Positive Thinking

Believe in yourself ! Have faith in your abilities !
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with sound self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realisation and successful achievement.

Lack of self-confidence apparently is one of the great problems besetting people today. In a university survey was made of six hundred students in psychology courses. The students were asked to state their most difficult personal problem. Seventy-five per cent listed lack of confidence. It can safely be assumed that the same large proportion is true of the population generally.

So if you feel that you are defeated and have lost confidence in your ability to win, sit down, take a piece of paper and make a list, not of the factors that are against you, but of those that are for you. If you or I or anybody think constantly of the forces that seem to be against us, we will build them up into a power far beyond that which is justified. They will assume a formidable strength which they do not actually possess. But if, on the contrary, you mentally visualise and affirm and reaffirm your assets and keep your thoughts on them, emphasising them to the fullest extent, you will rise out of any difficulty regardless of what it may be. Your inner powers will reassert themselves and, with the help of God, lift you from defeat to victory.

Below are the few excersise to build up greater self confidence :

1. Formulate a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Never permit it to fade.Your mind will seek to develop this picture.
2.Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal powers comes to mind, replace it with a positive thought.
3. Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
4. Ten times a day repeat withing yourself " I Can"
5.Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you.

" if you think you can, you can, and if you think you can't, you are right"

Deepak Tiwari