Thursday, October 03, 2013

How DO You Dissolve a LIMITING BELIEF?

This will be INSTRUCTIVE.

And, if you follow along, you can have a belief that's limited you in whatever way, melted.

Possibly, forever.

Though first, what is a belief?

How about we settle for a belief being something we take as 'fact', that we know as being the TRUTH... all based on HOW we see the world, and our personal interpretation of it.

If you're happy with that definition, then let's look at those LIMITING beliefs, those TRUTHS that we've made real for us.

So where does it all start?

Well, it starts (and ends) with the inventor, the creator, the author of those truths, of those beliefs.

And WHO might that be?

Well, to answer that, let's take a look at rain. It falls. But HOW you see rain maybe very different to how I SEE rain.

You may look and see rain falling and say... "what lousy weather, we're stuck inside, we can't do a thing."

I may see the SAME rain falling and say... "man, how cool and refreshing that rain is."

A person owning an allotment may be totally relieved at the rain falling because his plants are getting the needed watering.

Rain has NO MEANING... apart from the meaning WE choose to give it, based on how we SEE rain.

And, we can if we wish, choose to give a number of DIFFERENT meanings (or interpretations) to the very SAME event.

Now let's carry that thinking through to something that has created a LIMITATION.

How about something as universal as one that says "I'm a lousy public speaker. In fact, I'm scared stiff of giving a presentation in front of others" 

Now that belief has certainly limited many many people from rising up and venturing forth.

And so the job is to first identify who is the inventor of such a belief?

And of course, the finger points inwards, NOT outwards.

But from where did it stem? Where are its roots? How did it come to be so?

It's possible it may have formed in an early childhood interpretation of events, which then, multiplied over the years into a hardened, solidified... TRUTH.

And, just like RAIN, if we gave NO MEANING to the situation, to that childhood
scenario (whether we were told to shoosh up and stop talking, or we were labelled shy because of not contributing to the conversation or we made up a story about how GOOD the other kids are) that same crippling thought about speaking in public, would have no home to go to, no place to lay its hat.

So let's put our hindsight glasses on and ask our little self something about that TIME we decided that we were not going to speak up (in public or not). So the conversation may sound a little like this;

"...hey little self, that's an interesting way to look at that event. Well how about we decide upon an alternative way to see the same situation... do you think that would be okay, do you think you could look at the idea of speaking in public, rather differently?

What that means is; if we were aware that we had multiple ways of looking at the same scenario at our command, instead of choosing the viewpoint that has us ducking anything and everything to do with public speaking, we would have a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT about speaking in public!

Yes, through our very own interpretation of a situation, we gave it a particular meaning, which, multiplied over time, had us lying low... possibly for decades even!

It's true to say that we indeed INVENTED that limiting belief about speaking in public. A belief that has held us back again and again and again.

Does it have to continue that way?

It doesn't have to now, does it? Because, we can decide to attach a DIFFERENT meaning to the very notion that speaking in public is bad. And, just like RAIN, we can choose to give it no meaning whatsoever, thus dissolving the limiting belief altogether.

So, what OTHER limiting belief do you want to dissolve?

And, if you want to see a video based explanation of the simple process, I suggest you set aside 18 minutes or so right now and immerse yourself into what you're about to experience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMdVM-t5kFs