Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Sleep Hypnosis for Gaining Confidence and Beating the Impostor Syndrome

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Starting point is 00:01:16 or admired the delicate features of Queen Nefertiti if you have you'll probably like the History of Egypt podcast every week we explore tales of this ancient culture The history of Egypt is available wherever you get your podcasting fix. Come, let me introduce you to the world of ancient Egypt. This episode is a guided sleep hypnosis for gaining confidence and getting rid of imposter syndrome. Please do not listen to this recording or any other sleep hypnosis recording whilst driving or operating heavy machinery. Please listen to this where you can safely go.

Starting point is 00:02:09 to sleep and let's begin. Please find a safe place can safely go to sleep or likely be a chair or a bed. You can go to sleep and forget the worries of the day. Please get yourself into a comfortable position and get ready to go off into a deep sleep. As you go to sleep, listen to this recording, you will realise that you will wake up. full of confidence, though confidences within you, and the imposter syndrome that we will talk about later, is actually something that nearly everybody experiences. It's actually a natural part of human nature. And once you understand that, imposter syndrome is also known by a few other names, such the imposter phenomenon and the fraud syndrome. It is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments

Starting point is 00:03:46 and has a persistent internalised fear of being exposed as a fraud. Even though that person is most likely very competent. You see, everybody has self-doubts about themselves. Has fears. Not everybody shows this though, and you have to realise that getting over these fears is a very natural part of human behaviour. There's a story where, in Harvard University, a teacher at the classroom,

Starting point is 00:04:36 do they feel that they should be here at the start of the university year? Nearly every student puts their hands up. All of these students have studied extremely hard to be in this position and are some of the best of the best, and these students soon realise that everyone has these feelings and thoughts and you can overcome them, as optimal as possible into the bed.

Starting point is 00:05:25 Please stretch and then relax. Let yourself sink into the bedding, the most comfortable position you can and concentrate on your breathing. If you take a deep breath in and a deep breath out, you concentrate into your body. As you concentrate on your head,

Starting point is 00:06:49 you begin to relax the muscles in your face. You soften the muscles around the eyes and the eyelids. Detensing. Any muscles around the eyes. Being of relaxation move through your body. Top of your head down to the toes and back up again. It begins to start slowly again in the face as it moves down to your jaw. And any tension in your jaw relax this.

Starting point is 00:07:33 And any tension in your forehead relaxes. and any lines and muscles which are contracted feel soft now. As this relaxation, feeling and sensations move into your neck, down into your shoulders. Soles feel loose and supple as it goes down to your back, down into your chest and into your stomach, where you can feel those breaths. From your shoulders into your arms,

Starting point is 00:08:36 you rest your fingers on the bed, all parts of your body. but a position for sleep and the sensation moves down into your hips. Any feeling of weariness gets transformed into relaxation. Because sleep is one of the most natural things you can do. It is the most natural thing you can do. Everyone was born into this world. Sleeping in the womb, silent and peaceful. And every night you can return to that silent,

Starting point is 00:09:41 What your body needs and peaceful feeling flows into your legs. It's into your calm, any tightness. It feels so good as the relaxation feeling flows from the top of your head into the very tips of your toes. You feel so blissful and you know tomorrow confidence will arise and your fears will be gone. You don't need to think about that. You are drifting slowly off into sleep.

Starting point is 00:11:05 until your subconscious brain is very powerful and it will take in my suggestions. These suggestions will help you. Because everyone wants to feel more confident, it's a natural feeling. To feel, picture yourself at the side of a stream, a very slow running stream that could even be a river. Trees all around and it's very warm and a great temperature. The side of the stream and you see a canoe put it on the edge of the water and get in. You, how you ride this canoe, but you can ride it down the stream.

