NLP recognizes the power of changing your states to help yourself achieve new, healthier emotions in a variety of situations. One of the reasons this is so powerful is because your response to your surroundings is often self fulfilling – if you think you are going to fail, you are more likely to fail. If you think people see you a certain way, chances are that they will, because they will pick up on your own thoughts. Similarly, if you change your state to be more confident, people will pick up on this confidence instead.

You can utilize this on your own as well. When there are days that you are not feeling good enough – times that you assume you are not going to succeed – pretend that you do. By pretending that you do feel good enough and going after the situation despite every ounce of your being telling you otherwise, you will give off the impression that you DO think you are good enough, and people will respond accordingly.

Hypnosis and NLP are designed to treat the causes of your low self confidence and self esteem so that you can more easily go after those things that are important to you. By simply by pretending that you do not have these feelings of not being good enough, and instead acting as though you have all of the confidence in the world, you will soon find that the feeling becomes easier and easier over time.  

25 October 2010