I took this exercise out of a book that I’d highly recommend for inner game and an understanding of NLP, NLP: The New Technology of Achievement edited by Steve Andreas and Charles Faulkner. In order for this to work, you can’t just read it… you must actually do it. Use your imagination, have fun with it, and let me know how it works for you.

Circle of Excellence:
1. Relive Confidence. Stand up and let yourself go back in your memory to a time when you were very confident, abundantly confident. Relive that moment, seeing what you saw and hearing what you heard.
2. Circle of Excellence. As you feel the confidence building in you, imagine a colored circle on the floor around your feet. What color would you like your circle to be? Would you like it also to have a sound like a soft hum that indicates how powerful it is? When that feeling of confidence is at its fullest, step out of that circle, leaving those confident feelings inside the circle. This is an unusual request, and you can do it.
3. Selecting Cues. Now think of a specific time in you future when you want to have that same feeling of confidence. See and hear what will be there just before you want to feel confident. The cue could be your boss’s office door, your office phone, or the sound of club music and flashing lights that you experience when you first enter a club.
4. Linking. As soon as those cues are clear in your mind, step back into the circle and feel those confident feelings again. Imagine that situation unfolding around you in the future with these confident feelings fully available to you.
5. Check Results. Now step out of the circle again, leaving those confident feelings there in the circle. Outside the circle, take a moment and think again of that upcoming event. You’ll find you’ll automatically recall those confident feelings. This means you’ve already preprogrammed yourself for that upcoming event. You’re feeling better about it and it hasn’t even happened yet. When it arrives, you’ll find yourself naturally responding more confidently.

Anyone have some feedback?

I feel this works well with me as long as I make the right cues in my brain, so that I think of it right before I need it.

Another NLP technique, that I learned from Ross Jefferies, is to imagine yourself 50 ft tall and slighty leaned back... then turn that image around, pick it up over your head, and drop it on yourself. Keep doing this, and then you will begin to naturally do it when you need it.

is there any other exercise? I feel like this is one of my biggest problems because I have spit a pretty much perfect game before but I want to replicate that any time I want!

i don't get the second one, but the first one seems like it work for me im going to try it next time im about to go out, senior year of hs i was fearless and i've been trying to get that back, having a gf for a year and a half will drain everything out of you

These kinds of exercises rock and I love them. Bare in mind though that NLP is tailored to the individual, and something written in a book is written so as to reach as many people as possible - but you can't reach all of the people obviously. So if you're going to try any of those exercises be prepared to play with them and experiment to get the best out of them. Luckily, that's a really fun thing to do!

Work with the colours/sounds/smells and everything associated with them. Closeness of picture, position in your imagination too. It's ALL important. Couple with this the 50 odd meta-programmes and 8 representational systems (Yes, 8 not 5!) and you can see how it would be pretty difficult to give a comprehensive method in a book that everyone could use.

Ideally, find someone who know's what they're doing with NLP to guide you through the exercise and build the experience around you - instead of trying to fit your experience to a step by step process. This may involve getting out there and maybe spending a little money, but hey it's worth it if you're serious about this stuff. And when you get the results - Whoa!

And the Ross Jeffries exercise involves making a picture of yourself, making it bigger, brighter, closer, more vivid, and then leaning it back 30 degrees. I'd definitely recommend his unstoppable confidence tape set. It's been around a while but it totally rocks. And if you've not heard, his Nail Your Inner Game programme is totally revolutionising AA solutions. I saw him totally DESTROY a guy's AA in about 90 seconds. 90 SECONDS!

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