Begin overcoming limiting beliefs with 4 simple habits
Discover 4 no-stress habits you can start for overcoming limiting beliefs in your daily life and long term success goals.
Beliefs can be a weapon of victory or defeat.
Having limiting beliefs will make sure defeat and make us suffer endlessly along the way.
Most coaches say that affirmations are the only way to this, but that is only half the battle. You can’t just “tell” your subconscious, you have to “show” it also.
Here we will cover how to show and tell your conscious and subconscious mind how to overcome limiting beliefs.
1. Accountability for your mornings
Mornings set the tone for the entire rest of your day. By taking responsibility for the tone of your day, you will approach the rest of your life from a better place. You will be in a better headspace to solve problems, interact with people, and increase productivity in all areas of your life. And most of all, you will be able to make better choices for yourself.
In addition to that, you will be proving to yourself your consistency and follow-through. This confidence will carry on to other parts of your life and your limiting beliefs will be less and less powerful. From a better mindset, you will be able to say limiting beliefs as they come up and say the choice to let them continue or stop them.
You can choose whatever you do in the morning, as long as it makes you feel good and benefits the rest of your day. Here is a list of things to get you started:
Drink a glass of water
Wake up at the same time every morning
Don’t check your phone for the first 15-30 minutes of waking up
Do a small workout or breathing exercise to get your blood pumping
Plan your schedule for the rest of your day
2. Saying opposite affirmations
The worst thing about limiting beliefs is that, you know, they’re not true, but we believe them anyway. It’s like your emotions and minds are out of your control. One way to take back control is to affirm and confirm the opposite of the belief.
You have heard of general affirmations, but you need to charge them with specificity. Here is an exercise to get them. Think of your greatest desires for about 2-3 minutes and then write down all the feelings of doubt that arise. Once you have these written down, write an “I AM [blank]” statement for each one. These statements should be the exact opposite of that belief. Take 3-4 of these phrases and say them to yourself every day in two ways.
With both of your hands over your heart and eyes closed
In front of the mirror staring into your eyes
Take about one week for each set of 3-4 affirmations. Following that, try to act, either small or big. That confirms the affirmation that you have been saying. First, try for one action per week and then move up over time to one action per day. By doing this affirmation, confirmation and confirmation combo, your personal identity will change and the limiting beliefs will begin to evaporate.
3. Habits that affirm you
The next step in overcoming limiting beliefs is to have daily habits in your life that you agree with. If you are consistently doing things that you don’t agree with, you are reinforcing the very belief systems that are holding you back. If you do things that empower and inspire you consistently, your limiting beliefs will feel like an old joke and have no power over you.
Scientific studies have proven that your daily habits affirm your identity on a subconscious level. Since most of your habits were adopted from others, it’s hard to understand the psychological damage of repeatedly doing things we don’t agree with. The reasoning that keeps you in that unhappy state combines with sadness and anger to form a chain in your subconscious. This chain is a belief that you continuously use to cope with the undesirable habits in your life.
Here is an exercise to begin to pick up self-affirming habits.
Write down 10 habits you have control over everyday
Besides that habit, write, why you do it
Decide whether you agree with that logic
For the ones that you don’t agree with, come up with a workable and better alternative
For each better alternative, write down whatever has stopped you from changing before
Look at this list and develop a set of affirmations to drop these beliefs
Take as long as you need for each habit on the list.
4. Making your own long-term goals
Looking into the future can be scary and it can reinforce limiting beliefs and thought patterns. By making your own long-term goals, you will have less fear and limiting beliefs because you will have an idea of what the future holds for you. This is important because goals are the best catalyst for changing, limiting beliefs and self-sabotage. You will have something to look forward to and a reason to change.
Since youth, you have always been given the goals to achieve in life. As a result, it disconnected you from the power of having a vision. By allowing others to choose your goals consistently, you unconsciously begin to limit your own desires and wants. This fuels the limiting beliefs to live on for years.
Having long-term goals gets you unstuck from your old way of being. It helps you identify the chains holding you back from becoming your best self. By having your own goal for the future, you can begin to direct your life towards achieving it. Not only does this give everyday purpose and meaning, but it also breaks down the fears that were once holding you back. A vision and plan will satisfy your logic and give you a reason these beliefs cannot and will not hold you back any longer.
Conclusion
Overcoming limiting beliefs will remove the chains from your ankles.
You won’t have to be stuck in the same cycle and you’ll be free to achieve any goal you want.
Without judging yourself, you will have a clear vision and make a realistic plan to achieve it.
Putting the four habits above into practice will give you the tools needed to win the battle over your subconscious, limiting beliefs.
You’ll be able to dream and effortlessly create the life you want.
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