Inspirations for Your Next Steps & Quantum Leaps
Dynamic Life Now presents...
Expanded Soul
Gabriele Reign
CREATE What You Want to Live
FIVE STEPS TO LIVE FROM YOUR INNER CONFIDENCE
There aren't many things more attractive than a person who is confident. If you admire the confidence others exude, here are 5 Steps to "Live from" your inner confidence so you can exude that confidence naturally in your outer world.
I use the word 'exude' because that's what takes place when the energy you have within is clear and strong expressing itself as confidence... it is projected outward, abundantly ~ it radiates, you radiate. Having the desire for confidence means you have the ability within, even though you think you don't have it, it is only dormant. Confidence is just one of the aspects of self you already own.
1. BEGIN WHERE YOU ARE and use what you have. You have thoughts, feelings and the ability to use your mind's eye. It's good news that you want to express the confidence you admire in others. True confidence is knowing how to use your thoughts and feelings to your advantage rather than succumbing to the lower energies that bring up your doubt and negative self talk. When you're not feeling confident,
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One of two opportunities I created for another aspect of my confidence!
When we want to be seen as confident, we just don't magically become confident, we pull to us the opportunities that open the door for us to actually be confident. If you're not experiencing it, you just haven't allowed yourself to meet your opportunities with confidence.. With this in mind, as you go through the following steps, feel what comes up for you as you allow yourself to access what's already within you.
Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown. ~Author Unknown
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2. REFRAME SELF-SABOTAGE... or Re-frame it. When we lack confidence, the feeling is usually an aspect of sadness. Let's do a little reframing here. Putting a different frame on a picture changes its quality. Let us reframe sadness: When you feel sad, "try on" using my SADD technique: SADD stands for: Suspend All Doubt and Disbelief. When you suspend the doubt and disbelief in yourself, you can "act as if" you are confident, this helps you to get used to what being confident feels like.
let that be a trigger to change the thought you're thinking to one that gives you a boost. Practice this, diligently (for even a day), test it, prove it to yourself. Practice being confident "If I were confident, I would think and feel like this... "
To act "as if" is not 'faking it until you make it'; it is literally training physiology, you are building new neural connections that will strengthen as you continue this, the old neural networks become weak and wither, thus you
release old ways of being. Like physical exercise, your feeling and thinking muscles must be exercised for you to benefit from their power. Practicing this SADD technique installs neural networks so the sensations of confidence get locked in to your cellular memory. The more you practice, the quicker you access 'confidence' when needed and sooner than you think, by your daily diligence, it will 'turn on' more swiftly.
3. THINK & FEEL Confidence. Notice how often your thoughts are 'non-confident'. Simply by virtue of being alive and in any proximity to other human beings, we've learned though many experiences to be critical of ourselves. Our "critical mind" gets in the way and becomes a default mechanism that runs in the background, like a hidden computer program, critiquing and ready to jump on any new, positive thought that pops up. The good news is that this can change more easily than you think by using your intention (thought) and sensation (feeling). Intend to be confident in this moment, then notice the sensation of this intention in your body (feeling). As in #2, practice this many times throughout your day, a few seconds here, a moment there, and you'll be surprised how your confidence comes into play when needed.
The more you focus your attention on which thoughts you're paying attention to, the easier and more quickly you'll be able to recognize and replace the negative, unsupportive thoughts with positive, confidence-building thinking. With your attention, you begin to fine-tune your thoughts in a way that allows only more like thoughts to enter your mind. Each successful thought and feeling builds upon the one before it, it's exponential and expands - remember, you're building new neural networks!
Knock the "t"
off the
"can't."
~Samuel Johnson
If you can remember even only one experience in your life when you've actually felt any level of confidence at all, activate (focus on) that feeling. If you can't remember such an experience, imagine one and then, "act as if.' Then keep bringing up more and more feelings intentionally. The more you feel it, the more you'll feel it, and so will others. You'll soon be the one others are attracted to simply because you've accessed your inner confidence with practice so often that it just exudes from you.
Adding sensations to the mix consciously will speed your ability to access the confidence you want to have. Every time you have a feeling of being 'less than,' are you fueling self-doubt or self-confidence? Feel the difference between I can and I can't. "Can't" will stop you in your tracks; "I Can" will open you to possibility and empower you.
4. SEE Your Emitting Confidence. Using your mind's eye, visualize yourself
as confident. Begin collecting confident feelings by practicing seeing yourself as confident. When you use your imagination in this way, your imagination muscle strengthens ~ the more you see a confident image of yourself, the more quickly it matches the accurate view of your true self. Our minds work in images, so use your confidence images diligently and consistently.
5. 'BE' Confidence. Confidence is a vibrational expression of what you think, feel about yourself. Being what you believe is confidence (in whom is this expressed that you would like to emulate) allows you to attract more and more like-thoughts, like-feelings, and like-experiences to yourself. The inner image you have of yourself goes outward vibrationally.
After 'practicing' these steps with your full attention, your confidence wakes up; through your intention, you will have turned it on. And sooner than you think, your confidence will be simply another wonderful expression of who you truly are that naturally attracts more of the same... with wonderful experiences unfolding.
I would say you have great things to look forward to ;)
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