By Royane Real

Do you suffer from a lack of self confidence?  Is your mind filled with too many negative beliefs about yourself, and hardly any positive beliefs?

You were not born with any negative beliefs about yourself.  You may have developed some negative beliefs about yourself while you were growing up, based on things you may have heard from your parents, and based on how you were treated.

But even if your beliefs about yourself right now are very negative, the good news is that your negative beliefs can be changed.  Why?  Because your negative beliefs are really just opinions.  They are concepts you have decided to believe.  But they are not actual facts.

You can learn to challenge all your negative beliefs about yourself and about how much you think other people like you.  You can develop a new opinion of how much good you deserve to have in your life.

How can you do this?

Start out by making a list of all your current beliefs about yourself and about how much you think people like you.  Write down your beliefs about whether you think you deserve good things in your life or not.

Then, look for which parts of your beliefs are opinions, and which are actual facts.

For example, if you think, “No one could like me.”  This is an opinion.  You have decided to live as if this opinion was a fact, but it’s not really a fact. 

A factual statement would be, “Some people don’t seem to like me, but there are many millions of people in the world.  If I keep trying to approach more people in a friendly way, I’ll be more likely to meet people who will like me.”

When you keep reminding yourself which of your beliefs are facts, and which are just your emotional opinions, you will be able to remove many negative beliefs about yourself. 

You will be able to substitute more realistic positive beliefs in place of the negative opinions.  Your new positive beliefs will help you improve your performance in many areas of your life, including your relationships.  You will attract better experiences into your life when you believe you deserve to have a good life.

If you find it really hard to change your negative beliefs to positive ones by yourself, be sure to look for a trained professional therapist who has a good track record of helping people to overcome their negative beliefs.

While you are at this website, be sure to read the many other articles which can help you improve your expectations, your relationships and your self-esteem.

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( The above introductory comments were written by Royane Real, author of the special report:  “ Your Guide to Making Friendly Conversation”  which is available at http://www.lulu.com/real )

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