Lack of confidence is a growing problem amongst teengers and the young and it is getting worse with every generation. However, it is a very big problem for most adults as well. Learning to develop your confidence can be a hard process if it is done the wrong way. However with tehse 2 easy self hypnosis techniques you can regain the confidence that is rightfully yours!
You may be aware of this simple fact, or you may not, but all of us are born supremely confident. Unfortunately, well meaning peers, parents and the world train us out of this natural state and into a mindset of doubt, fear and disbelief.
Through simple self hypnosis techniques you can regain, what is your natural and normal internal state of, confidence. In fact, it’s easy!
It is much easier to uncover a natural ability than it is to develop one. Think of all the athletes and sports stars that just seem to have been born with a natural talent. They find it much easier to develop their skill than someone who has to work extra hard because they were not born with the natural ability. Think of George Best, Pele, Martina Navratilova, Magic Johnston, Mike Tyson etc. Although these stars did a lot of work to develop their skills they were born with the raw, natural talent in the first place!
As far as self confidence goes you are just like these great stars. You were born with the natural ability to be confident in all situations. By using self hypnosis you can remove the layers of negativity that are covering your natural confidence!
A baby does not doubt itself in any way. A baby will try to walk even though it can’t. A baby does not wonder if it can walk it just keeps trying because this new life knows that it is capable. It just keeps trying because it does not believe it can fail! A baby will keep trying to speak until he/she masters the art. A baby is supremely confident in itself and its abilities. You were a baby once and were over-flowing with confidence.
Now that it has been trained out of you it’s time to get it back. You do not have to learn anything. You just have to unlearn some negative things and self hypnosis is highly effective and fast at doing this!
One way of uncovering your natural ability to feel confident is pretending to be confident. Your brain, body and emotions are all naturally tuned into your natural state. Therefore, when you pretend to be confident your body, brain and emotions fall into line and begin doing it automatically.
Stand tall, breath deep and just do it!
Lack of confidence is really just a mechanism you use to protect yourself. By refusing to try new things or venture out of your comfort zone you ensure you cannot be hurt. Take a look at your own issues around confidence and you will see that you are really trying to protect yourself.
Lack of confidence also lies in an inability to look past yourself! You allow your thoughts to dwell only on yourself. By turning your attention inward, looking at the ego-sense of self, you become self-engaged and magnify your own problems. Lack of confidence can also be overcome, then, through service to others. Try looking at things from another person’s point of view. This takes your internal gaze away from yourself and allows your natural state to shine through!
Use the above two simple techniques in conjunction with self hypnosis and watch your confidence, and your self esteem, sky-rocket!

Even people who have been students of sel improvement for decades find it hard to step out of their past experiences, beliefs, thoughts and emotions and into a better life filled with the things that they want. This is due to subconscious programming – something that is often hard to remove or overcome.

If you have ever tried to achieve anything or have dreamed of a better life but stayed stuck then perhaps its time to give self hypnosis a try!

Creating self confidence is a lot like trying to create faith. In order to believe you can do something that you have never attempted before you must create some faith in yourself and your abilities. This can be tougher than you may expect. The majority of people who enter the personal development arena for the first time begin their life-transformation by using auto-suggestion in the form of affirmations. They try to use affirmation sto create the feeling of faith and belief in themselves. However, this approach is seriously flawed and extremely outdated. If you have tried this approach and failed then self hypnosis may well be the answer.

Self hypnosis, like all forms of auto-suggestions, is designed to infiltrate the subconscious mind where you hold all your current views of the world and beliefs about it and your place in it.

To use auto-suggestion correctly it is necessary to gain access to the subconscious mind and embed emotionalised suggestions into it. With most forms of auto-suggestions this can be extremely difficult as the conscious mind constantly interferes and refers back to previous subconscious programming.

If you want an example of how this works just make up an affirmation now that refolects something you really want. Phrase the affirmation in a way that states you already have it. A good example of this is the statement, “My bank account is over-flowing with money” – which is most likely untrue at the moment.

What happens when you speak this statement?

I bet you immediately think of all the reasons why this statement is not true! Thus reinforcing the belief that you do not have it and forcing you to focus on the lack of it!

You can liken your mind to a complex computer system. Because the conscious mind is still very much active when you speak affirmations it draws on the subconscious resources that hold your beliefs and past experience when it is presented with any kind of statement to ascertain whether it is true or false. This is why auto-suggestion techniques like affirmations very rarely work. The conscious mind uses your current subconscious programming to dispute and totally disregard the new statement thus not allowing it access to the subconscious mind! The easiest way to avoid this problem is through the use of self hypnosis.

The best way to program the subconscious mind is by bypassing the conscious mind and the best way to do this is through self hypnosis!

During self hypnosis you completely bypass the conscious mind and gain direct access to the subconscious. Once you have entered a state of self hypnosis it is very easy to remove your current beliefs and replace them with whatever beliefs you choose. Then when you think of the statement again and the conscious mind accesses the subconscious resources it is given the new programming i.e. the beliefs, thoughts and emotions that you programmed into it!