Starting point is 00:12:51 Ride on your back on a cushion which is on there, knows where to go, and it safely takes you down the stream, left and right, and you can see nature, you can see the sounds, and it's so relaxing. As you sit back and look up at the sky, you can see birds, and see the teddy past and by. You see a series of drops, some very gentle drops, which they see. the canoe traverse and take you down deeper into your subconscious. As you drop on each one, the canoe serenely glides on the water. As you come to the first drop, and as the canoe drops down deeper, as you go down,

Starting point is 00:14:39 and he goes down to the third drop, into feel so relaxed into the canoe. As it goes down one more, you feel yourself coming down to another drop. You feel so relaxed as you go down deep. deeper and deeper into the next one. Gentle splash of the water as you dip down and you see the last three drops. Flat pool of water beaches. Quility.

Starting point is 00:16:27 So good as you float along. Drifts over to the beach and slowly beaches on the pebbles. One step and you go and sit on the grass. On to the bank this is your place of tranquility. You can decide to either stay or ahead of you. There's a forest.

Starting point is 00:17:23 with chattering birds ahead and on the other side, an open plain where the streams tributary still flows. Either way, if you walk or stay, you will feel so relaxed as you gaze off into the sea of tranquility. Open your mind to new thoughts and ideas that you have not had before. The perfect time to go to sleep if you're ready. Time to gain more confidence and be the person. You know you can be. And as you sit here, you feel so confident.

Starting point is 00:18:24 Confident to relax, explore, to open your mind. Now my voice to guide you and take 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. And sometimes it is possible to notice the qualities that those people, they admire about. We often feel played by an inner feeling and really deserve our achievements.

Starting point is 00:19:34 Sometimes we worry, doubt as a fraud, who will be exposed one day. Yet, it's clear to the people who have helped you on your way, all the people who admire you, and the people you help, think very much otherwise. Otherwise, you wouldn't be here

Starting point is 00:20:03 where you are now. You may feel, but you don't deserve to be where you are right now. But the fact is, you are. People have recognised a certain quality in you and have rewarded you for it.

Starting point is 00:20:29 They see you as a highly skilled, highly valued person. They see you as someone with knowledge. They respect you for that. Wherever you are, you have reached this position through sheer determination and hard work. Maybe you don't agree that you worked hard to get where you are.

Starting point is 00:21:09 But remember, you started from scratch, just as everyone learning new skills had to do. We were all born, thoughtless, without any education or drive. and what you have achieved. Some people learn quickly. They struggle to understand some concepts. But you are because of you. Because you feel that you have to prove your worth to others. Or yourself.

Starting point is 00:22:03 You may even find yourself inwardly trying 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. The feelings and emotions are not often rational it seems that you cannot help yourself from experiencing that type of self-doubt nearly everyone if they are honest

Starting point is 00:22:34 will admit to feelings of self-doubt sometimes in fact as you know the feelings have become so common that this condition is widely known as the imposter syndrome. The imposter syndrome encompasses feelings

Starting point is 00:22:57 that are common to many human beings and are prevalent across race, nationality and gender. People suffering from this often feel as though everyone else knows everything but what they don't realise is that deep down

Starting point is 00:23:22 other people don't know everything and in many cases they will know a lot less than you and privately doubt ourselves but we believe we're alone in thinking that way because no one else voices their doubts

Starting point is 00:23:44 but Einstein one of the greatest scientists of all time suffered from imposter syndrome describing himself as someone whose work didn't deserve as a much attention as it received. He claimed that his theory of relativity was inspired by a dream, whereby he was hurtling down

Starting point is 00:24:11 a mountainside. In the dream, he sped faster and faster, and when he looked up to the sky, he noticed how the stars appeared in appearance. As he approached the speed of light, I want you to come with me. on a similar journey a journey deep into the realms of your wonderful subconscious mind

Starting point is 00:24:43 instead of hurtling down the mountainside I want you to find yourself floating gently down to a beautiful place with blue skies and soft candy floss clouds below you see carpets of grass on the

Starting point is 00:25:05 sweet scented meadows and ornate picture box buildings and manicured gardens with exotic plants now divine. Picture this scene in your mind. Make it real and as vivid as it can possibly be good. As you float further down, perhaps you will notice clusters of pink cherry blossom trees scattered here and you reach the bottom of the mountain.

