Improve Your Self Confidence in 15 Minutes

Some people have naturally high levels of confidence
but everybody canlearn to be more confident. Firstly,
it's important to get a clear idea
of what self confidence really means, otherwise you
won't know when you've got it!
So, self confidence means:

1. Being calm. For every situation in life you need to
run on the appropriate level of emotion. Too much emotional
'leakage' into aexperience can spoil the experience.
You make great strides towards confidence when you begin
to relax in a greater range of situations.

2. Being cool. The second part of self confidence is
about being able torelax with uncertainty. To be 'cool'
in a situation really means relaxing with not knowing
how things will pan out. If you truly tolerateuncertainty,
you can do pretty much anything.

3. Not being too concerned with what others think of
you. You know when you imagine what some place is
going to be like before you go there but when you get
there it is totally different to your imagination? That's
how reliable your imagination is! Stop trusting your
imagination so much. I've long since stopped bothering
to imagine what others think of me because so often
I've turned out to be wrong.

4. Being specific - where do you want confidence?
'Confidence' is meaningless until you tie it
to something specific.You are already
confident that you can read these words or can switch
a light on and off. So you don't need more
confidence everywhere. To get what you want
in life you have to establish exactly what you do
want. Where do you want confidence in your life?
 Think about the specific situations now
and write them down. You beginning to steer your brain
towards confidence.

5. Understanding that what you expect is what you get.
Your brain is an organ that needs clear goals to work towards.
When a task has been set in your brain it will do everything
 it can do to bring about the completion of that task.
If you've tried to recall someone's name but
can't, hours later you'll often find their name pops
into your head.

The 'trying to recall' experience set the task or
blueprint for your brain's future subconscious behaviour which
eventually produced the name for you - when you weren't
 thinking about it consciously. You can use this natural
 mechanism to start feeling more confident. But, to ensure you
 set the right task for your subconscious mind, the
next point is vital.

6. Don't task your mind with negatives. Instead of: 'I
don't want to screw up' (which sets the task of
'screwing up' for your brain), set the blueprint for what
 you do want! Your brain doesn't work towards what to do by
being told what not to do. And nature has given
you a wonderful natural tool to set the right task blueprints with.

7. Use nature's goal-setter: Now you understand how
vital it is to set the right task for you brain, you
need to know how to do this reliably.Good hypnosis will
 strongly 'program' the right blueprint in your mind
through the use of your imagination. If you powerfully
imagine feeling confident and relaxed while in a relaxed hypnotic
state it will be hard for your unconscious mind to do anything
else. The blueprint for relaxation has been set firmly into your
subconscious mind.

3 simple strategies to get you feeling confident
quickly:

1. Think specifically of the time/place/situation you
want to feelconfident in. Remember 'confidence' doesn't mean
anything until you attach it to something specific.

2. Focus on words in your mind right now that describe
how you do want to be in that time and place. Maybe words
 such as 'calm', 'relaxed' or 'focused'. Remember your brain
works on clear positive instructions.

3. Close your eyes for as long as you like and think
about how those words feel. Then, imagine the situation
itself and rehearse it in your
mind feeling confident and relaxed. This way you set
the right blueprint or 'task' for your unconscious mind.

You can repeat this often to make it more effective
and use it with asmany areas of your life as you need to.
If you listen to a hypnotic cd or download that can make
the benefits even more powerful. So if you
feel like you'd be blessed with less confidence than
some other people you can start redressing the balance by using your
mind in the right way right now.

It took me years to learn how to be more confident -
now you can do it in a fraction of the time. Good luck!