Fear Of Failure. Fear Of Success. What Next?

Hello and welcome to the Spirit Rooms podcast,

In the Flow with Lori Albert,

Where we talk about spirituality,

Manifestation,

And how to create and live our best lives.

Welcome in.

And hello.

I hope everybody's doing great today.

So today we are talking about Reason 652 as to how releasing those unwanted feelings and emotions and surrendering to spirit can give you everything that you want in your life.

Wow,

That's big.

I feel like that we,

Well,

Or most of us,

Or all of us have heard the term fear of failure,

Which in and of itself is a very real thing.

It can be extremely debilitating and can totally stop you in your tracks from creating really anything in your life.

Like the mentality is,

Why bother if I'm going to fail anyway?

It's that failure mentality.

So at that point,

Some people just will never even try.

But here's a good point that is extraordinary.

I do know that some people can actually use this,

That feeling of I'm going to fail as sort of a motivator.

And I know that that makes silly sense,

But hear me out.

For me,

And again,

Being pretty intimate with myself here,

I absolutely remember a few times in my life where a teacher or someone that I looked up to two times actually,

And I swear this is true,

Said to me,

You do realize that you're never going to achieve what you're wanting to create in your life.

Yeah,

I know somebody actually said that to me.

Two people actually said that to me,

To which I will say in my head,

I said to myself,

Watch me.

I was a very willful child.

That's actually true.

I actually had a teacher and then someone who I looked really,

I really respected and looked up to say that to me.

Isn't that horrible?

It's just absolutely horrible.

I can't imagine.

First of all,

I can't imagine saying that to anybody,

But you know,

That's beside the point.

So,

You know,

Those are the things you remember from your childhood,

Don't you think?

You know,

Now,

Mind you,

Here's the point.

This is when I was young and I didn't quite realize any of the emotional and the spiritual aspects to this.

It was face value to me at the time,

Right?

But now looking back,

It's really pretty incredible.

And interestingly,

I ended up having my sort of issue be something completely different,

Which is what I'm going to talk to you about now.

Have you ever considered that the fear of success could be a very real thing?

Now,

This is an interesting thought,

Don't you think?

Fear of failure is one thing,

But fear of success is a whole different thing,

But it's right in that same range,

Don't you think?

So while I'm sitting here and I'm feeling so motivated by people telling me that I will never make it,

My real sort of underlying fear was,

What if I do make it?

That's crazy,

Right?

Interestingly,

I never realized that this was my thing until years later.

And now,

Happily,

I'm in a place where I understand it and work to resist that feeling.

But okay,

So here's what I want to say about this.

Our thoughts,

Good,

Bad,

Whatever,

Are incredible.

And I know I've said this before,

But we have between 60 to 80,

000 thoughts a day.

Right.

That's an incredible number,

Right?

Now monitoring them,

Then,

Obviously,

Is quite a job,

Don't you think?

I mean,

There are all sorts of thoughts,

Positive thoughts,

Negative thoughts,

Judgmental thoughts of ourselves and others,

You know,

Fearful thoughts,

Logical thoughts,

Illogical thoughts,

All sorts of things.

Right.

And so monitoring them is quite a job.

But when we even begin to understand even a portion of the negative thoughts,

And we use the tools that we learned in manifestation to shift them,

They can become less disruptive,

At least a little bit.

So for me,

Once I started realizing that my real fear was of success and not failure,

Senses started coming into focus,

And I began to use the tools of affirmations and meditation,

Shifting the thoughts and sentences,

You know,

To a positive take.

That I started and I realized that releasing fear and surrendering to spirit was the real way for freedom in my life.

And I know this is my way of doing this,

But I really believe that all these things that I've learned in my life,

It might help you,

Which is why I'm doing all this,

Right?

So just even considering the idea of that is very freeing in itself.

Okay,

So whether your fear is a failure,

Or success or anything else,

Because there's plenty of things to be fearful of,

Right?

Releasing it continually is a very real way to find yourself in that beautiful place,

That place of freedom,

Right?

Yeah,

So we are going to meditate on this.

Now,

I just want to warn you that yes,

We've had another sort of channeled meditation here.

So this might be a little bit longer,

Okay?

And when I say longer,

I mean longer than five minutes.

It's not like I'm gonna go for 30 minutes.

I would never do that to you guys,

Right?

You can do that on your own very well.

All right,

So let's get comfortable.

Okay,

Get yourself in a comfortable place and allow your body to start to relax.

You can put your hands palms up on your lap to allow in the energy of the universe.

Let's start to monitor our breath and get it into a rhythmic way.

Going in steadily and out.

Just allow yourself to sit in this beautiful,

Loving energy of spirit.

You can repeat with me as what I'm going to be talking more and saying,

Or you can just listen however you feel comfortable.

Today I am grateful for who I am,

Who I have been in the past,

And who I strive to be.

I am grateful for all the experiences in my past,

Knowing that the lessons have shaped me into this magnificent being of possibility.

I deserve happiness.

I deserve love.

I deserve joy.

Today I have a choice,

And at this moment I choose courage.

I choose confidence.

I choose determination.

I release the fear of the unknown,

The known,

Failure,

And success.

I am protected by the universe and release any judgments that I make of myself.

I am strong and determined and know that I am worthy of all my dreams.

Today I release self-doubt and acknowledge my many accomplishments.

Today I release fear of the future and invite in reassurance and inspiration fully into my being.

Fear does not define me.

I have the strength to create my life in a powerful and enormous way.

I radiate courage and know that nothing can stop me from my dreams.

I release the past and fear of the future and sit in this present moment with peace in my heart and joy in my soul.

Namaste.