How To Boost Your Confidence

Many of us suffer from a lack of confidence. Even those of us with a high degree of confidence have times in our lives when we feel lacking and not quite good enough. Challenges tend to get greater the greater our confidence becomes – it just seems to be part of life on this planet. 

When we lack confidence, or encounter a greater challenge, we need to bolster our self confidence and increase our self-esteem. Here are a few tips to make the transition from your current confidence levels to higher ones: 

1. Use Neuro Linguistic Programming!          

There is a great NLP trick that can help you out when you are feeling a lack of confidence. Firstly remember a time when you were feeling ultra confident. Recall the exact details of that time in your head. See what you saw then, hear what you heard, sense what you sensed and feel how you felt then. Really step into your mental recollections as if you were back there now.          

When the feelings become intense and powerful put your forefinger against your thumb and mentally repeat the word “confidence” 3 times. Do this a further 3 times. Now do it every day for a month.         

What you are doing is “anchoring” the feeling of confidence to your hand gesture and the word “confidence” (mentally spoken 3 times). After about 30 days these feelings will become easily accessible to you by just putting your forefinger against your thumb and mentally saying the word “confidence” 3 times.             

This is a neat trick that always works. Incase you are dubious that something so simple could have such a powerful effect on your mind and body just think of a song that reminds you of some place or someone, the smell of perfume or cologne that does the same thing or the smell of food (such as fresh bread) that transport you back to a different time in your mind.             “Anchoring” happens naturally in everyday life. It is just how are brains work. So use it to your advantage with the above technique.

2. Use Self Hypnosis!          

Self hypnosis is one of the most effective ways to increase your confidence. It has a proven record for building confidence, and self-esteem, quickly, effectively and permanently!          

There are some great pre-recorded self confidence hypnosis sessions available that will build your confidence levels quickly.

3. Use Autosuggestion!

Try affirming your confidence every day.

Write out 100 times “My self confidence is growing stronger every day in every way”. As you write down this affirmation try to evoke the feelings of confidence and really believe what you are writing! 

4. Try Visualization!       

This one works a treat and is amazingly powerful. It is also an NLP technique that is very fast working.           

First imagine that you are at a movie theatre. Now on the screen in front of you project a scene from your life when you were LESS than confident. Run this mental movie a few times.         Then, see the movie again but drain out the entire colour and make it black and white. Then shrink the image on the screen until it is no bigger than a postage stamp. Now slide the image to the left of the screen until it eventually disappears.         

Next see a small colourful image start to appear from the right and grow larger. This is a movie of you being super confident. See yourself looking and feeling confident in a situation that would usually frighten or intimidate you. Imagine the image fills the screen as the colours get more vibrant, the sounds get louder and everything becomes more life-like.      

Run this movie several times. Then step into the screen. Step right into that other you and see what they see, hear what they hear and FEEL what they feel.      

How does it feel to be this “other” more confident you?   Perform this visualization every day for a few weeks and you will be amazed at the results!