Find a quiet,
Private,
And comfortable spot to sit or lay down.
Slowly close your eyes and be still.
Begin to relax by carefully listening to the silence of your location.
Inhale deeply and exhale slowly.
And again,
Inhale.
Exhale.
Keep breathing slowly.
In order to most effectively influence your mind,
You must first be as fully relaxed and as undistracted as possible.
So before we begin with this meditation,
Let's do a mindful breathing exercise to prepare.
I'm going to ask you to inhale,
Hold,
And exhale for a number of seconds.
Please join me.
Let's begin.
Inhale for five seconds.
One,
Two,
Three,
Four,
Five.
Hold for three seconds.
One,
Two,
Three.
Exhale for five seconds.
One,
Two,
Three,
Four,
Five.
And again,
Inhale for five seconds.
One,
Two,
Three,
Four,
Five.
Hold for three seconds.
One,
Two,
Three.
Exhale for five seconds.
One,
Two,
Three,
Four,
Five.
And once more.
Inhale for five seconds.
One,
Two,
Three,
Four,
Five.
Hold for three seconds.
One,
Two,
Three.
Exhale for five seconds.
One,
Two,
Three,
Four,
Five.
Now let your memory come alive and try to remember yourself as a child of five years of age.
Take a moment or pause this meditation to let this memory rise to the surface of your consciousness naturally.
Please don't force it.
Think back.
What were you like as a child?
Were you shy?
Or were you bold?
Or were you a bit of both sometimes?
Recall a childhood moment doing or achieving something specific you were naturally good at.
Maybe it was during a subject in school or a sport you liked to play or an artistic hobby that you liked to practice.
Recall and relive that moment that made you feel joy without pressure or judgment.
And if you're not sure,
Simply recall any friendly childhood memory with as much innocence and as much fun as you can.
Let yourself smile as you relive and nurture that moment in your life.
Now take another slow,
Deep breath.
And try to step a little deeper into this childhood moment.
Now imagine you are inside your childhood body again.
Look around.
Everyone and everything looks taller.
Your voice sounds different.
Your clothes are different.
Your skin feels different.
Your instincts and impulses are different.
Your thoughts are different.
You are different.
Take another slow,
Deep breath in and out.
And now think of how you would behave as this little person.
Maybe you're more curious as a child than you are as an adult.
Or maybe you're more passionate.
Or maybe your thoughts and the way you communicate are less complicated.
Take a deep breath.
Imagine yourself again doing or achieving your joyful activity from earlier.
And now as an embodied child,
Try to remember or predict what it feels like to have complete faith in yourself and in everything you do.
Let feelings of adult worry be replaced with childhood wonder and curiosity.
Let feelings of adult insecurity be dissolved with childhood self-trust and the unconscious acceptance of failure.
Let tendencies of adult overthinking be calmed with childhood confidence.
Take another deep breath in and as you exhale,
Step out of your imagination and come back to your adult form.
And realize it's only natural to be confident in our adult selves as it is for a child to just be a child.
So to allow a sustained lack of confidence to permeate in our mind is unnatural and so it must be purged immediately.
Because children need support from their parents.
Think of your confidence as a child.
And we are the parents that nurture our confidence every day with the reminder that being confident is as simple as a child's decision to just be.
Confidence comes from self-trust coupled with the constant rehearsal of making decisions quickly and easily.
Conversely,
What can slowly erode our confidence over time is the rehearsal of self-doubt.
So whenever you want or need to be confident,
I want you to evoke your childhood feeling from this meditation.
And decide to be as confident as you were and will always be since childhood.
Take another slow deep breath in and out and repeat after me.
I am a master.
I make decisions easily.
I accept I may fail.
My confidence is only natural.
Now take a deep breath.
Please take a moment to appreciate and thank yourself for the discipline you've shown throughout this meditation.
Take all the time you need to just breathe and remember you can return to this meditation whenever you please.
Remember that the more you practice this meditation,
The faster and easier it will work for you.
Thank you for taking the time to begin learning how to release your childhood confidence.
When you're ready,
Slowly open your eyes and let me leave you with these words.
It's a great day to be alive.
