Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Deep Sleep Hypnosis for Building Confidence & Clearing the Imposter Syndrome

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Starting point is 00:02:05 Tonight, you'll hear a guided. sleep hypnosis session for gaining confidence and getting rid of imposter syndrome. Please get as comfortable as possible because you'll soon be going off into a deep sleep and waking up tomorrow full of confidence. You know that confidence is within you and the imposter syndrome that we'll talk about later is actually something. that nearly everybody experiences. It's actually a natural part of human nature. And once you understand that, you can overcome it.

Starting point is 00:02:52 Imposter syndrome is known by a few other names, such as the imposter phenomenon and the fraud syndrome. It's a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts doubts, their accomplishments, and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a fraud. That person is most likely very competent. You see, everybody has self-doubts about themselves, and everyone has fears. Not everybody shows this thing. And you have to realize that getting over these fears is a very natural part of human behaviour. There's even a story from Harvard University, one of the best universities in the world, where a teacher asked the classroom, do you feel

Starting point is 00:03:54 if you don't belong here? And nearly every student put their hands up. And these are students who deserve to be there, who've studied extremely hard, to be in their position and are some of the best students from all over the country and world. The students soon realised that everyone has these feelings and thoughts and they can be overcome and you will overcome these thoughts too. So please get more comfortable than the men. Have a stretch and relax into it. sink into the mattress and get into the most comfortable position you can and then concentrate on your breathing

Starting point is 00:04:47 as you take deep breaths and as you concentrate breathing in and out make sure that you're breathing through your body area but your body is slowly moving in and out and you realize each breath makes you feel more and more relaxed as you breathe deeply in and out. Your mind begins to relax like the rest of your body and you begin to notice a relaxing feeling flow into your face. Relaxing all the muscles in your face. The muscles soften in your forehead. Soften around the eyes and eyelids. The muscles detents around the eyes.

Starting point is 00:06:00 Your eyelids rest gently and the feeling of relaxation flows through your body. It's flowing from the top of your head all the way down to your toes and Back up again, relaxing your jaw, tension in your jaw. Relaxes, relaxes too, and tension in your face. Feel soft as the feeling moves into your shoulders, making all the muscles feel loose and subtle, to your fingers, your biceps and triceps, relaxing all the large muscles here,

Starting point is 00:07:37 all the little muscles into your chest, and into your stomach. stomach so you can do even deeper breath, so comfortable for sleep. As the sensation moves down into your head, the muscles here, it's getting transformed into relaxation. Because sleep is one of the most natural things you can do. Maybe the most natural thing you can do. Because everyone was born, sleeping in the womb, silent

Starting point is 00:09:48 and peaceful, you can return to that silent and peaceful state is what your body needs, what it demands, falls in your body feel so good, your thighs, your car, just drop now. Relaxation is really flowing through your body. The top of your head is to the very tips of your toes will be gone, but for now, you don't even need to think about that as you start drifting off into deeper and deeper relaxation going into your subconscious. Your brain is so powerful. Take on suggestions. These suggestions will help you because everyone wants to feel more confident. Picture yourself at the sign of a stream. A very slow running stream. It could even be a

Starting point is 00:12:25 a small river with pine trees all around and it's very warm here and richer. It feels nice on the skin. It's a perfect breeze that you feel. Not too warm and not too cool. On the side of the stream those gently separate the weight on them and polish. From years of polishing and on the side of this, you see a canoe. It's wooden and light, and you put it on the edge of the water and get in. This light canoe, onto the edge of the water and get in. And there's a paddle there which you can choose to use, and you can choose how to ride the canoe downstream. You can sit up and look around and lie back on the cushions that are there, and the canoe knows where to go, takes you down the stream, moves the route to take left and right and you can see nature,

Starting point is 00:14:41 and you can see the sounds of nature, and it's so relaxing, makes its way down the stream, and see the birds, dart around on the clear blue sky, see the tips, when the pine trees disappear, as you pass them by very slowly. You see a series of drops, some very gentle drops, which the canoe will traverse and take you deeper down into your subconscious. And as you drop on each one, the canoe serenely glides on the water.

Starting point is 00:16:28 And you begin to feel so much more relaxed. As the canoe drops down once, you feel yourself coming down, you feel so red, the gentle splash. You see the necks. You can see a circled grass bank, pebbly beaches, so good, So good as you float along,

Starting point is 00:18:12 and this is your place of tranquillity where you can decide to stay or move on. There's a forest with chattery birds on the other side, an open plain. Where the stream's trippy tree still flows, walk or stay. You feel like you belong here. So relaxed.

Starting point is 00:19:43 So it ease and so it ease and so happy as you gaze across the pool of serenity and tranquility is a perfect time. To open your mind to new thoughts, it's a perfect time to rest if you're ready to gain more confidence. Feel so confident, new ideas of us to guide you and take you to a subconscious place is not always easy to see how we are busy. received by others. We sometimes need to take a step back. It sometimes isn't possible to notice the qualities within us.

