Build your Confidence with NLP

Chris Harrison - March 2004
©2007 PlanetNLP Ltd

Before attempting this NLP exercise, read it through several times to ensure that you can run through the steps.

Stand up.

Use the Getting Grounded exercise to build a good base to start from.

Close your eyes and visualize yourself standing facing you.

Build into this other you all the attributes that would make them exactly as confident as you wish to be.

Steal attributes from where ever you wish.

For instance, you might want the voice of Anthony Hopkins, or the poise of Bruce Lee.

Build them all in.

Notice how the image before you changes.

Make sure the image is big and bold.

Notice how their posture changes, maybe you have an idea of how that confidence must feel as it pumps through them.

When you are ready, in your mind walk around behind the confident you and step into them.

Feel yourself take on their posture and their feelings.

Notice that you are now standing on a stage before an audience who are giving you a standing ovation.

Feel the warmth of their applause.

Notice where in your body the new confident feeling is strongest, and notice how it moves around your body.

Does it start in your head or in your stomach?

How does it move?

Now take the feeling and notice where it starts, and where it goes.

Loop the feeling back to its source so that the feeling builds stronger with each breath you take spinning faster and faster.

Look down at that audience and notice how you now feel.

Repeat until you can't stand feeling so wonderful any more.