Mind Power – How To Break Free Of Limiting Beliefs, part 4 of 4

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How To Change Beliefs With Mind Power

1. Become Aware Of Them
If many of our limiting beliefs are unconscious, how on earth can we uncover them? Look around at your life. Your day-to-day life is a graphic portrait of your beliefs. Your limiting beliefs will show up as your fears. Take a look at the following arenas of your life and as you focus on each of them, notice what feelings come up.

Self-Appreciation – How do you feel about yourself? Do you like who you are?

Relationships and Family – Do you enjoy your relationships? Are they deepening and fulfilling for you? Are you able to work through “stuff” as it comes up with those who are close to you?

Creativity, Dreams, Career and Aspirations – Is your heart fulfilled? Do you wake up in the morning excited about what you’re going to do that day? Are you sharing your unique gifts with the world?

Do you wake up excited?

Abundance and Money – Does money flow easily for you? Are you able to comfortably take care of yourself and those you love? Are you able to do the things your heart longs to do?

Did you notice any fears as you read through the list? If so, you’ve identified a limiting belief, or two or ten :-).

For example, as you put your attention on abundance and money, if you feel fear, look closer to see what the thought is that is connected to it. Sometimes the feelings come up so quickly we aren’t aware of the thought, but, trust me, it is there. If there is a feeling, there was a thought that it originated from, even if it flashed past so quickly you didn’t catch it the first time. Use your mind power to ferret it out. Questions can be used as probes. Simply go inside and ask: “What thought is at the source of this fear?” or “What is the belief that this fear comes from?”

This may take some practice but eventually, by inviting and intending clarity, your mind power will show you the thought/belief that is at the base of the fear.

2. Dismantle The Belief
Realize that you haven’t been the victim of some horrible truth that you don’t have control of. Instead, you have simply been terrorizing yourself with your own mind power! The thought form at the base of the big scary fear is actually only a wisp of energy! Without us feeding it with attention, it has no power at all.

Really take this to heart. This is an important step in un-powering and dismantling the belief. Again, these beliefs are really just thought forms. They are not reality and with some effort they can be changed.

3. What Do You Really Want?
Okay, you’ve identified where you are. You’ve gotten honest with yourself and uncovered a negative belief. Now, you need to figure out where you want to go from here and use your mind power to chart your course. Ask yourself, “What do I want in this situation?”

Using the money example above, let’s say that the belief/thought you uncovered was: “I’ll never get ahead.” So, I will assume that what you do want in this situation is to not only “get ahead” but to prosper abundantly. Hey, why not!

4. Bridge The Gap
Usually, we can’t immediately make the leap from a strong negative emotion or belief to a positive one, but using mind power we can incrementally move toward it, and get there one realistic step at a time. We can alter our beliefs by applying new thoughts to the old beliefs until we mold them into that which we prefer. Then we practice the new viewpoint or belief.

If we stop feeding something, it dies. If you stop feeding attention, water and sunlight to your house plant, it will die. Likewise if we stop feeding a limiting belief with our attention and begin feeding a positive, expansive one, the old belief will die and the new one will take root and flourish.

So, back to our example. Now that you’ve clarified what you want, you just need to make a mental bridge from “I’ll never get ahead” to “I am abundantly prosperous.” You build that bridge one thought at a time, using the power of positive thinking. What is very important is that each thought that you choose for your thought-bridge is one that you absolutely believe to be true. If you don’t believe the thought, your Emotional Feedback Guide will give you negative feelings, probably fear, and your “bridge” will collapse.

Using your mind power, reach for a thought that you not only believe on the subject, but one that brings relief and positive feelings. It might be something like, “I’m excited about uncovering this belief that has been holding me back. Now I can do something about it.” Try that out and check in with your Emotional Feedback Guide to see if that piece of your “bridge” is going to hold or not. If it is too big a leap (which you can tell by negative emotions that attend it), then try out another one like, “I know it’s possible to be prosperous, because I see that others have prosperity.”

