Daily Mystic Messages - Prove it
One of the things that we do when we have a feeling of not being good enough or worthy is that we set about trying to prove ourselves. So outside we often tend to overwork or get into perfectionism to try and protect ourselves from that criticism or protect ourselves from that feeling. And what we really end up doing is exhausting ourselves and setting ourselves up for disappointment.
As a musician, I had a story that I wasn't naturally talented or creative. So I thought to myself, well, if I don't have talent, I'll just prove myself to be the hardest worker. And that hard work definitely took me a long ways in my career, but it never really solved that story about not being talented.
It just made me exhausted and it stifled me creatively because I was afraid to take risks. And really what I had was just a big, old need to be right that I wasn't good enough. And because of that, it set up an internal battle within me.
So on the one side, I was trying to prove myself to the world by being the absolute hardest worker so that people would see how hard I work. So that they know that nothing was easy about this for me. And by golly, I'm going to do this. And then on the inside, I was just undermining every effort with the same story about not being good enough, not talented, not naturally talented, not creative, et cetera.
I share that with you to give you the opportunity to look inside of yourself and inside of your world, to the places where you might be trying to prove yourself. Where you're working really hard and and exhausting yourself and having those conversations either in your head or with other people where it's like trying to prove, trying to prove, trying to prove, trying to state your case. It winds up in this need to be right kind of energy, where we become really stubborn and stuck in a certain way of being.
When you take the proving out of it. What you're left with is an ability to step into situations new and fresh and creative and to say to yourself, "Well, let's just see..." And it takes out a lot of that fear of embarrassment or of being let down or being seen in a particular way. And it just lets us be more with ourselves more with our pure potential and more with the truth about who you are.
You don't need to prove yourself to anybody. As a human being you are innately valuable as you are, and perfectly designed already. So we can take out any kind of proving and just make it our job to get really curious about uncovering that within ourselves.
So today, notice any instances where you're trying to prove yourself, see if you can just simply step out of that conversation. And you can even one of our favorite energy keys; Put your left hand on your heart and you just say to yourself, "It is totally okay for me to be exactly where I am. I don't have anything to prove."
Then see if you're able to step out of the proving and into more accepting, more allowing and more curiosity about just how amazing you are.