Improve Confidence, Eliminating Negative Thoughts
Confidence refers to how you think and feel about yourself. It’s the thoughts and feelings you have, it can be positive, negative, or mixed. The more positive these thoughts and feelings are, the higher your confidence will be, and conversely the more negative thoughts and feelings you have, the lower your confidence will become.
Positive Feelings
Feeling good about yourself is important as it gives you a sense of control over your life. It can also help make a person feel satisfied in their relationship. With a positive self-identity, a person is able to set realistic expectations for oneself and pursue goals. Having a negative self-perception, on the other hand, results in a distorted view of one's self, which leads to further lack of self-confidence, poor performance, and depression.
People who have a low self-confidence rely heavily on their day-to-day performances. The positive external experience and encouragements help them to battle the negative feelings that they have about themselves. These negative feelings very often trouble the people with low self-esteem. In some situations, feelings of inadequacy torture those who do not have enough confidence about themselves and about what they can do.
Techniques and Strategies
There are many known ways to improve one's confidence level. Here are some helpful techniques and strategies:
- Rebutting the inner critic that keeps on sending self-defeating messages.
- Practicing the art of self-nurturing.
- Getting much-needed help and support from people who are close to you. People who are kind and understanding.
Inner Voice
The first and the most important step to increase confidence is to tell the inner voice to shut up. The inner voice might say negatively about you. In such a situation you must praise yourself. Rebutting the inner voice that keeps on criticizing you should be done on a regular basis.
Nurture
The second step that one must initiate is to nurture him/herself. The most important part of this step is start treating yourself as a person who is worthwhile.
Support
Seek out people who make you feel good. Remember that you get to choose your friends so why not choose people who think you're great?
Individual and group counselling can help to increase your confidence. Such therapy might include assertiveness training, communication skills, and learning to recognize and understand own emotional responses in relation to others. Therapy may explore early and later experiences that contributed to improving confidence level. Group therapy is particularly effective that it helps to foster trust and build relationships and encourages a sense of belonging-components that can help to build self-confidence and positive mindset.
Self-Thought
Low and poor self-confidence is often the result of bad or a wrong treatment that was experienced in the past. Hence you must start regarding yourself as a worthy person. You must be able to challenge negative experiences in the past and you should start loving yourself. Try to change yourself and show to the outside world that you are valuable, competent, and a loveable person. Learn to develop high self-esteem and believe you can do it, you deserve it, and you will get it.