How To Break Free From Limiting Beliefs In 3 Simple Steps

If you asked me to name one thing that stops us from being successful in all areas of our lives, I would immediately give you an answer:

It's a set of our personal beliefs.

Not self-confidence, not knowing the law of attraction, not effective time management or effective goal setting, because all these things are just the aftereffect.

What stands behind it all is our belief system that determines every our step. Our beliefs guide our thoughts, our actions, our goals, even our relationships with other people.

If you want a shortcut to success, change your beliefs!

Don't disregard this by thinking "Oh, it doesn't concern me, my belief system is perfect, and I don't see anything wrong with it". It's just another belief. :) It's one of the most dangerous, actually, because it doesn't allow you to change.

If you have at least one problematic area in your life (relationships, financial problems, health problems, and so on), it means your current belief system stands on your way to resolving it. The best part is that by changing it you can improve any situation you want to improve, and it isn't that difficult.

Especially after I'll show you a 3-step process that allows you to change any limiting belief you have. :)

The most important thing to accept is that belief is a choice. According to Wikipedia a belief is something that a person holds to be true without necessarily being able to adequately prove its main contention.

That means that not all of your beliefs are true. Believing in them is what makes it TRUE FOR YOU.

If you believe that "in order to have money you have to work hard" you'll have money only after working 12 hours a day 7 days a week. If you believe that "money come easy because the universe is infinite and there's enough for everyone", guess what? You'll forget that financial problems exist.

So, let's cut to the chase. Here's the 3-step process to break free from your limiting beliefs:

It's logical, right? In order to change our negative beliefs we have to know what they are.

It seems like a simple step, but in reality some of our strongest beliefs lie so deep in subconscious mind that it's very challenging to bring them into consciousness.

The most effective method that works for me is brainstorming. Here's how to do it: Take a pen and a piece of paper. Make sure nothing is going to distract you. Now pick the most problematic area in your life that you're struggling in.

For example, for me, it was personal relationships.

Now, write it at the top of the piece of paper and start writing whatever comes into your mind. You might help yourself by asking questions:

- Why this situation presents so many problems in your life?

- What has caused it?

- Why can't you effectively resolve it?

- What stands in your way?

- What circumstances do you wish to appear to resolve this problem?

Write it all down without analyzing or judging yourself. Write everything that comes to your mind. It is not a very pleasant exercise to do, but it is necessary to determine what holds you back from being successful in this area.

After you've done brainstorming, re-read what you've written and create a list of your negative beliefs.

I'll tell you honestly, after I did this exercise I was pretty upset. The beliefs I discovered were not at all what I expected to find out. One belief that I revealed was that I considered myself to be a boring person! I never actually thought about it until I did this brainstorming exercise. But after I started analyzing my feelings and saw the same pattern in past life situations I discovered that on the deep subconscious level I believed that no one would be interested in me. That's definitely the belief I want to change as soon as possible! :)

Many of those beliefs bring painful past experiences, and reveal a lot of negative emotions. What you need to remember is that those beliefs are not true! Don't beat yourself up for them and don't feel guilty, because we're about to change your limiting beliefs into empowering statements that will drastically change your inner and your outer worlds.

That's a simple step. Take one of your beliefs and turn your upside down.

In my case "I'm boring" turns into "I have an interesting and fun personality".

The most effective way to do it is to divide a piece of paper in two parts, write your negative beliefs in the left part, and then re-phrase them in the right part.

WORD OF WARNING: Don't change your negative statement into the positive ones just by adding the word "not" in the sentence. For example, if your negative belief is "It's difficult to earn money" don't turn it into "It's not difficult to earn money".

Our subconscious mind tends to ignore the small word "not". That's why all your empowering statements have to be formed in the confirmative (positive) mode!

Once you're done there's only one step left:

What we need to do is to imprint the new beliefs into subconscious mind. It sounds almost impossible, but it's not. Actually it's not difficult at all. It takes only time and your willingness to devote 10-15 minutes to this task every day.

There are many ways how to re-program your mind. You can do it with meditations, affirmations, journaling, yoga, release technique, and so on.

I'm going to share with you two techniques that that work for me.

The first is the Motivator software.

It's a small free piece of software that works great if you spend a lot of time in front of your computer. You program it with your empowering beliefs and then set the time how often do you want them to appear on your screen.

Then you just let Motivator run silently in the background of your PC. At set intervals, Motivator will pop up a message. (The messages appear a little like one of those instant messenger popups that tells you a friend has just logged on.)

The second technique is to start collecting evidence for your new beliefs.

Have fun with it! Pretend you're a detective or a FBI agent and you need to collect as much evidence as possible to prove to your subconscious mind that your new beliefs are true.

Start a journal, and make short notes in it every day. It doesn't have to take long, just 10 minutes before you go to bed, but the pay off will be great.

In my case I had to collect evidence that I'm fun to be with. It was challenging in the beginning, since my mind was used to focusing on the negative events. But soon I started paying attention to the fact that people liked spending time with me and that they were interested in knowing me better. Now my mind focuses only on the positive side. As I go along the day, small things happen that just show me that my new belief is true.

Don't expect the miracles happen overnight. It takes time, usually about 3-4 weeks for the new beliefs to start imprinting in your subconscious mind and take effect.

But once the process started it's impossible to stop it. And I promise you'll be amazed with the positive changes that will happen in your life once you replace your limiting beliefs with this simple 3-step process.