# Confidence > Confidence is always invested somewhere and can be consciously redirected. Bashar teaches that a claimed lack of confidence is actually confidence invested in a definition of limitation. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/confidence # Confidence *One steady water source divides toward two unmarked basins* In this transcript's teaching, a claimed lack of confidence is not an absence of confidence. It is confidence invested in a definition of limitation; the inquiry therefore turns to the belief or definition that confidence is currently supporting. > — Believing Is Seeing (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/believing-is-seeing) ## Confidence has an object The teaching treats confidence, trust, and conviction as ongoing orientations rather than capacities that can simply disappear. A person who says they have no confidence is, in this framing, confidently holding a particular account of what is true for them. This is a distinction within the transcript's metaphysical teaching, not a claim that difficult feelings are unreal. > — Believing Is Seeing (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/believing-is-seeing) The opening teaching presents this as a polarity: attention fixed on a negative side of a situation can obscure the positive side that it says is also present. For confidence, the proposed turn is from the conclusion “I lack it” to noticing the confidence already being used to sustain that conclusion. > — Believing Is Seeing (text), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/believing-is-seeing) ## Testing a changed definition *The same narrow crossing is approached with a newly chosen route beside it* The transcript also cautions against using an immediately different-looking situation as the test of change. Within its teaching, a changed response to a similar circumstance—and the different effect drawn from that response—is the relevant evidence that a definition has shifted. > — Believing Is Seeing (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/believing-is-seeing) ## Practical implications In the terms of this teaching, a learner can meet a feeling of low confidence by asking which belief or definition they are trusting at that moment. The purpose is not to force a positive answer, but to identify the direction in which their existing conviction is operating. > — Believing Is Seeing (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/believing-is-seeing) The transcript's practical measure is then behavioral: rather than requiring an external situation to change at once, notice whether one's response to it has changed. That distinction keeps the application tied to the teaching's stated criterion rather than to surface appearances. > — Believing Is Seeing (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/believing-is-seeing) ## Representative passages You are always confident. You are always convicted. You are always trusting.— Bashar, The way you know you have changed is if you respond differently to the situation.— Bashar, ## Related - [Trust](https://sassani.app/topic/trust) - [Definitions & Beliefs](https://sassani.app/topic/definitions-and-beliefs) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/confidence. The HTML page is the source of truth.