How To Change A Limiting Belief
by Sam Beatson
http://www.welmeda.com/
How do we know what we believe? The simple answer.
Listen. Listen to yourself in natural conversation,
listen to the internal chatter or "how you converse
with yourself.
When ever we make a statement about something or
someone, it is either based on a belief, or it is
a belief itself. And believe it or not, what we
believe is a huge factor in what we experience.
What we believe neccessarily shapes our experience
because we are creatures of evidences. In order
to maintain a stable worldview, our brains at
a fairly superficial level, but still subconcious,
have systems of beliefs so we can make sense of
a big, big universe.
This is not least shaped during school, by our
parents, by systems and structures in the world
such as government, businesses and companies,
the structure and function of the workplace, etc.
For example as children we are taught differences
between right and wrong, how to behave socially and
then what we are to believe about the world we live
in and life - at school.
Our beliefs are also shaped by our social grouping
- our peers and what they believe. Basically, the
brain and the body are always "switched on" so any
human experience can lead to us cultivating a belief.
We come up with belief systems as a way to survive.
Some argue that there is a dualistic principle of
pain and pleasure involved in weighing up whether
or not something is going to be beneficial for us
to believe or not. Our brain thinks if we understand
something for thefuture, we will be better equipped
for that situation.
The great news is, that even though our brains are
bombarded with information designed either actively
or passively influencing our beliefs, such as news,
advertising, film, day-to-day experiences and big
life experiences, ultimately we can choose to be
responsible for what we believe, and indeed choose
empowering beliefs to support us in reaching our
life goals.
A little deductive reasoning is involved. There are
many systems these days for changing beliefs,
NLP, Personal Development seminars, Sedona Method,
hypnosis, brainwave entrainment are a few of them.
Fundamentally, what we are looking for is a change
in how we perceive things and therefore how we
experience life, in the valid hope that our results
in life will change. The key is taking concious
control over what in the majority of people seem to
be unconcious processes.
Have a little conversation with yourself about some
aspect of your life which you want to change or
you know needs to change in order to get the kind
of results you are desiring. By asking questions
of yourself, you will come up with a "reason" or
a belief as to why exactly you are not hitting the
target you are wanting.
Invariable, this statement - and it can be subtle
that it is a belief, is what you need to get down
on paper for challenging. You will think you are
quite right in believing this thing most likely.
This is because you will have supporting evidence
to "proove" why your belief is true. Tony Robbins
calls these instances or memories which seem to
validate your belief "references" which is a good
term.
Just as when a student writes a thesis, or a
scientist conducts an experiment, there are
principles or references on which the current
study is based, in our case of "beliefs" the
brain also has various stories of your life or
of something you heard or even things that
happened to someone else which conciously
manifests as how we behave or act due to our
belief.
The challenge you have is that for example, you
may believe that you can only earn an income of
$30,000 per year - and this is a challenging
belief because the whole belief system you have
surrounding money and income etc, may be complex
and is often that of a major chunk of society,
which further lays evidence in the facor of you
further adopting the belief.
Your evidence may include things such as "there
aren't enough high paying jobs", "you don't
have the right education", "millionaires are
few and far between" They might even range into
the realm of some [mistaken] spiritual beliefs
"poor=good", "money is evil", etc. In fact
all of these are beliefs, too.
Here is where you need to "think outside the box"
You might be quite sure as to your belief being
100% true. And it may well be true for you. But
what if it's not? What if there are thousands
of people, just like you, earning 30k every month?
What if they're not greedy, they're not dishonest,
they're not irreligious or unspiritual? What if
they're quite the opposite to that? See if you come
up with a reason which still supports the original
belief. I can tell you that there are such
people, it's just your brain has never had any
reason to find them or to help you to create such
a level of income, because of your beliefs.
And that's all they are, they're your beliefs
and you can change them and find evidence to support
ANY new belief you want to adopt,
You can work on all your beliefs, mistaken or
otherwise and use this method of questioning to
create doubt and find evidence to support a new
empowering belief which supports you in achieving
what it is you want. This is powerful stuff and I
invite you to study it from different angles and
speak and model people who have changed their
beliefs and their lives.
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