I’ve had people in my life who sow seeds of doubt. They don’t realize they’re doing it. It’s how they were trained to think.
Sometimes when people are raised by parents who are fearful they learn to doubt themselves as a baseline of their thinking.
I notice fearful doubting thinking when someone says to me, “Are you sure you want to do that?”
I sometimes respond playfully with, “are you asking me if I’m aware of what I’m thinking and what my motivations are?”
Just yesterday I was planning to make a long drive and someone said to me, “be careful.” And then I wondered, “why are they saying that?” When I asked, “be careful of what?” They replied “be careful wherever you’re going.”
Playfully, I responded with, “you know me, I have a preference to travel with a reckless disregard for my safety and the safety of others!” Years ago, I would have taken it personally and been offended that they thought I didn’t know how to conduct myself.
Planting seeds of doubt can be malicious. Some people do it to keep others off-balance.
I have found it helpful to contemplate what A Course in Miracles has to say about doubt. It tells us that ALL doubt is Self-doubt. When we doubt others, when we doubt that God loves us, when we doubt that the healing is happening – it’s all Self-doubt and therefore it can be healed.
If we doubt that God loves us, then we’re doubting our lovability.
And because we’re part of God, we’re doubting our own ability to Love and be loved.
One of the most insidious thoughts the ego thought system has is doubt. Doubt can ruin relationships and be the root cause of great misery. It’s a clear representation of the belief in separation from Source.
If we knew the truth about ourselves we’d have no doubt.
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