4. REPROGRAMMING MEDITATION

One of the most powerful ways to build self-confidence is through deep meditations and repetition. Through meditation, we can gain awareness of our inner dialogue and recognize limiting self-beliefs that us holding them back. By being mindful of our thoughts, we can observe which ones keep us from believing in ourselves, such as “I am not good enough” or “I will never succeed.”

Once these limiting beliefs have been identified, they can be released through a powerful visualisation meditation practice. This practice helps to reprogram our subconscious mind with more empowering beliefs like “I am capable of achieving my goals” or “I trust in my own abilities.” Repetition allows these new beliefs to become deeply integrated so that when faced with difficult situations, our automatic response is positive instead of negative.

KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, AND CONSCIOUS MIND:

Our brain does not know the difference between an imagined experience and the physical experience itself. How fascinating is that? It goes to show why anxious thoughts can leave our mind and body feeling totally wound up and tense. It’s a powerful realisation when we apply this to visualisation techniques in meditation. What if we could imagine ourselves as the most confidence, courageous, authentic versions of ourselves? Could we trick our brain into believing it’s true?

So many of our limiting self beliefs exist in our subconscious mind — meaning they are things we don’t consciously think of day to day but fundamentally believe at our core. Our conscious mind — is the thoughts, actions and behaviours then stem from our subconscious beliefs. Have you ever had the situation where something has made you overly emotional or reactive? It feels like you are overreacting, but you are not even sure why? This happens when our subconscious beliefs are at play.

For example: If I was raised in an environment where my needs were regularly neglected, I may have a belief as an adult that I am not worthy of love and care. It’s not something we wake up and think about, but on a subconscious level it’s something we believe to be true about ourselves. Our actions in the world and with others reflect this belief on a day to day basis. It tends to be what we assume first in any situation of tension or relationship miscommunication. When something goes wrong in a relationship, we mimic the same emotional reaction we had as children with whichever caregiver neglected our needs. Even if it’s not something we consciously want to do or believe anymore — we’ve got to get to the roots of the belief in order to change them.

We are going to exploring unblocking and reprogramming limiting self beliefs in the meditation below. You can return to this any time you face an emotional trigger in your life, feel stuck, or need an added boost of confidence to take action.

Take a moment after your meditation to journal out any insights that came to you.

In order for this practice to be most effective, it should be done daily over a long period of time. If you can, try to schedule this in the morning or evening every day for the next week. See how you feel at the weeks end. Once the week is over — build it into your weekly practice 2-3 times a week to stay on top of any lingering negative beliefs that pop up.

This meditation with repetition is a powerful tool for building self-confidence, but it requires commitment and consistency in order to see results over time.