it's one of those thingsthat the lies of the mind, the protectivepatterns that we talk about, the theadaptive patterns and behaviors ofself-sabotage and you know, slowingourselves down and doubting ourselves.Those are patterns that are learned andwe we begin to unwire and untether. Fromthose, but it's a practice, right?It's athere's a peeling away and an even deeperembodiment that happens over timeonce you make that decision and youcontinue to do the work. And so I cameout of the breath work practice and I wasjust like vibrating allsorts of good stuff and had thatrealization that this has been a hugecomponent in. The up,down, roundabout frustration of myjourney of many years ago, thatreally was, I would say,maybe a factorthat held me back because I wouldoften hear thosestories of my mind and you know, thethe permeating feeling of sadness andreally feel that sense of self-doubtand limitation and believe it and takeit as truth. And I know thatit was part of the journey.But if I can shift that for you, if I canhelp you to have some realizations todayabout how to cultivate self-belief. AndI'm, you know, it's a work in progress.I'm not gonna lie. Like I'm I'm on thetrain to to unshakable self-belief town.Believe me, I'm like in the front seat.I ain't the conductor, but I'm on thetrain. Like, take me there. I want it.But today we're gonna be talking abouthow we can begin to do that, somepractices, some tools, some insights. Soyeah, it's this thing, you know, it'sthis, this questioning ourselves, thisdoubting ourselves, this wondering if Ishould do it this way and should it havebeen that way?And like it's a formany of us, especially those of us thatnavigate life accompanied byanxiety and depression, it can feel likea long road to self trust.It can, right?And I think some people.Whether or not they have thosechallenges, I think some people throughtheir upbringing, through their, youknow, the the guidance and parenting thatthey received, maybe some teachers andsome mentors, it was ingrained in them alittle bit younger, but for many of us.Myself included, I feel like that thoseclouds of self-doubt were like fogsthat I had to navigate through. It feltlike it just kept rolling in. You know,if I would try to achieve something or goafter a goal and it didn't happen or Iwould doubt myself or I would, you know,stay really focused on all like forexample when I would lead and I still dolead, you know, online events and belooking at the numbers and if the opt-inswere taking a long time to start or ifthey weren't happening or that I wasnowhere near the numbers. You know, mybrain would immediately default to seenobody's gonna sign up. What are you evendoing?Why?Why are you doing this?This isso silly. What you're doing this again.And you know, and that level ofnegativity and focusingin the direction I didn't wanna go, thatwas the conditioned path, you know?And soit was no wonder it felt reallyfrustrating because I was out theretaking the actions, but inside of myhead, I was like, see, nobody's gonnasign up. I don't even know why youbother, you know?And so.It's like having a tug of war againstyourself, right?Like, hopefully you canrelate to this in some sense. Maybe it's,you know, maybe it's your art orrelationships or whatever. But I wouldsay that, you know, over time the fog hasstarted to thin out a little bit and andget a little lesser and lesser andlesser. And through these practices,particularly the ones that you're goingto start to learn inside the anxiety offswitch, will learn how to mute thatmental noise andregain control because. It'snot that we are out of touchwith possibility. It's that we'relistening to these protective patterns ofthe mind, the lies of limitation of themind and these patterns, these stressresponses, right of of defaulting intoanxiety or slipping down into sadnessthat they come. Along with them, theycome with these stories, these strugglestories. I call them of like, oh, it'snever going to work, you know, and orwhat if it doesn't work or what if itdoes work and what if I can't follow upand you know, it can go in eitherdirection. But I think it's reallyfascinating because I know that there'ssome people that like legitimately arelike, yeah, I'm going to do it. If Ican't figure out a way, if if I don't seethe way, I'll figure one out. I'll justfigure it out as I go and and that is. Aninteresting shift, right?And part of thatis, is a growth mindset that people havethat and that I've learned over the yearsto really begin to practice and start tosee things through a different lens of,OK, life is happening for us, right?Notto us. How can we begin to look at thingsfrom that place of center within ourself,right?Like first and foremost, we wantto, you know, shift into safety. We wantto regulate ourselves so that we can haveaccess to the higher wisdom. So that wecan see it from a place of this is a agift, right?Or an opportunity. Andsometimes that comes pretty quickly. Butif it's a big awful thing or somethingthat's, you know, monumental to you, thatcan come at a slower pace. I'm notgonna lie, right?It's not necessarilygonna happen right out of the gatesometimes. But