In last Monday’s Morning Motivation I referred to how your
thoughts create the experiences of your life, this week you will see how they also
reinforce your beliefs which creates a self-perpetuating cycle of what you
experience in your life.
Let’s take a person who hasn’t achieved something they
wanted to at some point in their lives, this may make them feel like they’re a
failure. Perhaps someone says something to them about not being good enough to
achieve what they want which makes the feeling of being a failure or not good
enough become their belief. Once this belief takes root it becomes part of who
they are, affecting how they think and behave. Any time they make a mistake
this provides them with proof that they aren’t good enough and if they succeed
at anything, they just put it down to luck.
The trick here is to understand that any limiting beliefs
you have were created by you as a result of something you experienced so they
are not necessarily true. By becoming aware of them you can start to provide
yourself with evidence of times in your life when these limiting beliefs
weren’t true. By recognising these times that contradict your limiting beliefs
you’re proving them wrong and showing that they’re not true. Then next time you
want to do something that your limiting belief would otherwise prevent you from
doing, change your thoughts into ones that support you so that you can start to
challenge and change your deep rooted beliefs.
It takes practice to keep changing your thoughts in order to
defy your beliefs, particularly
as your routine way of thinking is easy, it’s
automatic and takes little effort. Yet with just repeated attempts at thinking
new, positive and supportive thoughts, the new way of thinking becomes a habit.
Your new thoughts create new experiences which lead to new beliefs. Before long
your old, limiting beliefs that felt like a comfortable pair of shoes are
replaced with new, liberating beliefs that put a spring back in your step!
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