“The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Once you have your first thought that you believe on the subject that feels good, reach for another one that feels even better, like, “I’m happy that I’m learning these new principles because I sense they can change my life.” From there you might go to “What do I really love doing?” then, “How can I do more of that in my life right now? Okay, I can see the possibility that there is something I could do to create abundance in my life, doing something that I really love doing. I can feel my heart expanding just thinking about it. And I know that that is how I let in abundance, by keeping open to this positive energy as much as I can. Hey, this is starting to feel pretty exciting!”

As long as you keep following any trail of thought that occurs to you that brings a lighter, expanded feeling, with your mind power you will bridge your way to “I am abundantly prosperous,” or maybe “I can be abundantly prosperous doing what I love to do.” Just keep feeding this new bridge of thought whenever the subject comes up in your mind. It is also helpful to set aside reflection time to focus on this process for each belief you uncover.

You build the bridge to where you want to go simply by choosing the direction of your thoughts. There are only two directions for them to go: in a positive direction, which aligns you with your inherent wellbeing, or in a negative one, which blocks you from wellbeing. If you keep looking for and feeding the positive ones, your bridge builds itself!

For more about how your emotions can help you build this bridge to where you want to go, click here.

5. Clear Out The Residue
All of our beliefs were originally set in motion because of things that have happened to us in the past. In conjunction with building a thought bridge to a positive belief, I highly recommend clearing out the energy of the old one, as well as whatever trauma that is related to it. This process is quite easy and is described here.

Preventive Maintenance
Using mind power to uncover and release old limiting beliefs is an ongoing process. For me it certainly is. Besides identifying and cleaning out the old stuff, it is also important to stop new negative beliefs from forming while they are still in the beginning thought stage. Use your Emotional Feedback Guide to notice whenever you begin to feel negative emotion. What I’ve noticed is that the more wellbeing that I experience, the more noticeable it is when I’m feeling “off.” The negativity stands out much more and I’m far less willing to stay stuck in it.

As you go about your day, catch yourself in the act. As soon as you feel negative emotion, stop yourself and use your mind power to trace back to the thought or belief that triggered the negative feeling. As you practice the steps above, they will become easier and more automatic.

Three Levels Of Creation 
As stated before, the first stage of creation begins with our mind power, our thoughts. Then on a more energized level, we create with our words. The forming power of words is much greater than the forming power of just thoughts. Then, on the next level, we create with our actions, even more powerfully than with our words.

Therefore, it is really important to watch your feelings when you talk. I’ve caught myself saying seemingly harmless declarative statements to someone like, “Boy, it’s been tough lately!” or “What a klutz I am!” and I feel all the life force drain right out of me. I can feel the gateway to my wellbeing closing off. That’s a huge tip-off to not continue speaking in that direction of thought. I feel exactly the same debilitating feelings if I say something negative about someone else. This isn’t about being “good” or “bad.” This is about allowing or sabotaging our own precious wellbeing!

Also notice how you feel as you perform different actions. Does that action evoke a positive feeling or a negative one? If it produces a negative one, it’s time to make a course correction.

All of these things – ferreting out and changing limiting beliefs, working with (and not against) your mind power to choose a positive direction of thoughts, words and actions – will make a huge difference in the quality of your life. You will feel more freedom, love and true self-empowerment than you ever knew was available!

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Mind Power – How To Break Free Of Limiting Beliefs, part 2 of 4

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Beliefs Form The Blueprint Of Your Life
Remember the first Matrix movie? There were parallels in it between the mind and a very complex computer with countless virtual reality programs. There was a scene where Neo, the main character, was on a skyscraper rooftop in a virtual reality training program with Morpheus, his teacher. In the program, the goal was to leap from one skyscraper to another.

When Neo hesitated, doubting whether or not he was that powerful, Morpheus said, “Don’t think you are, know you are. Release doubt, fear, and disbelief.” Then Morpheus leaped across to the next building. When Neo tried to follow the first time, he plummeted down to the ground. He wanted to believe he could do it, but it was too big a leap for his mind to make all at once.

