Like most people, I believe that you want to become a better person and live a better life. That is probably the reason why you are reading this right now.

Obviously, there are many self help techniques that you can choose from, and you may be wondering where to start. Well, I am here to tell you that you do not need to get complicated.

You can in fact start with the simple ones first. I will be sharing with you three of them.

#1 Lifelong Learning

The best investment you can make in life is in yourself. Just because you are no longer in school or college does not mean that you put an end to learning new things in life.

However, lifelong learning does not necessarily apply to something that is academic, such as a business course. You could learn a new skill or pick up a new hobby.

Examples of these can include learning to play a new instrument, fishing, or even rock climbing. Think of the values you can pick up through these activities. You get to learn about team work, patience and confidence.

#2 Take Care Of Your Body

The next technique is to take care of your body. Do you feel tired often? Maybe you seem to lack energy.

Whatever it is, pay attention to these signs. Based on these two examples, it could mean that you are not giving your body enough time to sleep, or you may not be exercising enough.

Sometimes, stress is necessary to spur us on. However, too much stress can be detrimental to your health, so watch those stress levels, and be sure to take a break while you are at work.

Whatever the case may be, if you take good care of your body, you should end up lively and active, and that can certain improve your productivity at work and relationship with your friends and family.

#3 Look On The Bright Side

It is important to maintain a positive mindset, even when things seem bleak and morbid for you. You may think that simply remaining optimistic will not change your circumstances, but let me tell you honestly that it can.

Look, if you are always in a foul mood, do you think people will be attracted to you? On the contrary, if you are always smiling and staying positive despite going through a negative circumstance, people will be attracted to you. Some of them may even look up to you!

These are just three of the many self help techniques that are available out there. Start with these three and see how your life transforms!

This is a Guest Blog Post from Ewen Chia

Ewen Chia is a highly respected businessman from Singapore, for the last 5 years he has flown around the world giving public presentations on business, lifestyle and entrepreneurship.

Last year his first book “How I made my first Million” made the Amazon Best Sellers lists.

If you would like to learn more about him and hisself help techniques, visit:

SuccessSwitch.com

It is his brand new blog, and there you can learn how you can turn on the switch to success with more of his self help techniques!

This is a genuine, reader submitted (success) story, of how Kirsty found affirmations and changed her outlook on life, love and her relationship.

My name is Kirsty and I’m more than ever, CONVINCED by the power of affirmations 😀  Imagine how we could massively move the world with those as well???

I just wanted to thank y’all, whoever you are, for doing what you did gathering all those amazing affirmations and just sharing them for free!

WOW how sweet and beautiful of you, what a true service you offer, which is why I’m writing you – to thank you. I used the confidence ones so far, including the suggested one on stopping relationship insecurity. I wanted to tell you a quick-ish story if you’re interested. Thank you again for making my life VASTLY better and helping me reach perhaps life-altering epiphany with your service 😀

I have been super duper insecure since my ex-partner had what I’d call some call un-ethical sluttery (as opposed to ethical sluttery) a few years ago, even though we were in an open relationship even (LOL how does that even happen?). Ever since then I’ve compared myself to other beautiful women, feeling inferior and insecure around them sometimes, and sometimes painfully so, like I haven’t experienced since Middle School, trying so hard to fit and failing so miserably until I finally said “F*CK IT!” and started being myself after Middle School which was one of the most liberating moments of my life 😉

What happened today feels like the same thing as my Middle School epiphany/liberation like 12 years later! 😀

So now I’m in like literally the most beautiful perfect relationship for me ever ever. He is everything I wrote down in my law of attraction “magic book.” He is beautiful (guilty, one of the first things I want), muscular cuz he works out (I do too – two of the only occupiers (what we call people in the Occupy Wall Street Movement) who do ;-D), ridiculous in bed like beyond freakin belief (sorry babe), still a year later/more so,  a hardcore serious organizer for movements for social justice, like Occupy, workers’ rights organizing, and to save Troy Davis and stop wars etc (I need that in anyone I sleep with and most especially the person I want to really be with cuz no one understands an activist like an activist I feel like, we need to be a team cuz change need to COME!), he has an amazing personality, always grounded, calm, funny, warm, moral, respectful and sensitive to privilege, and has such intergrity, a need to contribute, solidarity, and peace and love in his heart. And he treats me like I deserve (like we all deserve!) which is like a Goddess, and makes me feel loved and cherished and supported all the time.

