OK so were going to look at confidence today and over the next few days I will be giving you techniques to address it.

So what is confidence?

When we are born we are all blank computers, the mind has no data on which to react on. so we have no memories to push us forward or hold us back. Eventually over time we gather memories, now depending on the interactions we have growing up, will determine our confidence level. So if you have confident parents and they nurture you that your opinions are worthy and listen to you, you will LEARN to be a confident person. But on the other hand if you were told to shut up when you spoke, you will feel that your views and opinions were not worth of vocalising, this will create a feeling of lacking what you become to know as confidence.

We also model adults around us, I will go into modelling in greater detail in future weeks as it is crucial to mind coaching. So getting back to it if you have inconfident people around you, you too will LEARN to be inconfident.

There are a couple of ways to re-learn confidence. One is to desenticise yourself to it, so gradually do things that slightly take yourself out of your comfort zone, just slowly and gradually building up.

And the second is what i do with people which is use gentle but powerful mental techniques and the change is instant. Then I use hypnosis to wash the subconscious mind with confident thoughts and feelings and wash away the restrictions for the individual.

Tomorrow we will look at a technique to help you get through lack of confidence issues.

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Michael Darbyshire is a guest writer for our Boxing Website