33 Affirmations for Confidence
These 33 affirmations for confidence will help you start to rewire your brain for more confidence that spills over into your entire life. No matter what you are trying to gain confidence in, these affirmations will help you get there faster.
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What are affirmations?
Affirmations are short positive statements that are repeated in order to evoke a specific desired change, mindset, or outlook.
They are like planting a seed of positive thought. The more you repeat them, the more you water and care for the seed. Eventually, the seed grows and blooms and so do you.
Affirmations change your thought patterns into a new reality. Read on to why they can help you make lasting changes that stick.
Affirmations can be used for anything! They are personally, one of my favorite ways to make positive changes and grow into a better person.
Do affirmations work for confidence?
Affirmations for confidence do work.
Self- affirmations are successful at broadening your overall perspective and reducing the effects of negative emotions.
Confidence affirmations help you to focus on sources of your positive values. They are also proven to reduce the tendency to linger on negative experiences.
Affirmations are a scientifically proven way to help access the subconscious side of the brain to make lasting and permanent changes and move you in direction of self-confidence and a more positive mindset.
33 Affirmations for Confidence
- I am confident in my skills and abilities.
- I am proud of who I am.
- I am exactly where I am supposed to be.
- I love growing and expanding every day.
- Every day I learn more about myself that I love.
- I am happy with who I am and welcome opportunities to grow and expand to my highest potential.
- I have a lot to offer.
- People seek me out for my special skillset and talents that are unique to me.
- My thoughts create my reality and I have the power to change my thoughts.
- I have the power to be exactly who I want to be.
- I create my dream life and boldly and confidently show up in it.
- I let go of thoughts that no longer serve me.
- I am confident in myself.
- I believe in myself.
- I am whole.
- All is well with my soul.
- I am free to show up as myself and I feel comfortable doing so.
- Every day my confidence grows.
- The only approval I seek is my own.
- I have everything I need already within me to succeed.
- I am unique and that is beautiful.
- I am beautiful inside and out.
- I am happy, healthy, and confident.
- I enjoy spending time with myself.
- Challenges show me how strong I am.
- I easily align my thoughts with what I want to create in my life.
- My thoughts support me and my goals.
- I show up confidently every day.
- I trust my intuition and take action to grow my confidence.
- I inspire others by being myself.
- I am perfect the way I am.
- My feelings, thoughts and emotions are just feedback and I am separate from them.
- I am confident in my mind, body and soul and allow myself to show up authentically.
Expert Tips for starting confidence affirmations
From personal experience with clients and myself, the most important thing to do is to find the affirmation(s) that feel right to you. It is completely ok to try multiple a day, or one a day until you find a handful that really resonates with you.
Affirmations are only effective if you use them repeatedly and they create an emotional resonance within you. Even if you don’t believe it yet, it should still feel good to you. You aren’t meant to believe it yet, that comes with the work you are going to put in with your affirmation practice.
A few ways you can practice affirmations:
- writing them in a journal every day
- typing them into a notes app
- saying out loud in the shower (my second favorite way)
- replacing one negative comment about yourself with one affirmation
- repeating, mentally whispering, while you drift off to sleep
- in yoga nidra
It honestly doesn’t matter how you do it. It only matters that you find a way that you can stick with and it does not feel like a pain to do. Cause if it feels like a pain, odds are good you won’t stick with it.
My best expert tip for practicing affirmations is to repeat your affirmations right before drifting off to sleep. When you are in a relaxed state right before falling asleep, your brain enters into a theta wavelength state. This is a state where the subconscious mind is very suggestible.
It is the state you find yourself in right between wakefulness and sleep and can also be accessed during meditation, hypnosis, and prayer.
You will make faster progress by using this time to practice the affirmations.
Practice self-compassion
Finally, I want to make an important note that it is ok to have bad days.
It will be 100% normal to feel on fire one day with how amazing you feel, and the next feel completely overwhelmed with the lack of progress. You are human and this will happen.
The best thing to do is not to become those feelings. You are not overwhelmed, you feel overwhelmed. And feelings are temporary. Practice naming the feeling, recognizing how you feel, and remembering feelings are transient.
I truly hope this post helps you find the right path. I know with every cell of my being that you are special and you have gifts to offer the world. You are meant to do big things, and that first comes with loving yourself first.
Please reach out or leave a comment below if you feel called to share how this post helped you.
FAQ’s
What is the best time to practice or listen to positive affirmations?
I recommend you implement a practice of 3 times:
1) First thing in the morning or when you are getting ready for the day.
2) Right before falling asleep when you enter into a slower brain wave state. This is the most suggestible wave length state similar to hypnosis or yoga nidra. Using affirmations at this time will have a greater impact on the subconscious mind.
3) When you catch yourself in the middle of a negative thought pattern. Replace the negative pattern with an affirmation to retrain the brain.
