Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Build Amazing Confidence and Beat the Imposter Syndrome | Guided Sleep Hypnosis

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Starting point is 00:02:14 So let's begin. Please get comfortable. Get comfortable where you can go to sleep. I forget about the worries of the day. Get yourself into that comfortable position. And get ready to go off into a deep sleep. And as you listen to this recording, you'll realise that tomorrow you can wake up with full confidence

Starting point is 00:02:48 you know confidence is within you and the apostor syndrome that we'll talk about later is actually something that nearly everybody experiences it's actually a natural part of human nature so you understand that you can overcome it. Imposter syndrome is also known by a few other names,

Starting point is 00:03:23 such as the imposter phenomenon and the fraud syndrome. It's a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a fraud, even though that person is most likely very competent. You see, everybody has self-doubts about themselves and everyone has fears. Not everybody shows this though. And you have to realise that guessing over these fears

Starting point is 00:04:06 is a very natural part of human behaviour. There's a story. at Harvard University, where a teacher asked the classroom, do they feel that they should be here at the start of the university year? Nearly every student put their hands up, even though all the students had studied extremely hard to be in that position, and some of them were the best students in that position, and some of them were the best students in.

Starting point is 00:04:42 the country. The students soon realised that everyone has these feelings and thoughts, and you can overcome them, and we can overcome these thoughts too. I want you to get as comfortable as possible in your bed. Please stretch in the relax. Let yourself sink into the bed and get into the most comfortable position you can concentrate on your breathing as you take a deep breath in as you concentrate breathing in and make sure you're breathing through your belly slowly in relaxing out as you breathe in and out who does your body you focus the muscles softening the muscles around the eyes Detensing from the top of your head

Starting point is 00:07:01 onto your toes and back up again you concentrate on your head again falls in your forehead without any tension there muscles rather in your jaw and any tension in your jaw just let's go the muscles and lines that you are holding

Starting point is 00:07:45 just rather relaxing all your neck muscles and the sensation moves into your shoulders, making your muscles feel loose and supple. And into your bicep and your fore arm, into your fingers, each muscle. And then down your right arm, into your bicep, goes into your back, your spine, pulls in your back. Just drop. You feel yourself.

Starting point is 00:09:32 Relax further, back around to your front, and into your chest, into your chest, into your stomach in your stomach area. Find that you are getting into such a comfortable position for sleep, though relaxed as you do deep moves down from your stomach and your pelvis, soothing all your joints. Most natural things you can do. The most natural thing you can do was born into this world. Everyone was born sleeping in the womb, silent and peaceful.

Starting point is 00:11:47 you can return to that silent and peaceful place your body needs is what your body demands into your nose getting ridness or tension in those muscles and it feels so good

Starting point is 00:12:31 as the relaxation feeling flows from the top of your head down into the very tips of your toes Confidence will arise as will be gone. We need to think about it. Drifting slowly off into deep relaxation and drifting deeper down into your subconscious. Where different thoughts, your brain is very powerful, where it will take in my suggestions.

Starting point is 00:13:51 And you know these suggestions will help you. Because everyone wants to feel more confident. and have shared. It's a natural feeling. In his eye, picture yourself at the side of a stream. A running stream. There could even be a river with pine trees all around it. It's very warm. Fote temperature too. You're so nice on the skin. Too cool. You walk along the pebbles on the side of the stream. You see a canoe and you take a canoe and you take a that canoe and you put it to the edge of the water and get in.

Starting point is 00:15:17 It's up to you how you ride this canoe as you prepare to go downstream. You can ride on your back, on a cushion, which is in there, can sit and paddle. The canoe knows where to go and it safely takes you down the stream. You know the route to take and as you look left and right, You can see nature You can see the sounds of nature And it's so relaxing Bops gently

Starting point is 00:16:18 As it takes you on its way Down the stream So you sit back You look up at the sky and see the birds Dart around on the clear blue sky And you see the tips Of the green pine trees Disappear one of

Starting point is 00:16:50 after the other. As you pass them by, see a series of drops, a series of very gentle drops, and as you go down them, you'll go down deeper into your subconscious, and he glides come to the first drop. You feel deeply relaxed as you go down. You go down the second one, yourself a prone little drop here. With the canoe gently splashing in the water, feel so relaxed as you go down deeper and deep. An upper head you see the line, which makes you feel even more relaxed, and you collide, tranquility around you, deciding if you're going to stay. There's a forest with chattering birds ahead, strip of tree still flow as you embrace and ideas.