The thing is, is that it'sreally important for us to remember thatwe get to. Recognize that,you know, start to hear those stories andand if you tell, hear yourself tellingthe same stories again and again andagain, or if you find yourself in thatfrustrating pattern and you're like, thisis annoying. I just had like, why?Whydoes this keep happening?Then we canbegin to use that as a cue, right?Wecan begin to use that acute as a cue. Wecan. Train ourselves to witnessthat. And that's the level ofnonjudgmental self-awareness that is abig component of what we do inside thepower pause movement that is so importantfor us to cultivate. Because here's thething, and here's the thing, and I'mgoing to talk a little bit about thescience, the science. Sorry,I don't know why I say I have randomaccents that I pull out of nowheresometimes. So here'sthe interesting thing, right, is that,you know, maybe some people are just bornwith it. What was that commercial?Maybeshe's born with it. Maybe it'sMaybelline. Idon't know. Maybe. Maybe she's born withit. Maybe it's mental health challenges.Anyways, that wasn't as clever as Ithought it might be.So quick little biology lesson. This isyour brain on stress, right when we areexperiencing. Stress and our ifour reaction to stress is anxiety.When we're experiencing anxiety,we're active in our amygdala, and theamygdala is the part of your brainresponsible for detecting threats. And soit's looking around, it's hyperactively,overactively scanning fordanger. Whether that danger is real ornot is debatable,right?Sometimes it very much is, andsometimes it's. In our head, right. Andso here's the thing, what happens whenwe're when we're active in the amygdalaand our brain is is looking forsolutions, it's looking for problemsolving, it's looking for theoutcome, it's looking to control thesituation. What it tends to dois. Replay past mistakes,right?Because it's gathering informationfrom the past to potentially predict thefuture. It also likes to imagine worstcase scenarios so that we can be quoteUN quote prepared. Sothis can make it difficult to trustourself, right?For obvious reasons.If we're just going back to past mistakesas reference points, you know, becauseyour brain's like, yeah, but rememberwhen that happened and you totallyscrewed it up and you're like, but Iwanna believe in myself.Yeah, but you screwed it up, you knowAndit's like, oh, OK, so again, we'lltalk about how this can, we can begin toshift this and cultivate that unwaveringself belief. But I just want you to knowthat. This is part of the wiring, right?And so again, it's it's it's not afault. It's not a flaw. It's justsomething that we can cultivate awarenessaround. We can get curious. Oh, isn'tthat interesting?My brain is wired toseek solutions. It's wired to not want torepeat mistakes. It's wired to avoidproblems, right?And this is a survivalbias. So this is, you know,scientifically called thenegative attention bias. And so it meansthat we are programmed, we're hardwired.To find the faults and the flaws and theproblems and the mistakes and thepotential issues and the potentialthreats, right. That's what our brain ishyper fixated on, especially if we areactive in the amygdala, especially if ourif our nervous system is in that fight orflight state, right. It's very attuned tosurvival. So this is important becausewhat we're doing here is, is we'refixating on all of those things andbecause of that weignore. Signs of success.We ignore thatwin that you had, that ability to have agreat conversation or to be kind topeople, whatever it is, right?And so thisis The thing is that when this ispractice, what we practice, we becomewhat we practice, we become, right?And soyour brain hardwires this. And if it'sfixated on the faults and the flaws andthe failures, it can reallywire the brain to expect thatto happen again. Right. And if we'reexpecting that to happen and that'shardwired in, it can reduce ourbelief in our self or our self efficacy,our belief in our capability, right.And so again, this is something to beaware of and say, oh, isn't thatinteresting?You know, I've wired thatpattern in and believe me, that wassomething that, you know, I was verywired to. I was very much in that gofor it, goal achieving, but then. When Ididn't get there, or if I didn't getthere fast enough, you know, the brainjust can't win. If I didn't get there, orif I didn't get there fast enough, or ifI could have done it better in my brain'sperspective, that's what I focused on,right?I was very much in the gap. Sothere's a really awesome book called TheGap and the Gain by, I think Doctor DanSullivan and. Joseph Hardy, butdon't quote me on that. I know for surethe book is called The Gap in the Game,and that's what he talks about, is howmany of us that are very driven,ambitious people have this tendency tofocus on the gap. The gap being, youknow, the distance between where we areand where we want to be compared to thegame is the reflection from where we areto where we were. OK, you get thedifference. So the gap is where we tendto get into that negative critical voice.Self-doubt is when we are in a place andwe're