What If It’s Not Imposter Syndrome But Resistance to Your Power?

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Welcome to episode 894, and this is a relaunch of what if it's not imposter syndrome, but resistance to your power? That's right. What if it's not imposter syndrome? And I remember actually talking a little bit about this, and it's funny because I know that people always ask like, oh, I'm dealing with imposter syndrome. And I'm like, often I have found that imposter syndrome is you avoiding the thing that you know you should be doing, regardless of how good you already think that you are at it. And instead, replacing it with something that maybe you're good at, but you shouldn't be doing. I know it's a little bit of a tongue twister, but I think we only truly feel like imposters when we're not doing the thing that we're supposed to be doing. You can be early in anything, and that's okay, because at least it's fulfilling the soul. From there, it's just about going all in. So enjoy this episode. What if it's not imposter syndrome, but resistance to your power?

Welcome to episode 571 What if it's not imposter syndrome that you're experiencing, but it's resistance to your power? What if it's not imposter syndrome? I know that that gets thrown out there a lot, and we all can go through it, for sure. A reframe could mean that maybe it's not so much that you don't believe you have it in you. Maybe you're not worried about whether or not you can do it or that you're qualified. Maybe you actually know you're qualified. Maybe you actually know you should be doing it. Maybe you know that you would crush it. And I don't know who the originator was of this, but I know that somebody had told me about it, and it could be very well have been Tony Robbins. And it was something about, some people worry about the fear of failure, but others may worry about the fear of success. And I know sometimes people will be like, why would you fear success? And it's like, you'd be surprised because often at times, it may require a whole different version of you that has to handle a whole bunch of other stuff that you were just never even really thinking about. And so I'd like to kind of equate it to that in a way, which is like, if you think about it, maybe it's not imposter syndrome. Maybe you know you'd actually crush doing the thing. Maybe you're just having resistance to the weight of that and to the power that you hold within, right? So I want to talk about owning the weight of your real calling. And I want to talk today about four key areas, which is why you feel fear or friction right before you step into alignment. You are not alone. This happens to all of us. My goal as I get further along in everything I do is to work through that as fast as possible. So if I feel any kind of fear or friction, I'm like, all right, let's go. Let's figure it out. We'll figure it out. Let's just go. Let's just move.

And to do that faster over time, so that way I don't let the mind try to talk me out of it basically, right? Because the soul knows. Secondly, I want to talk about is the difference between imposter syndrome and spiritual resistance.

Imposter syndrome versus spiritual resistance. And then I want to talk about what real power asks of you and why it scares you or it may scare you. It's very possible. Look, and before I get to this final point, the thing that I want you to think about too is that I get it. Like even there are times, have you ever thought about your dream or your vision? And you're like, that thing is massive. How in the world would I ever pull all of that off?

Right? I get that. I absolutely get that. I once I let go of the how, I really started enjoying the what. And that was a big shift for me some time ago. And then you realize you enjoy the work so much that the radiance and resonance of it expands you so much that the how just keeps coming and the more just keeps coming from that. So it may scare you if you're thinking too much about the end result and the how and how big it is and all that stuff, but can you let go and then just enjoy the process of becoming through it, right? And then finally, I wanna talk about how to move forward with the weight of your assignment. So you keep calling it imposter syndrome. It's very possible. And yes, it could be that. But what if it's not that you're unqualified? What if it's just that, you know, you are? Like, what if it's not doubted, just deep recognition? Like, what if you really are the thing? What if you actually really deeply recognize yourself? What if the fear isn't that you're gonna fail, but maybe that you'll actually rise through it, right?