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There is another great post on the Pick the Brain website, I’m really becoming a fan of this site. This post is about th at old chestnut, limiting beliefs, and is entitled, How to Beat the Plague of Limiting Beliefs. I guess most of us know what limiting beliefs are, though we may still need help in identifying our own and even more help in overcoming them. This post reminds us, quite rightly that all our limiting beliefs are imaginary …

As I said, most of us will need some support and guidance in helping us to overcome our limiting beliefs. This article gives us some tips and advice in doing just that.

It starts by reminding us that our limiting beliefs are in our mind, that is to say that they are imaginary and that there is often no physical reason to hold us back. Once this is accepted and realised, it is easier for a person to overcome their limiting beliefs.

Our limiting beliefs are not something we were born with; we have learned them from somewhere. If we are able to recognise where we have learned them and then to question them, we can start to overcome them. Your beliefs may have come from your parents, your school, your friends or from the society/neighborhood in which you live but, ask yourself, do you always have to accept what they told you?

Inside you, you may feel that something is right but your mind may be telling you ‘no’. Sometimes the mind says ‘no’ for a good reason but sometimes it just says ‘no’ because it is controlled by a limiting belief. Whereas your ‘heart’ does not have such beliefs and may often urge you forward … there are times when you should folow your heart.

The article does come up with an interesting concept; that of temporary suspension of limiting beliefs. You may want to remove all your limiting beliefs and that is a great goal but it is one that will certainly take some time. It may well take some time to permanently remove just one belief. Yet, you do not always have that time, so why not just temporarirly suspend that belief and act as if it did not exist within you? You could try this by practising a new skill, by visualizing life without the belief, or by just ignoring the belief and moving forward.

In all this is a great article on tackling limiting beliefs and I recommend it to anyone.

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