Overcome Your Limiting Beliefs

Overcoming your limiting beliefs will be the most critical work you can do on yourself to create a tremendous, happy, productive, and abundant life.

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Last week’s newsletter discussed identifying your limiting beliefs. If you haven’t already, please read Identify Your Limiting Beliefs before reading this article.

Now that you know some of your limiting beliefs, this article will discuss practical ways of overcoming them.

Remember, working on just one or many different ways to eliminate your limiting beliefs will work over time. The more focus and time you spend working on overcoming your limiting beliefs, the more positive fruit you will yield.

I want to invite you to start with just one limiting belief. Please follow the steps below to address that one limiting belief, and once you regularly take action, you can start working on another.

Please take your time; you don’t need to hurry. You have the rest of your life to overcome your limiting beliefs.

Let’s jump in and enjoy the process.

Overcome Your Limiting Beliefs

Overcoming limiting beliefs is a critical step in personal growth and self-improvement. Here are seven strategies to help overcome these beliefs:

1. Challenge the Limiting Belief

In the previous newsletter, Identify Your Limiting Beliefs, we identified our limiting beliefs.

Now, we are going to challenge these limiting beliefs to see if they are true or not.

This article will use the limiting belief “I am not enough”. This belief can manifest in various forms, such as feeling inadequate, fearing failure, being unworthy, or believing one’s efforts will never meet the standards of success.

Write down your limiting belief and question its validity.

Ask yourself:

• What evidence supports this belief?
• What evidence contradicts it?
• Is this belief based on facts or assumptions?
• How did I develop this belief?

These are powerful questions we can ask and ponder. During this process, slow down and reflect on your life. Consider this limiting belief and how it became part of your life.

We are now going through the process of exposing our limiting belief with hard evidence that it is false. You can build a solid case of evidence against your limiting belief.

Breaking the foundation of your limiting belief

 

Imagine a table with four or many legs. The table top is our limiting belief. We now remove the legs individually, exposing the truth and dismantling our limiting belief.

Keep going until your limiting belief has no legs on which to stand.

2. Reframe the Limiting Belief

Reframing involves changing your perspective on the limiting belief. Instead of viewing it as an absolute truth, see it as a temporary obstacle.

 

 

For example, instead of thinking:

• “I can’t do this,” reframe it to “I can learn how to do this.”
• “I’m not enough” reframe it to “I am capable and worthy”.
• “I’m Unworthy” reframe it to “I deserve love and respect”.

This powerful mindset shift will further eat away at the foundation of our limiting beliefs.

3. Gather Counter-Evidence

Please look for examples and evidence that contradict your limiting belief. Look for stories of people who have overcome similar obstacles.

This will help you build a case against the belief and weaken its hold on you.

For example, Limiting belief, “I’m not enough”.

Was there a time when you capably completed a project on time and received great feedback? You can search out these occasions and continue to build counter-evidence to your limiting belief.

What are some examples of your family, friends, and colleagues?

The more counter-evidence you can gather, the weaker your limiting belief becomes.

4. Practice Self-Compassion

Often, limiting beliefs stem from harsh self-criticism. Practising self-compassion involves treating yourself with kindness and understanding. Acknowledge that everyone makes mistakes and that failure is a part of the learning process. Replace self-critical thoughts with supportive and encouraging ones.

In many cases, if we treated our friends the same way we treated ourselves, we wouldn’t have any friends.

Don’t do that!

When we have Self-Compassion and are kind to ourselves, we naturally have the same compassion for others.

When we care for ourselves and are kind to ourselves, we increase our capacity to be more loveable.

This self-compassion practice will loosen the hold of all limiting beliefs.

5. Use Affirmations

Positive affirmations can help to counteract limiting beliefs. You can create affirmations that directly oppose your limiting beliefs. For instance, if your limiting belief is “I’m not good enough,” an affirmation might be “I am capable and worthy.” Repeat these affirmations daily to help reprogram your subconscious mind.

Create some powerful affirmations and use them like mantras. Remember to add emotion to them when you repeat them. Get your mind and heart to work together to eliminate your limiting belief.

This is how we can override the tracks of our limiting beliefs forever.

6. Take Small Steps Towards Change

Taking action is crucial. To help you overcome your limiting beliefs, you can start with small, manageable steps. Each small success will build confidence and demonstrate that the limiting belief is more manageable than it seems. Gradually increase the difficulty of the steps as your confidence grows.

By implementing these strategies, you can start dismantling the limiting beliefs that hold you back and pave the way for more empowering thoughts and behaviors.

7. Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is a powerful intervention that can help you overcome limiting beliefs. The practitioner can work within your subconscious mind through hypnosis, where all your beliefs and programs reside.

I use hypnosis with clients who are going through the three stages of belief change.

• Identifying Your Limiting Beliefs.
• Overcoming Limiting Beliefs.
• Creating Empowering Beliefs. Hypnosis and the other 6 steps to overcoming limiting beliefs are deep and powerful interventions that create impressive results, as we saw in Peter’s case study in the newsletter Identifying Your Limiting Beliefs.

Wrapping Up

Continue to apply these 7 steps to overcome your limiting beliefs. We must weaken and/or eliminate these limiting beliefs’ hold on us before proceeding to the final stage of Creating Empowering Beliefs.

Many of us have had these beliefs since childhood, which are well established in our subconscious minds.

If you would like support in identifying and/or overcoming your limiting beliefs using all of the above, including hypnosis, I’d love to hear from you, support you, and be part of your personal development and growth journey.

Next week, we will enjoy the final article in this 3 part series, Creating Empowering Beliefs.

Until then.

Paul Simos is an accomplished Executive Life Coach, Health Coach, and Certified Trainer. His fundamental belief about his clients frames how they work together: They already have everything they need to succeed. His role as a coach is stimulating and challenging his clients to unlock their successful beliefs, skills, and behaviour patterns. LinkedIn.

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