Are your limitations really true, or do you just believe that they are?

Here’s another blog for you guys, hot off the presses (do any blogs actually come off ‘the presses’? No I guess not, otherwise they wouldn’t be Blogs…would they?).

Anyway!

I wanted to share with you today, a life-hack for getting around your limiting beliefs.

We are so influenced by what we see on social media, TV, Hollywood etc… and it’s not getting any better, any time soon; what with vast swaths of the Western world being kept at home indefinitely.

Sitting in your living room day after day, thumbing through mile after mile of your instagram feed; you are bombarding your subconscious with a billion pin pricks of information. This information isn’t generally edifying. It’s telling you: your life isn’t what you want it to be!

Now, does this mean that the ‘lives’ depicted offer you a glimpse of what you want your life to be? No, not really. I mean: it’d be one thing if these ‘influencers’ actually awoke in you, a notion of what you wanted to do with your life. More often than not though, it’s just the repeatedly hammered home message that what you have around you, isn’t adequate.

This constant derision of our lot in life doesn’t just extend to lifestyle of course. We are constantly told that our identities (skin color, gender, sexuality etc…) mean that we have to have certain predilections, opinions and outcomes in our lives.

Why?!? Infinite possibilities are out there guys!

Now don’t get me wrong: infinite possibility does not equate to high probability, or even certainty! It is possible that I could be paid $1M per year to play basketball, but the likelihood of me having the time or inclination to train myself to the requisite standard, that would overcome my age and hight disadvantage, is pretty low. Still possible though!

We do have to live in the real world, of course and as I always say: we must dream with our eyes open. That doesn’t mean that anything is closed off to us though.

A lot of these limitations and limiting beliefs, are really just collective agreements that we’ve bought into. The afore mentioned basketball scenario: that’s based on the collective agreement that players must be as tall as possible, of a certain age, fitness level etc… I’m not saying there’s no logic in that. Of course having a height advantage over other players, means that you’ll reach the basket more easily. I get it, but it’s not beyond possibility that someone shorter could hone their skills to the point that they could overcome that advantage!

Look at the Vietnam war as another example. The might of the US army was collectively believed to be all-conquering and unstoppable. Was it? The Vietcong turned their perceived weaknesses to their advantage, using Guerrilla warfare and local knowledge of the terrain to devastating effect!

As I say though: real world! Don’t throw yourself off the roof because of the infinite possibility that you might be able to fly (I mean that both metaphorically and literally).

Rather than trying to identify and re-write every single limiting belief that you have, what if you could just open yourself up to the ‘maybe’ that you can be anything?!

Not the certainty, just the ‘maybe’!

I look at beliefs as the doorway/the gatekeeper to what we can experience in our conscious world. They are our filter for possibility.

Now, if that gateway is unlocked (not wide-open, but just unlocked): you’re already a step further on. Ideas and outcomes that were previously closed off, can start dripping through. In other words: you aren’t in the way anymore!

I mean think about it: what’s the first thing that you can do, the first step you can take, in the direction of a desired outcome?

Get out of the way of it happening!!

I know you know someone, who always embarks on ventures only to ‘crash and burn’, give up and jump on some other bandwagon the following week. Why? Because fundamentally, they do not believe that the outcome they’re seeking is possible. So the self-sabotage quickly puts paid to whatever venture they’ve undertaken, and so the cycle begins again.

Look, I get it! It’s hard to undo a lifetime of programming, telling you that you’re not worthy of something, or that you have limitations that exclude you from certain things.

That’s why I say: just start with unlocking the gate! Then you can see what starts to trickle through and builds evidence to support more growth.

Ok, a quick bonus hack and then we’re done!

The subconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between a real experience and an imagined one. Really! Think about it. Your subconscious is buried deep in your lizard, prehistoric brain. It’s function is to work so fast, that you can get out of danger in a split second, without the need for consideration first.

Without the subconscious, it would be like trying to decide everything by committee: not impossible (because nothing is) but definitely inefficient and probably with the outcome that the lion has eaten you.

No, the subconscious bases its decisions on emotional energy. A much quicker response time and a much higher success rate. The downside of this is that stored emotional trauma, or other emotional resistance, will continue to dictate its programming.

With that in mind though, you can practice the emotional payoff of the outcome you are seeking, over and over again, until the subconscious not only stops getting in your way; it actively looks to bring it about for you!

So, the takeaway for today is:

• Unlock the gate of infinite possibility & leave it unlocked.

• Mentally rehearse your dream life, in detail & focus on the feelings it produces.

That’s it for today gang.