Have you ever wanted to be absolutely confident in certain situations when you were feeling unsure? Would it be empowering for you to get into a state of being totally motivated instead of feeling the usual lethargy?

Or how about changing your fear of going on stage to feeling enthusiastic and relaxed when you have to face an audience? How much would it change the results you are able to produce in life? Well you can! All you have to do is to put yourself in that physiology of excellence!

If you want to feel confident, all you have to do is to adopt the total physiology of confidence. If you want to feel motivated, adopt the physiology of motivation. This is called the ‘Act as if…’ principle. If you want to fall a certain state, act as if you were already in that state.

Remember that confidence, motivation and excitement are nothing but emotional states that you have experienced in the past. If you could access these states in a past situation, those same resources are available to you now. All you have to do is to model the exactly same physiology you were in when you experienced it previously.

6 Steps to Modeling Your Physiology of Excellence

Whenever you need to feel particularly motivated, confident and even happy, you don’t have to depend on something external to put you in that state. As long as you have experienced this resourceful state in the past, you can tap into it now by modeling the physiology you were in then.

There are 6 steps you must take to access any resourceful state. Let’s say you have to take on a challenge and you want to put yourself into an absolutely confident state in order to perform at your peak. Below are the 6 steps you must follow:

1. Think of a time in the past when you felt totally confident.

2. Stand the way you would stand if you felt totally confident.

3. Breathe the way you would breathe if you felt totally confident.

4. Have the facial expression, focus in your eyes when you felt totally confident.

5. Gesture the way you would if you felt totally confident.

6. Say what you would say to yourself if you felt totally confident. Make sure you use the same tone, pitch and volume on this.

By modeling the exactly same physiology your body was in previously, you will be able to feel the confidence surging through your body, readying to take you on the challenge!

Let me share with you one real-life example of how physiology can motivate and regain the confidence of a sport star.

At one time, Andre Agassi was invincible on the tennis courts. The world’s number one tennis player would be in a state of total focus and confidence each time he faced his opponent. As a result, he performed at a standard that gave him the winning edge. Then he started to go into a slump. For some reason, he lost his focus and could not get into the right state. He kept missing the ball and making the wrong moves. He consulted peak performance coach Anthony Robbins who explained to Agassi that the reason he was not winning his games was because he was not in the same resourceful states he was in, in the past.

Robbins got Agassi to watch video tapes of the matches in which he won and Agassi started noticing that in those instances, his physiology was different compared to the way he presently carried himself on the courts. In the past, his posture was different, the focus in his eyes was different, his breathing pattern was different and he moved differently.

So Robbins instructed him to watch and model the physiology he had in the past. In the next few matches, Agassi would go in and consciously adopt the exactly same physiology he had in the past. He started getting into his peak state and played the winning way he used to. As a result, he won the US Open within six months and regained his ranking as the world number one.

You have to know that your mind and your body are connected. Just like in the movie, The Matrix, once said, “Your mind cannot live without your body“. What this means is that when you change either your thinking in your mind or your body physiology, the other will change as well. And in this case, you are changing your body physiology, and hence your mind changed as well.

Think about it, when you are feeling bored and tired, how does your physiology look like? Is your shoulder slouched forward? Is your head hanging down? Are your eyes looking down and unfocused? Is your breathing shallow and deep? Is your voice has low volume and low pitch? What about your muscle? Is it relaxed and having tension in the neck?

Now, what about if you are in a totally motivated state? How is your physiology look like? Is your shoulder at your back and your head is up? Are your eyes looking up, widely opened and very focused? How about your breathing? Did you breathe faster and deeper? What about your voice? Did you talk louder and faster?

There are 2 totally different states and that is why you are having 2 different states. Try to use the physiology when you are feeling totally motivated, and then think about feeling bored and getting depressed. It is not possible to be done because your mind and your body are inter-connected.

Just like when you smile and laugh, you will feel happy. Will you smile and laugh the moment you are feeling sad? That is not possible, and even if you try to do so, you will become happy in the end because you are telling your mind that you are in the happy physiology, and your mind will simulate that state.

I hope you can see the big picture now. Use your physiology to stay motivated all the time. When you are feeling sleepy reading articles or blog (I hope my blog won’t make you feel sleepy, ^_^), notice your physiology. Change your physiology immediately and you will see the effect.

Here is a post that teaches you how to make use of your physiology to get you into a motivated state instantly. It is called anchoring! Anchoring: How it is Used to Control Your Emotion

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Posted on August 19th, 2008 by Shawn
Filed under: Motivation/Inspiration

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