Posted by Andrew on 15/7/2009, 8:35 pm, in reply to "Rebuilding confidence."

Hi Geoff As you learnt on the workshop, you are dealing with retraining both your subconscious and your conscious. On the workshop your subconscious had an opportunity to get used to doing something new; back in the real world your conscious is saying “I’m not really sure I can do it!”. Then you went out on the town and let the subconscious show that it still can do it. So the moral of the story is what you would tell a trainee tightrope walker “Don’t look down!” i.e. use you diary to remind your conscious that you have done it in the past, then go out and let the subconscious get on with what it can do. As Colin says: it really is the bicycle scenario; as you are learning to ride, if you consciously think about how to ride, you wobble; if you look at the horizon and go for it, you don’t wobble (or not much). Hey and well done mate J Andrew

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