So I mentioned limiting beliefs in the last post. “What is that!?” you ask. Let me explain.
Examples of limiting beliefs:
I’ll never find someone who’ll love me as much as I love them
Whoa, that was a lot of negativity. So in essence…what’s a limiting belief? Any negative thought that limits the potential for an experience.
An example from my life is that I believe that exercise is “work” and I’ve defined work to suck. Therefore working out sucks, so I don’t do it unless I’ve guilted myself into it or someone else guilt’s me into it.
Maybe not the best example, but you can see where I’m going. This particular limiting belief makes it so even when I pep myself up to go to the gym I quickly become discouraged or bored and want to go home. The only way I can get a good workout in and feel awesome is if I trick myself by doing something hard and then some yoga, no sweating and only about 20 to 30 minutes of exercise.
Now is that a bad thing you ask? No, but it does limit my options and my potential. Next post we’ll figure out how to stop holding onto these limiting beliefs.
What limiting beliefs do you hang on to?
Examples of limiting beliefs:
I’ll never find someone who’ll love me as much as I love them
- No job will ever challenge me enough
- I’ll never lose this weight
- They’ll never change because they’ve always been that way
- My husband never helps me around the house
- I’ll never find a way to afford that
- I can’t speak my truth because I’ll be judged
- I don’t want to get close to anyone, I’ll just end up hurt
- I don’t want to ask, what if I get told no
- I can’t go after my dreams, what if I fail
Whoa, that was a lot of negativity. So in essence…what’s a limiting belief? Any negative thought that limits the potential for an experience.
An example from my life is that I believe that exercise is “work” and I’ve defined work to suck. Therefore working out sucks, so I don’t do it unless I’ve guilted myself into it or someone else guilt’s me into it.
Maybe not the best example, but you can see where I’m going. This particular limiting belief makes it so even when I pep myself up to go to the gym I quickly become discouraged or bored and want to go home. The only way I can get a good workout in and feel awesome is if I trick myself by doing something hard and then some yoga, no sweating and only about 20 to 30 minutes of exercise.
Now is that a bad thing you ask? No, but it does limit my options and my potential. Next post we’ll figure out how to stop holding onto these limiting beliefs.
What limiting beliefs do you hang on to?