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What is limiting belief? A limiting belief or a limiting decision is something that we say to ourselves and possibly others that stops us from achieving something in our lives.

This can be a goal, or it can be just day to day life and it affects the quality of our lives. It can stop us from thinking things are possible for ourselves and really limit our potential, in manifesting and attracting the things that we want in our lives.

We can have limiting beliefs in all areas of our lives, our personal lives, business, career, family and relationships.

Here are the steps on how you can use Neuro-Linguistic Programming to help you reprogram limiting beliefs for more empowering ones:

1. Be really aware what the limiting belief is. What is the belief that you have? Beliefs can be formed within our infant period between ages 0-7 and this can be formed from our memories, decisions that we’ve made and decisions that other people made, things people have said to us. But, we are still also forming limiting beliefs every single day. Every single day, we are creating our minds, the way we think, the way we are, our personalities.

When we have limiting beliefs, we act in according with that beliefs. How disempowering would that be if you got a limiting belief of not good enough and your version of reality now is backed up by that belief? It’s important to really be aware of what your beliefs are and whether they’re supporting you or not.

2. Listen to yourself. This is a one way that you can be aware of what your beliefs. Listen to yourself, listen to the words that you use when you talk to yourself, the things you’re saying, the things you’re thinking. You can do this by journaling. If you’re struggling of finding a challenge to start, just sit down and just write.

– What are the limiting beliefs that I might have
– What are the things that I say to myself on a regular basis?
– What are the things that I think when I think about starting my coaching business?

Remember: We act in accordance with our limiting beliefs whether we’re consciously aware of it or not. A lot of times it’s the subconscious belief you’re not even aware of!

3. Ask yourself a better question. When you know what your limiting belief is, you can then begin to ask yourself a better question. Instead of saying you can’t do it, you could ask yourself a more empowering question to create internal representations of being able to do something, or the possibility that you may be able to start doing something.

Instead of saying, “I can’t do this.”, start saying, “How can I do this?” or “I can’t do this yet, but how can I start to do this?” Doing this will flip the statement you’re saying to yourself on it’s head and will create an internal representation about the success that you could potentially have instead of just closing it off and telling yourself you can’t do it and not bother trying. This creates possibility at your subconscious level and it moves you to the things that you want you to do because you’re asking yourself empowering questions that lead to something, instead of giving statements that lead to nothing.

4. Do the 6 steps to unravel the belief. What this does is it helps unpick the belief that you have and really question what is the belief and identify if it’s your belief or not.

Ask yourself the following questions:

1. What is the belief?
2. Why do I believe it?
3. What am I afraid will happen if I don’t believe that?
4. Do I believe that?
5. Whose belief is that?
6. What can I believe instead that will support me?

I discussed about the 6 steps to unravel the belief a few weeks ago, and you can learn more of it HERE.

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