Build Your Confidence: Use mindfulness and meditation to boost self-esteem
By Tara Ward
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About this ebook
Unlock the confidence within you with this practical workbook.
Build Your Confidence offers a seven-step personal development programme to improve your self-esteem. Through a series of techniques and enjoyable exercises, this book will arm you will the tools you need to plot out your own path to confidence as you go about your daily life.
Includes:
• An exclusive audio link to guided meditations
• Mindful exercises in every chapter
• A plan for confidence for you to fill in
• Mini-meditations designs to make you feel good - physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually
Designed to be dipped into as and when you need a confidence-boost, this highly practical self-help handbook will provide concrete results.
Tara Ward
Tara Ward is an art historian specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture. She is editor of Gender and Popular Culture: A Visual Study, and her work has been published by the Guggenheim Museum, Oxford Art Journal, and Excursions.
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Build Your Confidence - Tara Ward
INTRODUCTION
Welcome! Increasing your confidence is a great goal to have, because it will help you to enjoy every aspect of life more fully. And because people seem to learn best when they are having a good time, you are going to ‘play’ as you go through each step, using fun and insightful exercises.
Of course, confidence means different things to different people, so this book is going to be a personal journey to help you determine what it looks and feels like for you. The experiences you have as you discover a new-found confidence will be unique to you.
I’m going to encourage you to delve inside yourself to understand where your lack of confidence began, so we can work from the beginning and ‘build you up’, so to speak. This will ensure that the confidence you feel is genuine, not a superficial top layer with uncertainties still bubbling away underneath.
You may find some steps more helpful than others, but I suggest that you go through each stage to make sure you are creating a holistic experience of confidence that makes you feel good physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
Also, at the end of each step you’ll find an account of my own experience of creating more confidence in my life. It’s an up-and-down journey and I hope my honesty will help you in your own growth.
Before you start reading the first step, please take a look at the Confidence Plan which starts on page 118. Filling this in as you go through the steps will help to keep you motivated and make sure you stay on track.
Right, let’s get started!
HELPFUL HINTS
I’ve sprinkled hints throughout the steps. Some are light-hearted, others deeper. Have a play with them and see if they help you.
Step 1: Contemplating ConfidenceI promised you fun during this journey into confidence, so we are going to start straight away by playing a mind-freeing ‘game’.
Take a large sheet of paper and in the middle write the word ‘confidence’. Now, without stopping to think too deeply, start drawing arrows out of the word and at the end of each arrow, write down what confidence means to you.
There is no right or wrong answer – just let your mind run free without censoring it. See it as a fun game where you can do whatever you want; write as many words as you want, and nothing is good or bad. Take your time.
No one is going to judge you and no one has to see this piece of paper but you. Scribble away for as long as you like. You might find yourself writing some things you weren’t expecting; that is fine. When you have run out of steam, stop and review what you have written. You might want to circle certain things