What exactly is a limiting belief?

A limiting belief is a negative thought or feeling about you and what you are capable of accomplishing.

Everyone has an endless tape of “self-talk” running through their head.  I’m sure you know what I mean.  This tape is the narrator of your life.  It is constantly commenting on everything that you and everyone else are doing.

The problem is that your internal commentator isn’t really all that nice.  He seems to find fault often and is constantly judging you.

How often do you think or feel the following?

• Boy, that was stupid.
• I didn’t do that good enough.
• No wonder nobody loves me.
• I’ll never get that job.
• I’m not smart enough.
• I look fat or ugly.
• Ugh, what was I thinking?

All of these thoughts and feelings are ruining your life.  The beliefs you carry determine how successful you will be in love, money, and in life.

Many limiting beliefs keep you “stuck”.  You are scared to try, to put yourself out in the world, or to meet new people.  Limiting beliefs keep you in terrible relationships and jobs that you don’t like.

The important thing to remember is that these thoughts and feelings can be changed.  Once you know that you have them, you can choose to believe something else.  You can choose to believe the truth.

The truth is that you are smart, beautiful, and perfect just the way you are.  I am very confident in telling you this.  Do you want to know why?

I know it’s true because God doesn’t make mistakes.

You are love.  I am love.  The clerk at the gas station is love.  Your spouse is love.  Your ex that broke your heart is love………..

How can this be?  Each and every one of us is made in divine love.  It is our job in this lifetime to know, accept, and feel this love.  Feeling this love can be a challenge.  You weren’t all raised in a home that expressed love or supported and believed in each other.  Your parents did the best that they knew how to do.  The thing is, now what do you do?

I spent an amazing week in the beginning of July with Chuck and Patti Leviton of Synergy Seminars.   They teach Guided Imagery and they do a lot of work around learning to love yourself.  I learned so much from them.  i would like to share some of what I have learned with you.

•  Each of you have formed beliefs about yourself when you were children.  These beliefs can range from “I am unlovable” to “I am not important” to “I don’t deserve to be loved”, etc.  These same beliefs unconsciously control your life today. 
• These limiting beliefs can be healed.  You as an adult can choose to change how you feel about yourself.  You have the power now to love and feel good.
• Get to know you as a child.  A powerful way to heal this pain is to close your eyes and picture yourself as a child.  What is the child like?  What is the child doing?  What is the child wearing?  This is called your “inner child”. 
• Spend time with your inner child everyday.  Make a point everyday to go within and hug this little child.  You can do this exercise when you are first waking up, upon going to sleep, or anytime you have a minute during the day.  Just close your eyes and imagine you as an adult hugging you as a child.  This is very powerful.  I have used it myself with great success

Healing begins with you.  You can choose to have a different experience in this life.  You can choose to live and experience the love that is within you.