Starting point is 00:21:26 But other people know it's full. They know about our achievements, and many things about us, and played by inner feeling. We don't really deserve our achievements. And sometimes we worry that we'll be found out as a fraud. Yes is clear to the people who've helped you on the way. You help, they think very much otherwise you deserve your achievement. You wouldn't be here where you are, to be where you are right now. But the fact is, you are here.

Starting point is 00:22:57 People have recognized certain qualities in you and have rewarded you for it. They see you as high- skilled, any valued person, they see you as someone with knowledge, wherever you are in your life right now. You've reached this position through sheer determination. Maybe you don't agree that you've worked hard to get where you are. But remember, you started from scratch. Just as everyone who starts off in life has to do.

Starting point is 00:23:52 Just as everyone learning new skills had to do. We were all born of thoughtless without any educational drive. And look where you are now you have achieved. You are unique. You are special. You can have thoughts and knowledge to share with the world. Lord is interested in you. Some people learn quickly and easily.

Starting point is 00:24:29 and others may struggle to understand some concepts. But you are where you are right now, because of you. Perhaps you feel that you have to prove your worth to others or yourself. You may even find yourself trying to justify your thoughts or actions in case they are challenged. You know that no one is likely to challenge you in this way, but feelings and emotions are rational. It seems that you cannot help yourself for experiencing that type of self-doubt. Nearly everyone does, if they are honest doubt sometimes. The feelings have become so common that this condition,

Starting point is 00:25:51 is widely known as the imposter syndrome. The imposter syndrome encompasses feelings that are common to many human beings and are seen across race, nationality, age and gender. People suffering from this often feel as though everyone else knows everything. But what they don't realize, other people don't know everything. And in many cases, they will know alone, they will privately doubt ourselves.

Starting point is 00:26:41 But we believe we are alone in thinking that way. Because no one else voices their doubts at Einstein. one of the greatest scientists of all time suffered from imposter syndrome, 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. He sped by his bedside 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 and with me on a similar journey, deep into the realms of your wonderful, subconscious mind.

Starting point is 00:27:59 Instead of hurtling down the mountain side, I want you to find yourself floating gently down to a beautiful place with the blue skies and soft candy floss clouds. You see carpets of grass on the sweet scented meadows to picture box buildings and manicured gardens with exotic plants that smell divine. Picture the scene in your mind. make it real and as vivid as it can possibly be clusters of cherry blossom trees scattered here and there

Starting point is 00:29:06 you have landed on soft feathery cushions on one side of you there is a beautiful turquoise lake bordered with a tall bamboo plant brochained elegantly close by intricately patterned steps to the temple

Starting point is 00:30:09 that you're greeted by an old monk who's wearing a long purple robe his hands are together and slowly and steadily walks over to where you're resting begin to rise but he beckons you to sit with him on some cushions you notice around you

Starting point is 00:30:52 that he explains plenty of nurturing or a gardening enthusiast They already know, fertile soil, sunshine and water, first year of growth. There are no visible signs of activity. In the second, third and fourth year, there is stillness and nothing seems to grow. And yet in the fifth year, a miracle happens and in just a few weeks, the bamboo, suddenly shoots her until it is higher than the monk.

Starting point is 00:31:55 The monk explains that during the first four years the bamboo was developing a strong and seen a foundation and had it not done so it couldn't have sustained its life as it grew. He then bows his head again before offering you

Starting point is 00:32:20 a bowl from which to take a drink, lift the bowl up to your lips, and you take a sip of delicious, sweet, get a feeling, a very deep, comfortable, relaxed feeling that sleepy and very happy you look at this person that you have created in your mind and you realize that he or she represents your own inner wisdom and as many secrets and stories to share. Your mind is open and receptive to new ways of thinking and feeling. And you see now that the monk symbolises your collective unconsciousness feel a gentle breeze in the air. As butterflies flit by landing on nearby flowers before fly

Starting point is 00:33:40 off and dancing and interweaving in the air. There's a breaking of the silence as you become aware of distant musing. As a soft voice begins to rhythmically speak, you are not sure whether the voice belongs to you or the monk and the butterfly or the animals around. It could even be the murmuring of the afternoon breeze, unfolding its stories. And you may already know the story. Many stories, where the collective unconsciousness is known, at a deeper level, you don't even need to make sense of its meaning.

Starting point is 00:34:42 Your unconscious mind will do this for you in a far Eastern folklore, there was once the story of the young fisherman. The fisherman knew the names of the animals and beasts in his kingdom, and was kind the fisherman was looked up to. He was loved and respected by everyone who knew him. But deep inside, he felt unworthy of all that love and respect. Who am I? The fisherman would ask himself, I have still so much to learn. I must prove to myself and my friends that I am worthy of them.

Starting point is 00:35:43 He didn't voice his doubts. So no one knew how he felt. He continued his job as a fisherman, providing for the villagers in his usual way. He appreciated his work, a small group of children. In the village had heard their parents and friends, singing his praises to follow him to the beach, where his boats lay hidden in the shade of bamboo.

