Your beliefs play a huge part in your life and what you accomplish. If you want to overcome challenges, you need to overcome those beliefs that are holding you back. Changing beliefs can be challenging, so this article will give you several tips and techniques you can use in your own life.
Your beliefs about yourself create your outer reality. That's something to consider because it's really powerful. If you believe something about yourself or about the world around you, it's going to be true.
I'll give you a simple example almost everyone can relate to: when you were a toddler, preschooler, and maybe even a young grade schooler, you loved to draw, paint, color, and create art. But as you moved through school you were told that only people "with talent" could draw or make art. Needless to say, somebody probably let you know you weren't one of those with "talent." So now, when you think about drawing, painting, or other forms of art, you probably say to yourself "I can't draw. I can't paint. I'm just no good at that."
The reality is, anybody can learn to draw basic forms and basic painting skills. You may never be selling your art to museums in Europe, but drawing, just like writing, reading, typing, cooking, and other skills takes one simple thing - practice. The big problem is you hold the belief that you need "talent" to draw or paint. That belief is what prevents you from drawing an acceptable picture. Not your lack of talent.
Beliefs like this hold you back in all areas of your life. A good way to start changing beliefs is to figure out where beliefs are holding you back. Sit down and write out a few goals you hold for yourself. Write out a few things you want - and write some out that you've been wanting for some time. Have those things happened? Why haven't they happened? Maybe you hold some common beliefs like "I'm not good enough." Maybe you grew up knowing you come from a family that "just doesn't accomplish much" or "just doesn't have money." Or you were taught that "you have to go to college to make money" or "you're a failure if you don't go to college."
Your limiting beliefs may be completely opposite of these examples, but still debilitating. They may be something you heard over and over as a child, or they may be beliefs you formed as a child (even if you realize now they weren't true).
Once you've identified the limiting beliefs that could be holding you back from a goal or two - or more, you can work on changing them. Figure out why you have a limiting belief. If you formed the belief "I'm not good enough" in childhood, think objectively about it. Maybe you thought a parent or teacher told you that you weren't good enough. But could it be that they were saying "your just not ready" or maybe they didn't even realize what you were capable of. Maybe they were too busy to bother with you, or just wanted you to go away! Those things are not your fault, and they have no bearing on your inherent ability to accomplish your goals for yourself. Just going back and objectively looking at these things can really help. Look up the work of Morty Lefkoe to further explore removing limiting beliefs in this way.
Another way to overcome your beliefs is by programming yourself with positive affirmations to overwrite the beliefs. Whatever you tell your subconscious mind with emotion is what it will accept. This is why it's easy to start living out negative beliefs - they tend to be backed with a lot of emotion. Why you say positive affirmations, take the time to imagine the feelings that go with the affirmation. Your subconscious will begin to believe the affirmation, and it will become part of your belief structure.
Identify your beliefs and why you might be holding onto them. You'll often find that the reasoning behind the belief isn't even good reasoning - and it will be much easier to change the belief. Use positive affirmation to rewrite your beliefs - which will let you finally start reaching your goals.
Your beliefs about yourself create your outer reality. That's something to consider because it's really powerful. If you believe something about yourself or about the world around you, it's going to be true.
I'll give you a simple example almost everyone can relate to: when you were a toddler, preschooler, and maybe even a young grade schooler, you loved to draw, paint, color, and create art. But as you moved through school you were told that only people "with talent" could draw or make art. Needless to say, somebody probably let you know you weren't one of those with "talent." So now, when you think about drawing, painting, or other forms of art, you probably say to yourself "I can't draw. I can't paint. I'm just no good at that."
The reality is, anybody can learn to draw basic forms and basic painting skills. You may never be selling your art to museums in Europe, but drawing, just like writing, reading, typing, cooking, and other skills takes one simple thing - practice. The big problem is you hold the belief that you need "talent" to draw or paint. That belief is what prevents you from drawing an acceptable picture. Not your lack of talent.
Beliefs like this hold you back in all areas of your life. A good way to start changing beliefs is to figure out where beliefs are holding you back. Sit down and write out a few goals you hold for yourself. Write out a few things you want - and write some out that you've been wanting for some time. Have those things happened? Why haven't they happened? Maybe you hold some common beliefs like "I'm not good enough." Maybe you grew up knowing you come from a family that "just doesn't accomplish much" or "just doesn't have money." Or you were taught that "you have to go to college to make money" or "you're a failure if you don't go to college."
Your limiting beliefs may be completely opposite of these examples, but still debilitating. They may be something you heard over and over as a child, or they may be beliefs you formed as a child (even if you realize now they weren't true).
Once you've identified the limiting beliefs that could be holding you back from a goal or two - or more, you can work on changing them. Figure out why you have a limiting belief. If you formed the belief "I'm not good enough" in childhood, think objectively about it. Maybe you thought a parent or teacher told you that you weren't good enough. But could it be that they were saying "your just not ready" or maybe they didn't even realize what you were capable of. Maybe they were too busy to bother with you, or just wanted you to go away! Those things are not your fault, and they have no bearing on your inherent ability to accomplish your goals for yourself. Just going back and objectively looking at these things can really help. Look up the work of Morty Lefkoe to further explore removing limiting beliefs in this way.
Another way to overcome your beliefs is by programming yourself with positive affirmations to overwrite the beliefs. Whatever you tell your subconscious mind with emotion is what it will accept. This is why it's easy to start living out negative beliefs - they tend to be backed with a lot of emotion. Why you say positive affirmations, take the time to imagine the feelings that go with the affirmation. Your subconscious will begin to believe the affirmation, and it will become part of your belief structure.
Identify your beliefs and why you might be holding onto them. You'll often find that the reasoning behind the belief isn't even good reasoning - and it will be much easier to change the belief. Use positive affirmation to rewrite your beliefs - which will let you finally start reaching your goals.
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