Not Knowing, and Staying Anyway

13 min

Best for: sitting with uncertainty and self-doubt

When a question has no answer yet, the instinct is to escape the not-knowing, but real self-trust is built in the space before resolution arrives. In this session you'll practise staying: in the room, in the body, in the silence of your own company, using slow nasal breathing to anchor you while uncertainty sits at the door. Rather than forcing clarity, you'll learn to be steady company for yourself without needing the end of the story. Over time, this is how confidence stops depending on certainty.

← Back self confidence
Eleanor Vance
Your storyteller
Eleanor Vance
Warm, low, unhurried

Warm and unhurried, with a low steady ease, the slow exhale at the end of a long day.

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About this session

Not Knowing, and Staying Anyway is a guided audio session from Salūs, part of the self confidence collection, narrated by Eleanor Vance.

Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.