How to Feel Confident

“Most people walk through the world in a trance of disempowerment"    Dr. Milton H. Erickson
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                 You might have already read and learned how to be confident, but what if you still don't feel all that confident? Sometimes it takes your emotions a little bit of time to catch up with your behaviors, but you can help to move the process along. Perhaps all you really need is some working out and dressing up to feel better, or maybe you can start with thinking positively and smiling more often. In any case, feeling confident is definitely a continuous process that, when achieved, will improve your quality of life immensely.     

         

Part 1 of 3: Tricking Your Brain

1  Think positively. When it comes down to it, reality is perception. If you feel confident, you are. If life is falling apart around you but you don't notice, it's not really falling apart, now is it? So get on thinking those happier thoughts! You're not deluding yourself one way or another -- don't worry that you're being silly for thinking positively -- you're just taking control.

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• When you catch yourself thinking, "God, I'm so fat," STOP. Go back. Reframe. Say it again, only this time think, "I'm unhappy with my weight. What am I doing about it?" It doesn't have to be all sunshine and rainbows; you just have to be less hard on yourself.
• Positive thinking leads to a positive, more confident disposition. You know what happens when you think negatively about yourself? It becomes habit and all of a sudden you're thinking negatively about everything. You become gossip-y and complain-y and one of those people that is always putting something else down. Gross.

2   Be grateful. Alright, so you've read the How to Think Positively article, too, and you're still at a loss? Then just start with being grateful. The more things you realize you have going for you the more you can sit back and go, "Huh. I guess life is pretty darn okay." The only sad part is how easily we forget what we have!

• Seriously. You probably have working body parts, clothes on your back, talents (what are they?), people who love you, and a future, just for starters. That's the stuff most people have: what else do you have that's unique to you?

3  Smile. There's a ton of argument on thought and behavior and what comes first. Turns out your mind actually takes cues from your body. So get to tricking your mind and smiling! Turns out smiling is the muscle equivalent of oatmeal. By the way, oatmeal is basically a miracle in food form. Here's why:

• Smiling releases endorphins and serotonin. If you force a smile, you will literally be happier. Not look happier, not seem happier, be happier.
• Smiling reduces stress, lowers your blood pressure, and ups your immune system. Kinda look oatmeal, only calorie free and available everywhere.
• Smiling makes us more attractive to others. Were you not sold before?
• P.S.  Happier people are, generally, more confident. That's the idea here. No room for worry when it's all good!

4  Switch up your environment. Think about the person you are at home, the person you are at school, the person you are at work, the person you are at your favorite cafe, etc. Probably not the same person, huh? Odds are that there's an environment or two where you feel more comfortable and more confident. So if you're in a place where you don't feel confident, get up and move!

• Okay, so you can't get up in the middle of dinner and mince your way over to McDonald's unfortunately. But the next time you find yourself feeling not-so-great, think about where you are. Knowing it might be a cause of your environment and not you takes the pressure off!

5  Use visualization and deep breathing. This is more of an in-the-moment tip. When you're gearing up to talk to that cute boy or to give that speech, that's when you'll need to use these little tricks.

• Visualize yourself doing awesome and it all going swimmingly. When you expect success, you might just get it. But when you expect to fail, you will.
• Take a deep breath. When we breathe too quickly, our heart rates go up and our brains start thinking "fight or flight." You're just making yourself more nervous. Since you won't be attacking any wooly mammoths anytime soon, there's really no use for that.

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