Our beliefs are the filter through which we interpret the world through our senses. You will have a slightly different response (or reaction) to a situation than anyone else and that will be down to your beliefs.
Some of your beliefs may be valuable or positive in your life and some will be limiting beliefs, which hold you back in some way.
Your beliefs have been formed throughout your life as a result of your personal experience. As they are your beliefs about yourself and the world, you probably see them as the truth, whether they are limiting beliefs, or helpful ones. Yet, this cannot be the case, as they are entirely subjective and are therefore subject to change.
The great news is that your limiting beliefs can be changed. This means that you can change your life more quickly than you thought possible.
While you may be aware of some of your limiting beliefs (conscious beliefs), there will be others that you are not aware of (subconscious beliefs). It is these that often have the most profound effect on your life.
So, how did these limiting beliefs get into your head anyway? Well, it turns out that they probably don’t even belong to you.
During the early years of your life, up until around age seven, you were downloading information via your senses very quickly, without the ability to take a critical view.
Whatever you picked up from key people in your life, such as parents, siblings, teachers and the media, you would consider as truth, especially if these messages were repeated over again.
The reason for this is that young children need to learn skills very quickly in the early years. The side effect is that unhelpful and limiting beliefs can be formed as a result. These are likely to be the deep seated, core beliefs that you may not even consciously be aware of.
As you go through life, you continue to create new beliefs.
The interesting thing is that the more recent beliefs layer upon the earlier core beliefs. This can either reinforce them or cause conflict if there are mixed messages.
An example could be someone who has a conscious belief that they can be successful in their career, yet is also running a core belief of not being worthy.
This could lead to self-sabotaging behaviour, such as procrastination and having to work incredibly hard to achieve things that other people find easier.
It could even lead to trying to become successful in a job that you hate and is totally out of sync with who you really are because you don’t feel worthy of having a life that you love at a very deep and subconscious level.
Of course, these beliefs will lead to stress and over time to illness as the body’s natural healing mechanisms are unable to be engaged, while your fight or flight response is constantly being triggered.
So, what can you do about this ‘unseen enemy’ of deep seated limiting beliefs?
Firstly by recognising that any problems in your life were at some time solutions to something, you can realise that they are not your enemy at all, just your powerful subconscious mind giving you what you are repeatedly (usually without knowing it) asking for.
Then, there are a range of techniques that you can use to locate deeply hidden limiting beliefs. The two techniques that I find most useful for this are Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Matrix Reimprinting.
As this is very deep work, it is often best to work with an experienced practitioner if you are looking to find core beliefs, as you will probably find it difficult to challenge your own beliefs.
Once you have found the limiting belief that is no longer helpful to you, what can you do next?
With Matrix Reimprinting, you can actually reprogram the memory, or series of memories that led to the original belief.
This will usually have surprising and delightful results in terms of enabling you to move towards your life of choice. You can also start to consciously take actions that challenge your limiting beliefs in order to create even more traction in moving forwards.
As your beliefs begin to change, so will your reality (or experience of it).
If you would like to find out more about how you can gently, joyfully and easily move beyond your limiting beliefs and take the actions that will lead to you getting what you want faster than you could ever think possible, then get in touch.
I’d love to support you in creating an amazing life that you love!
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