Reduce Limiting Beliefs in 3 Steps

Copyright 2006 Sharron Phillips

We live in an amazing time and are afforded the luxury of opportunities to live intentional lives. There is nothing to stop us from living our dreams except ourselves. Do you know what your dream is, what your purpose is, what gets you out of bed in the morning? If you do know all that, what is holding you back from your success? (p.s. How do you define success for yourself?)

Once we can target where we are and how we want to proceed, sometimes it is a mystery that we find ourselves stuck. ‘Stuckness’ can serve a purpose. It can be a necessary percolating time to learn what we need to move forward. When that percolating time has finished, it may be time to figure out what stumbling blocks we aren’t aware of. One area to explore is thoughts we have stored and accepted as true, that have become limiting beliefs.

Limiting beliefs are many times unconscious messages that may no longer be valid or useful to us. The messages we receive come from our socialization, education, our daily living, and exposure to advertising, to name a few sources.

Negative or limiting beliefs can infiltrate any part of daily life and that may include relationships, your financial arena, and self care. It may be important to get an overview of which messages holding negative and limiting beliefs you are ready to dispose of once you have uncovered their presence.

To become a more healthy and whole human being, discovering and examining limiting beliefs is essential. For example, if in your mind and heart you hold a belief that money is the root of all evil, that money corrupts your integrity, that money means you have no friends, then you will likely not attract money to you.

The benefit of clearing out negative and limiting beliefs is that you are then open to receive and attract what you truly desire and want.

One of my limiting beliefs was around dance. I told myself and believed that I could not dance. One of my ex-husbands pronounced that I danced like a baby elephant. The resulting frustration and painful ache of not moving to music, with my feet stuck to the floor, my back plastered to the wall, was agonizing. And finally I had had enough. I uncovered the fears and limiting beliefs I had about my dance skills. On my 50th birthday I declared I was worthy of dance, signed up for a weekend workshop with Gabrielle Roth and danced from Friday evening until Sunday afternoon and have not stopped since then. I feel alive, present, and joyful to be dancing whenever and wherever the music meets me.

Another area where I have benefited from becoming aware and have reduced my limiting/negative beliefs is my traditional high level of modesty and inhibition. I now enjoy and appreciate my body and sexuality in a more healthy way and I am grateful to have allowed myself to dismiss beliefs that limited my physical pleasure and sense of my feminine self.

There are steps to take to reduce your limiting beliefs. First, heighten your awareness by listening to what you hear in your thoughts in response to a goal or desire that you have. Second, decide when you hear a limiting or negative belief around succeeding in that goal or desire, whether the belief is true for you now. The third step is to dismiss the belief if it is not true. This is a continuous growth sequence and will become easier to follow as you practice.

Mumbo Jumbo or Can You Really Control Your Life’s Path

For about the last 15 years of my life, I have been exposed to numerous situations either in attending seminars or by watching documentaries where individuals have tried to emphasise the importance of positive thinking and having the right mental attitude. Until very recently, I was the world’s biggest skeptic and very much dismissed the idea that if you thought about achieving something then you could actually turn these thoughts into reality. I continued with this blinkered mentality until someone said to me

“Don’t criticise or ridicule anything until you know more about it or you have tried it for yourself” (This advice is good advice and can be used in any scenario that you come across on a day to day basis).

However, with these words still ringing in my ears, I was attending a property investing conference in London along with my eldest daughter Julie. Over dinner one evening, the topic of “the power of thought” came up. Everyone within our group expressed their thoughts on the subject (some more strongly than others). Again fighting hard to put my skeptisisms to one side, I decided to take part in an exercise suggested by another member of the party. My daughter Julie was asked if she could have the choice of any luxury sports car what would it be and in what colour would she like it. Immediately, she suggested a Red Ferrari . That was it. We had to see a red Ferrari before we left London which was only twelve hours later.
The next morning arrived and we set off by underground to King’s Cross railway station to catch the 10.00 am train to Scotland. We only had about 15 minutes before we had to catch our train and we decided to wait outside at the side of the road. With only seconds left before we had to make our way to the platform, guess what stopped at the traffic lights. Yes, a bright, brand spanking new Red Ferrari. Now was this coincidence or what. Spurned on by this experience I started to try this out with other things and lo and behold they were met with similar results.

