Sometimes the self-sabotage is incredibly obvious.  That doesn’t make it easier.  Sometimes the blocks in our mind are glaring and so repetitive we’d rather do ANYTHING than face them:

“I’m just not good enough.” “They’re so much more spiritual than I am.” “I’m too broken to be worthy of miracles.”

Sound familiar? What if I told you that these seemingly humble thoughts are actually the most egotistical thinking possible?

Here’s what I’ve discovered after working with thousands of people in spiritual transformation:

False humility is one of the biggest barriers to healing shame and stepping into our power as miracle workers.

Real humility recognizes that we’re all fundamentally the same – we’re all part of God, all expressions of the one Life, one Power, one Presence. False humility creates a hierarchy where some people are “better than” and others are “less than.”

When we think “I’m not worthy” or “I’m worse than everyone else,” we’re actually making ourselves special – special in a negative way. It’s still ego, disguised as humility.

A Course in Miracles teaches us that “The mistake is always some form of concern with the self.” The small selfish self, not the Higher Holy Spirit Self.  When we’re focused on a misperception of our unworthiness, our supposed inadequacy, and the resulting shame, we’re still making it all about the ego identified self instead of lifting our vibration to our true identity.

The real issue isn’t doubting God loves us, or cares about us, or is even real – it’s doubting ourselves, it’s feeling so unworthy of Love that we sabotage ourselves, punish ourselves and run from the truth that liberates us from our suffering.

Here’s the thing: we’re not supposed to place our trust in our personality anyway! Of course we’re going to doubt our ego’s effectiveness. The solution isn’t to build up the ego, but to stop putting our trust there altogether.

When we anchor into truth – “My mind is the mind of God, my life is the life of God, my heart is the heart of God” – there’s no weakness. False humility, thinking we’re less than, and that others are better than us, that’s false humility.

When we’re willing to see the Christ in everyone it changes us.

When we see others differently, we can see ourselves differently.  What others might perceive as vulnerability becomes tenderness, openness, authentic strength – that’s not weakness.

Practice this: Every time you catch yourself in false humility, remember that you are not your personality. You are the eternal, infinite Love Intelligence expressing as a unique individual. From that place, there’s nothing to be ashamed of and everything to celebrate.

The personality is just the vehicle – you don’t have to identify with the car you’re driving.