Starting point is 00:36:28 The children watched the fisherman as he went to prepare his boat for his expedition. The children were strong swimmers. So when the fisherman went out on his boat, they waded into the sun. sea, to swim around in the warm, shallow waters. There was a turtle, swimming to the shore, waiting to greet the fishermen, as it always did. The children saw the great turtle, and as you know, 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 friends.

Starting point is 00:37:33 The children quickly hurried back to their families and the turtle was so grateful that it carried the fisherman to a mythical underwater dragon palace where he was warmly welcomed and spoke to the princess of the court. the fisherman lived in luxury and opulers and all his mental and physical needs were met. But deep inside he felt that he didn't deserve all these wonderful treasures. He no longer needed to fish and the fisherman 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 was truly appreciated by all who worked for him but he couldn't get over the feeling that he didn't deserve his position at the palace he felt he was a fraud and that the old king and the elders who had lived in the palace all their lives

Starting point is 00:38:53 knew so much more than him and one day they would expose him for what he was the years went by and the self-doubts played on his mind so much that they eventually drove him to desire to return to his own people the princess begged the fisherman to remain but she couldn't bear him

Starting point is 00:39:21 to see him so unhappy. So she gave him a jeweled-led, lead box as a token of her everlasting love. To be entrusted with this box was a great honour. As the fisherman knew that the Alexa of Life depended on the safe being of this beautiful container and its contents, the princess knew the fisherman's self-doubt, as she played. her finger to his lips. As they parted, she whispered to him, You are as you are, do not open this box in 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.

Starting point is 00:40:19 They travelled over the ocean and rose out of the warm waters, soon to breathe in the warm afternoon air. On the journey, sea dragons and sharks tried to steal the mocks, 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, the fisherman was shocked to see that everything had changed. The turquoise lake, with its bamboo and lilies, had been replaced by monstrous buildings. 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 electric. electricity pylons and tall looming chimneys pouring out smoke and polluting the once beautiful island. He knew no one in this village. His parents had long since gone and the children who had swum on the shore

Starting point is 00:41:33 teasing his friend the turtle were old. In his sadness, the fisherman held onto his jeweled box that the princess had bestowed on him. He longed to be close to her again, and forgetting her warning, he ended the clasp and lifted the lid. Suddenly, a cloud of white smoke emerged from the box and engulfed the fisherman. His vision was obscured, and for a while he was blinded, and when the smoke cleared, he saw that he had been transformed into an old white-haired man. The voice trails away. You will find yourself sitting on soft, fluffy cushions, and instead of the jewelled box,

Starting point is 00:42:28 you're still holding the bowl of sweet liquid. As the dream fades away, the monk bows, and you are reminded that you are good enough, and you will always be good enough. You are what you are And you have to respect That in yourself The monk reminds you

Starting point is 00:42:51 That in your earlier days You know nothing about the work you were doing now Just like others at this time You started from scratch And learnt how to do what you needed to do You learned from your elders gradually and you picked up new skills you became good at what you did

Starting point is 00:43:14 and you were appropriately rewarded for your efforts others worked alongside you in these earlier days but some did not achieve what you have achieved the monk continued softly telling you that this is because some people are further ahead in your field of work and you could become one of those

Starting point is 00:43:41 people. You could be ahead in your position too, because you've proved your worth in many different ways and you deserve your success and you are good enough. You're good enough if you want to continue and achieve the goals you want to achieve, but you're also good enough now. And that's why You are not an imposter. Conscious mind accepts this as your new reality. Yes, there 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 00:44:44 and he justly was rewarded for all his hard work. And like the fisherman, you can begin to accept that you are genuinely deserving of the acclaim that you currently receive. There is no need for you to go back because you're happy where you are right now. You have been too critical of yourself and had no one to stop you putting yourself down because they didn't know how you felt can see inside your soul and knows what you are thinking and feeling

Starting point is 00:45:22 the monk is no longer a monk which your collective unconsciousness that guides you and all that you do as you realise that this entity is not really separate from you but he is part of you you are confident

Starting point is 00:45:40 and it all becomes clearer and you realize who you really are matters. So as you rest in this comfortable state, listening to the sound of my voice, certain changes take place on a deeper level of awareness. You begin to quietly accept yourself and realize that you do deserve success because you have earned it. You earned it unconsciously applying yourself to what you were doing I didn't realize you were doing this

Starting point is 00:46:24 you are not an imposter you never were an imposter but that was the voice of self-doubt that has been banished now from your head and as you begin to accept you feel happier and stronger shines from your heart and from your soul

Starting point is 00:46:55 Step this with our quack. For all those self-doubts disappear in an instant, and your mind becomes clearer, and your life becomes brighter for you. Those that you know and appreciate and love you. They do so. These suggestions are firmly embedded into your subconscious, where they grow stronger and stronger day by day. They grow stronger and stronger by the hour and by the minute. And when you wake up tomorrow and when you come back to normal conscious awareness, you will have a smile on your face and a spring in your step. And those self-doubts are cast for...

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Deep Sleep Hypnosis for Building Confidence & Clearing the Imposter Syndrome

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