Self Confidence, Part 3

What do you see? Look in the mirror. Now what do you see? Do you trust what you see? It is a reasonable question. When you see something unusual, quite out of the ordinary, do you believe what you see? Or instead, do you discount it? If you don't trust what you see, you discount it as not possible, insist that you are not really seeing what you are seeing. At first blush, this seems rather foolish. However it is quite serious!

Let's take another approach. When you look at someone do you notice the changes in them? Do you notice the new wrinkle, the change in makeup, the altered hairdo? When you look at a familiar scene, do you see the missing tree, the change in the arrangement of things, or any other change? The usual answer is that you do not. Unless there is a quite radical change of some sort, you do not notice small changes that occur naturally over time.

This is true because you trust what you remember. You do not trust what you see. This is another issue of self confidence. Trust your seeing. To begin the process of changing this, forget the memories that make you trust your seeing. The memories directing your behavior have been trying to make you trust your seeing. Their effect has been to trigger other memories which keep you from trusting your seeing. If you cannot trust a part of your self, you cannot fully have confidence in yourself. Since these memories will no longer have their effect, you will be able to start trusting your seeing.

To get the appropriate memories engaged for you to trust your seeing, remember the memories that let you trust your seeing. Such memories are there. You have trusted what you see before. It may go back to when you were very, very young. Back then you had not had so many influences to color your seeing. Such influences actually create `blind spots' in your seeing that keep you from seeing things that were quite plain when you were little. As a small child you saw everything because everything, absolutely everything, was new. These memories will now guide your subconscious mind into trusting your seeing from now on.

One more step has been taken to building your self confidence!