The Religion of Self Doubt

[Neuromancer]

Self doubt, I was having MAJOR issues with it. It wasn't a little voice in my head telling me not to or I can't or she's not interested. It was a feeling of being bound like a fly that has been cocooned by a spider. It was an invisible rope attached to my back that held me back from entering sets. It pulled me out of set at the first sign of discomfort.

I am going to get biblical on your asses now for a moment and quote Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." If you have a problem with where the quote came from, not my problem. It applies for our purposes. Now, all of you with feelings of self doubt, does that quote apply to it?

I have been following the religion of self doubt. I had faith in my inadequacy. I was raised in the church of self doubt. My family raised me in the faith. I went to schools where they preached it. My friends and I had prayer meetings about it after school and at lunch. I had faith that I would fail in life and I had evidence of it in my grades in school, my profession and my social life.

I refuse to choose this faith as my faith. I have a choice of who or what I worship. I am a convert. I am now a follower of the church of Affirmation. If I am to choose a faith, I choose the one that gives me what I want and what I need. I choose to have faith in my abilities, not my doubts. I choose to have faith in the best outcome. I choose to have what I want, when I want and for why I want.

For those of you who worship a deity, or choose not to for that matter. I am not saying give up what you believe. Our Deities tell us to have faith and put our lives in their hands. The deity we choose to worship wants what's best for us. If all you believe in is yourself it is true too. What I am saying is choose to have faith in the best things in our lives, that the best will happen.

Give up faith in failure. Give up the religion of self doubt. Have faith in your hopes. Have faith in your success, and see the evidence of it in your lives. Reading this is evidence of this faith. It proves you have found a place where others believe like you and have the same goals. It proves that you are that much closer to achieving them.

Have faith brothers, faith in your success, faith in your dreams, faith in your goals and faith in the best outcome. When you have this faith you will see how to use the tools you have been learning. It won't even be a question of what and where. Your faith will guide you.

I would like to say thanks to Billionaire for getting me thinking about this.

[blacksteel]

Really nice,

I will add, IMO, Faith is the cornestone but it still needs to be complemented by action, or else is not faith, it can be hope, dreams, fear, expectancy, maybe knowledge, the idea of 'faith' by itself won't make a difference.

I am not writing about religion, thats a different 'faith', just about the faith that can help you change for good and get you what you want, just remember you are responsable on what you do and get, on every action, always, once you are thru and clear and have accepted it completely, act on it, go for it! make it real, then you can say you have faith.