Change Your Life, Change Your Beliefs

Change Limiting Thoughts to Supportive Ones

A person's life is a reflection of their beliefs. What you believe about yourself will determine what you create in your life.

Beliefs are not good or bad, right or wrong. They can be supportive or limiting. They are either reflections of a deeper truth or they are lies limiting you from being and experiencing all that you are. You can change your life by changing your beliefs.

Beliefs stem from family, societal and cultural conditioning, or they crop up out of pleasant or unpleasant experiences. They are basically a string of ideas and thoughts that create a foundation for life experiences.

This foundation leads people to their present and future perspectives, attitudes, reactions, choices and behaviors. Much like how the foundation of a house will influence whether the structure ends up being strong or flimsy, beliefs lead to empowering and wonderful experiences or to limiting and frustrating ones.

It's easy to tell what a person's beliefs are by looking at their life. If they are happy in their relationships, career, health, finances and so on, they most likely have supportive beliefs. What does your life tell you about your beliefs?

Shift Limiting Beliefs into Supportive Beliefs

Change your life by changing your beliefs with the following 7-step exercise.

1. Reflect on the various areas of your life to see how satisfied and fulfilled you are in each area. Write these down.
2. With each area in which you feel fully satisfied, write down any underlying beliefs that support you in this creation. For example, if you are happy with your finances you might discover that you inherently believe the world is abundant, that you are competent at earning money, or that money is simply an exchange of energy and you have a valuable service to exchange.
3. With each area that you are not satisfied with, write down on a separate sheet of paper any underlying limiting beliefs. Dig deep within. For example, if you're not happy in a relationship you might believe that good partners are hard to find, but as you look deeper you discover a belief that you are unlovable, or not attractive or not good enough. These are just lies that need to be unearthed so new supportive beliefs can be planted.
4. Look at the sheet of paper with supportive beliefs and read them over. Close your eyes and notice how you feel holding these beliefs. How do you feel physically? What thoughts surface? What emotions arise? How do you see your life unfolding with these beliefs?
5. Look at the sheet of paper with limiting beliefs and read them over. Close your eyes and notice how you feel holding these beliefs. How do you feel physically? What are thoughts are triggered? What emotions are stirred? How do you see your life unfolding through these beliefs?
6. Go over the list of limiting beliefs and choose which ones to change. Remember, they are just a string of thoughts you have invested in. For the ones you are ready to shift, cross them out and then on the supportive beliefs sheet, write down more truthful positive beliefs.
7. As a way to completely let go of the limiting beliefs, tear up or burn the limiting belief sheet. Notice how this feels. Each day read over the supportive beliefs sheet to help integrate them into your consciousness.

You have the choice to believe what you want. As you practice letting go of limiting beliefs and adopting new supportive beliefs your life will change, bit by bit, in the direction you want it to.