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Home | Self Improvement | Time Management If you really want to learn about building confidence, and empowering yourself to lead a better and more fulfilled life, you will need to spend some to change your habits and how you react to the situations that are disempowering you. Making Change Easy Fortunately for us, making these changes in our lives is relatively easy. In this article we're going to cover how to identify what you need to change in your life, and some very simple NLP techniques you cab start using right away that will help you to start changing your habits for the better. Our senses are processing data and information every second of the day. This information is passed into our brain, where past memories dictate how we respond and react to them. The way our mind processes this never ending supply of data determines how we ultimately react. This first thing that happens is that our brain checks our memory to see if we have experienced this situation before. If we have, it simply recalls the feelings and emotions we felt when we last experienced it, and we go through the same reaction all over again. That's our habitual way of reacting to situations without thinking about it. These auto-pilot reactions can (and do) bring on good or bad feelings, depending on how we reacted last time. Some habits can serve us well, like driving a car. If you drive regularly, you have an automatic habit that determines how you drive, without having to think to hard about it. You've no doubt experienced a sensation before where you arrive at your destination but can't fully remember exactly how you got there. That was one type of automatic reaction or habit. So in the case of driving a car, these habits are good. But when it comes to weak and debilitating behaviours, these automatic habits are bad. For example, if you have a habit of being nervous or stressed when you have a lot of tasks to do at work, then this habit is weakening you and holding you back. Or if the thought of having a dinner party fills you with fear and anxiety, this is a weakening habit that is disempowering you. Your habits are controlling the way you automatically react to all these situations - and you instinctively go along with it without asking yourself why you are reacting that way. But the good news is that weak and disempowering habits and emotions can be changed - and fairly easily too. You start by simply being aware of how you are reacting. Then you ask yourself some probing questions - like "why am I responding in this way?", and "how would I really like to feel when in this situation?" Asking how you would like to feel and respond is a great question to ask, as it allows you visualize the end result. See yourself feeling happy, or confident, or relaxed and in control. The trick to controlling how you react is knowing what you want the end result to be. You can then ask yourself "how can I start to feel this when I encounter these situations?" So every time you feel you are reacting in a negative way, stop and thing for a second and ask yourself how you would prefer to feel. Then focus on feeling that way, and having the positive emotions you would prefer. Keep practicing feeling better about the situation until it becomes second nature - or a new habit. By actively deciding how you will react, you are taking control of your life and your emotions, and building confidence levels. You can apply these techniques to every emotion your experience - to turn the bad ones into good ones, and the good ones into even better ones. By being constantly aware of your habits and automatic reactions, you can eliminate the bad habits and reactions and replace them with good ones - simply by using simple techniques. Article Source: http://www.articlewheel.com
Loren Luck is a personal development coach who loves teaching people how to build confidence. Here she talks about some simple techniques for building confidence. Grab your copy of her free Magic Hats personal development program over at magic-hats.com
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