It's not your "inner dialogue," it's your brain patterns

🔥Hot take: a ‘lack of confidence' is actually just a neurological glitch.
And positive thinking will not fix it.

There are two key areas of the brain that are connected to our confidence and willingess to believe in ourselves.

Ready to nerd out on brain science with me? 🤓
Because what I researched and found when doing energy work on my brain the other day quite literally blew my mind LOL. But for real- get this:

1) The Temporal Lobe

🧠 It houses the hippocampus, which stores long-term memories.

So if you have strong, accessible memories of competence, you’re going to have more stable confidence.

But, if traumatic or humiliating memories are more dominant, the temporal lobe run the thought “why bother” as its baseline 🤯

🧠 It also houses the amygdala- the fear response. It can make speaking up, being seen, asking to be paid feel threatening, even when it’s not logical.

🧠 It’s responsible for the consolidation of your autobiography- the feeling of being you across time- your stable sense of self. With blockages, people feel like imposters and struggle to trust their own perceptions.

2) The Cerebellum

🧠 Its core function is predicting- anticipating and responding in real time. When it’s dysregulated, everything feels slightly "off.” You're perpetually bracing, overcorrecting, second-guessing.

🧠 It handles the skills we know so well that they run automaticly.
Worthiness is either one of these skills, or it’s not.

It’s something you either have to consciously remind yourself of in the moment, or it’s something you just know deep in your bones.

All of this nerdy brain science points to this one truth:

Confidence isn’t a thought you think.

It’s not about willpower, and it isn’t even about what you choose to believe.

It’s a brain state.

Which is why things like somatic work and energy work matter.

They reach places that talk-therapy or affirmations sometimes can’t - because they work at the level where these patterns are stored in the brain.

They shift the baseline of your brain. 

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It took some nerdy brain science for me to finally get it.

Not sure what that says about me... but not the point.

For some reason, learning that different parts of my brain were dysregulated due to energetic blockages

And that it was affecting my ability to truly believe in myself,

Instead of constantly trying to switch my inner dialogue and convince myself that I'm confident

Instead of always having to remind myself that I'm worthy

Instead of going to reparent my inner child for the millionth time.

Confidence is meant to be a baseline for your brain.

An automatic program it runs on without having to think about it.

But life happens, and we become afraid instead.

And so even if we've worked SO HARD on self love and compassionate inner dialogue and forgiving ourselves,
We can still find ourselves fumbling over our words.
Shrinking when put on the spot.
Bracing oursleves for social interactions.
Overthinking what we said.

And rewiring it changes everything.

How you walk into a room
How you show up in important conversations
How you show up in small talk
How you price yourself

And of course...
Your ability to take action towards your goals.

I never loved doing energy work on the brain....

Until I learned this.

Thanks to Hashem's infinite and miraculous healing powers, I'm already feeling the effects 🙏🏼🙏🏼🧠

• Emotion regulation
• Energy Healing