Limiting Beliefs

You likely are already aware that our limiting beliefs reside in our subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind is not a place, but an activity — present in each and every cell of our body.

Limiting beliefs are paradigms – or ‘clusters of habits’ that operate automatically. If someone says, “this is a bad economy” and our first thought is “yeh, it sure is,” the habit or limiting belief responded automatically, rather than our making it a conscious thought.

We could say, “how do you know that is true,” as example. Questioning, rather than automatically accepting information is part of how we create new habits that serve us well.

As spiritual beings connected to all living things via our intuition, we each are born in perfect harmony with universal energy or our Creator. Limiting beliefs of others become our own before the age of reason (about 6) as we have no ‘conscious mind’ to accept or reject information.

The subconscious mind, however cannot reject, and only accepts information. A family passes down their limiting beliefs by repeatedly talking about those beliefs in the presence of a child. "Money doesn't grow on trees," etc.

A family that believes dancing, as example, is a no-no — they don’t dance, they discuss how the family never has danced, they don’t mingle with ‘dancers,’ why they don’t dance, what’s wrong with those that do dance, etc., and talk about it repeatedly over a period of time, the child now has that limiting belief! An unsolicited gift, if you will, from those who love us and are quite unaware of the less than optimum influence this information has on our life.

[Dancing you may be thinking? Living in the South in the United States, going from town to town, the interpretation of the new testament changed with miles and people. Some wouldn't allow dancing, others were proponents of smoking (tobacco country you know).]

Limiting beliefs create a barricade…blocking access to the perfect harmony we knew as toddlers, and our intuition. We want to get back to feeling our intuition and move to shut down our limiting beliefs by creating new, positive ones, that will ultimately have us realize our limitless potential!

A Story

Julia (2 years at that time) is my 3rd granddaughter, and she spent the night with me Christmas week. She made herself abundantly clear about what she wanted to do and would have no other answer but YES, unless perhaps I offered a new agreement that satisfied her desire for whatever it was she wanted. She had no limiting beliefs as to what was possible for her! She would not move on to another task until this one was settled to her satisfaction. She had limitless potential and acted like she was 12 feet tall!

What would our lives be like if we could have beliefs that supported our infinite potential? ?

?If we gave up HOW we are going to do it and only considered WHY we WANT it?

Julia wanted it because JULIA WANTED IT and no other reason. You will be happy to know that it is not a difficult process to create new beliefs that supersede the old limiting ones. That is what my work is all about.

I am grateful to each of you that find value in the content I share in this newsletter. If only one line of one ‘drop of awareness’ resonates with you only once, then my job is done! That ‘drop’ could be the tinder of your life, smoldering and just about ready to CATCH FIRE!???[1/6/10]

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These articles were written between 2009 and 2012, when I was deep into study of Think and Grow Rich, Universal Laws and Principles, added to over a Decade in leadership development and awareness training and coaching. What took me three years to learn and apply will take you on a short journey, simply reading them in sequence. It's a crash course in "Realizing that you have infinite potential!"

They were my Life! Most important to me is that they are clear as you read them so you can embrace them ... or not. Please let me know your thoughts. Leslie