The Mindful Note: Believing in yourself again

Taking time out and listening in to your inner thoughts helps us reconnect into our feelings of self trust and from there we can listen to what we truly want from ourselves.

Transcript

  Hi, it's Becca here with the Mindful Note Newsletter. And I want to take a moment with you today  before I launch into my theme of what I want to talk to you about today.

I want us to spend just a few seconds, just you and me with a gentle pause. A space to breathe and soften.  So feeling your feet on the ground and feeling the weight of your body on the support possibly chair, I want you to take a long, deep breath in through the nose. For a count of four and release it through the mouth to a count of six

and notice how your body feels right now. Let's just relish in that few seconds of space for yourself. So today's theme is all about believing in yourself. And everybody says, oh, you need to believe in yourself. Go with your gut. Trust, your intuition. But what does that even mean? When your mind is overloaded, when your body's uptight with stress and your to-do list feels louder than even your inner voice.

 I get it , because how can you believe in yourself when you're not even sure who yourself really is anymore? Because you have so much going on, maybe you've lost touch with what you really want to do. Maybe you are running an autopilot doing everything for everybody, feeling like you're spinning the plates, waiting for them to drop.

But inside there's just silence or there's too much noise. There is nothing ever in between. And the truth is. You can't hear your own voice when the volume of the outside world is turned all the way up. And the only way to believe in yourself is to begin by listening to yourself, by going inwards , and not listening to the loud and mind chatter, or that inner critic that rears its ugly head regularly.

But the you beneath all that, the one that's still there waiting patiently, she's never gone anywhere , but she's just been drowned out and it's about time we turned the volume back up. So this week I've created a couple of gentle ways to help you reconnect. 

 I've done a short tapping round to help you reconnect with your inner trust and a calming mindfulness meditation where you can let those swirling thoughts settle like snow  in a snow globe, so you can feel the peace underneath.

And these practices aren't about fixing you. They're about helping you to come back to being who you truly are, because when you hear yourself, you can trust yourself, you can hear your inner voice, and when you trust yourself, believing in yourself becomes natural. So, like I say before, you're not broken.

You're not failing, you're just blooming busy. ,  let's just give our nervous system the pause. It's been craving,  and take five minutes with me today to come back to being you from my heart to yours.

I'll speak to you soon  take care.