There are a lot of perfectly good people out there wandering around wrapped in thick layers of self-doubt, which obscures all their light. I should know; I’m currently in the process of unraveling some of my own layers, myself. Oh, sure, we might call self-doubt by a hundred other names, so as to appear “normal” (whatever that means). I’m just an introvert! cries one man I know. I just don’t trust many people! protests another. Make no mistake: deep down, these are just excuses for keeping yourself in a box — they do not reflect the deeper reality. Self-doubt is like a dark cloak that prevents the love inside a person from being projected outwards, towards the world and all its fine people, places, and things. When we doubt our own goodness, and, especially, our own capacity for love, what gets projected onto the world instead is a whole lot of negativity, and a whole lot of mistrust. Fortunately, this is not necessarily a terminal condition, unless you want it to be. But reversing it will require you to get in touch with all the love and goodness inside you, rather than ruminating on all the supposedly terrible or foolish thins you have done in the past. You will have to make friends, for example, with all your desires to feel good, and to understand that feeling good is the way we all deserve, and were intended, to live. From there, the biggest indication that your self-doubt is falling away is that you will start to smile. To yourself, definitely. And at others, slowly but surely. Smiling is love, projected outwards, for the pure and simple reason for making yourself and others feel good. Smiling is your own radiant, positive energy, unleashed. ❤️‍🔥—Y.B.D.