How to Crush Your Limiting Beliefs and Reach Your True Potential

3 Simple Steps and a Daily Practice

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In January, I began working with a transformational eating coach (yes, that’s a real thing and it’s been…dare I say transformational!). One of the first things she asked me to do was to write down all my beliefs about myself. Anything at all that I believed was true about me. Sounded easy enough.

I believe I can’t lose weight.

I believe I’m not smart.

I believe I’m shy.

I believe I am a slow learner.

I believe I’m not pretty enough.

I believe my lack of confidence holds me back from reaching my full potential.

I believe it is easier to love myself when I am happy with the way my body looks.

The list continued on in this fashion for quite a while. I had created a laundry list of limiting beliefs that I wholeheartedly felt were declarative statements of fact.

It was fascinating to watch the mind latch on to the limiting beliefs as if they’re written in stone. They are pervasive. I felt as though they were part of me, or more accurately, that they owned me. They are the root of so much suffering. They are the obstacles holding me back. They are the…