Imagine being able to step in front of a group or up onto a stage and feel even more confident than you did when you were sitting on the sidelines.   If this sounds impossible to you or even too good to be true, you¹re in for a pleasant surprise.  You are already an expert at the skills you will be using to develop the confidence habit. Paul McKenna helps you develop inner confidence...

Retrain your brain

The brain is a mass of millions of neural pathways, with each idea or memory moving along its own path. Whenever we do something new, we create a new neural pathway so we can re-access that experience again more easily.  Each time we repeat a particular behaviour, we strengthen the associated neural pathway, just as when you walk a path through a field it becomes a clearer path. Research has shown that these neural pathways in the brain actually get physically larger through repetition of behaviour.  That is how people become ’hard wired’ to certain automatic behaviours like smoking and over-eating. 

We can use that same mental architecture to design pathways to success and happiness, and to create associations that allow us to ‘switch on¹ certain feelings whenever we want them. I¹m going to guide you through accessing a strong positive state.  Each time you experience a peak of the good feeling, press the thumb and middle finger of either hand together to create an association between confidence and the physical gesture.  Over time, this gesture will become your confidence switch, enabling you to access your most confident states at will. Before you undertake this technique read through it first so you know each step  

The Confidence Switch Technique 

1. Remember a time when you felt really, really confident.  Fully return to it now - see what you saw, hear what you heard, and feel how good you felt. (If you can¹t remember a time, imagine how much better your life would be if you were totally confident - if you had all the power, strength and self-belief you could ever need!) 

2. As you keep going through this memory, make the colours brighter and richer, the sounds louder, and the feelings stronger. 

3. As you feel these good feelings, squeeze your thumb and middle finger of either hand together. 

4.  Now, squeeze your thumb and finger together and relive that good feeling.  

5.  Repeat steps 1 ­ 4 several times with different positive memories until just squeezing your thumb and finger together begins to bring back those good feelings. 

6. Still holding your thumb and finger together, think about a situation in which you want to feel more confident.   Imagine things going perfectly,going exactly the way you want them to go.  See what you¹ll see, hear what you¹ll hear, and feel how good it feels.

For more information on Paul McKenna's NLP course which can help boost confidence and motivation on 21st April visit
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