Limiting Beliefs: How to Prevent Them From Ruining Your Dreams

One of the main reasons people fail to manifest their desires when working with the Law of Attraction, is because they are either unaware of, or unable to combat, the limiting beliefs that are lurking within the confines of our subconscious minds.  As an example, suppose my number one goal in life was to become President of a large corporation.  I’d read all the books and taken all the courses I could find on the Law of Attraction.  I did everything they suggested in order to make it happen.  I wrote down all my goals and worked every day at getting one step closer to realizing them; however, deep down in my soul and in my subconscious mind, I had the limiting belief that “I was not important”.  Not only did this belief exist, but, in actuality, it had been there for the majority of my life.  The cold, hard truth is, that as long as I had this belief about myself, I would never become President of any large corporation simply because I believed I wasn’t important enough to do so.  In all probability, the only chance I would have at achieving such a dream would be to first eliminate or, at least neutralize, this limiting belief.

Anytime we have difficulty manifesting a particular desire, more often than not, the root of the problem can be traced back to one or more limiting beliefs we have about ourselves that will continue to prevent our dreams from taking place.  These beliefs may have been instilled in us at a very young age and then reinforced over time through similar and repetitive events.  Hence, trying to eliminate them with a positive affirmation or visualization technique is simply bound for failure.  We have to either neutralize the belief or eliminate it altogether.  There are various ways of accomplishing this and in order to determine the most effective method, we need to take a closer look at the belief itself and how it originated.

As an example, let’s take a closer look at the sample we used above.  In order to eliminate our belief that “I am not important”, we have to go way back and examine our past to try to determine where this belief got started.  By doing so, we may discover that it all started at a very young age, when we would approach our parents, all excited about something we just had the show them, only to be repeatedly turned away with lines like, “not now, I’m on the phone” or “can’t you see I’m busy” or “sorry, but I have to feed your sister”.  It’s easy to understand how an impressionable young child could arrive at the conclusion that he was simply not important in his parent’s eyes or anyone else’s for that matter.  Without much ability to reason at such a young age, we simply accept our belief as fact and carry it with us in our subconscious minds throughout our lives.  That is, unless we, as intelligent adults, look back and re-examine each of these limiting beliefs, utilizing our more advanced reasoning abilities in order to eliminate them once and for all.

Getting back to our example, as adults, we may now be able to reason that our parents were simply far too busy with work or with caring for our brothers and sisters to be able to give us their full attention every time we “required” it.  Thus, it may be quite easy now to see that we actually formed this belief because we interpreted the situation incorrectly, thinking that we weren’t important when the truth of the matter was that our parents were simply too busy at the time.  Coming to such a conclusion can have a profound effect on our belief systems because we realize that what we believed to be the truth was in actuality not the truth at all, but merely an incorrect interpretation made by a young child with very limited reasoning ability.

Now, it’s important to acknowledge that not all limiting beliefs will be this easy to counteract and that this is simply one way of doing so, but I think you’ll be surprised at just how many of our limiting beliefs can be neutralized in this manner.  For the rest, we’ll have to examine alternative methods for accomplishing the same feat, but rest assured there are plenty of other, equally effective methods out there for doing just that.  We will examine some of these in a future post.

My Secrets to You,

Ron