Six Steps to Change Your Limiting Beliefs

Your beliefs affect your happiness, health, relationships and your future. Beliefs are easy to change with the right foundation and procedure. Utilizing the way you mind works enables you to use six simple steps to transform your limiting beliefs.

Beliefs and certainty
Beliefs are simply thoughts or ideas you hold with level of certainty. Not too long ago most of the population believed with certainty that man couldn’t fly, the earth was flat and putting a man on the moon – preposterous! Scientific evidence proved the fact that man couldn’t fly. Your level of certainty is how true the idea is for you and is not an indicator of facts or reality.
How you prove your belief is true
The Reticular Activating System (RAS) in your mind is programmed to look only for evidence that proves your current beliefs are true. If you believe ‘work-life balance is impossible’ your mind will only search for date that proves this belief. Your mind will not register information that shows the many people who maintain their income and experience blissful work –life balance.

The impact of your limiting beliefs
Beliefs affect your happiness.
When your thoughts are predominantly negative, negative emotions follow and your outlook will be pessimistic. At the same time you will mistakenly believe you have a balanced and realistic view of the world.

Beliefs impinge on your health.
The cells of your body are affected by your thoughts. The author and metaphysicia
Louise Hay has defined the beliefs which create specific illnesses. For example bladder problems are generally caused by fear of letting go and being pissed off.

Relationships are shaped by your beliefs.
When you were first in love you saw your partner in a positive light due to your thoughts. Many years later your thoughts about them may have changed, especially if your thoughts are negatively predisposed. Your thoughts about others influence their belief in themselves and their reactions to you.

Beliefs create your reality.
If your world doesn’t look and feel that way you desire, changing your beliefs will improve it. Consciously and continuously affirming and visualising your aspirations will set your sub conscious mind to search for data on how to manifest your desires. Your belief in your ability to achieve the things you desire will also affect your outcomes.

The greater the pain the easier the changer
Beliefs are your concept or idea about reality. Many beliefs you created before you were 7 years old. The length of time you hold the belief doesn’t make it more difficult to discreate. The emotional or physical pain the belief is causing you and your level of desire to change the belief determines the ease and speed of transformation. Smokers who are told they have lung cancer can give up ove
ight because they believe they have to or die.

Here is a simple self sufficient method to transform your beliefs.
1) Become aware of the limiting belief. You may notice it pop into your mind. Define it in one sentence. E.g. Work –life balance is impossible.

2) Reflect on the cost to you and others of not changing this belief.

3) Remind yourself this belief is only a concept. It is like soft clay to be molded and formed into any shape you want.

4) Some people find it useful to visualize the old belief being discreated e.g. Thrown, washed away or burned.

5) Intentionally think about the positive belief that will serve and support you. E.g. Work-life balance is easy for me.

6) Deliberately and continuously look for evidence that supports your new belief.

You are inadvertently shaping your health, happiness, relationships and lifestyle by your beliefs and your level of certainly in them. All beliefs can be altered for your benefit and those around you and these six steps are a tool to do it. Your willingness to change and your level of certainty in this process will affect your success. To create the way of life you desire your beliefs must align with your aspirations. You have to believe it to see it!