How to
Identify Your Limiting Beliefs
If you want to
achieve more of your goals and dreams along your
personal empowerment journey called life, you must
identify and remove the biggest obstacle – your limiting
beliefs. This is a must because you will never
outperform your belief system.
If you believe,
like most people do, that you’re not good enough as a
person and you don’t deserve success, you’ll never allow
yourself to create long term success in your life.
You’ll always self-sabotage. You’ll never witness your
own greatness, achieve your most significant goals or
share your gifts with the world. Instead, you’ll create
a life of restriction. A life of less.
I know because
I lived in that self-created mental prison for 26½ years
before an empowerment coach helped me drop all my
limiting beliefs with one exercise. But before you can
erase your limiting beliefs, you need to identify which
ones you have. The following 3 step process will help
you target the hidden obstacles to your success.
1 – Examine
Your Circumstances
You will always
manifest your belief system into reality. Always. And
you won’t tolerate anything that doesn’t match your
beliefs. Therefore, an easy way to deduce your limiting
beliefs is to identify your negative or stressful
environments.
If you’re
tolerating a lack of money, unhealthy habits,
relationships that don’t serve you, a body you don’t
enjoy, physical surroundings that aren’t supportive, a
network of negative people, etc – you must have a
limiting belief that’s allowing this unproductive
environment to remain inside your comfort zone as a
toleration. Otherwise it wouldn’t be in your life.
Mental
Exercise: Take a look at some situations that you
are tolerating, but not enjoying. Now ask yourself this
question, “What belief MUST I currently be holding onto
in order to keep this situation in my life?” It works
all the time.
2 –
Monitor Your Emotional Responses
Another great
way to learn what limiting beliefs you have is to pay
attention to your emotional responses. For example, if
someone tells you ‘no’ and you have a meltdown, you must
be holding onto some limiting belief about your value as
a person. That’s the only reason why you would
emotionally engage when confronted with “rejection”.
Again, you can
ask yourself, “What belief MUST I currently be holding
onto in order to react that way?”
You can also
write down various limiting belief statements such as
“I’m not good enough”, “I will never be wealthy”, “I
don’t deserve a healthy and attractive body”, etc. If
you emotionally respond to any of those phrases, it more
than likely matches a belief.
3 – Listen
to Your Language
Your language
is the verbal representation of your belief system. If
you catch yourself saying disempowering phrases like,
“I’m not creative”, “I’m just lazy”, “I’m always late”,
“Making money is hard”, “I don’t deserve _____”, etc –
those are generally the exact beliefs that are holding
you back from living life to your full potential.
Once you’ve
realized what your limiting beliefs are, you’re ready to
erase them forever so you can manifest your goals and
live a life of emotional freedom.
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