like, uh, but I want to be overthere. I wanted to have done it better. Iwanted to do it faster. I should havedone this. I wanted to achieve that.That's the gap. You can feel that thatwould cause tension and contraction,right?It can cause that that, oh man, Ididn't do that great. Oh, even though Idid it, I could have done it better. Andthat shrinking feeling. Right. Whereasthe gain is when we are in a place andwhether we got to the goal or not isn'tsignificant in this perspective. Theperspective is that where you are now isnot where you were, meaning you havelearned, you have grown, you haveevolved. That is a veryexpansive state. That's a veryopen-hearted space. That's a place ofpossibility and creation and actuallyreleases a different cascade ofneurochemicals. So when we're in thegame, we release dopamine, we releaseoxytocin, we release serotoninbecause we're we're up and we're readyand we're going for it. Whereas whenwe're in the gap, it releases cortisoland you know that cortisol is associatedwith stress, right?So that'sreally interesting. So it just feedsthat. So that's a decision, right?It's aperspective. It's a perspective shiftthat we can begin to practice. Sothat's how anxiety can undermine it. Solet's talk about the opposite side ofthat, which is the other part of ourfocus here on this show is whenwe are feeling, when we're experiencingsadness, our brain isaffected more so in the prefrontal cortexand the hippocampus. So the hippocampusis part of. Our motivationand our learning and our emotional centerin our brain. And so when weare experiencing prolonged periods ofsadness or depression, these areas cantend to shrink and we start to see lessactivities in these areas. And so thiscan lead to lower motivation, right?Wefeel like, uh, what's the point?I don'twant to do it. It's not going to workoutanyway. Or we we use ourpast to attempt to predict the future,right?Because our brain is trying to dothat. And so that can cause somedistortion in our thinking. Also it canreduce levels of dopamine, which as wejust talked about, dopamine is related toget up and go and motivation. Andso when we have that decreasedlevel of dopamine, lower motivation, adistortion in our thoughts, wetend to experience a a decreased beliefin possibility, right. It's that, I don'tknow that that again that reallycontractive heavy. Doubtful,angry, regretful, frustratedset of feelings that can come when we'refeeling sad. And soagain, place your hand on your heart andgive yourself some compassion becausethis is what's happening inside your bodyif you're feeling sad, when you'refeeling sad, if that happens for you. Sogive yourself some compassion on this andsome fear self compassion and just knowthat that's again, this is part of thewiring of our body. And now that youknow about this, you can begin to shiftit, right?And there's common humanity inthis, because this is the human wiring.And how can you be kind to yourself?Because if this is what's happeninginside your brain and inside your body atthe level of your nervous system, ifyou're experiencing sadness, then it'sblocking your ability.To to get up and do things and to get upand go and to feel like, you know, it'sworth trying. And so that's why it canfeel like impossible to do eventhe smallest of tasks when you're feelingsad or depressed. And that's thescience, right?And so I hope that wasinsightful for you because for me it waslike, oh wow, it literallycan feel like you're, you know, pullingthe village up the hill backwards whenyou're feeling sad to get up and doanything. And that's. That's why, right?And so again, it's really important to becompassionate. And so the interestingthing here that we can begin to talkabout a little bit is that what wewant to begin tocultivate so that we can move towardshaving more of that unshakableself-belief is for those of usthat aren't just born with that naturallyoptimistic, positive outlook, rightis. Beginning to look for the waysthat you are winning and look for thelittle incremental steps,right. And that's the game perspective.Remember going back to the gap in thegame, we want to look for theseshifts and that's one thing that's commonwith people that have a really strongself belief is that they justthink differently. Right. We theypsychologists call this, I mentioned itearlier. Psychologists call this the thegrowth mindset. It's that perspectiveshifting. It's being in the game, lookingfor the wins, looking for the lessons.And it is actually linked to higher,higher levels of dopamine, higher levelsof resilience, the ability to bounce backfrom challenges. So not only is this, youknow, a a shift in mindset,but it's a shift in the body. It's ashift in the level of the nervous systembecause what we're doing there is we are.Coming to a regulated state, we'reshifting the level of cortisol beingreleased. We're increasing the levels ofdopamine because we're taking thatdifferent perspective because you'rewidening the lens, right?You're lookingfor more options, you're looking for morepossibility. And so this isinteresting because people that have thisgrowth mindset or they train because thisis trainable. This