I invite a group of 14 individuals to partake in the technique. I inform all of them that the technique will boost their confidence more easily and beyond what they ever thought it would be in a very short amount of time. I then ask all of them to form a close circle.

I inform them that I will now shut off the lights, just enough for them to see each other’s shadows in the room. In the background, I play some motivational music (Mars Lasar, theme from Wicked, Eye of the Tiger) just loud enough to get them into state but soft enough to hear my voice.

I ask for four volunteers to enter into the circle and form their own inner circle. Before they enter though, I ask everyone to close their eyes and to envision the people around the larger circle growing to a height of 10 feet tall, almost touching the ceiling. They begin to glow a bright white light. The emotions on their face indicate a sense of contentment, happiness, confidence, massive intelligence, joy, peace, and love. You can actually begin to hear the sounds of their voices saying, “As you enter this circle, all that you wish for will become yours” over and over again.

I tell the four volunteers to gently open their eyes and enter the circle. Once inside, close your eyes again.

Now, as you enter the circle, these 10-foot tall beings begin showering you with beams of happiness, joy, peace, love and massive confidence. You feel the beams penetrating your body gently. As each beam penetrates you, you naturally feel a warm sense of radiance, love, intelligence, and wonder.

I instruct all 14 individuals, “Now squeeze both fists gently together and feel the energy of love, peace, passion, intelligence, and confidence. Now, every time you wish to access any of these feeling and emotions, know that they are in you at all times. You will feel these feelings anytime you wish, merely by squeezing your fists together.

Now, everyone on the outside of the circle, place your left hand on the left shoulder of one of the participants in front of you, NOW.

(Saying this to everyone): I want you to imagine a time in your life when you felt like you needed a lot of confidence but you had none. Think of that time, imagine what was going on, re-experience the emotions you were having then, step into that moment when you felt under-confident and you wished for that moment to be over. What sounds were you hearing and what images still flash in your mind about that event (sorry for the poor grammar!). NOW release the shoulder of the person in front of you.

Break state: Everyone, open your eyes and see if you can make out the faces of everyone in the room.

Now, close your eyes and think of that time when you made a decision. It could have been a small or big decision. But, after you made that decision, life for you was never the same. After that decision, NOW life becomes easier. Life is full of generous adventures, people who love you and want you to succeed more than anything.

Individuals on the outside, when I tell say now, with your right hand touch and hold one of the individuals on the inside circle on their right shoulder.

Everyone think of the positive decision that you made and the positive result. What did it feel like when you saw the result? What did it look like when you saw the result? What sounds did you hear at the time? Feel the feeling of confidence when you learned of the result. See your face in the mirror after you saw the result. Feel on top of the world once again as you relive that decision. Everyone on the outside circle, now gently give the person you’re touching a squeeze. Let go.

Now everyone open your eyes and take a look around once more, see the energy coming off the individuals around the room. Imagine the white light coming off of them now.
Close your eyes once again.

Folks on the outside of the circle, I now want you to place both your hands on the right and left shoulders of the four individuals in the middle. Those in the middle, imagine the feeling of under confidence you once had and imagine now the amazing feeling you had when you made your confident decision. Know that both of these decisions somehow served you at the time. You realize, more than ever, that every decision you make is a decision of power, of destiny, of forward momentum. Each time you make an informed decision, you expand your abilities, your intelligence, and you realize the valuable lesson.

Now, please put down your hands. Feel the feeling within you now that is telling you that all you’re past decisions have had a grand purpose. Those decisions have brought you here, to a circle of power, to a circle of friends, to a circle you can visit anytime you wish.

Everyone, with your eyes closed, listen to the beat of the music as it courses through your veins, pushing you, giving you the juice to break through anything, and providing you with the feeling immense joy. Now imagine on the floor in the middle of the circle, a bright white ball of light about 10 inches in diameter. Inside this warm and bright light is the energy of the sun just waiting to burst out. Inside of this energy are the tools to “STEP UP” and “TAKE COMPLETE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE”. There are the tools to “DISCOVER YOUR UNLIMITED POTENTIAL OF CONFIDENCE, LEADERSHIP, AND DECISIVENESS.”

This ball of energy begins to slowly rise up. You feel the warmth of this glowing ball of light. You feel the amazing feelings shooting towards you and penetrating your every fiber. You also feel these same beams of energy shooting and destroying any negative thought of rejection, under confidence, hate, stupidity, any negative thought whatsoever let it float outside of you right now and allow these beams of light to destroy them once and for all! Imagine the only things left in your body now are those of massive intelligence, a pure state of love, a complete feeling of joy and happiness. Everyone, squeeze your fists together now and forever lock in these feelings and emotions.

Just when you thought there couldn’t be more, “EXPERIENCE EVEN MORE LOVE, JOY, HAPPINESS, CONFIDENCE, PASSION AND ALL THE WONDERFUL THINGS YOUR FUTURE WILL BRING YOU, THE BALL of ENERGY COMES FLYING DIRECTLY AT THE CENTER OF YOUR BODY AND PIERCES YOUR SOUL.

IMAGINE NOW, THIS BALL OF ENERGY INSIDE OF YOU NOW. IT GLOWS WITH THE STRENGTH OF GOD, THE WARMTH OF THE SUN, AND DIVINE GREATNESS OF STRENGTH YOU’VE ALWAYS HAD WITHIN YOU. SQUEEZE YOUR HANDS ONCE AGAIN NOW!

Now, release your hands. Keep the energy, the glow, and the feelings within you forever. Now, everyone, without opening your eyes and being careful, take two steps backward outside of our circle now. See this circle’s glow slowly start to fade. As it fades, notice the energy and light of this circle is NOW WITHIN YOU AND EVERYONE AROUND YOU. YOU HAVE TAKEN THIS ENERGY AND MADE IT A PART OF YOU. TAKE THIS ENERGY AND USE IT FOR GREATNESS. USE IT TO SERVE OTHERS. KNOW THAT YOU WILL HAVE THIS ENERGY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.

Now, slowly open up your eyes and share with a partner what the Circle of Strength was like for you.

This technique uses a combination of different techniques with the idea of condensing the time needed for intervention including: self-anchoring, external anchoring, embedded commands, meta programs, sub-modalities, collapsing anchors, healing states, belief change systems and the use of support groups for on-going development.

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