Starting point is 00:23:03 They have not had before to gain more confidence and be the person you need. know you can be. As you sit here, feel so confident, confident to relax. Confident guide you. To a subconscious place, it's not always easy to see how we are perceived by others. We sometimes need to take a step back in sometimes it's possible to notice the qualities within ourselves. The qualities that the people who know and love us and you begin to realise is about you, we often feel played by an inner feeling that we don't really deserve our achievements. And sometimes we worry that we'll be found out as a fraud. It exposes one day, but it's very clear to the people who will be found out as a fraud.

Starting point is 00:25:16 exposes one day but it's very clear to the people who know to the people you've helped to the people who know and admire you people think very much

Starting point is 00:25:39 otherwise you wouldn't be you wouldn't be in the positions have recognised certain qualities within you and have rewarded you for it They see you as a highly skilled person. They see you as someone with knowledge.

Starting point is 00:26:24 And they respect you for that. Wherever you are in your life right now, you've reached this position. Through sheer determination, you don't agree that you've worked hard to get where you are. But remember, you started. from scratch. Just as everyone, learning new skills had to do, we were all born without knowledge or education or drive and look where you are now and what you have achieved. Special. Have thoughts and

Starting point is 00:27:21 knowledge to share with the world. And the world is interested. Some people learn quickly and easily. They struggle to understand some concepts. You are where you are right now, because of you, that you have to prove your worth to others, or yourself may even find yourself, inwardly try to justify your thoughts or actions, in case they are challenged, although rationally, you know that no one is likely to challenge you in this way. but feelings and emotions are not often rational. It seems that sometimes we cannot help ourselves from experiencing a type of self-doubt when we are in our positions because it nearly everyone, if they are honest, admit to feelings of self-doubt sometimes.

Starting point is 00:28:53 Things have been so common that this condition is widely known as the imposter syndrome. The imposter syndrome encompasses feelings that are common to many human beings and across race. Nationality, age and gender, people suffering from these feelings. Everyone else knows everything. But what they don't realise, other people don't know everything, and in many cases, less than you, privately doubt ourselves. But we believe we're alone in thinking that way, because no one else voices their doubts in Albert Einstein. of the greatest scientists of all time suffered from imposter syndrome

Starting point is 00:30:19 describing himself as someone whose work didn't deserve as much attention as it received that his theory of relativity was inspired by a dream whereby he was hurtling down a mountainside

Starting point is 00:30:44 in the dream he spared faster and faster and when he looked up at the sky he noticed how the stars looked and appeared as he approached the speed of light so if even Albert Einstein doubted himself isn't it interesting that everyone seems to doubt themselves sometimes you understand that

Starting point is 00:31:16 you will realise that You're just overthinking. You to come with me on a similar journey. A journey deep into the realms of your wonderful subconscious mind of hurtling down the mountainside.

Starting point is 00:31:43 I want you to find yourself floating gently down to a beautiful place with the blue skies and soft candy floss clouds. You see the carpets of grass on the sweet-centred meadows and ornate picture-box buildings and manacled gardens with exotic plants that have a divine smell. Picture the scene in your mind. Make it real and as vivid as it can possibly be as you float further down. Perhaps you will notice clusters of pink cherry blossom

Starting point is 00:32:34 trees scattered here and there. When you reach the bottom of the mountain, you feel that you have landed on soft feathery cushions and you take a look around your surroundings. To one side of you is a beautiful turquoise lake bordered with tall bamboo plants. That thorough shade over the pastel-colored water lilies that float elegantly on top of the steel lake and you're still feeling very comfortable and you notice close by that there is a temple wood and stone and with intricately patterned steps and at the temple you were greeted by an old monk who is wearing a long purple rope His hands are together with thought and prayer, and he slowly and steadily walks over to where you're resting.

