A limiting belief is a state of mind, a judgment about yourself that you think to be true, they restrict you from believing in yourself, impacting your life and stopping you doing the things that you want to do.
Limiting beliefs often start at a young age through our interactions with the people around us. Between the ages of 1 – 8 our brains are in a learning state and we soak up information, that we observe, from the world around us like a sponge. This is great but the problem is we don’t have a fully formed brain, when we are this young.
As young children we have a natural need to ‘Feel Loved’, ‘Accepted’ & ‘Validated’, our survival mechanism at this young age is that we see our parents or the people around us, as incapable of making any mistakes or being wrong and so they must be right in knowing what’s best for us, without this survival need their world would not make sense and therefore would feel insecure and unsafe.
and therefore we are unable to explain or justify an adults behaviour or attitude. This can lead to a child’s mis-interpretation or misunderstandings of that behaviour or attitude, creating a limiting belief that we take with us into adulthood.
Statements that define a limiting belief are…
‘I’m not good enough’, ‘I don’t know enough’, ‘I’m not smart enough’, ‘I can’t do that’, ‘I’ll never be successful’, ‘I’m too old’.
Through solution focused hypnotherapy you learn to change your thoughts and belief patterns, taking small steeps to learn new ways that help you collapse and overcome these patterns, letting go of the past lifting and changing your life.
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