We spoke about our perceptions and our self-limiting beliefs over the last couple of days.  Today let’s talk about our perceptions of self-limiting beliefs.  Sometimes we have to look at perception as allowing the possibility of something new. It isn’t so much what we are seeing or how we react to what we see, but how we start to feel and relate to things that are unseen or what they could be.  We receive a gentle nudge from the universe, a quiet whisper that tells us something along the lines that we can do more.  At first we may feel like, “who me?”.  We can choose to follow or ignore that—if we believe in the “who me” line of thought, we will continue on our current course.  We have to learn to shift the question in order to break the belief.  What If instead of, “Who me? we ask ourselves, “how do I move toward that?” or tell ourselves, “This is for me,”? Those questions position us as a new player in the game.  Who we were may not have been able to move forward or taken that chance, but this version of who we can be is capable of it. 

There are some things so engrained in us that we may not even realize they are a self-limiting belief.  Simple things like talking about not having x amount of money for something becomes a limiting belief in the regard we aren’t looking at how we do have the money.  What I mean is instead of looking at possible ways to shift things around to free up money or other opportunities to bring in money, we are looking at money as finite and stating it’s gone.  That removes the circulatory nature of cash flow.  For the record because it is a flow, that is how money functions as an energy exchange—it is a constant movement of energy.  What other beliefs do we have that may keep us stagnant?  I’m too old for this.  I’m not experienced enough for this.  I don’t have what they’re looking for.  I couldn’t run like that.  I can’t cook like that. I can’t draw/write/sing/dance etc.  While we may say these things feeling they are practical or reality, they stop us where we are—hence the limitation.

That leads me to the part of perception of self-limiting beliefs: we have to shift our thought to understand that these trains of thought are limiting.  It isn’t easy to stay open at all times or to see all possibilities at all times—that takes a lot of practice.  So the first thing we need to do is slow down our thinking and start shifting our perception of what is a limitation.  Instead of what we consider “reality” we need to speak in terms of possibility.  We also need to speak in terms of what will be and that should always be a positive connotation.  For example, instead of saying something like we can’t do it because we don’t have the time, we need to say something closer to I appreciate the consideration but I’ve chosen to do x at this time.  Make it about our choices and our ownership of the situation and it is no longer a limitation—it’s an action in our control.  The more we shift our beliefs to empowered actions rather than things holding us back, the more momentum we create in our lives.