What currently makes you feel confident and empowered to be your most authentic self?

[Kl70]

What currently makes you feel confident and empowered to be your most authentic self?

 

[Politesse]

Usually, doing something that requires a practical skill I know I have mastered.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

What currently makes you feel confident and empowered to be your most authentic self?

Making art, all mediums I have rescources for, as central tenent in my and as my life.

It makes me alive and gives me purpose to wake up each morning. Its a part of my childhood history. I use it to heal. I use it for shopping and studying for tests. It expressed who I am and its my authentic self.

 

[Axe Elf]

Well duh; just look at me.

 

[Euronymous]

What currently makes you feel confident and empowered to be your most authentic self?

Um, well, myself, really—but good question though, Kl70.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Nothing. I'm too nihilistic to have confidence or feel empowered.

 

[Sunstone]

Meditation.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Weaŕing armour and hitting people with a large piece of steel.

 

[oldbadger]

My authentic self lacks high confidence. This is my autumn and I feel more humility now, because looking back, I can now see that I was a just a child for my whole life, in a playground with all those other children, we were all so self-important! I don't think that's a bad perception, just my authentic one, and it helps me to smile more, empathise and love a little more.

 

[Mock Turtle]

What currently makes you feel confident and empowered to be your most authentic self?

For myself, and being rather a doddery old chap, it is mostly in recognising all the important bits of my past, putting them into perspective, learning from much of this, and yet still retaining that sense of self-identity and self-belief that has had a continued existence and that has enabled me to survive the more troubling bits. I do tend to have a lot more confidence too than I ever did - which helps enormously. I have always tried to be authentic but often this was not achieved for various reasons.

 

[Jumi]

Meditation and when you have enough mastery in a skill, it easily becomes meditation too.

 

[Rival]

I am a pretty confident and empowered person.

 

[BSM1]

Not worrying about what people think of me.

 

[Patience]

Setting my inner child free. Also, the more vulnerable and open I let myself be, the stronger and more confident I also become.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Setting my inner child free. Also, the more vulnerable and open I let myself be, the stronger and more confident I also become.

I agree very much with this, but many seem unable to do this, much to their cost.

 

[tayla]

What currently makes you feel confident and empowered to be your most authentic self?

Being in an environment of acceptance which, for me, is a rare occasion because of religious/spiritual divides. Usually when I am alone walking my dogs in the forest is the best time. In crowds, the social pressures are slightly burdensome and annoying.