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Can You Change Your Beliefs?
The question of limiting beliefs generated a LOT of response. So many great ones, detailing loss of hope in the arenas of body, emotions, or mind. Health/fitness, love, and worldly success.
So by modeling the people with the results you desire (assuming they started where you started.) you will see different beliefs. GUARANTEED. Look at ANYONE unsuccessful in those arenas, and you know, automatically, they have different beliefs from those who are MORE successful. Every. Single. Time.
So the very natural question is: how do you CHANGE A LIMITING BELIEF?
There are many ways, but let’s see if I can come up with three, off the top of my head.
- MIND: Interrogate the belief, using the Three Gates. Is it TRUE? How do you know this? Is it KIND? In this sense, does following this belief increase or decrease pain or pleasure? I have the belief that the truth sets you free. That even if uncomfortable it ALWAYS leads to greater pleasure and reduced pain. Is it USEFUL? If everyone in the world believed what you believe, would it be a better world? Find a positive role model, someone who has accomplished what you desire, and study them.
- HEART: Beliefs that increase fear should be examined closely. Faith and Gratitude help to strip away the fear so that you can see the core realities beneath them: there is a tiger in that shadow.
Fear is natural, and if it motivates the strategic mind, or mobilizes the adrenaline, it can be useful. It can also…