And even then, even though he’s so perfect and loving (and we get told we’re the cutest couple all the time), over the last year we’ve been together (one year anniversary March 25), my insecurity has caused me to kind of freak out emotionally about nothing for like the last 6 months or more. I certainly me don’t mean to invalidate my feelings, or say that he didn’t have a part in anything in particular. But no one can really make you feel bad but you, and I felt so horrible and afraid inside and he didn’t know how to comfort me – I didn’t really know how to comfort myself, but he tried really hard and often succeeded, just not permanently, and I found ways of coping and some self-soothing eventually, it just never went away, just slightly improved…maybe, but not really, to the point where he said he wasn’t sure if we were actually perfect for each other if we fought like this (nothing really nasty, just stress mainly, but still, not cool if unnecessary fights/stress).

We basically had a weekly fight and it was mostly my fault because I would get so insecure that despair overtook me, which you can imagine would get exhausting to him, especially when he tries to deal with his feelings internally so often. But it would cripple me, and stress and depress him.

So all day today, like many days now but especially today, while we were laying and hanging and talking together on the couch for like three hours, I basically tried not to be embarrassed and just asked him straight out what I wanted to know and hear him say that would make me feel less insecure about myself, the specific type of reassurance I felt I needed to feel reassured, even though it made no rational sense for me to be insecure about these things, but we had a great talk today and he told me what I wanted to hear and meant it. He has always been patient with me, but he was incredibly, openly empathetic to me tonight partially as a result of today and therapy perhaps and our good-ness for one another (at the strip club, where I work, too!) and it was so nice to be supported and embraced in that weak state, which is what I feel I wanted all along and which he tried to do.

I had a final fit of crippling insecurity tonight at the club about not being good enough to dance with those other women and how I was so worried he’d secretly want me to look like them instead and I can’t, etc, which always obviously feels like sh*t for anyone involved in that insecure energy at all, so me and him mainly. I said several times aloud “I don’t want to be insecure. I hate feeling like this, and I remember when I didn’t, or making you feel bad because of it. It doesn’t actually help anything to be insecure, does it? Not a DARN thing! Can’t think of anything that would be worth the trade off for being insecure. There’s literally no reason for it. I think being insecure/a lack of confidence is one my most major problems, especially in my relationship. Yeah – that’s a huge common thread of some of my most major problems, a major worry that infects every part of my life with poison, and it’s not necessary.”

And then, when I got home, I wanted to make sure I didn’t get insecure in bed or for the rest of the night, etc. I knew I had no reason to get insecure and it was slowly dawning on me and I was slowly talking myself up to starting to let go. Then, I got on the ol’ comp and looked up “confidence affirmations” to see  your site. Beautiful!

When I read your confidence affirmations, on inferiority, insecurity, wanting to feel beautiful and relationship insecurity I knew I could change – NOW – just like that. It’s that easy to just – let go – when you’re ready. And I was ready. AND WHEN I WAS READY YOU WERE THERE, ALL PERFECT AND ON POINT.

So literally right now I feel an immense freedom, that I can just let go of insecurity, basically completely, and be super duper confident, now, right now, and from now on. I will choose THAT positive choice of confidence over insecurity NOW. I feel like I’m so surprised how easy it was for that to happen, I thought I’d have to get hypnotized (I was imagining aloud with him how to address this, which I had finally identified explicitly in my mind), or work for like forever to slowly and painfully get less insecure and more confident, but it seemed impossible to just let go of.

But it wasn’t impossible. I just let go of insecurity, feelings of inadequacy, inferiority, and panic. And I have embraced full self-confidence, self-appreciation, and un-conditional self love, which I think are some of the most basic needs we have. Your free affirmations were the straw that broke the camel’s back and made it real.

