Are Your Be-LIE-f's Making You Unhappy?

Self Limiting Beliefs.

Do you find yourself in recurring patterns of difficulty? Do you tend to self sabotage? Do you feel stuck in life? Do you find the same similar negative events, situations, or types of people constantly coming back around in your life? Do you find yourself thinking 'this always happens to me' when anything doesn't quite go your way? Or are you absolutely sure of exactly what misfortune you are in alignment with, because it has proven itself by presenting in your outer reality multiple times?

We are all guilty of holding negative beliefs. The most common ones are rooted in a deep lack of love, and acceptance of ourself. I'm not good enough. I'm not beautiful. I'm not smart. I'm not worthy. That list goes on, and we are all fully conscious of those beliefs, because we bring them out on a regular basis. However lets take a closer look at our beliefs and try to get some distance from them.

You Were Born Without Any Beliefs.

Yes, we all entered life the same way. We had to grow and learn, and with our child like curiosity we navigated this new learning experience. As we grew we became aware of our environment, we then sourced all of our information that translates to our beliefs through that immediate environment. Our parents were usually our first teachers, then siblings, family, school, friends, co-workers, media, magazines, TV, and just about any other source of information we were exposed to throughout our lives.

You like I, are a product of everyone else's beliefs. No you might say, I know what I know, and I know what I believe. That's all well and good, if you are living a magical perfect life, with overflowing abundance, prosperity, love, joy and happiness, and you never encounter anything that frustrates you, angers you, upsets you, or limits your potential. Is that you? And lets be honest, there are some beliefs that are absolutely true. If I throw a ball up in the air, it will come back down. Perfectly true, who am I to argue with the law of gravity.

But what I'm talking about, is pausing here, taking a step back, and really examining, what we believe, why we believe it, asking where that belief came from, then finding out how that belief is impacting our day to day life?

A Little Bit Of Science.

Everything in the whole universe is energy. Atoms vibrating at different frequencies. Even solid matter is energy, energy vibrating at a slower frequency creating density, atoms packed tightly together to form something that appears solid to the eye. Proven and well documented, all the way back from Einstein, Tesla and the likes, up to the modern day scientist and quantum physicist's that have testified to this fact. Feel free to research it for yourself.

Now without trying to get way in to the science, I would however like to add in another field called epigenetics. The study of external stimulus and its ability to change the biological tendencies within our genetic expression. What you are exposed to, now becomes a serious subject, when it affects our very genes and DNA. Dr Bruce Lipton is one of the leaders in this field, and again if you are interested, dive in to the research. Then we have human psychology and its rafts of data that clearly identifies our behaviours, thoughts and patterning.

What Does All This Mean In Relation My Beliefs?

The simplest way to explain all of this. Your thoughts/beliefs are electrical, yes your brain is firing off electrical circuits as you use it. Thoughts create emotion. Emotion is energy - E-Motion - Energy in Motion. Think a thought right now, happy or sad. Does it create the matching happy or sad feeling? Of course it does. An emotion is a result of thought interacting with the physical body.

Now back to energy. Everything in the universe is energy. Atoms vibrating at different frequencies. Happy has a vibrational frequency which is a different speed to the frequency of sadness. And if you are really in to your science, you can research the Hz of the different vibrations. Happy emotions vibrate faster, that's why they feel better, lighter, compared to fear, that feels dense and restrictive, compressing even. Unconditional love vibrates up around 500Hz and fear down at 90Hz roughly. But here's the important thing. A self limiting belief is literally limiting your energy.

Yes you have an energy field, you can call it your aura, or whatever way you want to think of it, but you have one, and a belief will literally create a pattern in your energy field, moulding your energy in a patterned way. Okay, okay you say, so what does that mean? It means we live in a vibrational field of energy and through the simple laws of the universe, like attracts like.

You are literally sending out a subconscious signal from your body to draw in to you from the vibrational field, that which you send out. So when you have a belief that is of a negative nature, reinforced and sustained, you will, with a high probability, return a negative result. And you further compound that fact by being proven that your belief is deemed to be true, because the same event, situation, result, or type of person shows up over and over again.

Throw Them All Out and Start Again.

There has never been a better time than right now to throw out all your beliefs and start again. Okay I know, not really practical to throw out everything in one fell swoop and start again in the blink of an eye. But the best place to start is with the conscious ones that you know are negative, limit you, and make you feel unhappy about yourself. Start taking note of what you think, and what you believe, and then question where did this belief come from? Why do I believe it?

Does this belief serve me? Is it a passed down 'this is how it is, and that's that' kind of belief? Because those types of beliefs will have you always doing the same, therefore always getting the same crappy and unhappy results. Unhappy feelings too, simply because they aren't meant for you, they are someone else's belief, perception, and a way of life, not yours.

Now there is one thing I know for sure. We are all different. So just because a belief works for another, it absolutely doesn't make it true for you. Don't believe everything you are told. Start making your own beliefs up, thinking your own thoughts. Start by weeding out those which you know don't serve you, and replace them with the great ones that make YOU happy.

You own your own mind, your own emotions, and your own body. Stop giving away so much of your power to others, and stop berating yourself so much. Give yourself some love by committing to decluttering your old outdated belief system. Just like you shower daily, and clean your living space (well I'm hoping you do haha) That stuff makes you feel happier too by the way. But more importantly make your thoughts a priority too.

Whether you realise it or not, everything you have ever been exposed to is stored in that magnificent piece of equipment, called your brain. And most of the stuff is getting stored at a subconscious level, so unless you start actively digging them out, they continue to subtly create and affect your reality.

Waken Your Inner Child.

Child like curiosity will get you everywhere. An openness of mind allows you to unravel and unhook some of the stuff that you think is laid down in concrete and set in eternal stone. Soften a little, question and evaluate what is really true for you.

You can learn so much from the little ones. They don't limit, box in, or try to control their little friends. They don't impose their own beliefs on to the other. If one says the sky is red and the other says its blue, they accept that freely, smile, and continue to play together.

The advantage of using child like curiosity as an adult, thankfully for a starter we now know what colour the sky is, but we have also developed our intelligence to add real depth to our understanding, and we can now fully decide for ourselves how we want our life to play out, what is true for ourselves, and what really makes us happy as an adult. Just like the child who believes the sky to be red, some adults still believe and abide by what they were told as a child, and those very self limiting beliefs have kept them from their full individual expression, and potential in life.

C'mon guys, don't you owe it to yourself to have a dust down of that grey matter of yours, and check what is really past its expiry date?

Underneath everyone else's thoughts, opinions, and beliefs, is your own sparkle. Awaken it, and let it shine!

With Love

Julie