Starting point is 00:25:48 you feel you have landed on soft feathery cushions and you take a look around at your surroundings to one side of you is a beautiful turquoise lake bordered with tall bamboo plants that throw shade over the pastel coloured water lilies that float elegantly on top of the steel lake As you are feeling very comfortable and relaxed, as you notice that close by is a temple carved out a wood,

Starting point is 00:26:30 and intricately patterned from the steps of the temple you were greeted by an old monk who is wearing a long purple robe. His hands are together as though in prayer, and he slowly and steadily walks over to where you are resting. He begins to rise, bows his head, and with his hands still in prayer, he beckons you to remain on the cushions. He notice how you admire the bamboo plants and explains how the bamboo needs plenty of nurturing. If you're a gardening enthusiast, you may already know that bamboo requires fertile soil, sunshine and water, and in its first year of growth

Starting point is 00:27:34 there is no visible sign of activity in the second, third and fourth year still nothing seems to grow in the fifth a miracle happens and in just a few weeks a bamboo suddenly shoots up until it is higher

Starting point is 00:27:58 than the monk the monk explains that during its first four years a bamboo was developing a stroll unseen foundation. Had it not done so, it couldn't have sustained its life as it grew. He then bows his head once again, before offering you a bowl from which to take a drink, you lift the bowl up to your lips and take a sip of the delicious, sweetly fermented liquid. You are feeling very deeply and comfortably relaxed quite a little. sleepy as you look at this person that you have created in your mind. You realise that he or she

Starting point is 00:28:54 represents your own inner wisdom. As many secrets and stories to share, mind is open and receptive to new ways of thinking and feeling. And you see now that the monk symbolises your collective unconsciousness, you feel a gentle breeze in the end. flies flip by before flying off, breaking the silence to become aware of distant music, and a soft voice begins to rhythmically speak. You were not sure whether the voice belongs to you, or even the butterfly. All the animals are it could even be the murmuring of the afternoon breeze, unfolding its stories.

Starting point is 00:30:07 May already know the story. Many stories from the collective unconsciousness are known at a deep, level. You don't even need to make sense of his meaning. Your unconscious mind will do this for you. In far eastern folklore, there was once a young fisherman called Taro. Taro knew the names of all the animals and beasts in his kingdom and was kind to all who he man. Harrow was looked up to, loved and respected by everyone he knew him. But deep inside he felt unworthy of all that love and respect. Who am I, Tara would ask himself to be treated so well. I still have 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

Starting point is 00:31:32 and he knew how he felt, and he continued his job as a fisherman, providing for the villagers in his usual way, was gratefully received. More group of children in Tara's village had heard their parents and friends seen the praises of Tarrow. They decided to follow him to the beach,

Starting point is 00:32:03 where his boat lay hidden in the shade. The children watched Tarrow went to prepare his. boat for his expedition. The children were strong swimmers, so as Tarah prepared his boat, they waded into the sea to swim around and the turtle was swimming to the shore, waiting to great Tao, as it always did. The children saw the great turtle. No children can often be very cruel, and they began teasing and frightening the turtle, progging it with care of the turtle, prozing it with from the uprooted bamboo. The turtle cried out

Starting point is 00:32:54 and Tarrow heard its cries and raced over to rescue his friend. The children quickly hurried back to their families and the turtle was so grateful that it carried Tarrow to a mythical underwater dragon palace where he was warmly welcomed and he met and spoke

Starting point is 00:33:19 to the princess of the court. For a while Taro lived in luxury and opulence, 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, but Tarrow helped run the palace, overseeing many important tasks, such as arranging guardianship for the palace's secret treasure, and overseeing meetings between the elders was truly appreciated

Starting point is 00:34:02 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 and lives knew so much more than him

Starting point is 00:34:25 and would one day expose him for what he was. Years went by and Tarrow's self-doubts played on his mind until they eventually drove him to desire to return to his own people. The Princess begged Tarrow to remain, but she couldn't bear him to see him unhappy, so she gave Tarrow a chawed box as a token. of her everlasting love. To be entrusted with this box was a great honour.

