Limiting Beliefs

I hope you have had a great week, I had my minor operation last week and spent the week on my laptop in bed so have enjoyed this week catching up with old friends and also chatting to many of you either on internet forums or direct E-Mails.

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This weeks article is on limiting beliefs which is very common with clients I see. People don't realise just how fantastic they are, and can be, so hopefully this article will make you realise that a belief can be changed in the blink of an eye.

As a final thought I was chatting to someone on Facebook in the week who was talking to me about how they were going to be restarting a diet and were worried because it was going to be so much harder the second time round, I asked why she thought that and she said because everyone else told her that it would be. I pointed out that what if everyone said it was easier the second time round and then told her just how easy it would be! Therefore never make a decision that you won't be able to do something before you have even started. You can do anything you want to, just got to believe you can!

Have a great week

Mike :-)

Limiting Beliefs

What if you knew no limits then what could you achieve?

A limiting belief is something that you believe about yourself that places a limitation on your abilities. They may be based on fact but in most cases are based on your own perception of what is fact.

I see a lot of people who say things like

"I am overweight, always have been, always will be...."

Now the fact they are overweight may well be true, the fact they may always have been overweight may also be based in fact BUT the limiting belief that they "always will be" means that they have reduced their options down to one and guess what that one is....

Limiting beliefs are actually all in your mind, in reality there is no such thing, you can do absolutely anything you set your mind to because when you have made a decision to actually do something, then you will always get round any obstacles and achieve what you set out to do.

The beliefs we have about ourselves absolutely colour our vision and shape the world we create, a belief will control how you feel and ultimately how you act. If you think you will fail at something then you will, if you believe something is going to be impossible, then you have failed before you even started.

A limiting belief needs constant attention to remain that way and hence the more you believe you have limits then the more you ring fence yourself. If you realise that you have absolutely no limit to what you can do, and that you can create the reality exactly how you want it, then those limiting beliefs will have to disappear as you will be too busy being happy and achieving to even entertain the idea that you could fail.

It was a quote of the week a few weeks ago and also my motto throughout the time I was reducing my weight and that was "Believe you will, believe you won't, you'll be right either way" and absolutely I believe that is true.