“Release the old which no longer serves you and embrace the new.” -Kali, the Goddess.

It was really that easy, because I was ready, I was supported and loved and empathized with by others, and I found you. Thank you for being there for me and showing me the way, for free, easily and lovingly. I think my life just seriously changed today and GODDESS I needed that, WHEW!

You totally changed my life so thank you from me for that one and probably from him though he doesn’t believe in affirmations or the law of attraction yet but he may now ;-D

Thank you Soooooooo much for this story, to hopefully share affirmations with people to create experiences like this is why I started this site and I loved reading your story. For full transparency, “Kirsty” has asked to remain anonymous, and she isn’t really dating Ryan Gosling.

Check out our affirmations for confidence, and relationships – to read the exact affirmations that Kirsty has read and used.

Your mind is a very powerful thing and it’s your thoughts that control how you act and how you go through life.

If you have the ability to change your thoughts then you have the ability to change yourself on a core level and drastically improve the quality of life.

When it comes to changing the way you think there happens to be a number of different methods but the two we are going to look into today, in this “rap battle” extraordinaire our very own positive affirmations Vs subliminal messages.

Positive Affirmations

Positive Affirmations are short positive statements that you repeat over and over. The reason you repeat them over and over is because one of the ways to access your subconscious mind, which is the part of your mind that controls your beliefs, is through constant repetition.

So, at first you really wont believe the affirmations that you are saying but overtime they will eventually sink in and you will start to notice that the way you think has started to change and of course you are now behaving differently.

It’s always easier to understand something with examples, so here are some affirmations for someone who is looking to become happy:

• I am happy
• I think only positive thoughts
• I am 100% happy with who I am
• I am able to see the good in every situation

Someone who isn’t very happy would take those affirmations and what they would do is they would repeat them each day. Not just once but they would repeat them at least twice each day and they would say them in a confident manner with 100% belief behind them as confidence and belief is needed to make them work.

Of course they wouldn’t start to feel happy after one day of using them, instead it will take a while to work but overtime they will sink into the subconscious mind and that person will find themselves much more happier.

The main benefit with positive affirmations is that they are super simple to use, you can get started within just 5 minutes (just read our guide), and that you can make them for almost any subject area you want to progress in.

Subliminal Messages

To understand subliminal messages you need to know that you have two different types of perception – conscious and subconscious.

For ease now we are going to refer to subliminal messages as in their audio form.. as this is actually the point of this article.

With conscious perception you are actually aware of the message. For example when you repeat a positive affirmation you are of course aware that you’re being exposed to it and say when you’re listening to a song, you hear the song lyrics and you know that you’ve heard them.

Subconscious perception on the other hand picks up on things but you aren’t aware that you have picked up on them and it’s the subconscious perception that picks up on subliminal messages, which are messages that have been put together to avoid conscious perception.

In audio form, all subliminal messages are, are simply positive affirmations, initially read aloud, but then moved to a higher sound frequency – i.e. they are made subliminal.

Subliminal messages are just positive affirmations!

The main benefit with subliminal messages is that they are a more passive experience. You can play them while you wash the dishes, clean the house, do your homework, write that report, hit the treadmill. The hard work has been done for you, the affirmations are recorded and non-intrusive.

Which Is Better?

Right now you might be wondering if you should use subliminal messages or positive affirmations.

Well, some will tell you that positive affirmations are the way to go and you should stay away from subliminal audio while others say the opposite and say only use subliminal audio to change your thoughts and don’t waste your time on affirmations.

The thing these people don’t understand though is that both positive affirmations and subliminal messages work and it is a personal choice, not a solid given that one is better than the other.

Whether you decide to use positive affirmations or subliminal audio to change your thoughts you will get results, it just depends on how your mind interprets the info, and usually a little experimentation is required to actually just see which one is best for you personally, which one resonates with you, suits your lifestyle, and brings results.

Often, it might be both. The best thing to do then is to use a mixture of both positive affirmations and subliminal programming 🙂

To give both a try you can get started with our free positive affirmations ebook, or try a free subliminal mp3 from Real Subliminal.