is a a askill set that I've learned that you canlearn too. Or maybe you have, right?Andand maybe you know about this already,but are you practicing it right?That'sand how deeply are you practicing it andare oops. And are you practicing it withyourself?That's hello.That's the real kicker because you know,it's really easy sometimes for us toreframe setbacks for our friends, butwith ourselves, you know, we tend to makeit this defining moment, this like, well,it's never going to work, you know. It'swe're we're a trip, aren't we?And soyou know this, this strong self belief orthe strong self-efficacy. People tend toreframe setbacks as opportunities andtemporary, right?Not not make it who youare and not define yourself by thewin or the loss. It's the one that keepsgoing. You're the one that keeps trying.And then that was a huge part of therevelation after the breath work was lookat how many times you've gottenback. Up.Look at how many times you've triedagain. Look at how manytimes you have challenged yourself tolearn something else. And I'm saying thisto you, darling, beautiful onelistener watcher, because I was saying itto myself and I was like, you're right. Ihave gone up a lot of times,weeping like a little baby. I'm herefor it. Tears are cathartic. And Iwas just in that place ofrecognition. Like, man, this life thingain't easy, OK?Butlook at you. You have another day andyou're out there and you're doing it.You're getting after it. You know,whatever that looks like, right?Andespecially those of us that have thesechallenges, it's like, oh, man. We all,we've all got our pack to bear, right?Weall pack our bag and start to walk up themountain that is life. But some of ushave some rocks in there.We, a lot of us pick up more rocks alongthe way and just load the pack up andmaybe you put a pack on the front and onthe back and you know, and it's like whatI hope that this is giving you is theknowledge of, OK, we can take some ofthese stones out of here, right?We cantake the pack off and rest for a while.And that's what power pauses help you todo. And you're going to learn all aboutthat in the in the free audio series. Andso really coming back to thatawareness of ofIt's soimportant that we just, we witnessyourself in the process and in thisjourney that is life, right?And andit's up, down and all around. It ain't nostraight path. It's all sorts ofconvoluted. And so again,it's really how you're showing up, howyou're showing up the you that you'rebeing in the moment, right?It's not whatyou're doing, but how you're doing it.And that's really why it's so importantto me to redefine success, toreally the the true marker of success ishow are you feeling?How are you living?How are you showing up to each and everymoment?Because that's really whatmatters. And it is really the drivingforce. And you know, for many Uber, dupersuccessful people, they will cite that asthe secret is your energy, yourfrequency, your belief. Right. And soit's really this moment to momentpractice of awareness, self-awareness,self-compassion. And so the beautifulthing is that, you know, none of this isfixed. The good stuff and the bad stuff.Hey, wait a second. You said it was goodnews. Well, here's the thing, right?Nothing's permanent. Everything'schanging. That's the only constant in ourlife. And so, yeah. If it's good,you can make it better by this practice.If it's not great and you're not lovingit, you can change it. That's whatneuroplasticity is. You are in charge.You are such a powerful being. And Thething is, is that when youmute the mental chaos of the mind and youcome to that place of stillness withinyourself, the depth of your soul, theplace of deep connection to the wisdomwithin you, the truth of who you are.And you live from that place,you show up from that place, you go backto that place. That's yourpower. That'sreally the work of theyoga practice, the work of martial arts,the work of many different wisdomtraditions is a return to the knowing ofwho you are and to yourwholeness. And not living from thestories of the mind, the strugglestories, those protective patterns.Because we practice them so much, wethink they're who we are, but they're notwho you are. They're learned behaviors.That means you can unlearn thosebehaviors. That's neuroplasticity. Sowhen you practice these tools, when youlearn these things, when you listen tothis podcast, when you join the flip theanxiety switch, then you aregiving yourself that reminder.When you are doing that, you are makingshifts at the deepest level of yourbeing, and it's changing who you are andhow you feel and how you show up.And that's the magic, right?And So whatwe want to do here iscultivate the ability tolook for the ways that youare winning. So.This is going to be our power pause fortoday. I want to give you a tool that Iwould love for you to practice everyday. It's so simpleand it's you can do it when youare wrapping up the end of your work dayor when you are laying down and you'reall snuggly in your bed, whatever youwant. But I would love for you topractice what I call ways that Iwon, ways that I won.And what this is, is you look for fiveways that you