Boosting Self-Confidence and Building Healthy Self-Esteem
Feeling good about yourself, many believe, actually stimulates a stronger immune response.
So often people with chronic problems lack a really strong
sense of self-confidence. Developing faith in yourself, your actions and your abilities is vital to a happy daily
life, and perhaps may improve your overall health.
If you are interested in treating self-esteem issuess that are disrupting the direction you want
your life to take, you may enjoy this self-esteem building tip from hypnotherapist Victoria Wizell.
Keeping Your Word – One of the Best Ways to Create Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem
Here’s the deal. Your self-confidence is based upon what you believe is possible for you to achieve and accomplish.
It’s how you feel about yourself. It’s how you project yourself to others.
Your subconscious mind remembers everything and is always listening. It’s like a tape-recorder that is constantly
recording everything. When you say to yourself: I am going to work out today. Then the end of the day comes and you
decide to blow this off, you have broken your word with yourself. It doesn’t matter if you said it out loud, wrote
it down, told someone else, or said it silently to yourself; you have broken your word.
Your subconscious mind remembers this, the next time you go to do this; it is going to be that much more difficult.
Every time you break your word with yourself an element of doubt is created. You are creating a program and training
your mind to not do what you say you are going to do. It’s literally like an anchor. Saying you will do something,
and not doing it, ultimately result in that always being the case with you.
At this point you develop a lack of self-confidence in your ability to achieve anything.
Start out small. Begin by setting very small little goals for yourself that you absolutely know you can and will
do. Set yourself up to win. Make a new agreement with yourself every day that you will keep. Soon, these little wins
will begin to change the way you see yourself and that you are a person of high integrity and commitment and when
you say you will do something you do it. As you see this happening, your self-confidence will grow stronger and you
will be able to take on more difficult goals and achieve them with ease because you know that you can achieve anything.
You will have achieved a new level of achievement, self-worth, and personal power to do anything that you set out
to do.
How Confident Are You?
Try this simple test. How many of the following describe you?
- I often think that I am not as good as others
- I put myself under pressure to succeed, even though I am already trying as hard as I can.
- I usually feel that I am not good enough
- I am resentful and jealous that others get the opportunities and I don’t
- I have a constant fear of making mistakes
- I worry what others may think of me
- I expect myself to be perfect all the time
- I want to be liked and approved of
- People treat me like a doormat and walk all over me
- I have a fear of saying NO to others
- I find it very easy to start projects and very hard to finish them
- I regularly take on board the problems of others
- Success isn’t for me – it’s for someone else
- I have a very low opinion of myself, even though others tell me I’m very capable
- Everyone else is right when they blame me
- I usually stop just 10% this side of success
- I find it very difficult to charge a decent fee for my services
- When I receive positive messages about myself, I think ‘You can’t be talking about me?’
- I don’t set myself any goals because I don’t want to be disappointed if I fail.
- I find it very difficult to begin conversations with people I don’t know too well.
- I get terrified making speeches and presentations
- If you said yes to six or above, then you may benefit from a success coach. Building self esteem and confidence
in yourself is so very important as self trust and confidence are the foundation to living a happy and fulfilling
life.