The following technique is often used by Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) experts to develop confidence and positive thinking in people and to motivate them for a particular activity which they find uninteresting or to take them out of depression.

 

Close your eyes and imagine yourself doing an activity you are very enthusiastic and confident about.

 

  • What images are you seeing in your mind?
     
  • Are they black and white or colored, still or moving, bright or dull, big or small?
     
  • Are they close to you or distant?
     
  • Where are they located? Left, right, up or centre?
     
  • Are you a part of these images or an observer?
     
  • Are you hearing any voices or any sounds?
     
  • What are they? Are they loud or faint?
     
  • Note the tone of the voice.

 

 

Repeat the same exercise with something you don't feel that confident or enthusiastic about.

 

 

  • What are your observations?
     
  • How do they differ from your earlier observations?
     
  • Try to adjust them as per the ones in the earlier case.
     
  • If your images in the second case are black and white, faint, static, smaller (as they are likely to be) change them to colored, bright, moving and bigger as you might have observed in the case of images of the first case.
     
  • Make the sounds more clear and loud if that was the case with the sounds that you observed in the first case. Do it a few times.
     
  • How do you feel now about the activity you were not feeling enthusiastic or confident about?