“You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights,” Brian Tracy. I thought I had worked through all the self-limiting beliefs.  I thought I knew everything I had that was holding me back.  Sometimes there are these little insidious pieces that we hold onto that we didn’t even know we created.  These monsters can eat us alive inside and we may not know they exist until we are in a moment when we need to be something and suddenly we can’t.  At the same time, we can’t become an entirely new person overnight, but we have to find the piece that’s holding us back. Sometimes it’s simply aligning thoughts/words and actions.  Sometimes it’s digging deeper and finding the things that we didn’t know were holding us back. 

When we start to question why we think a certain way or why we believe things have to happen a certain way, that’s when we discover the truth.  Sometimes there is no reason.  We are afraid of thinking outside the box because we’ve been told outside the box is dangerous.  Either that or we’ve become so comfortable in the box that we don’t even realize it’s holding us back.  Language we used to consider pragmatic or simply the truth can truly be language that engrains itself in our minds and makes us believe we aren’t capable of something—something that may in fact be our purpose, the exact thing we are meant to do.  So while it may be true to say that we are experiencing something in the moment, it’s important to train ourselves to qualify it to exactly that: a moment.  Sometimes the self-limiting beliefs are a matter of putting aside any reason to believe that the things we want aren’t meant for us or that we aren’t able to do it.

We have to start asking why repeat the patterns we do.  Is it because we don’t know any better?  Or do we know better and are afraid to go on the other side of that fear?  Some patterns aren’t that easy to identify as unhealthy or a limiting belief because we’ve done it for so long that it’s a part of who we are.  There is some real discomfort in tearing down who we have always been to see if that is still the person we are.  We are meant to grow and evolve and that means shedding the skin of who we used to be and allowing ourselves to become who we are meant to be.  When we hold ourselves back because of the familiar, we tell ourselves we are safe when really we are preventing who we are meant to be from emerging.  We have to learn to not clip our wings before we know how to fly.  Look at how we really feel and work on allowing that—from there we can do anything.