Turn On Your Confidence
By
Gabriele Sogka Reign
Copyright 2005 Gabriele Sogka
Reign
Have you ever admired the confidence 'other'
people have? Well here are 5 steps to Turn On
YOUR Confidence
1. BEGIN WHERE YOU ARE with what you have. The
good news is that you already possess what you
need to have the confidence you admire in
others. Confident people have brains, you have a
brain; they have feelings, you have feelings;
they know how to use their thoughts and feelings
to their advantage. In a moment, you will be
able to use your thoughts and feelings to your
advantage as well.
2. ELIMINATE SELF-SABOTAGE. To stop keeping
yourself from reaching the confidence level you
really want, it's vital that you realize the
thoughts and feelings that fuel self-sabotage.
Every time you think anything that doesn't say
CONFIDENCE in capital letters, rephrase that
thought so it screams CONFIDENCE.
3. THINK & FEEL Confidence. Notice how often
your thoughts are 'anti-confident'. Simply by
virtue of being alive and in any proximity to
other human beings, we've learned though many
experiences to be critical of ourselves. Our
"critical mind" gets in the way and becomes a
kind of default mechanism that runs in the
background, critiquing and ready to jump on any
new, positive thought that is different from
what we've been thinking. The good news is that
this can change more easily than you think, no
pun intended.
The more you focus your attention on which
thoughts you're paying attention to, the easier
and more quickly you will be able to recognize
and replace the negative, unsupportive thoughts
with positive, confidence building thinking. You
begin to fine-tune your thoughts in a way that
only allows more like thoughts enter your mind.
Similar to thought, the same process applies to
feelings. Notice what you feel. Every time you
have a feeling of being 'less than,' are you
fueling self-doubt or self-confidence? Feel the
difference between can and can't. "Can't" will
stop you in your tracks; "Can" will empower you.
If you can recall only one experience in your
life when you've actually felt any level of
confidence at all, activate that feeling. If you
can't remember such an experience, you can
imagine' it. Then keep bringing up more and more
feelings intentionally, of what confidence feels
like. The more you feel it, the more you'll
feel.
4. SEE Confidence Visualize yourself as though
you were totally confident. Even if you have to
pretend until you actually feel confident, begin
collecting confident feelings by practicing
feeling confident. When you use your imagination
in this way, your imagination muscle strengthens
- the more your use it, the more you imagine,
the easier you can access it.
5. 'BE' Confidence. Act 'as if' you possess the
confidence you admire in others. When you act
'as if', you are confident, confidence actually
becomes part of you cellular memory so that the
physical representation of what you think, feel,
and visualize attracts more and more like
thoughts, feelings, and experiences to itself.
With these five steps and with a bit of
attention and practice to where you place your
attention, you'll be turning on YOUR confidence
in no time!
About the author:
© Gabriele
Reign is a Life Empowerment Mentor and the
creator of dynamic courses that will teach you
step-by-step how to begin living the life you've
always imagined for yourself. Visit
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