won today and you mighthave won a game. OK, like that's anobvious one. But what I'm talking abouthere in the form of a power pause is thatdropping into your body and coming fromthe place and the perspective of thetruth of who you are, of your heart, ofyour soul, of the goodness, the magicthat is you, not what the mind tells youyou are, but the soul level essence ofyou and looking back over your day.And looking for ways that you won.And they might be little tinyways that you won, like you werein a hurry to get to work and somebodylet you in. It might bea great session that you ledinside a community and you just.Were in flow and it was coming out of youand you were like, wow, that was good.You know that that might be that level ofwinning. It might be a lovely meal thatyour partner prepared or a yummy snackthat you bought at the grocery store.Like look at the full spectrum here.We're not necessarily looking for like, Iwant $1,000,000. I would love for you toput that on your list and I pray thatthat's on your list. Mine too. Yes,please. So again, it can beanything because what you're doing hereis you're training your mind. To lookfor the flowers, say what now?Yeah, and then you might be winning causeyou got flowers. What I'm saying here isthe saying, which you've probably heardme say cause I love this one cause thisis the synopsis of what we're talkingabout and what so much of this work isabout is the Buddha said in thefield of 1000 flowers,what we remember is the snake.And now you know why that's true from abiological perspective and also froma nervous system perspective, butalso from a self-developmentand a performance perspective is thatthat's why, right?We tend to fixate onthe faults and the flaws. So I want youto look for the flowers. I want you tolook for the ways that youhad a happy moment, that you hada you told a funny joke that.That made you feel like, oh, OK,I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm, I'mdoing this life thing. I'm doing OK. OrI'm doing freaking amazing. Or God damnlook at me go wherever you're at, right?Some days you're going to be like, fivethings. Really. Oh shit this is going tobe a hard one. And some days you're goingto be like, don't stop at 5. No need tostop at 5, but at least get to five, OK?That's your power pause for this week.It's a little different than our otherpower pauses because normally powerpauses have some movement or some breath,but this one is so potent because whatwe're talking about today is really.Winning the battle and getting to thatplace of unshakable self-confidence,winning the battle over self-doubt. So ifyou're just jumping into this powerpause, this is part of a full episode ofthe Movement, Mind and Meaning podcastwhere we go deep into this whole topic.But if you are watching this wholeepisode and you're like, I want to knowwhat she was just talking about. Thisone, maybe not so much because a lot oftimes it has movements to it. So this onemaybe you don't need to see the video forit, but just know that for each of theepisodes that I have a power pause. Thatwe do have just the video and so you mayhave found me that way as well. So hi,hello. So regardless of how you gothere, if you've been here from thebeginning or you're just here for thepower pause, we're going to go deep intoall of this inside the Flip Your Anxietyoff switch audio training series. So makesure to get signed up for that because itis amazing. The feedback so far has beenincredible. It's totally free. Threeparts, 15 minutes each. Literally.The shift. The shift. Not just of how youthink, but of who you be. So makesure to grab that. So let'swrap this up with a little bow, shall we?What are some of the ways that you havewon today?And you're here. SoBing Gold star #1, right?Gold star #1.That's pretty incredible. So here's thething. Self doubtisn't fixed. Neither is self belief.Right. We just talked about that.Everything can be changed. It's not apersonality trait, it's a learnedbehavior. And it'ssomething that maybe if you're like me,you practiced a little bit or a lot. Andso it's something that you can begin toshift because just like all of theseother patterns of behavior,it's changeable. It's plastic, meaning,you know, you can melt it and change it.That's what neuroplasticity is. Becauseif it was learned, it can be unlearned.And so just give yourself some of thatbeautiful self-compassion and and knowthat now you know why some peoplehave a tendency to have that gold starstandard of self-belief and other peoplelike me and maybe like youget to practice that right?Just likeyou get to practice. Attempting to be atree in Vrikshasana when you're standingon one foot and you got your knee out tothe side and I'm like, OK, now arms up,make it look like a branch. You get topractice it like you practice on the yogamat. You get to practice it like youpractice learning how to drag. These areskills that you can learn,but they must be learned from that placeof compassionate curiosity and from aplace of. Deep knowing and trust andsafety in your nervous system. Becauseotherwise, because this is a pattern thathas been practiced for a while and