5 Easy & Powerful Steps To Destroy Limiting Beliefs
Hey Warriors,
the last couple of days I was testing some things out.
One of the things I gave a shot is to transform some of
my limiting beliefs into better beliefs...
And here is the method I'm using...and it's a working one...
This method contains basically 6 Steps which are very simple to apply
Step#1
Identify your beliefs for all different areas of your life (Business, Money, Personality, Relationship, Health, Circumstances...)
Here are some common beliefs:
Step #2
Look for one specific example where the statement is not actually true, where you did something or experienced something - even through someone else - that was not in alignment with your belief.
For the belief I am not smart enough: I've proved that I am smart enough because I was so creative to do XYZ although I thought I couldn't...
You get it...
Step #3
Think of all the instances where this belief worked against you.
How has this belief hurt me in the past? Write it down on a piece of paper or open up a text file.
Now, close your eyes and experience the pain you felt as a result of this belief. Visualize, hear, and feel the emotions of that moment. Make it as real as possible.
Step #4
Dig deep into memories from your past - childhood, teenage years, early twenties or even last year.
Tip: it helps to close your eyes, and repeat the belief statement out loud. This triggers emotions that will assist in locating the events that contributed to its formation.
For the belief I am not good enough, I realized that I had formed this belief during my childhood years, when my dad would seem frustrated with me when I didn't do certain things exactly the way he expected.
Close your eyes and visualize this scene. Re-live the scene and remember how it made you feel
Step #5
Nothing has any meaning, unless we give it a meaning. The only power we can give to any external event or scenario, is the power we allow it to have on us
Think about another perspective for your belief...
What I mean by that is:
- Maybe your dad had a bad day
- Maybe I was very tired that day
- Maybe I wasn't able to measure to my dad's exceptions
Brainstorm for other perspectives that could also explain the external event you identified
Close your eyes and visualize the scene from step 4, except, view it from these new alternative perspectives. See that you are free to choose the meaning you give to the external event
Now repeat your original belief statement verbally and examine how you feel
Close your eyes and once again visualize the scene you found in step 4 (a situation that contributed towards you forming this belief). Now imagine that this image in your mind has gone dim, as if someone turned off a light or two in the scene. Now visualize that the image is moving away from you, as if contained in a box that is being pulled away from you.
As the image moves away, see that it also becomes blurry
Continue to imagine the image shrinking until it disappears and all you are left with is darkness. Now, take a nice deep and long inhale, causing an audible exhale, making an
Open your eyes. Now write down a statement that has the opposite meaning from your belief statement
Close your eyes, and see yourself living with this statement you just constructed.
That's basically the method I use to do to destroy limiting beliefs fast and easy.
Let me know what you think...
- Allen
the last couple of days I was testing some things out.
One of the things I gave a shot is to transform some of
my limiting beliefs into better beliefs...
And here is the method I'm using...and it's a working one...
This method contains basically 6 Steps which are very simple to apply
Step#1
Identify your beliefs for all different areas of your life (Business, Money, Personality, Relationship, Health, Circumstances...)
Here are some common beliefs:
I'm not important
Making money is a struggle
I'm not good enough
I'm not smart enough
I don't deserve it
I am too young, people won't take me seriously
I am too old, it's too late to start...
I am a hard worker. I work hard for money.
Step #2
Look for one specific example where the statement is not actually true, where you did something or experienced something - even through someone else - that was not in alignment with your belief.
For the belief I am not smart enough: I've proved that I am smart enough because I was so creative to do XYZ although I thought I couldn't...
You get it...
Step #3
Think of all the instances where this belief worked against you.
How has this belief hurt me in the past? Write it down on a piece of paper or open up a text file.
Now, close your eyes and experience the pain you felt as a result of this belief. Visualize, hear, and feel the emotions of that moment. Make it as real as possible.
Step #4
Dig deep into memories from your past - childhood, teenage years, early twenties or even last year.
Tip: it helps to close your eyes, and repeat the belief statement out loud. This triggers emotions that will assist in locating the events that contributed to its formation.
For the belief I am not good enough, I realized that I had formed this belief during my childhood years, when my dad would seem frustrated with me when I didn't do certain things exactly the way he expected.
Close your eyes and visualize this scene. Re-live the scene and remember how it made you feel
Step #5
Nothing has any meaning, unless we give it a meaning. The only power we can give to any external event or scenario, is the power we allow it to have on us
Think about another perspective for your belief...
What I mean by that is:
- Maybe your dad had a bad day
- Maybe I was very tired that day
- Maybe I wasn't able to measure to my dad's exceptions
Brainstorm for other perspectives that could also explain the external event you identified
Close your eyes and visualize the scene from step 4, except, view it from these new alternative perspectives. See that you are free to choose the meaning you give to the external event
Now repeat your original belief statement verbally and examine how you feel
Close your eyes and once again visualize the scene you found in step 4 (a situation that contributed towards you forming this belief). Now imagine that this image in your mind has gone dim, as if someone turned off a light or two in the scene. Now visualize that the image is moving away from you, as if contained in a box that is being pulled away from you.
As the image moves away, see that it also becomes blurry
Continue to imagine the image shrinking until it disappears and all you are left with is darkness. Now, take a nice deep and long inhale, causing an audible exhale, making an
Open your eyes. Now write down a statement that has the opposite meaning from your belief statement
Close your eyes, and see yourself living with this statement you just constructed.
That's basically the method I use to do to destroy limiting beliefs fast and easy.
Let me know what you think...
- Allen