How to Overcome Issues, and Have Confidence

Q&A Tuesday

Submitted Question

“I desire to be free from personal constraints and am having issues with confidence. What advice can you offer?” -CW.  Washington

Answer

Absolutely love the question.  In your statement, you said “having -issues- with confidence.” I would question the intent of the word “issues.” Would you agree, that this word (for you personally) carries with it a negative connotation; as if, it didn’t have a right to be.

True freedom, beyond any egoic frame of reference, is the freedom to experience what is, the way things are as they are now, beyond any interpretation we could offer up. There will never be any “freedom from.” There can ultimately only be “freedom to.”

Freedom to “have issues with confidence,” without the suffering that comes with telling ourselves it’s wrong, or shouldn’t be. It’s presence has just as much right to exist, as does love. The challenge comes when the ego desires control, and feels it must rid itself of this perceived infliction that holds us down. Freedom (or truth) doesn’t desire to rid itself of anything, it only desires to flow and take on new forms; forms of experience.

These constraints that you experience, may seem to hold you back, but do you not hold back your own children when you feel they are not yet ready. Do you not ever hold yourself back, when you feel as though you’ve stepped beyond your comfort zone. These constraints, serve a purpose; a lesson that desires to show you something. Where is the trust that all is well?

Yes, sometimes we feel as though the water does not flow as fast as it should; trust me, I’ve been there. But the reality is, the water can only flow as fast as it is flowing, right now. At best, we can guide ourselves, or allow ourselves, to be guided with the stream. One with it’s perfect order.

It’s not about getting somewhere. It’s about being “here,” more peacefully. This will create a natural flow, leading to the place you truly are meant to be. Let these actions you desire to take, take on a life of their own. Allow them to flow through you, creatively; rather than you trying to control the flow.

**How to Have Confidence?***

Learn to understand who and what you are, then there will be no need to be without it.

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