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I'm Dora, welcome to Radio Headspace and to Wednesday. So the other day I got a notification

from Facebook, you know, the one that reminds you what you were up to three years ago.

And the memory that came up was the day that I had to guide my very first group meditation session.

I wrote a post about how afraid I was and how I was hoping that nobody would show up.

Before I had started guiding and teaching others, I had a lot of fear about how my offerings would

be received. And this idea, this fear, or even imposter syndrome reminded me of an original

painting and a print of the same piece of work. Even if someone printed or repainted the Mona Lisa,

it's still not the original. You can't imitate authenticity. As individuals, our gifts,

our talents, the things that we do best are uniquely ours. And this is something that I had to

realize as I continued to guide meditations and host events. The things that I were creating were

truly one of a kind, not because they were mind blowing, revolutionary things, but because they were me.

So back to that moment where I was guiding my first in-person group meditation.

What if I wasn't good enough? What if people hated my voice or I said the wrong things?

Even worse, what if nobody decided to show up for my session and it was just me, myself, and my singing

bowls? So the day arrives when it's my turn to guide the meditation for the day and I'm shook.

I'm a nervous wreck. I set up my area, hip-play on the playlist I had created and waited.

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