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Self Confidence Transformation
11 Small Actions To Boost Your Confidence
If you have low self-confidence, then this is something you should seek to change right away. Low confidence can not only prevent you from achieving everything you can do in life (by preventing you from taking risks and by making you generally more retiring and cautious) but it can also greatly damage your happiness and your enjoyment of life.
Ultimately, low-confidence can lead to depression and mental health issues if it is allowed to continue and it can even end up negatively rubbing off on those around you. For parents in particular, this is a highly important thing to address before it hurts your children.
To fix low self-esteem, you should speak with a therapist, a psychologist or a counsellor. In short, someone with training and qualifications will stand the best chance of fixing this deep-seated issue.
But that said, you can also raise your confidence in a number of other ways. Sometimes, small fixes can start to fix your confidence from the outside in and in the short term, this can do a LOT of good. Here are some small actions that will help you to slowly transform the way you come across to others and ultimately, the way you feel about yourself.
1 Body Language
Your body language is one of the single most important tools for conveying the way you feel. Communication is often estimated as being 70% non-verbal or even higher. In other words, what you’re saying with your mouth is far less important than what you say with your body. You can talk the talk, but if you’re hunched up, then you will convey a sense of anxiety and low confidence. Likewise, if you’re shaking, then no one will buy your macho spiel!
So how do you fix your bodylanguage? The trick is to appear relaxed. The more you lie back, spread out and let yourself be vulnerable, the less it appears as though you have something to fear. If you put your arm across the back of the sofa and have one leg casually over your knee, then you’ll look relaxed and at ease – as though no one poses a threat to you and as though no one can harm you. This conveys confidence and it also makes you feel more confident.
Another body language trick is to try leaning on things. If you learn against a wall, this communicates ownership. Likewise, if you touch someone on the shoulder, this conveys a kind of ownership which also comes across as confidence.
2 Smile
Smiling is perhaps the most confident thing you can do. Want to look more confident when you walk? Then smile as you go! Want to look more confident when approaching members of the opposite sex in a bar? Just smile at them from across the room and you’ll not only appear friendly, but also as though you’re happy to make yourself vulnerable – which again makes you seem relaxed and confident.
Smiling actually makes us feel more confident too due to a psychological phenomenon known as ‘facial feedback’. This means that we will often feel the way we look. Smile and you feel happier. Grimace and you feel angrier. Smiling in particular releases serotonin which induces feel good feels. Even if the smile is forced, it still works!
3 Power Positions
Just as smiling can work in reverse to change your emotions, so too does your body language influence the way you feel.
When we are confident, we have a tendency to take up more space. What you might not realize is that when you take up more space, it makes you feel more confident. Why? Because it triggers a rush of the hormone testosterone, testosterone being the primary male hormone and also a neurotransmitter that increases aggression and assertiveness.
Psychologists have thus managed to find what are known as power positions. These are positions you can pull with your body that will instantly make you feel more confident and on top of the world.
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