Limiting Beliefs

  Our thoughts and beliefs come from places we may not even be conscious to. They begin in vitro and continue throughout our entire lives shaped by opinions, thoughts and experiences of ourselves and others. Each seen through a personal filter and processed with emotions and memories. Often times we attach to these beliefs and thoughts for lack of understanding there are other possibilities for ourselves. 

  These limiting thoughts and beliefs can feel like a plague as we try to navigate our lives with self doubt, questions and raw emotions of not being good enough. We want to move forward but the attachment to them is crippling. How do you break free from them? How do you change the narrative in your own head? Here are a few ways in which I work with clients around their beliefs.

• Try your best to become more conscious to them as they arise
• Upon realization of one, close your eyes and take a slow breath in and out.
• With eyes still closed scan your body and see if you can locate the feeling of these thoughts in your body.
• Give it a color, a shape, or a name if you want to help identify it.
• Place your hands on your heart and ask yourself "How is this thought or belief serving me in my life?"
• Then ask yourself "What do I need in this moment?"
• Sit in stillness and just allow yourself to listen
• Now grab a journal or piece of paper and write down a few ideas of where you think that thought or belief might have come from.
• With non judgement and non attachment just notice what you wrote and repeat, "these beliefs are not mine and they do not serve me" 
• Feel free to burn the paper (safely) or crumple it up and throw it in the recycling bin knowing that a new blank sheet of paper, a blank canvas, a new beginning for someone else will be created from you releasing your limited beliefs and thoughts in that moment. (quite a beautiful sentiment)
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Remember that every single thought or belief you have is attached to a memory of an emotion you felt or to the emotions of an experience you have already had. The more conscious we become of our limiting thoughts and beliefs with compassion not only for ourselves but the influences that supported them, the more we have the ability to make the choice to change the narrative within to that of one that is more loving and supportive to the life we want to live. This takes time, patience and a lot of deep inner work. I share this from my own personal experience of my shift to awareness. I believe in you, you are not your limiting thoughts and beliefs and you always have all that you need within you to be exactly who you want to be in this lifetime.