Armed with new found enthusiasm, I then decided to investigate the subject further. I read every book I could find on the subject, I surfed the net for as much information as I could. I checked out Neuro Linguistic Programming, Hypnotism and much much more.

It is now quite clear in my own mind that olympic athletes, professional sportsmen, successful businessmen and the like would not have achieved this exceptionally high level of success without the right frame of mind and dreams of reaching the ultimate goal.


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Create MONEY Magic –Easily Attract More Money to YOU!

What is your relationship to money? Are you creating resistance to your own wealth and abundance? Do you continue to overdraw your bank account? You attract what you give your attention to.

Money is a force; a concentrated symbol of energy and power. Like all forces in the universe, money obeys certain universal laws or principles. You gain a great power over money when you understand the universal laws and act accordingly.

Defy Normal Notions

Most people are programmed to believe that hard work, determination, and drive attract money. However, there are more hidden and subtle ways to attract money, wealth, and prosperity. As you apply the Universal Law of Attraction, money will appear seemingly out of nowhere.

Your Finances Express Your Deep Feelings About Money

What are your money feelings? They are usually similar to your other relationship feelings. How do you deal with your relationships? How do you feel about yourself?

Your inner most feelings about yourself is expressed in your relationship with money. Your financial situation is a means for you to express those deep feelings. If you are closed down and guarded, you block the inflow of money.

Begin to understand those feelings to create and change your financial situation. Be open and receptive to receive more money in your life.

Respect Money

Are you haphazard with the money in your wallet? Are your records disorganized? Respecting your money is a powerful mechanism to suddenly attract more of it. Keep precise, up-to-date accounts of it. Account for it in a timely, accurate manner. Give your money greater attention and it will respond in kind.

Your Thoughts Create

Are you holding back on paying or hoarding money? This prevents the free flow of money. Money needs to move freely in order to sustain itself. Do you have hidden fears that may be blocking money from circulating in your life? Reverse such out-moded attitudes and release old programming to bring a sudden abundant positive response and monetarial inflow to you.

Be Generous!

Are you stingy? Do you hold on tight to what money you have? When you shift your perspective from you to others, you increase the energy of attraction. Feeling generous with feelings of goodwill and gratitude attract good fortune. You automatically begin to attract more money towards you.

What Do You Really Want to Achieve?

Is your vision for the future fuzzy? Are you always thinking about your failures? A great way to attract more money is by developing a plan for improvement in your life. Decide what it is that you really want to achieve, organize the details of your vision, and carry it out with a positive attitude. Adopt an attitude of determination, commitment, and effort.

Get Clear About Your Goals and You Manifest Them

What are you visualizing? What self-talk tapes are you playing? When you get clear about your goals, you manifest them. You will attract success, wealth, and prosperity. The mere decision to act can attract results without effort.

There are NO LIMITS to How Much Prosperity YOU Can Attain

The single most powerful way to attract more money in your life is with your connection to the Divine Source of All. We live in an abundant universe. Connect with it and it will respond in kind. Open yourself to the Supreme Source and receive substantial results. Are you willing to have more abundance in your life?

Transform Your Energy to Attract Abundance

Do you squander money? Do you feel blocked? The energy that keeps you stuck in old unconscious patterns of disharmony and lack can be altered. Open yourself to manifest a life of success and abundance with joy. Re-direct unconscious energy that is preventing your abundance, well-being, harmony and love from manifesting. Let go of limiting thoughts. Adopt an attitude of gratitude. Be open to receiving.

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