This is how your beliefs limit you or help you to thrive
Limiting beliefs can be the starting point of our personal development.
We are walking beliefs: our realities are created on the basis of everything we believe.But how do we make these beliefs positive and help us to prosper, instead of limiting us?
Understanding limiting beliefs
The limiting beliefs are those that will always be an obstacle in our path of personal development. They take the form of negative thinking that that leads us to look for that excuse so that we don't do what we have to doIf it is a feeling of fear or frustration, what can happen with these limiting beliefs is that they are stronger and that they obey little to the reason at the time of working them.
On the other hand, beliefs in general have a very important role to play in the construction of our path.. Not only because what you believe is, but also, based on that thought, you will take a key direction in your life. That path is affected when we see our emotional wounds, we always justify ourselves in them to stop doing important things, we always anchor ourselves to not believe that our situation can become something better. The most common wounds are:
- Humiliation
- Rejection
- Injustice
- Loss
- Abandonment
Through these wounds we can observe a person in pain, with a very strong belief, rooted and linked to their pain, and with very little hope of getting out of that situationand with very little hope of getting out of that situation, of bringing out their greatest potential. If we had the opportunity for someone to help us see that behind that person there is a person full of strength, with all the gifts for creativity, capable of being independent, capable of taking the reins of his life and not the other way around.... But many times, this more superficial and appearance-based layer contributes to stop any attempt of improvement.
Once that person wakes up and manages to see that hidden potential, the beliefs that limit the possibility of personal development are left aside and come to light opportunity beliefs. I like to call them this way, because when a person creates an opportunity in his head and believes in it faithfully, he will be able to move everything around him to fulfill it.
The move from limiting beliefs to opportunity beliefs.
So... What are the steps to follow in order to be able to discover your limiting belief, dismantle it, disintegrate it and thus bring forth an ocean of possibilities.?
1. Discover the limiting beliefs
How to achieve this? To do this, it is important to develop the skills of self-knowledge: detect trap-thoughts, identify feelings and emotions... If you feel stuck in some area of your life, if you feel that you are in what we call in coaching "the crazy eight" in which everything repeats itselfIf you are feeling that you are not moving forward, it is advisable to involve another person to help you with this process; a coach would be the best person to make you discover, among all the beliefs you have, those that limit you, so that from there you can dismantle them.
2. Work on them without fear
We think that to work on this belief that is limiting us is to stop being who we are and to become someone else.But when we seek to bring out our greatest potential, usually what happens is that we have not been connected to our truth, which is where this inexplicable force comes from.
3. Disintegrate them
The process is going to be a bit challenging; along the way you will have thoughts that at certain times will make you want to go back to the state that made you feel comfortable. The person who is working with you to help you dismantle beliefs and make room for the integration of something new to you will need to take you down a path where trust is first and foremost. a path where trust is the primary tool, and you should let thingsand you should let things flow in order to get closer to your desired outcome.
4. Move from a dysfunctional approach to one that brings more potential.
One of the great results that the client will get is that he will experience the experience of changing the approach from which he was looking at everything. They will experience a sense of freedom and that new way of perceiving things will become a prosperous belief, because from it you will be able to work in the field of the positive.
I have always liked to see this process of beliefs as an opportunity to make our software (the mind) have new adaptations. the opportunity to make our software (mind) have new adaptations and thus expand our capacity. and thus expand our capacity. The more capacity you have in the area of your life that you want to expand, the better and more satisfying the journey will be.
When I have done this work with my clients, we have been able to go on extraordinary journeys in which limiting beliefs become prosperity opportunity beliefs for their path. for their path. The best thing to do is to let go of resistance and open yourself to new and better worlds, to your future and to the creation of it.
(Updated at Apr 15 / 2024)