“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” - Henry Ford

This was a great illustration of mind power. I believe this is how “miracles” happen. The power of intention and belief can transcend any limit. If you were to focus on something with laser-sharp focus, not letting in any thoughts or doubts about something you’d like to create or experience, you would manifest it very quickly. Since most of us humanoids don’t always have that kind of laser-sharp focus, we need to learn to do it incrementally.

We all have examples in our lives where it’s been obvious that we’ve used mind power to create our experience. One that comes quickly to mind for me is: We have a dance group called “Dance Home” in the community where I live. Sometimes when I go, I feel vibrant, beautiful, and alive, and therefore, I am all of those things and have experiences there that reflect that.

Then there are other times I go to the same place when I’m having a low self esteem day. On those occasions I don’t like the music or the DJ, my favorite dance partners aren’t there, I feel unattractive… and guess what? All of those things are true for me at that time. The only difference between the two scenarios is what I believed about myself before I ever left home. In other words, I created what happened by the direction I chose to focus my mind power.

For me, working with (and not against) mind power is an ongoing discipline. I’m discovering that it vastly improves the quality of my life to practice being consciously connected to Source Energy by being aware of my feelings and the thoughts that create them. I'm committed to using the power of positive thinking, and training my focus to stay on thoughts that bring positive emotions.

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How Incredibly Successful People THINK

Success is a mindset game!
What beliefs stop you from achieving your vision?

YOUR Limiting Beliefs (and they are yours to keep, unless you decide not to!)

We already spoke about values and beliefs, and how they shape the foundations of who you are. They determine the way you perceive the world, how you react and what action you take, in order to achieve results. And we gave an extensive list of values where you can identify your highest ones, your top priorities in life.

When you look at beliefs, how much do we realise that we are surrounded by limiting beliefs, lurking behind every corner. Yes, we do occasionally recognise that we say words of self-discouragement: I'm going to botch up this presentation, I know it!

But how often do we say to ourselves those seemingly harmless, habitual phrases: "Silly me!"

"This will never work!"

"I'll never get this job!"

“I’ll never learn to cook.”

"I'm so clumsy, I'll probably break something!", 

or even "I'm gonna be late again!"

And these turn into self-fulfilling prophecies - you become unfailingly, chronically, late for every meeting. You always drop things; you never dare to have fun improvising and cook a meal. These formulas for failure block so much of your positive energy, of your potential!

I would go even further and claim that Limiting beliefs, and constantly imposing them on ourselves and others, are one of the unrecognised diseases of the 20th, and 21st centuries!

How often do you hear parents on the street yelling after their children: "Don't run, you'll trip! You'll fall down and break your head!" What a kind, caring, encouraging thing to say to your child, NOT!, over and over again...

Or: "You ain't good for nothing! You can't tie your own shoes."  And the list goes on and on.

What limiting beliefs do to your unconscious mind is to constantly build up a feeling of defeat, confirm your expectations for defeat, and ultimately they make you fit for defeat, instead of success.

Probably if I asked you right now to give me a list of your values, you would come up with three, four, or more ideas, straight away. But if I asked you: “What are your limiting beliefs?”, you wouldn’t have the answer off the top of your head.

So, here is my challenge for you: during the next three days, watch yourself, watch your language. What do you say to yourself – what everyday self-talks can you identify as limiting beliefs?

And if you want to take it up a notch, how about actually counting how many times you tell yourself things like, “I always lose stuff”, “I’m gonna be late again”, “I’m exhausted”, or thinking first thing in the morning: “I can’t be bothered to do any exercises TODAY.” Or when you get stuck with your report, or task, you repeat to yourself: “I can never finish these things on time.” 

See, those nasty little power -, confidence - and success - sabotagers are hiding everywhere!

SO, share your examples here. Maybe you will even come up with some original ideas of how to stop yourself from success… And the more you repeat them, the better you become in developing the skills to fulfill those beliefs.

What do we do next? The next step for you is to reframe these boycotting expressions, and instead of saying: “I’ll be late again!”, you will say: “Today is the first of those numerous occasions when I will be on time. Punctuality is my middle name.”

Or saying: “I can easily go up those three flights of stairs. I am becoming fitter and fitter every single day!”

How about that as a self-fulfilling prophecy!

Believe in yourself!