Starting point is 00:33:58 You begin to rise, but the monk bows his head, still in prayer. He beckons you to remain where you are sitting. You're sitting on some nice cushions, bamboo plants and tea of nurturing. If you're a gardening enthusiast, you may already know that bamboo requires fertile soil, sunshine and water

Starting point is 00:34:44 and in the first year of bamboo growth, there is no visible sign of activity. In the second, third and fourth year, there is still stillness and nothing seems to grow. and yet in the fifth year a miracle happens. And in just a few weeks, bamboo suddenly shoots up until it is higher than the monk. The monk explains that during his first four years,

Starting point is 00:35:24 the bamboo was developing a strong and seed foundation. It did not do so. It couldn't have sustained. its knife as it grew, he then bows his head once again before offering you a bowl from which to take a drink you lift the ball up to your lips and take a sip of the delicious sweetly fermented liquid. You are feeling very deeply, comfortably relaxed, quite slowly. sleepy and very happy as you look at this person that you have created your mind, you realize that he or she represents your own inner wisdom and has many secrets and stories to share.

Starting point is 00:36:31 Your mind and receptive to new ways of thinking and feeling and you see now The monk symbolises your collective subconscious Gell a gentle breeze in the air as butterflies land on nearby flowers Before flying off, dancing and interweaving in the air A soft voice begins to rhythmically speak to you You are not sure whether the voice belongs to you or the monk

Starting point is 00:37:22 or even the butterflies or the animals around it could even be the murmuring of the afternoon breeze many stories at the collective subconscious at a deeper level you don't even need to make sense

Starting point is 00:37:53 of its meaning your subconscious mind will do this for you so we begin we begin a far eastern folklore where there was once a young fisherman. The fisherman knew the names of all the animals and beasts in the kingdom and was kind to all the fisherman was looked up to and loved and respected

Starting point is 00:38:29 by everyone who knew him. But deep inside he felt unworthy of all the love and respect. Who am I? The fisherman will ask himself, I've still so much to learn, I must prove to myself, and my friends that I am worthy of them, he didn't voice his doubts. So no one but he knew how he found, and he continued his job as a fisherman, providing for the villages in his usual way gratefully received of children in the fisherman's village

Starting point is 00:39:23 had heard their parents and friends singing his praises they decided to follow him to the beach where his boats lay hidden in the shade of the bamboo the children watched the fisherman as he went to prepare his boat for his expedition. The children were strong swimmers, so as the fishermen prepared his boat,

Starting point is 00:40:00 they waded into the sea to swim around in the warm shallow water. A turtle at the same time was swimming to the shore, waiting to greet the fishermen as it. always did. The children saw the great turtle. Children can often be very cruel and they began teasing and frightening the turtle, prodding it with canes from the uprooted bamboo. The turtle cried out and the fisherman heard his cries and raced over to rescue his friend. The children quickly hurried back to the families, and the turtle was so grateful that it carried the fisherman to a mythical underwater dragon palace. He was warmly welcomed to the princess of the court there.

Starting point is 00:41:24 The fisherman lived in luxury and opulence. His mental and physical meat lit deep inside. He felt he didn't deserve all these wonderful treasures no longer needed to fish and the fishermen helped run the palace overseeing many important tasks such as arranging guardianship for the palace's secret treasure and overseeing meetings between the elders the fisherman

Starting point is 00:42:09 was truly appreciated by all who worked with and for him. But he couldn't get over the feeling that he didn't deserve his position at the palace. He felt that he was a fraud of the elders who had lived in the palace, knew so much more than him would expose him for what he was.

