by Lorna Luck
Have you ever wanted to learn how to build your confidence levels? Boosting self confidence is a relatively simple task, but it all starts and ends with being able to control your mind and how you think. But thinking can be hard work - or at least it can seem that way when getting started - and so most people prefer to leave their emotions and reactions up to the intuition.

To discover how easy building confidence levels can be, you need to spend some time getting to understand how your mind works. You can then start to change your habits and thoughts to bring about long lasting and empowering changes in your life.

Change Can Be Easy - If You Really Want It

The good news is that these changes you need to make to your habits can be very easy. I’m going to explain how you can identify what needs to change to help you overcome your limiting emotions, and exactly how to change them using some very simple mind control techniques.

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.

As this data is fed into our brain, we automatically react based on what memories we have of the particular events. If we have experienced an event or situation before, our mind recalls that experience, and we automatically react in the same way we did last time. This then becomes our habit of how we will continue to react - unless we consciously decide to change it and react in a different way.

Our automatic habits like this can have a positive or negative impact on us, depending on the type of stored emotions we associate with them. The positive impact, like driving a car, allow us to perform certain actions without too much conscious effort. Have you ever driven somewhere then wondered how you actually got there when you arrived? That’s an automatic 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.

To get started on your path to controlling your habits reactions, you simply need to become aware of how you are reacting to these events and situations. Once you start to become aware of your reactions, start to ask yourself some questions like “how would I prefer to feel when confronted with this situation?” and maybe “why am I reacting to this situation in this way?”. When you know how you want to react or respond, you can start to visualise the desired result. Visualise yourself responding in a positive way and feeling confident 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.

Using these techniques on a regular basis is a great way of building confidence levels and empowering your life. By deciding to feel good about something, even when that situation used to make you feel negative, you have started on a path to creating new and empowering habits in your life that will remain with you forever (or at least until you decide to change them again).

Loren Luck is a self confidence and personal development coach . Here she explains some simple techniques for building confidence. Grab your copy of her free Magic Hats personal development program over at http://magic-hats.com

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