isingrained, it's a protective pattern. Sojust know precursor.That's not the word I want, but heads up.There we go. I was like, there'ssomething I want to say. Heads up is thatyour brain is going to be like, yeah, butyou know, remember all those other faultsand flaws and mistakes you've madebecause that's silly. I don't know if youwant to do that, but now you know why itwants to do that, right?And so this isone of those things that your brain mightgive you a little push back on becauseit's like, oh, perceiving a threat,attempt at an expansion in progress.Stop them from doing this crazyself-belief thing. No, noMake them feellike shit and make them doubt themselfagain. OK. And so that's what happens,right?And it's, you know, I don't know ifyour brain has a loudspeaker like that,but mine definitely did. But now I knowhow to mute the mental chaos. So hello. Iam grateful to. Share these tools withyou. I would love for you tocome over and grab the Flip Your Anxietyoff switch because it is a really fun andplayful and powerfuloffering that I'm grateful to put outinto the world. And so that is everythingI have for you today. I hope that youlaughed. I hope that you felt seen. Ihope that you feel like OK.Wow. Yeah, this is something I canpractice, right?This is something thatyou can learn. And, you know, not makingyourself wrong or faulted or flawed forit. Because as you now know, that'scounterproductive. But it's might be whatyour brain wants to do. We can't judgeourself for judging ourself. Hi. Do yousee the irony?But believe me,it happens. But be on the be onthe alert for it. OK, so. We wantto use some of that vigilance that manyof us who have anxiety, hyper vigilance,looking for all the, you know, potentialproblems. We want to learn to use some ofthat vigilance on the sneakytricks of the mind, right?That'sthe that's the opponent of all opponents.I'll finish with this, the opponent ofall opponents that wisdom, traditions,cultures around the world. Understandthat our mind is it's areally incredible tool. When you learnhow to use it, excuse me, when you learnhow to use it, when you learn how tointentionally focus it and recognize thatyou're not your thoughts, right?You arethe witnessing consciousness behind thethoughts. You are loving awareness. Butwhen the mind is running the show,everything we've been talking about forthe last 33 minutes and every otherepisode, you now know why.But here's the beautiful thing is thatthese are practices, the tools thatyou're going to learn inside the series,the lessons that you learned today. Theseare practices, just like any otherpractice that you can begin to learn toharness the power of your mindso that you can learn to use it as thetool that it is, so that it doesn't runyou around and pull you upside down andsideways all the way till Tuesday andthen back till Thursday, because it'sjust going to do that if you don't.Learn to intentionally focusit, to align it to your vision, to tapinto the wisdom within you, to learn torecognize when you need a break so thatyou're not just running on fumes, tooscared to stop, because what if it allfalls apart?That'sa story of the mind and a technique ofself-protection when we are experiencingthese high stress or this anxiety orsadness. And so it's learning tocultivate that level of awareness so thatyou recognize, whoa, hold the phone.We're doing the thing. We're doing thething and call it out. No,Megan told me that I can learn tobelieve. You can cultivate thisself-belief in yourself. You can do it. Ibelieve in you. I do. And I'm not beingcheeky. I do. Because trust me when Isay, and I know you hear this about somany other things, but trust me when Isay if someone that had suchdeep, limiting, almostcrippling. Self-doubtme has learned stepby step, breath by breath, day by day,launch by launch, e-mail by e-mail,podcast by podcast, speaking by speakingengagement. If I have learned tocultivate belief in myself and come fromthat place of crippling, defeatingself-doubt, then you can learn to doit too.I feel like I want to end the episodethere, but it would be a little abrupt.But it was so good.So good. It's true. I'm not going to saymore because I don't want to steal fromthe energy of that statement. Just knowthat you can. I love you so much.I hope you have a beautiful day. Makesure to sign up for the free series.Share it with a friend. Please, pleaseI know that you know people. They may notcome out and say, well, I don't know if Ibelieve in myself, but you will hear themsaying stuff like. I'm just having ahard time with this. I really wish. Whydo I always screw it up?They say stufflike that. And you're as a friend, you'relike, oh, come on, don't say that. That'smean, you know?And that's somebody thatmight want to listen to this show. And Iwould so appreciate you sharing it withthem. So all the love, sending you allthe love. And I will hear you, see you,feel you, hang out with you, you hang outwith me in the next episode. I never knowwhat to say there, so I'm going to workon that. But. Please let me know whatlanded for you. It would really make myheart so happy. Have a beautiful day. Seeyou soon. Take care.