Through self hypnosis you can change yourself from the inside-out. To use self hypnosis you really do not need to do a lot. If you use a pre-recorded self hypnosis session all you have to do is listen and relax. Self hypnosis can be used for almost anything. Truthfully, through the use of self hypnosis it is possible to program your mind to achieve any goal you can imagine. A new level of self confidence and faith in yourself is just a self hypnosis trance session away.

Self confidence begins with trust. It is trusting in your own abilities, strengths and attributes. It is the ability to take action and succeed. It is also the ability to take action and fail without allowing the failure to reflect badly on your own internal self of identity.

The true essence of self confidence lies in faith and belief. The belief in your own abilities. It is having a sense of self worth and feeling no less than anyone else. Self confidence means that no matter what happens you know that can deal with it. It is really having a sense of Self. Knowing that you are OK just as you are, and knowing that your imperfections are part of what makes up “you”.

So what leads to a lack of confidence?

Well, each of us have a self-protection mechanism built into us, and although this is much needed, it can cause untold damage in other areas of our lives. There is a self protection program that is hot-wired into the brain and energy system of every living thing. Its role is to protect us. It protects us from dangerous situations by accessing memories and reminding us of the previous discomfort!

Let me explain with an example. If you touch a hot coal you get burned and you know not to touch it again – your self-protection mechanism kicks in. If you encounter a red-hot coal in the future you keep your hands and body far enough away so you don’t feel the burning sensation and the pain associated with it. Your subconscious mind programs into your brain the fear of getting too close to hot coals. This memory, or just the fear and pain connected to it, is immediately evoked and sent to the conscious mind by the subconscious when it feels you are in danger of getting burnt. This mechanism, for self-preservation, has protected you from an infant. However, as we will see, it can work against in a myriad of ways.

Let’s look at one. For example at some previous point in your life you may have tried your hand at something that was completely new and alien to you. You tried and you failed! Perhaps your peers, family, parents friends or even complete strangers ridculed you and laughed at yur efforts. This may have embarrassed you and made you feel inadequate. Your subconscious mind stored and filed this information in exactly the same way a computer does and can access it in the same way. These are neural networks in the brain that fire in sequence and send electrical impulses to the body telling it to release certain chemicals (which produce emotional responses). A neural connection is made between the memory of the event and the emotion you felt at the time. When faced with a similar circumstance in the future you will have problems. The subconscious mind immediately activates the schema and the neural network begins to fire. Thus the subconscious mind replays the memory and the original emotions are evoked in order to protect you! This is done purely so that you do not feel belittled again.

For example, you may have tried to paint a picture. Your friends around you laughed and ridiculed your efforts. This caused you embarrassment and the feeling of being ostracized like the “odd man out”. You lacked the approval of your peers. The subconscious mind immediately stored this information in its memory banks ready to be replayed in the future. 20 years later you still have a desire to paint but won’t even go to a night class to learn because the thought of painting brings forth the emotions of disapproval, embarrassment and fear. The subconscious mind replays the emotions associated with the old memory even if you can’t recall the actual event ever having happened. Your subconscious mind is, in effect, saying “don’t paint or you’ll feel like this again!”.

Usually such emotional memories stem back to childhood from the time when you were most impressionable but not always. You can just as easily encounter such problems when you are an adult and the key to protecting yourself from such negative influences is to develop a better sense of yourself and build your confidence. This is at the very core of all personal development and self improvement techniques!

In reality you have no idea what the outcome will be when you start something new . As an adult, you should be able to try new things without the fear of what ridicule, or condemnation from others, would do to your confidence.

Self confidence is having the ability to feel the fear and do it anyway. In reality you have no idea what the outcome will be when you perform a task that is new to you. By developing your confidence however you are much more likely to expect a positive outcome. Should you not have the outcome you desire you are then capable of looking at the situation realistically, determining what you need to learn and develop in order to succeed at it or at least be able to accept the fact that your are not suited to the activity without “freaking out” about it.

Many people believe that you are either born with confidence or you are not. The truth is we are all born confident! You cried when you wanted something and believed you were so important that you would get it. You tried to walk several times while falling knowing that eventually you would get it. This is confidence. Unfortunately this kind of confidence is usually programmed out of us but it is your NATURAL sate. It’s time to get it back.

Firstly, you should be kind to yourself. Don’t expect perfection. Do you think Tiger Woods got a hole in one the first time he played golf? Although he may have been born with an innate ability at this sport chances are that the first time he played he was terrible at it!

The thing that builds your confidence is trying things that you haven’t done before. Try to do something that scares you. Those people who have self confidence are willing and often eager to try new challenges not becuase they are certain of success but becuase they have enough belief in themselves to give it a try. They refuse to give into their own fears. If there was no fear or uncertainty then there would only be knowing! Confidence is not knowing but trying anyway.

The good news is that there are strategies and approaches you can learn to build your confidence level to a new all-time high. Once you learn these and begin to apply them you will feel better able to try new things and enter new situations. Then as you begin to succeed and realise that the world didn’t stop spinning because you faced your fear, you will gain more and more confidence.

I would seriously advise you to seek out some tools to help accelerate your confidence building. Hypnosis and emotional releasing techniques can be invaluable. The personal development industry has a myriad of products and you should pick one that resonates with you. However, you have all the power within that you need to change yourself from the inside out. Make the decision now to face one fear a week and do it. You will build your self confidence to a level that you can not even now imagine.