Emotions are involuntary. Hence feeling deffident is autonomic activity. But it can be overcome by certain steps.
Steps :
- Take a public speaking course. You might dread getting up in front of people, but there's no better way to jump start your confident feelings than by assuring yourself that you've got something to say, and people are listening
- Change up your look. Whether you're male or female, getting a new outfit and haircut can make you feel fresh, cool and confident.
- Pretend that you are already confident. If you've ever wanted to be an actor, use that motivation now. You may know you're capable and competent, yet you may feel rather insecure, but by pretending that you're already confident, you might be able to convince yourself. Ask yourself, what would the confident me do? How would they walk? How would they speak? Practice!
- Find some affirmations that will help you and repeat them often to yourself.
- Affirmations are very powerful and need to be spoken as though they have already happened. Say to yourself "I am a very confident person", "There is nothing I cannot do if I put my mind to it".
- Visualize yourself being congratulated on something you dream to achieve, imagine the person shaking your hand and saying well done. Hold a picture of you being successful.
- Every evening, just before you go to bed, think to yourself at least ten times, 'I am a confident man/woman'. This leaves a positive frame of mind inside yourself and will make you feel more confident the next day.
- These steps can be buttressed with benefit if you do namasmaran and pranayam regularly.
- Smile and relax; there's nothing that needs to be worried about.
- Don't feel that the audience is expecting a lot from you.
- Assume yourself equal to anyone in the audience.
- Volunteer important works in your organization, this is how you can earn people's respect.
- ALWAYS be honest and believe in yourself. If you don't no one else will.
- Don't underestimate yourself just because you're younger or smaller.
- If anybody puts you down or makes fun of you, think it through and how silly the comment is. Make it feel like it's a joke and you won't take the comment seriously.
- Not feeling confident is sometimes associated with a petty intellectual paradigm that stimulates our autonomic nervous activity which in turn affects our feelings of self-worth. This paradigm can be overcome and you can blossom from within by studying and re-evaluating yourself. [Cf: Smiling Sun: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar]
- It is not correct to get obsessed and depressed by "Not feeling confident".
- Blind belief and fanatic diposition can make one feel confident. But that can be disasterous.
- Hence rather than making frantic effrots to "somehow feel confident" explore and care for your true self. Your true self is noble and dignified. Exploring and caring for your true self will ensure revitalization and the natural and full fledged emergence of feeling of confidence [Cf: Stress: Understanding and Management: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar]
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