Psychology technique to be more self-confident

In today’s text, we return to posts about practical tips from Psychology and NLP that can be used in our day-to-day. Today’s tip helps us remember that we can have more self-confidence, security, assertiveness or any other mental and physiological state as long as we do the following technique. The text is a translation of the book The Sourcebook of Magic, by Michael Hall. The technique is “Accessing and Controlling a Positive Resource State”.

In other words, we can call this technique Technique to have more self-confidence🇧🇷 You can also use the following step-by-step to elicit, to bring to yourself a feeling, a positive sensation X that you choose and that is necessary at a given moment. For example, instead of feeling confident, you want to be more assertive (say what you need to say face to face) or at a given moment you need to be calmer (be calm and not anxious to solve a problem). The 3 steps below will help bring about and modify the present mental and emotional state with another X state (self-confidence) or another, as long as you do the procedures.

Concept: Whenever we are in a mental and emotional state that has control over us, we can reverse the situation and take control and reverse the process. Rather than being controlled by a feeling or sensation, we can create a better state that will make us more in control of our own lives. The mind (verbal thoughts and imaginations) and physiology (body sensations) are the tools we have to work with changing states

Mind: the content of internal representations of things we see, feel, smell, think about in our “internal imaginary theater”. plus the words we say to ourselves about these representations, sounds and sensations

Physiology: the state of our health, our body, our neurology and all the factors that affect the general physiological state. These states directly affect our learning, our memory, our perceptions, our behaviors and so on. Two people with emotional and conceptual expectations about a given situation will experience the same event in completely different ways.

The standards for change

1) Accessing the memory

Think about a time when you felt, thought, or behaved when you had a resourceful state of confidence, calm, assertiveness, or X-desired state that you’ve been wanting to regain. Enter this memory seeing what you saw then, what you said to yourself, feeling the tastes and sensations as they were at that moment in the past. Allow yourself to go back into the past, through memory, to fully experience that state, those great feelings that you felt then.

2) Accessing the imagination

Think about what it would be like if you felt in that X desired state, what you would say to yourself, what you would see, how you would act in situations… fully enter into that imagined feeling and thought. Allow yourself to experience completely through imagination.

3) Accessing through templates

Think about someone you know or have heard about, or someone you’ve seen on TV or in the movies, who has the X desired state (trustworthy, secure, steadfast, or whatever you like). See, hear and feel this person fully experiencing the state. Now try to imagine how you too can model this feeling, feeling the desired state yourself, through the eyes and inner experience of this other person, real or character.

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