The Simple Way To Boost Self Confidence And Achieve Your Goals

Have you ever felt anxious, depressed, nervous, or angry? Or feeling low on self confidence and self esteem? One of the questions I get asked a lot by my clients (and friends too) is how to build self confidence and start to feel good about life.

These tips and techniques come from a Master NLP practitioner. They are clinically tested methods you can start to use right now to eliminate all your negative emotions and replace them with positive and empowering emotions and feelings.

These techniques aren't my creation - they're part of a powerful personal development technique known as Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP for short. The program was created by a Master NLP practitioner who coaches with some of the biggest "blue chip" and Fortune 500 companies around today. The very simple techniques will teach you how to turn a negative and disempowering emotion into a position of strength and power.

Knowledge is Power - or is it?

I'm sure you're heard the phrase "knowledge is power" before - but that's not really true. Even though these techniques are highly effective and will work every time - you must put this knowledge in to action - because the real power lies in taking action with your new fond knowledge.

Let's get started with some Magic Hats.

This process you're about to discover is more commonly known as Magic Hats. You get 5 different colored hats (not real hats - they're jus in your mind) and 5 very simple steps to follow. In fact there so simple you can have them down in less than 20 minutes.

Step 1. Self Hypnosis. Self Hypnosis is the secret door to controlling your mind. You'll learn how to place yourself in a deep state of complete relaxation. Even within the first few minutes of this step you'll start to feel more energised and a lot happier.

Step 2. Modalities. Your modalities are your modes of thinking - or how your brain recalls past memories. Have you ever smelt a familiar smell and almost immediately recalled the memory of where you were and what you were doing when you first encountered that smell. Or looked at an old photo and had the memories come flooding back? We remember our past experiences through our senses - just like this.

Step 3. Swish Patterns. Using the Swish Technique you can quickly and easily change from a state of sadness or frustration to a state of happiness or self confidence. It's a simple technique we can use to move away from feeling bad and towards feeling good.

Step 4. Anchors. We use anchors to store and recall positive emotions and experiences that make us feel good. An anchor can be a word or phrase, or an old photo, or a familiar smell or. Anything that triggers stored memories.

Step 5. Your mode of operation. Most people allow their mind to control their emotions and simply react to all the things that happen to them each day. By being aware of how your brain and your emotions work, you can control how you react to each situation you find yourself in.

How to relax at the flick of a switch.

Most people hardly ever relax - even when they're asleep, they're still tense and under stress. Our bodies operate and function best when we are relaxed. We can think more clearly, we feel better, and are much more fun to be around. So the first and most vital lesson is learning how to fully relax - and you'll be amazed at how easy it is.

Find a comfortable chair, and sit down with your back straight, feet flat on the floor and the base of your spine pushed back into the chair (this helps you sit up straight).

1. Place you hand (whichever comes naturally) onto your stomach just about where your belt buckle is (or would be if you were wearing a belt).

2. Now you take a deep breath in, filling the bottom of your lungs first by forcing out your stomach and trying to push your lungs into the space it leaves behind. Then fill the top of your lungs and expand your ribcage at the same time. This helps you get your lungs completely filled with air. Hold you breathe for a slow count of 6. Holding your breathe helps your lungs extract as much oxygen as possible from the air and pass it into your bloodstream.

3. Start to breath out slowly again for a slow count of 6. At the same time pull in your stomach muscles to help squash the air out of your lungs. Suck your stomach in as far as you can. When you've breathed out all the air and sucked your stomach in, hold it for a slow count of 6.

4. Repeat this breathing technique for a total of 6 to 12 times.

The process we are following is: Push out your stomach and breathe in - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6; Hold your breath - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6; Suck in your stomach and breathe out - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6; Hold your breath - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6; Repeat the complete process 6 - 12 times.

After you've finished you may feel a little dizzy or light headed. This is natural and is simply because you are now very relaxed and have highly oxygenated blood.

Now that you're calm and relaxed you can move on to the rest of the program - I haven't got space to fit everything in here so there's a free download you can get over at http://magic-hats.com with the rest of the steps. You can download it and have completed the first task within the next 10 minutes, and be on your way to a happier, more positive and much more successful life.