Starting point is 00:35:04 As Tara knew, the Alexa of life depended on the safe being of this beautiful container and its contents. The princess knew of Tara's self-doubt, and she placed her finger to his lips, as they parted and whispered to him, You are as you are. Do not open this box Under any circumstances The sea turtle was summoned to the palace To Carri Tarot And the jewel box back to the home

Starting point is 00:35:43 His home on the land travelled over the ocean And rose out of the warm waters Soon after breathe in the warm afternoon air On the journey Sea tracons and sharks Try to steal the box But Tarrell 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 00:36:16 Tarrow was shocked to see that everything had changed. The Turcos Lake, with its bamboo and lilies, had been replaced by monstrous buildings. The temple was gone and in its place was an oakly 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. Longsons gone, and the children who had swung on the shore teasing his friend the turtle were old. In his sadness, Tarot held onto his jewel box that the prince, had bestowed on him. He longed to be close to her again. And forgetting her warning, he undid the clasp and lifted the lid. Suddenly a cloud of white smoke emerged from the box and engulfed tarot. His vision was obscured and for a while he was blinded, but when the smoke

Starting point is 00:37:41 cleared. He saw that he had been transformed into an old white-haired man. My voice trails away and you find yourself sitting fluffy cushions and instead of the jewel box you were still holding of sweet liquid as the dream fades away, reminds you that you are good enough. Ways be good enough. You are what you are. I have to respect that. In yourself, a monk reminds you that in your earlier days, you knew nothing about the work you were doing now. Just like others at this time, you started from scratch and learned how to do what you needed to do.

Starting point is 00:39:01 You learned from your elders and gradually picked up new skills. You became good and what you did and were appropriately rewarded for your efforts. Others worked alongside you in these earlier days. But some did not achieve what you had achieved, telling you that this is because some people are further ahead in your field of work. And you could be one of those people.

Starting point is 00:39:39 You were given your position because you have proved your worth in many different ways. and you deserve your success and you are good enough. You are good enough if you want to continue and achieve the goals you want to achieve are also good enough now. And that's why you are here now. You are not a imposter.

Starting point is 00:40:13 You are what you are and your unconscious mind accepts this as your new reality. There are still important lessons to learn and you are learning some of these lessons right now. Tarrow was one of those people who also earned his success. He was a good kind person

Starting point is 00:40:41 who looked after the people, the animals, and sea creatures and he was justly rewarded for all his hard work you can begin to accept that you generally deserve the acclaim that you currently receive. There is no need for you to go back because you are happy where you are. Right now you have been too critical of yourself

Starting point is 00:41:15 and had no one to stop you for putting yourself down because they didn't know how you felt, bunk and see inside your soul, and knows what you are feeling and thinking. monk is no longer but your own collective unconsciousness that guides you in all that you do. As you realise that this entity is not really separate from you, but a part of you. You are, it all becomes clear that you really are who you are. So as you rest in this comfortable state of hypnosis,

Starting point is 00:42:15 Listening to the sound of my voice, certain changes take place at a deeper level of awareness. You begin to quietly accept yourself and realise that you do deserve success. Because you have earned it, you earned it unconsciously, applying yourself to what you were doing. even though you didn't realise you were doing this you are not an imposter you never were an imposter but that was the voice of self-doubt that is now banished from your head

Starting point is 00:43:00 and as you begin to accept who and what you are you feel happier for confidence to shine and it does shines from your heart and from your soul and you know that you live as you live question.

Starting point is 00:43:36 All those self-dowls disappear in an instant and it becomes clearer and life becomes brighter for you for you and all those who are around who appreciate and love you because you are who you are. These suggestions are firmly embedded into your subconscious and they grow stronger and stronger day by day. They grow stronger and stronger by the hour. When you wake up tomorrow, when you come back to normal consciousness awareness,

Starting point is 00:44:31 you will have a smile on your face and a spring in your steps. Those soft acts are cast away far away to return. You are now ready to go to bed. Fall asleep, the stories you've been told and the directions you've been given. Fall deeply.

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Sleep Hypnosis for Gaining Confidence and Beating the Impostor Syndrome

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