Inner Work 184: Increasing Your Tolerance for Uncertainty
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
How comfortable are you with uncertainty, like when you don't know how something is going to turn out?
When you have to wait to find out the outcome of something in your life? Or when you set out on an unknown path, without being able to see where it's going to lead you?
Many of us have a limited tolerance for uncertainty. We might experience uncertainty as a threat, as something we need to fix or avoid at all costs.
For me, uncertainty and being in a state of not knowing have often felt deeply uncomfortable (along with some other anxiety patterns I've experienced in this lifetime).
We're all on a continuum of how much uncertainty we can tolerate before we start experiencing inner tension, discomfort, and stress. (Along with a strong need to resolve the uncertainty.)
If you're like me, you might have an inner part of you who we might call the "reassurance seeker."
This is the part of us that doesn't know how to sit with uncertainty, that wants to know everything in advance, that might over-prepare for things and/or seek reassurance or validation from others.
This episode of INNER WORK was created for this part of you -- the reassurance seeker. We'll help this part of you feel seen, validated, soothed, and NOT ALONE.
You'll walk away with:
- an understanding of what fuels reassurance-seeking patterns and behaviors (and what those behaviors often look like)
- clarity on whether you're currently in a "reassurance-seeking trap"
- a powerful shift in perspective that will help you get more comfortable with uncertainty
- ideas for how you can USE uncertainty as a spiritual teacher in your life
The book mentioned in this episode is Needing to Know for Sure by Martin Seif and Sally Winston.
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Thank you for being here, and please keep doing your inner work! It matters.
Music & editing by G. Demers
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| 0:00.0 | This is Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast, a place to explore spiritual concepts, tools, and practices to deepen your healing and awakening. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm your host, Josephine Hartman, a certified intuitive healer and a Kashik Records practitioner and teacher. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm honored that you're here and happy to serve as a guide and companion on your path for a little while. |
| 0:32.9 | To learn more about how to work with me or study with me, please visit joseveen hartman.com. |
| 0:41.3 | Hello, my fellow healer and changemaker on the path. Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual |
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| 1:22.0 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:24.8 | Today's episode is about increasing your tolerance for uncertainty, which also means getting more comfortable with being in a state of not knowing. |
| 1:37.3 | Now, I speak from personal experience when I say that some of us have a very hard time tolerating uncertainty, |
| 1:48.0 | sitting with uncertainty, not knowing the outcome of something, right? |
| 1:54.0 | Not knowing something in advance, not knowing how something is going to turn out, |
| 1:59.0 | or not having all of the information or all of the |
| 2:02.8 | answers about something in advance. Now, for me, this has been a pattern of generalized anxiety. |
| 2:10.9 | It's just been part of generalized anxiety, my whole adult life, and something I have done therapy for. |
| 2:19.9 | I've done cognitive behavioral therapy for this. |
| 2:23.4 | I've done psychoanalysis. |
| 2:25.6 | I've done other forms of cognitive level interventions. |
| 2:31.4 | I've done nervous system healing work, right? And all of those things have helped, |
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