Ep. 26 Transmuting Fear and Insecurity to Confidence

11/29/21 • 24 min

When we face and transmute fear, we gain confidence. Confidence that doesn’t depend on things happening in a way we are sure they must happen, but confidence that comes from being insecure, facing the unknown and allowing support and grace to find us in unimagined ways, letting go of certain hopes and trusting that what we can’t yet see or know is there to hold us if we take the frightening steps far enough into the dark for it to find us.
In this episode:

How to transmute fear to confidence
The difference between confidence and certainty
What to do when your confidence is shaken

With love,
McCall
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Quotes from the show:
--Alchemy doesn’t save us from shit. Alchemy holds us to facing the shit, facing our deepest fears. The whole point of alchemy is to transmute the shit, transmute the fears, to face the things we feel we cannot face and realize the depths in us that are equipped to face them.

--Trusting things to work out in a certain way is not really trusting in life. Life is a manifestation of the mystery. Trusting in it means trusting things to work out in ways you can’t foresee or know. The willingness to move forward even though things aren’t going as planned allows us to be surprised by unknown helpers and graces along the way.
--This is the terror, but also the delight and the magic of the unknown: when we face the things we fear we cannot face, we come in touch with the deeper, wilder parts of us that are actually equipped to face them.
--“We can find what supports us when nothing supports us. By bearing the unbearable, we go through the desert to arrive at a nurturing oasis we did not know was there”. -James Hollis
--"We don't need to learn to let go. We just need to recognize what is already gone." -Zen master Suzuki Roshi
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11/29/21 • 24 min

Falling Into Soul - Ep. 26 Transmuting Fear and Insecurity to Confidence

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When we face and transmute fear, we gain competence, confidence that doesn't depend on things happening in a way we are sure they must happen. But confidence that comes from being insecure, facing the unknown, and allowing support and grace to find us in unimagined ways. Letting go of certain hopes, and trusting that what we can't yet see or know is there to hold us if we take the frightening steps far enough into the dark for it to find us.
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