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How To Build Confidence Levels With Mind Control Tricks

By: Lorna Luck Home | Health-and-Fitness


Have you ever wanted to learn how to build your confidence levels? Boosting self confidence is a relatively simple task, but it all starts and ends with being able to control your mind and how you think. But thinking can be hard work - or at least it can seem that way when getting started - and so most people prefer to leave their emotions and reactions up to the intuition.

If you really want to learn about building confidence, and empowering yourself to lead a better and more fulfilled life, you will need to spend some to change your habits and how you react to the situations that are disempowering you.

Change Can Be Easy - If You Really Want It

The good news is that these changes you need to make to your habits can be very easy. I'm going to explain how you can identify what needs to change to help you overcome your limiting emotions, and exactly how to change them using some very simple mind control techniques.

We use our senses to collect information, and our habits then tell us what to do with that data. What we need to learn about here is how we can make use of it, and what we did last time we experienced the same input.

The way our mind processes this never ending supply of data determines how we ultimately react. This first thing that happens is that our brain checks our memory to see if we have experienced this situation before. If we have, it simply recalls the feelings and emotions we felt when we last experienced it, and we go through the same reaction all over again. That's our habitual way of reacting to situations without thinking about it.

Our automatic habits like this can have a positive or negative impact on us, depending on the type of stored emotions we associate with them. The positive impact, like driving a car, allow us to perform certain actions without too much conscious effort. Have you ever driven somewhere then wondered how you actually got there when you arrived? That's an automatic habit.

So in the case of driving a car, these habits are good. But when it comes to weak and debilitating behaviours, these automatic habits are bad. For example, if you have a habit of being nervous or stressed when you have a lot of tasks to do at work, then this habit is weakening you and holding you back. Or if the thought of having a dinner party fills you with fear and anxiety, this is a weakening habit that is disempowering you.

These automatic habits are controlling your life without you even realising it. You habitually react to certain situations in the same way every time without considering why you're reacting in that way. It's not your fault - It's just the way we operate as human beings. The good news is that with a little effort, we can change the way we react and form new habits that serve and empower us better.

To get started on your path to controlling your habits reactions, you simply need to become aware of how you are reacting to these events and situations. Once you start to become aware of your reactions, start to ask yourself some questions like "how would I prefer to feel when confronted with this situation?" and maybe "why am I reacting to this situation in this way?". When you know how you want to react or respond, you can start to visualise the desired result. Visualise yourself responding in a positive way and feeling confident and in control.

Once you know the end result you want, you might want to ask "what's the best way for me to start to feel that way, or behave that way, or react that way?" It may sound strange but this all hangs on you asking yourself some simple questions, and supplying some answers.

By asking yourself simple questions like this, you can start to take control of your thinking process. If you want better answers, all you need to do is ask better questions.

Using these techniques on a regular basis is a great way of building confidence levels and empowering your life. By deciding to feel good about something, even when that situation used to make you feel negative, you have started on a path to creating new and empowering habits in your life that will remain with you forever (or at least until you decide to change them again).



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About the Author:
Loren Luck is a personal development coach who loves teaching people how to build confidence. Here she explains some simple techniques for building self esteem. She offers a free program teaching how to build confidence at magic-hats.com

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