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How to Identify Limiting Beliefs

Limiting beliefs are those beliefs impeding your progress towards a healthy, positive, and productive life spent achieving your goals & enriching your life. Limiting beliefs drain you of motivation, and undermine your efforts before you even get started.

Maybe you believe you can’t sing, dance, or maybe you’re convinced you’re unworthy of being loved. Whatever the belief, you have to realize it’s holding you back before you can move forward.

One of the most insidious parts of limiting beliefs is you’ve believed them for so long, they seem completely real. It certainly seems like you have enough experiences to back up your reason for believing it. The more references you have to back up the belief, the stronger your conviction the belief is real.

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Aversive Conditioning

AVERSIVE CONDITIONING

As human beings, we evolved to avoid things that will kill us. “Is that a sabertooth tiger?! RUN!!!”

This focus on potentially negative things bleeds over from the physical realm into our mental realm. We’re constantly focused on the negative.

“So and so snubbed me.” “That person cut me off!” “Why do I  always screw up?!”

We have a predominately negative slant to our thoughts. This burns through the energy you have to build the life you do want! If you’re always focusing on what you don’t want, how are you going to get what you do want?

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