Books To Read To Help Improve Self Confidence

We all need a little help along the way to well being.

When I began understanding it was "me" who had to change if I wanted to ever be happy, I knew I was going to need to turn to those who had had the courage to venture out towards their own journey of self discovery for some guidance. You see, I cannot really say anyone in my family was authentically happy. So I was going to have to turn towards those other than family members for help.

I have read close to 200 books on self help. What I needed to know was "why" my mind worked the way it did.

What I discovered thrilled me to the bones. Thinking was primarily the result of childhood programming and conditioning. I reacted and thought and behaved the way I did simply because as I was growing and forming ideas about the world, I was being "taught" to react as well as think by those around me.

My mother was an enabler so she taught me to enable and to think as an enabler. It was that simple.

My father was a man who liked things his way, and who got angry easily when my mother did not jump to his needs. Watching them, I became conditioned to respond to others the same way my mother did and attracted people into my life who angered easily, because these were the types of personalities I was accustomed to.

The really good news for me was, that if my thinking was the result of programming, then that meant that all I had to do was re-program my own mind with information I wanted it to retain.

Books helped me get there. Some of my favorites are; The Art of Living Consciously, The Six Pillars of Self Esteem, Honor Thy Self, Co-dependent No More, The Art of Letting Go, Never Be Lied to Again, The Manipulative Man, Healing The Shame That Binds You, Perfect Daughters, Addicted To Love, and an array of others.

Reading and learning about how the mind worked allowed me to understand that me, my consciousness could run the show. I didn't have to be a conditioned robot and react to circumstances the way I had been taught to. I really could decide how I wanted to see the world, but I could not do that until I first began to unravel why my mind worked in such a dysfunctional way in the first place.

I have learned tremendously by the wide array of authors who so bravely wrote with their hearts as well as their minds to help people like me finally figure it all out...

How To Boost Self Confidence

What is confidence? It is described in dictionaries as "state of believing in truth".

What is your truth?

When you look at a mountain, or stand at the mouth of an ocean, or feel wind race past you, what do you believe?

Who, or what source created such magnificence?

When you see the tall trees and then see tiny ones growing beside it, who or what do you believe created it?

When you see a child born; hear its first cry, or watch it latch onto its mothers breast, do you ever wonder how this could be so, or why?

How is it, that this abundant earth, and every species that occupies it can live so magnificently in such order, without interference?

If man were not here, this planet would still thrive. Its trees would grow. Its oceans would still churn. 

The same source that created the stars, the moon, and all the tiny and humungous creatures of the sea, created you, and created me.

Read that again, but this time don't just read it with your mind. Feel it with your soul. Allow it to infuse your being...because you my dear friend are a magnificent design.

Something created what is...

Something; a knowing; an energy; a source is responsible for this spectacular thing so many of us take for granted; earth.

The same energy that created you, is the same energy that created the heavens, the earth and Lady Gaga, Buddha, Martin Luther King, Michael Jackson, Rosa Parks, Lincoln, Joan of Arc and Teddy Roosevelt.

Doubt that? Any non believer would have to admit that whatever created one human being, had to be responsible for creating us all...

Your truth? Confidence?

You can be confident that who you are...is enough...

You can be confident that no matter what "society" says or anyone else says, the true deep truth about you and about me, and about all...is that we are divine...and part of an energy source that wants nothing more but to grow, expand, envelope and inspire...

People who seems more confident than you, are simply tapping into their truth (their energy) more than someone who is not.

Confident people spend more time on their insides than they do worrying about what a bunch of programmed and conditioned robots think, on the outside.

Most of us are little more than the programming we have been getting fed since infancy...

You are not garbage...You are not stupid...You are not ugly...You are not worthless...

YOU ARE MAGNIFICENT...LOOK UP...THAT'S YOU...BIG...WIDE...MIRACULOUS...PERFECT...FULL...EXPANDING...AND NEVER ENDING...

I AM YOU...YOU ARE ME...SOME OF US JUST DON'T KNOW THAT YET...BUT WHEN YOU DO...AND WHEN YOU DECIDE TO SPEND MORE TIME HERE...IN THE KNOWING...A SHIFT IN YOU TAKES PLACE...AND FINALLY CONFIDENCE ARRIVES...BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN TURNED ON TO THE TRUTH....