I’m thinking that most of you are going to be gobsmacked at what’s possible as we clear up or bypass our limiting beliefs. Clearly anyone who thought losing a leg would make it impossible to mountain climb would have been wrong – but that’s just one sort of limiting belief.
Our ability to influence and change what goes on around us is even bigger than our ability to do things like this mountain climber. Untrue beliefs apply to all kinds of things around us that we don’t think we have any power over – whether that’s in the smaller everyday things of life like our health or being able to influence the behavior of a crappy behaving neighbor or the power to change the big global stuff.
Limiting beliefs are insidious because they’re subconscious and most of the time we’re unaware of them. We don’t walk around saying to ourselves “Hmmm let me believe something that isn’t true and thus throw away my power to create something new or change what I care about.”
When we pay attention to our Inner Guidance system – i.e. when we awaken to the truth inside us – we align ourselves to the power within us and around us and there’s not much that we can’t do or change or influence.
“There’s not much that we can’t do or create or change or influence.” Are you curious to know if that’s really true?
Let’s check it out shall we? Drop into awareness of your outward breath and smile a little…
Are you curious to know if it’s true or not that “there’s very little that we can’t do or create or change or influence?”
I’ve got shivers down my back. This is so important and so far reaching that we’re going to talk about this from several different directions through the rest of the book.
I pulled these photos off the net. I was looking for examples of personal goals and dreams that it would have been easy to have had limiting beliefs about. The goat like creature is an alpine ibex – he has split hooves with rubbery bits in them that act like suction cups. He and his hooves were the inspiration for the prosthetic leg for the amputee mountain climber that is in the adjoining photo.
Personal goals and dreams aren’t the only ways in which we limit ourselves though. There’s what I call the Big Picture stuff too – the possibility of peace in every conflict, the possibility of healing for the earth and changing or creating anything else that you care passionately about.
