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Boost Your Courage: Proven Techniques to Overcome Fear, Build Confidence & Conquer Anxiety

10 Dec 2016 · 3 min

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In this short motivational video, Christoffel Sneijders explains his practical view of courage, defining it as being just ten seconds more brave than one’s current self. He guides viewers through a concrete visualization and body‑based exercise: imagine a desired future position placed somewhere in the room, step mentally and physically toward it, fully inhabit the feeling of that future moment, then compare the emotional state of that imagined future with the present. He references techniques from constellations, bodywork, and Gestalt therapy as the theoretical backdrop for the exercise, emphasizing that the method helps shift perspective and physically embody a new stance. Sneijders encourages viewers to try the exercise, observe the shift in feeling, and share their experiences in the comments.

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Courage. What does it take to have courage or to make a step? I got a couple of questions from people saying, Chris, could you also give a little insight on that? But of course. What is courage? Courage is extremely easy. There's once a definition that said it's only being 10 seconds more brave than somebody else. It only takes 10 seconds to do something more or less. So when you think about courage and you like to do something and you seem already moving, I would just imagine that you're now here in your present. You're just staying here. Okay, this is how we are now, and I like to have courage for saying this out loud, doing that, doing such, whatever it is. And just imagine that saying something, doing something, or getting to a new face in your life, you would place it somewhere in front of you in the room. Where would it be? And if you do so, place it up, then do one thing with me and really get into, okay, this is now, this is where I am, and then make a step. I'm now a little bit here, so I will go back. But say you're there, and then in that position Think about how it feels when you're really there in that future moment. How does it feel? What does it take? What is advantage? What's the disadvantage when you're there? Then look back to your current place, and from that position think, hey, how is it when I look back? How much better does it feel? How much happier am I? How much relieved I am? And what was it to take this step? When I look at it now, how good was it? How easy was it to do? From that position, we use it sometimes in constellation, sometimes in bodywork, sometimes they use it from Gestalt, whatever it is. It helps you from a physical place to put into a new place, getting out of your current situation into a new situation. To look at from a new perspective. It sounds maybe odd and maybe this strange. It works amazing if you do so. If you really get into the feeling, this is now, and this is where I want to be. Have fun with it. Play with it. See how it is, and please post a response how it works for you. I'm curious. Okay. See you next time.