Have you ever considered that the very doubts clouding your path could be the keys to unlocking your deepest growth and spiritual transformation? Doubt is often perceived as an adversary; however, if you lean in and explore it, it is actually a catalyst that pushes you towards profound self-discovery and spiritual development. It arises at the precipice of growth, signaling the engagement of the ego mind when we venture beyond our comfort zones. In this blog post, I delve into the transformative power of doubt, as I see it, and how it can be transmuted to foster not just growth, but a deeper alignment between your soul’s desires and your earthly expressions. Through understanding and embracing doubt, you learn to navigate the complexities of fear, align more closely with your soul's calling, and manifest your true potential in tangible, impactful ways.
Doubt seems to inevitably arise whenever we are on the edges of growth. Doubt is a product of the ego mind at work. It opposes faith which can only be sensed through a trust in the divine whenever we traverse the unknown. Whenever we are scaling our growth edges, we are often guided by inspiration, by higher vision, by what our soul sees in the world, and how the soul wishes to express. And when the soul wishes to express, it starts to descend down through idea, into vision, into sharing and energizing that idea through voice, being charged by our heart. Whenever we get to a place of starting to take action on this idea, we often meet the analytical mind. This is when doubt often arises.
The doubt comes in when we start to process all the different potential scenarios, and the mind throws up fear. This fear is is just coming from the ego mind that is trying to keep us safe. The mind wants to stay in the place of the familiar. It wants to stay in the place that is safe, out of harm's way, that is safe from danger, that is safe from persecution, ridicule or instability, or losing everything, or worse, death. And so the mind is always presenting fears that arrive in the form of doubt. The energy underneath of doubt is fear. And so when we want to transmute this, we have to learn how to alchemize this energy and return it back to love and see it as an offering.
There are different ways that we can meet this energy of doubt. One way is to feel the fear and do it anyway. You hear this quote a lot, feel the fear and do it anyway. And that gives us a little boost of courage. When you feel that, the energy of that statement, you feel this inner rivalry energy, that energy of, yeah, I'm gonna do it anyway. I can do it! But often it is fleeting. That energy often fades pretty quickly and we come back to the doubt, back to the what ifs, back to the fear. And so, we can simply try to trample over it working with brut force. This is the distorted masculine way. This does work for a time, but it often doesn't remove the doubt fully. And so, the real way is to go all the way into the feeling.
The feminine way is to go all the way into the sensations, exploring where it lives in the body, exploring what it's trying to tell us, exploring if maybe we are out of integrity. There are instances where our doubt shows us where we are not integrity, where there actually is a potentiality for unsafety, a potentiality for the outcome not serving us. And our doubt is there as a safety mechanism to get us to see where we may be out of integrity. So, it is important to explore the sensations and the energy of the doubt, but knowing full and well that most often it isn't actually true. It is just the ego mind trying to keep us safe with a deeper underlayment of fear.
By going into the sensations of doubt in the body to explore it, we can really examine if we are in integrity, if we are aligned with our truth, if we are aligned with our soul and our soul's higher guidance. And this will feel like truth in the body and in that space, we will see that the doubt really has no place. The doubt is actually just a reactionary part of the mind and the personality matrix. The real work is to align the personality with the soul, to befriend the ego mind and get it on board with the directives of the soul. And we can see that when we recognize this is just a call for love and a call for alignment with our soul. It is a call for nurturing that inner child within and that soul expression that wants to show up in the world in a new way.
When we can go all the way into that, we can start to bring love and compassion to the mind that raises the doubt. And we can invite that doubt into the loving light of our awareness to see it fully, to love it fully. And we can start to see that in this space of examining the doubt and examining our innermost truth and our integrity, that it actually fortifies our yes – the yes to our soul aligned path. It actually calls us into integrity with our soul’s higher guidance. And so, whenever we can move through this whole process of examining the doubt, examining the sensations and recommitting to that yes, we are actually committing to higher levels of responsibility which the universe recognizes.
In a way, we could say that the universe actually raises the doubt to test us, to see if we are really ready for this yes. Are we really ready for this responsibility? And when we say, yes, I am, then the universe starts to meet us there more powerfully. The universe starts to support our yes. It starts to support our commitment. It's supporting our soul alignment. It's supporting us standing in our truth, and it's supporting the alignment of our personality matrix and our soul.
This is where we anchor the light. This is where we call our soul's higher expression down into form, moving through all the hang-ups of the mind saying, yes. Recommitting, yes, this is an integrity. Yes, this is how we want to express. Yes, this is a line for our soul.
This is how we anchor our higher selves, our soul light, the seed of our truth and our expression into form. It comes through this process of working through doubt in the innermost spaces. This actually fortifies our expression. It takes us to a place of embodied wisdom. It takes us to deep inner alchemy. And it is here that we come to see that our doubt is actually in service to our light. The road to soul embodiment is fueled by our inner alchemy. This is how we anchor the light.
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