Starting point is 00:42:43 The years went by, and the fishermen self, doubts played on his mind until they eventually drove him to a desire to return to his own people. The princess begged the fisherman to remain, but she couldn't bear him to see him unhappy. So she gave him a jewelled box as a token of her everlasting love. To be entrusted with this box was a great honour, as the fisherman knew the Alexa of life depended on this beautiful container and its contents being safe. The princess knew the fisherman's self-doubt as she placed her finger to his lips as they parted. she whispered to him

Starting point is 00:43:51 You are as you are Do not open this box under any circumstances The sea turtle was summoned To the palace to carry the fisherman And the jeweled box Back to his home His home on the land They travelled over the ocean

Starting point is 00:44:18 Rose out of the warm waters soon to breathe in the warm afternoon air. On the journey, sea dragons and sharks try to steal the box, but the fisherman held it close to his heart until he spotted an island, which he recognised as his homeland. When he arrived in his village,

Starting point is 00:44:50 the fishermen were shocked to see that everything had changed. The turquoise lake, with its bamboo and lilies, had been replaced by a monstrous building. The temple was gone and in its place was an ugly shopping precinct, crowded with strangers, instead of the beautiful pink cherry blossom trees. There were electricity pylons and tall looming chimneys, pouring out smoke and polluting the once beautiful island. He knew no one in his village. His parents had long since gone, and the children who had swum on the shore, teasing his friend the turtle were old.

Starting point is 00:45:45 In his sadness, the fisherman held on to his jewel box that the princess had bestowed on him. He longed to be close to her again, and forgetting her warning, he opened the clasp and lifted the lid. Suddenly a white cloud of smoke emerged from the box and engulfed the fisherman. His vision was obscured, and for a while he was blinded. But when the smoke cleared, he saw that he had been transformed. into an older voice trails away. You will find yourself sitting on the soft, fluffy cushions dead of the jeweled box. You're still holding the bold of sweet liquid as the dream fades away.

Starting point is 00:46:54 It reminds you that you are good enough and that you will always be good enough. You are what you have to respect that in yourself. reminds you that in your earlier days, you knew nothing about the work you were doing now. And just like others at this time, you started from scratch and learned how to do what you needed to do. You learned from your elders, gradually picking up new skills. You became good at what you did. and we're appropriately rewarded for your efforts. Others worked alongside you in these earlier days,

Starting point is 00:47:51 but some did not achieve what you have achieved, telling you that this is because some people are further ahead in your field of work are going to be successful in your position, because you've proved your worth in many different ways and you deserve your success. You're good enough. If you want to achieve and continue the goals that you want to, you're also good enough right now.

Starting point is 00:48:38 That's why you're here now. And you're not an imposter. You are what you are. and your unconscious mind accepts this as your new reality are still important lessons to learn and you are learning some of these lessons right now. The fisherman was one of those people who also earned success. He was a good kind person who looked after the people, the animals and the sea creatures.

Starting point is 00:49:22 And he was justly rewarded for all his hard work. And like the fisherman, you can begin to accept that you genuinely deserve the acclaim that you currently receive. There is no need for you to go backwards because you're happy where you are right now.

Starting point is 00:49:46 You have been too critical of yourself And there was no one there To stop you putting yourself down The monk can see inside your soul And knows what you are feeling and thinking Monk is no longer a monk With your own collective on consciousness That guides you in all that you do

Starting point is 00:50:18 As you realise that this entity is not really separate from you, but it's part of you. You're confident and it all becomes clearer. And you realise that you really are who you are and that's all that matters. So as you rest in this comfortable state of hypnosis, are listening to the sound of my voice. Certain changes take place at a deeper level of awareness.

Starting point is 00:50:59 You begin to quietly accept yourself and realise that you deserve success because you have earned it. You are not an imposter. You never were an imposter. But that was the voice of self-doubt that you have now banished from your head and as you begin to accept

Starting point is 00:51:23 who and what you are you feel happier and stronger and you are now your confidence to shine and it does shine a beautiful light shines from your heart and from your soul you accept this without question

Starting point is 00:51:45 for all those self-deaths doubts disappear in an instant, and your mind becomes clearer and life becomes brighter too. You love yourself, you appreciate yourself, and the people in your life appreciate you and love you too. These suggestions are firmly embedded into your subconscious, and they grow stronger and stronger day by day. They go stronger and stronger by the hour and by the minute. When you wake up tomorrow, when you come back to normal consciousness and awareness, you'll have a smile on your face and a spring in your step, and all those self-doubts will be cast away far away. Never to return, you are ready now to go to bed and fall asleep.

Starting point is 00:52:50 And remember the stories that you've been told and the directions that you've been given as you fall deeply, deeply asleep now.

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