Dealing with self-doubt as a massage therapist (with guided meditation!)

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Are you psyching yourself out during your sessions? Do you find yourself dreading new massage clients because "what if they hate it?" In this video I talk about a few basic mindfulness techniques to get yourself out of that habit (or at least to make those intrusive thoughts a little less powerful). We talk about distancing, embracing, distraction, and how to psych yourself up! Then we end with a guided meditation that will walk you through an easy mindfulness exercise for dealing with self-doubt. This is for massage students and massage therapists alike.

0:00 Introduction
1:50 Impostor Syndrome and you
3:30 Anxiety and self-doubt
5:55 Rumination
8:25 Strategies to stop rumination
9:10 The power of noticing
9:48 Strategy 1: Mental distancing
10:55 Strategy 2: Embracing
13:12 Strategy 3: Distraction
15:10 Massage as meditation
16:50 Letting go of outcomes
19:55 Letting go of "fixing"
23:00 Psych yourself up!
24:10 Consider talk therapy
26:45 Give this time
29:15 How to meditate
32:18 Guided meditation for self-doubt

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