Self Help Tips: Self-Confidence Boosters

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Self Confidence Boosters That Work Within Five Minutes

'Self Confidence Boosters' are tips and simple exercises you can use today, that work within five minutes. 'Self Confidence Boosters' help you build confidence and esteem for yourself. First off, let's define just what 'Self Confidence' actually is. The online Cambridge Dictionary defines Self Confidence as, "behaving calmly because you have no doubts about your ability or knowledge." So it's clear from this that in some situations we can act in a self confident manner because we're familiar with it and have capabilities and knowledge.

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All Feelings Are Created By Thought Patterns

By webtreatsAll the feelings we ever experience from fear, doubt and confusion to inspiration and love are all derived from the pictures and internal dialogue we continuously create in our 'mind stream.' These patterns of thought are often deeply ingrained habits and therefore function unconsciously out of our awareness, yet have a very powerful effect on our experience of life.

When we find ourselves in an un-resourceful state of mind such as self doubt, we are stuck in a thought pattern. A common one for self doubt would be internal self talk, ragging on you: "You're such a stupid so and so!" Or it could be that you're unconsciously seeing an image of yourself, in your minds-eye, when you made a mistake and felt really small back in childhood.

Here's an essential point though: It doesn't matter what or where this thought pattern came from. We're not interested in perverse Freudian 'personal history' archaeology are we?! No, what we want to learn is how to change our thought structures with simple self confidence boosters that we can do within five minutes, right?

The Power Of The Counter Example

So how can we re-program our habits of thought, overcome our fears and doubts and increase our self confidence? Well for starters what about counter examples. You can often come up with a counter example. Think about a situation where you lack self confidence. Now ask yourself, "Has there ever been a time when I've felt more self confidence in a similar situation?" Just allow yourself to access a memory of this.

Chances are you can find at least one counter example. This leads us into a very powerful 'operating principle' in mind programming: "All the resources are already within you." If you act as if you have the resources you want such as 'self confidence' very often you can find them within your memory banks.

Directing The Mind

By eyebikepaNow the other thing about the mind is that it goes in directions. The fact is the future is full of possibilities. It is pure potential. That means if we could program our thought patterns we could create a, "I am learning to become more self confident," 'unconscious-software-program,' enabling us to head towards that desired outcome. This is possible and one of the best ways to do so is through the power of our 'self image.'

Self Confidence & Your Self Image

Your self image is simply how you picture yourself in your minds-eye. This happens regularly throughout the day, outside of your awareness. Try this: Remember an occasion when someone gave you a sincere compliment. You know, when you get the warm feeling at the heart. Now in your minds-eye notice what you look like at that instance. Simply picture yourself.

Utilising this 'self image mechanism' we can create a self image which we are drawn towards enabling us to access more resourcefulness, capabilities, potentials and possibilities.

Before I finish give this a go: Imagine a you in front of you. This is a you from the future who has learned how to become more self confident, more resourceful and has a great sense of humour. How is that you standing? What is the breathing like? How does the voice sound? Good, now step into this new you and allow yourself to experience those increasing feelings of confidence.

Re-Programming Your Self Image

For An Automatic Confidence Boost!

Arrow Rocketman - WikimediaNow, can you imagine, what it would be like if you were to make this self image even more compelling? And what would it be like if you could program this state of being to automatically pop up in just the situations you want to be more self confident and resourceful?

It is possible to do this with the correct know-how. So if you want to learn more about automatic self confidence boosters that you can program into your mind within five minutes, you'd probably enjoy reading my Special Report, "The Half Second Rule"

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    Enchantress Oct 31, 2011 @ 12:39 pm | delete
    Thank you. In those moments when I feel my confidence slipping through my fingers, I will hopefully remember your words here and apply them. I can't believe more people haven't commented here and your writing has been up almost a year. That just goes to show you how few people are applying these life changing techniques.
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    LizMac60 Oct 20, 2010 @ 1:40 pm | delete
    I find it more helpful to pray and realize how God sees me with great love because of what Jesus did on the cross for me(and you) I would rather depend on God's love of me than on self manufactured feelings about myself.
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    colingsmith Oct 20, 2010 @ 4:52 pm | delete
    Hi LizMac60, thanks for the comment! I think it's great that you have cultivated your faith to the point where you can depend on God's love through sincere prayer. Many people, including myself, don't yet have that mind of faith, so we have to rely on other methods of changing consciousness to help ourselves in the meantime...

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colingsmith

Writer who loves NLP, Hypnosis, Energy Psychology, Meditation and Humour. I'm interested in simple, effective mind changing methods.

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