If your limiting beliefs about yourself are holding you back, and you are ready to address these issues head-on and truly begin shifting your subliminal belief patterns, keep reading.
What are Limiting Beliefs
Limiting beliefs can be very tricky to uncover at times, but a limiting belief is actually a state of mind, that has turned into a belief, either real or make-believe, yes made up, particularly from childhood, that holds you back or restricts you in some way.
Recognising where our self-limiting beliefs might come from, by becoming aware of the fact that we all have experienced self-limiting beliefs from our own personal experiences is the first step that you will have to take in reprogramming your self-limiting beliefs and stopping your negative self-talk.
Defence mechanism
Limiting beliefs, for the most part, are unconscious thoughts that come about as defence mechanisms to ward off potential frustration, failure, and disappointment.
Subconscious
Limiting beliefs may be operating right beneath the surface of your conscious mind, in your subconscious, or it may just be thought habits you are not even thinking about. Limiting beliefs may also hold you back in a negative mindset, keeping you from new opportunities and experiences in your life, all while damaging your mental health. Even though your conscious mind is doing all that it can think of to heal, your subconscious mind might hold onto something that your subconscious believes is an extremely valid reason for you to not heal or move past your challenges, in the form of powerful, limiting beliefs.
Changing your Self-Talk
Your self-limiting beliefs can sometimes be rooted deeply within your subconscious, but most of the time, it is the negative self-talk telling you why you cannot, will not, or should not do something. You are by definition unconscious about subconscious limiting beliefs, how they affect you negatively emotionally, and how they keep you from taking action.
While at first, it might appear that your subconscious is holding on to limiting beliefs, oftentimes, this is not so. Limiting thoughts and beliefs are like anchors holding us back, whereas empowering thoughts and beliefs unleash the best of each and every one of us.
Here are steps to help reverse negative thoughts and turn your beliefs and thus, your life experiences, from limited to empowering:
Take a close look at your beliefs and think about where they came from and if they are even yours, and whether they are real or made up.
Once you are fully aware of that belief, which has most likely been holding you back, you can promptly rectify it.
Challenge yourself each day to live in the light of new beliefs that will allow you to empower yourself, and give yourself rewards for accomplishing goals.
Allow your actions to flow from your new beliefs, and watch the beauty that emerges in your life.
Becoming will seem like the norm for you, because by then, you will have adopted a new thought pattern, positive self-image, a new conviction, and, because of the new thought pattern, you are a better version of yourself.
Starting today, make it your goal to practice a new, empowered belief, so your new one will take the place of your outdated, limited one.
By changing the way you think, you will change everything.
If you listen to someone you know explaining how their life is going, you can readily identify the thoughts and beliefs holding them back. Think about talking to a trusted friend or family member, to flush out your own limiting beliefs if having trouble identifying them. It just might surprise you as to how you are perceived by others.
Many people never make a conscious decision to name their self-limiting beliefs and begin learning why they are there and how they can change them. Don't be one of them, start now and marvel at the positive empowering changes.
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