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  • #54081
    Giacomo
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    Hello everyone,
    As I sat here on my daily online outing to various places, I ran across an article or post that reminded me of something I have had an immense problem with for over half my life now. This issue is the fact that I have trouble actually identifying what my limiting mental hurdles are (be they beliefs, or anything else). Is there a good way or decent tool to use to help with this?
    Giacomo

    #54149
    HabitualLinecrosser
    Participant

    Android has a new app called script lobotomy. Try it then come back and tell us all about it. 🙂

    #54160
    Giacomo
    Participant

    If I had a smart phone Id think about it. lol

    #54176
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    You can try reading about Cognitive behavioral Therapy. It identifies a number of distorted thinking patterns. Try starting of with “CBT for dummies”. I know it sounds dumb 😛 but it can help 😀

    #54179
    @Jasmine-3
    Participant

    Hi Giacomo

    Thanks.

    All of us have limiting beliefs and they usually become part of us during childhood and we keep building on them throughout our lives.

    Basically, a simple way of identifying them would be to review your thought pattern and seeing if there are any areas of your life where you are less than exceptional such as in school, career, relationships, friendships etc .

    We are as unique as it gets in this world. If your parents decided to create another one of you, they wouldn’t be successful. We are all created equally at an universal consciousness level but for many of us, when we grow up in a certain environment with a certain upbringing, we evolve from the being most unique exceptional being to a mediocre individual. The thing which helps us become a mediocre are our limiting beliefs, which stem from our repetitive or routine thoughts. Thoughts arise from everything under the sun from the type of food we eat, to the type of air we breathe, to the type of people we hang out with. We are constantly bombarded with thoughts – mostly negative and some positive, which lead us to form neuro pathways in our subconscious brain called belief system. These eventually become our personality and we start to carry out our daily living activities on an auto-pilot.

    Some of the limiting beliefs are: I dont deserve happiness; I am not good enough; life is meant to be a struggle; I need to work hard to make a living; Everyone is out to get me; stress is normal; peace is only for the saints; I need to hold on to money otherwise it disappears quickly; i am not intelligent enough like tom, rick or harry; i can’t achieve a certain level of success in my career etc. The list goes on.

    The beliefs that all of us SHOULD have from birth but often dont are – I am loved; I am as good as anyone else; life is fun; there is enough for everyone on this planet; i am peaceful, loving, powerful, content; everyone is helping me achieve what I need to achieve to lead a positive life; success comes easy to me; i am surrounded by healthy relationships; i have excellent health; everything is possible in this world if i put my mind to it etc

    Can you see the difference ?

    It all comes down to our thoughts. What are you thinking about the most ?

    Blessings,

    Jasmine

    #54188
    Giacomo
    Participant

    Thank you for the responses, everyone. I guess I should tell you that I have tried this before and I have trouble actually looking at limiting beliefs objectively because of what my limiting beliefs are telling me. lol

    #54245
    @Jasmine-3
    Participant

    Excellent Giacomo. You have hit upon profound wisdom by writing what you wrote in your last post. We all have the tools and wisdom within our being to realise anything in life. Good luck with your journey. You are already quite ahead of others.
    🙂
    J

    #54383
    Embers Pearl
    Participant

    I think the fact that you are able to know this, says to me that a part of you is in fact looking at this objectively, but, the other, more limited part has the most power.

    There is hope, if only that the objective, knowing part can grow bigger than the limited part.

    • This reply was modified 10 years, 8 months ago by Embers Pearl.
    #54388
    Giacomo
    Participant

    Jen Pearl, I keep getting to this point and getting stuck because I dont know which thoughts to trust. Im not sure which ones are deep revelations about myself and which are things I just talked myself into.
    Thanks for the positive responses everyone. Jess, Ill see if I can try CBT. Ive googled it before but couldnt find anything specific about actually implementing it.

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