Prince Ea: A reminder of the tools of the devil.  The most powerful tool the devil has is self-doubt.  I wrote a piece on this years ago and I think it’s timely to discuss it again.  There is so much uncertainty in the world right now.  Given the current circumstances and how this society functions, we are led to believe that we are failing, that there isn’t enough, that somehow these imaginary games in these systems we created are what sustains us.  We separate further and further from what we need to thrive, convincing ourselves that what we do on a daily basis will somehow help us survive.  We think that survival is about protecting the ego and how well we do, often in things we don’t even care about.  We play this game forgetting it is indeed a game.  We created the rules, we bend the rules if we have enough money/power/clout in the situation.  But we never discuss how the majority are set up to not even be able to enter the game. 

Throughout the entirety of this world and this universe, we really can’t believe that there is any one right way to do something.  There are infinite possibilities because there are infinite existences out there.  But when we plant the seed of doubt, we never learn to trust our own instincts and we lose the connection with who we are, the very thing we needed so we could develop and sustain ourselves.  Doubt can be so powerful we won’t even plant the seed.  Or if we finally gain the courage to plant the seed, we stop tending it.  We don’t nurture it and then berate it if it doesn’t become what we thought it should be. Or we shrug it off as something inevitable, like we didn’t have the time to honor it and address the dreams.  Doubt is the easy ticket for the devil because he doesn’t have to do a damn thing.  We will talk ourselves out of taking action just because we are on a bit of shaky ground and haven’t developed the sea legs yet.

The only way to defeat this tool is to never pick it up.  Never allow ourselves to be tempted by it.  Never allow ourselves to believe it, and we do that by ignoring the shoulds and guilt and fear we are trained to believe is normal from the time we are kids.  It may feel uncomfortable following our own drum at times, but we are meant to do just that.  Doubt is used by people to make us feel like we don’t have the answers and that our time is better spent serving their purpose because they have the answers.  Don’t buy into it.  It can be scary to know that we will fail, sometimes often, and that it may be one of the only ways to succeed.  Success does not come without risk.  Success isn’t always clean.  Success isn’t always easy.  It’s simple and it will flow—but it still takes work and effort until we can get the machine flowing.  Don’t let self-doubt be one of the tools we use in the creation of that machine.  Don’t let it stop us.