ARE LIMITING BELIEFS HOLDING YOU BACK FROM AN ABUNDANT LIFE?
“You are a limited edition with unlimited potential”
Limiting Beliefs
One of the biggest things that stop us from expanding into our unlimited potential is our limiting beliefs. Most mindset coaches would have you working on positive affirmations or positive self-talk to shift those beliefs. However, as coach with a twenty year background in psychotherapy and integrative medicine for mental health, I know that is only one layer of working with limiting beliefs. If you do not take into account the energetic charge that goes along with those beliefs, you will become frustrated that nothing is changing. Or you will jack your adrenaline and cortisol levels “willing” your way to your potential. This often leads to burnout and possibly more limiting beliefs. Said another way, external success that looks good to others with internal exhaustion that is depleting you. I see this all the time in my one-to-one practice.
What is a limiting belief?
Think of limiting beliefs like programing into your human psyche. Limiting beliefs are usually programmed in childhood and generally programmed without our consent or conscious knowledge. In childhood, we look to the outside world to tell us who we are as we expand and develop into grown adults. Our closest attachments are usually the ones that can impress limits upon us. Often without them consciously knowing they are doing it. They are passing on their own programming from past generations. For example, if you grew up in a home where your parents feared not having enough money to pay the bills, support to raise their children, or enough hours in the day to get everything done. They were programming a scarcity mindset or a “never enough” belief. There is not enough money, support or time in life. This limiting belief is rooted in the emotion of fear. And it shows up in the body as a fight, flight, or freeze response. So as a child, your mind, emotions and body developed within scarcity, fear, and a central nervous system in survival mode. It can sound like “It’s not safe to think there is enough. Therefore, I am never enough”.
The positive side to this limiting belief is many people become high achieving in their lives. The down side is they are often burnt out because “never enough” is well “never ending”. The limiting belief becomes a catalyst to the programming of how you live your adult life. No one tells you in adulthood that survival can be undone and thriving abundantly is possible.
Reprogramming a Limiting Belief
In order to reprogram a limiting belief you first need to expose what limiting beliefs are operating in your life. As I mentioned above, the programming usually happens when we are young and without our direct knowledge. So it makes sense, that our limiting beliefs operate in our sub-conscious mind. Therefore, they need to be brought to the surface to be worked with and reprogrammed. Below you can download a worksheet I use in my RISE Mastermind as the first step to working in what I call the four layers of healing. The four layers being mind, emotion, body, and soul. In my own experience, changing your mindset is only one layer of working with a limiting belief. To fully integrate a change and thrive you must also work at the level of emotion, body and soul. That is were thriving happens and an abundant mindset and life really takes hold and new programming is deemed safe in the body.
Change takes time, so start with the worksheet below and get curious about what might be holding you back from living a life that energetically feels the way you want it too. For me, I live with more freedom, ease and alignment. I now operate in an abundant mindset not a striving or survival mindset rooted in scarcity. I programmed all four layers of healing with the help of my own coach, therapist, and energy worker.
I hope this first step helps you on your journey to exposing your potential. To shift your limiting beliefs - mind, emotion, body and soul. Feel free to leave me a comment below. And if you are ready to do some intensive work check out my RISE Mastermind program where we work in all four layers to abundantly thrive and open up your unlimited potential in the second prime of life!
Til next time,
Angela
I’m Angela. As an educator, a therapist, and inner vibe guide I am here to help you reduce burnout and stress in your daily life so you have the time, energy and confidence to do what you love.