Focus on limiting beliefs
Focussing on limiting beliefs can give you a greater insight in your ways of thinking and behave.
By understanding your limiting beliefs and accessing what is called your ‘museum of old beliefs’, you can better assess where you are, where you are coming from, and all the barrages that are preventing you from living a full, vibrant life.
This is important because it helps you reframe beliefs that stand in the way of your success and health. It is also important because it helps you overcome your own limiting beliefs, your self-doubts, the way you see yourself and the ways you see and speak to yourself.
Our beliefs were anchored in our subconscious, into the story of our lives long ago, without us even knowing, so we may never have identified those limiting beliefs holding us back without us even knowing it.
It is all about conditioning. The format applied to our lives by our parents, our family surroundings, social-economic status, and school and other outside influences.
Indeed, from a very young age we are highly susceptible to our surroundings, picking up on patterns and coping mechanisms of those around us. The more we trust them the more we will register and understand as ‘normal’ — we may even be proud in copying them. As children, we are like sponges, literally, copying what we see and hear. Tragically, we also pick up any limiting beliefs held by our parents, teachers or other authoritative figures we interact with in our childhood.
If you feel that you are not good enough, because you have difficulties learning at school or were deemed to be a ‘difficult’ kid, you will carry all that negativity through your entire life. It will be anchored in your subconscious and will dictate how you react to your environment at any given time, but more so when you are under a lot of stress (and anxious), and it may be the reason why you feel you are not able to cope under pressure.
You may tell yourself as an adult: “I always mess up” or "I am not good enough to do that” (when confronted with a new task, learning new skills, or even given a promotion). You are, therefore, becoming your greatest saboteur. You are putting yourself as the greatest obstacle in your own life. This directly prevents you to achieve greatness, live an authentic life and reach your full potential, but also can prevent you from being open-minded and accepting, which can also impact your social life, and thus your health. You may also follow unhealthy lifestyles and avoid feel-good exercise altogether, and always look for the ‘bad’ in everything. This is often characterised by being addicted to the news, or being part of online social groups that drive that negativity, as well as self-worth questioning and anchoring beliefs of impending doom. This also prevents positive change, because the outlook on life is biased, and your authenticity is no longer accepted (by yourself and others).
Reviewing your beliefs to help shine a light on any limiting beliefs you may have is the first step in a journey towards lasting change.
Change is always scary, in times more than others, and it is easy to slip back into old habits — because it was a place of comfort. Even if it was painful, it was your ‘normal’ and a place you recognised and made your own. Pain was your normal, and even though it is not ideal, it was all you knew, and in itself, gave your brain reasons to act and behave to your surroundings in a typical way. Your brain always looks for shortcuts and always favours the easy way. That is because stimulation asks too much of it and is, therefore, very exhausting very quickly. So change is very difficult as it means that new ways must be found. They must, however, be easy and ask as little as possible to become new automatisms. If not, you are very likely to go back to your old ways. Also, this indicates that when you want change you need to understand and focus on the end vision, what you want to achieve, and why, and how it would feel, smell, taste like once you achieve it. Without this, you may temporarily handle change well; however, it is likely not to last.
Change also means that you may require support. And this is where at Nutrunity we stand. We are dedicated to supporting you on your journey, whatever it may be. Your journey towards lasting change starts by helping you identify the person that you are, your values and beliefs, and what you think of yourself and your vision of the world around you, and understand why some things bother you more than others.
We will show you how to listen to what your inner voice is telling you, which will help you unlock many of those limiting beliefs or life scripts that were established when you were still a child. It is important to understand how much these beliefs and life scripts guide how you to think, feel and act. This is discussed many times in Energise — 30 Days to Vitality, articles on our site but also in practice: thoughts are linked to your emotions and your emotions are linked to behaviour. Therefore, it is clear that the way you think can impact every aspect of your daily life, how you react to your surroundings and your ability to interact with others.
The good thing is that not all of your beliefs or life scripts are negative and not all of your inner voices are telling you you will fail, and we will focus on this and help you build a better understanding of yourself and help you focus on the positive, for positive change.
Museum of old beliefs
This exercise is favoured when you need to:
Change limiting beliefs about yourself (or someone else)
Diminish doubts
Change negative beliefs into positive ones
By questioning those limiting beliefs you open yourself to doubting them, to what you used to believe, and where each of those beliefs should be left at — your museum of old beliefs. You live behind that belief in a museum. It could be any other type of place, anywhere, deep in the sea or at the top of the highest mountain, where you won’t be able to reach for it anymore. The way to do it is by replacing a negative thought by a positive one.
So, if we use the same thoughts as above: “I always mess up” or "I am not good enough to do that”, then you reword that thought to: "I trust my capabilities and know I will be able to do it, and I will do it to the best of my abilities" — You are now stepping into "trust".
The nest step is to believe in it and anchor that new thought, to feel empowered and wanting to take action. Usually, that implies changing your lifestyle to a lifestyle supportive of health and emotional freedom. Because once you feel free, then there will be nothing stopping you.
One way we can also assist you making new long-lasting change in your life is by joining us for the next session fo The 30-Day Reset or by signing up to our monthly coaching membership. Support is at your finger tips. So don’t let it slip through. Take action now and trust us to support you along your journey.