Doubt has a way of showing up right when you need clarity most. It might be just before a big decision, a career pivot or stepping into something new. Left unchecked, it doesn’t just cloud your judgement, it drains the energy you actually need to move forward. Here’s a simple visualisation exercise I use with clients to clear that doubt and get back into motion.
Stand on one side of the room and see on the other side, a picture of the goal you want to achieve, your best possible outcome of who you want to be or whatever you are planning to do. Now, picture your energy flowing out in front of you creating some sort of shape like a cloud. Watch it form a big grey cloud that grows between you and your best possible outcome. The more you feed your energy into the cloud the darker and thicker it becomes. It’s obscuring your view from what could be.
It also saps your energy. Have you noticed that?
When you spend a lot of time in worry or doubt you find yourself exhausted. This outflow of energy then takes away your motivation to take action and, by worrying or being doubtful, it can by crippling.
Time to stop the exhaustion!
See that grey cloud and know that the energy you have given it is not “bad” energy, it is simply energy which can be sucked back out of the cloud and back into you. Inside is where you can put that energy to better use. Imagine drawing the energy out of the cloud and watch the cloud get lighter in colour, thinner, smaller.
Keep drawing out the energy and back into your own centre where it lights up like a warm, golden light bulb. Keep going until the cloud turns from pale grey to white to nothing. Feel the energy inside yourself stirring, happy, crackling with life, fulfilling, ready for action!
As you take your energy back it is no longer wasted. Now you literally have “no doubt” that the object of your desire is possible. See across the room, your vision will be more clear and ideas will start to come to you with clues as to how to achieve it. Sometimes they are ideas, sometimes it’s just about getting you moving again so you can “come across” the ideas, the people, the signs or the opportunities you need which will draw you closer to your goal.
My dear friend Pilar reminded me the other day that if you are lost in the car, with no map or GPS, there are two things you can do. You can sit on the side of the road and remain lost or you can start to drive around until you find either a marker on the street which gives you a better idea of where you are, or you can find a person to give you directions.
You’ll have the energy to get moving once you take it back from the Doubt Cloud!
Try this exercise at work when you are struggling to see a way forward in solving a problem, a dilemma or have been handed a challenge where you are unclear on the path forward. No one will know you are doing it and, once practiced, you can use it to very quickly clear the space between where you are in your work and where you want to be.
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