Jake Burhans explains that positive thinking alone doesn't work; you need to feel the emotion too. Pairing a thought like "I am confident" with genuine confidence rewires your brain and body. Fearful thoughts create fearful feelings, which create more fearful thoughts, trapping you in a loop you can break by practicing thought-emotion pairing.
You do it through repeated thoughts and repeated emotion. And again, the thought alone is not enough. You can't just think a thought. The emotion is what wires it into the body. So every time you have a new thought paired with the accompanying emotion, so you want to be more confident, you got to feel confident, right? You just say, I am confident. You got to feel confident. Every time you pair the thought with the emotion, you're rewiring the body to a new baseline. But yeah, we get, we get stuck in this loop of fearful thoughts, fearful feelings, then what happens? Because we feel fear, we think more fearful thoughts. And then it's just like, pfft, and we're just programming ourselves to just live in this state of fear all the time.
