I've been working on self-care for the past few years, and the most important lesson I've discovered along the way is that the secret to it all is inner confidence.
There are many tactics, mindsets, patterns of behavior, and helpful suggestions to enhance your life and feel better about yourself, but they all won't work without a solid foundation. That foundation is our true, authentic self – who we know deep down. Here are the two secrets to true inner confidence: The secret is that finding your inner confidence and sharing it with the world requires a commitment to it.
Let’s take a closer look at two strategies to boost your inner confidence.
I value personal values very much, and when I talk about them, I often do so at length. But I make no apologies for it, because values are one of the most important things you can learn about yourself and are essential to developing true inner confidence. Your core values lie 10,000 feet below inside you. They are the pillars, foundations, and building blocks of who you are. Values are the things that are most important to you in yourself, others, or the world. Examples include beliefs, progress, family, fun, nature, achievement, and freedom.
Why do certain people or situations make you feel angry, frustrated, demotivated or depressed? It's because one or more of your values are being denied, suppressed or repressed. We interpret this negatively because it means an important aspect of you is being denied. Remember a moment when you felt incredibly vibrant, amazing or energized? When you live by your values, you will experience more moments where one or more of your principles are being followed.
No matter what happens, no one can take your values away from you. They are always there, waiting for you to recognize them and use them. Then you can have complete confidence in them. Knowing your values allows you to make decisions and organize your life accordingly. It is so easy and fulfilling, because all you really need is to be present in the outside world as your true self.
Like any muscle, confidence needs to be exercised to keep it from atrophying and weakening (yes, I recognize that confidence is a muscle). The problem is, unlike biceps or glutes, which tend to stay in the same place, confidence muscles can be hard to find. How do you strengthen your glutes or build your biceps? By doing exercises designed to build that muscle over time until you see the results you want.
The same goes for self-confidence. Let's say you're a cautious person who gets things done every day without pushing yourself too hard. Maybe you stop doing something because you're too scared or you tell yourself, “I'm not good enough,” “That's not who I am,” or “It's not what I really want to do anyway.” You only stick to yourself and what you know is safe and comfortable. When you stop taking risks, you lose self-confidence because you need to. I've spent most of my adult life trapped in a cycle of self-sabotage.
To build your confidence muscle, you have to be willing to take chances, no matter how small. You have to be willing to push yourself in new directions, to do something different, to try something you've never done before. You have to push yourself to learn more, do more, and be more of yourself by opening your mind to the possibilities around you. The more confident you are, the more open you are to risk, opportunity, and possibility. What are you going to do to build your confidence muscle?
To train my self-confidence, I plan to put myself in uncomfortable and unfamiliar situations that challenge me and take me out of my comfort zone so that I can grow, develop, and ultimately uncover my inner confidence.
After a lifetime of searching, COVID-19 life in 2020 has inspired me to focus deeper and full-time on the gifts of meditation, alternative medicine, and spiritual well-being, a journey I have been exploring for most of my life. Everything I share comes from my own inner healing and is in no way a substitute for professional medical advice. Follow my journey…
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