Subconscious Limiting Beliefs
(04.03.2008)
When we embark upon a manifestation venture, we will, with quite some certainty encounter limiting beliefs which make manifesting less easy than it would otherwise be. What makes this process slightly tricky is that the beliefs are often not obvious as being beliefs to us. They can seem like the truth, when they are really more of a self-fulfilling prophecy (an article on this will follow soon).
What we need to recognize these beliefs is the ability to understand that maybe how we look at life is not the one and only way. As soon as we recognize that there could be another way, then we're in an enormously more suitable position for the recognizing of limiting beliefs. Because as long as we're convinced that everything we think about life is true, we are just too 'zoomed in' on that perspective. Symbolically speaking, it is like walking down a pathway and seeing it branch of into different directions. If we walk on in our preferred direction, it can seem like the only path. After all, the 'evidence' of our senses is telling us that it's the only road ahead. But if we just remembered that at a certain point, we made the decision to go one way rather than the other, we may just recognize that there are variables.
More often than not, these choices aren't that clear to our conscious levels, but as soon as we become aware of the basic process, we can truly decide for ourselves what to think of life. One key thing which needs to be understood is how our experience is caused by our beliefs, and not the other way around. So when we begin to believe a certain thing down to a subconscious level (choose a pathway), then it can seem as though there are no other ways.
Seeing is not believing. It's the other way around. What this means is that any limiting belief which we may have at a subconscious level may appear to be a 'fact' when it is just an 'outward' projection of our own sense of reality (state of being). More on this may be found in my writing on the subconscious and the law of attraction .
Beliefs 'solidify' through repeated and strongly felt affirming, and one they reach a certain 'density' they appear in our experience by default. The clues for taking charge of our sense of reality are in the very limiting beliefs which appear to stand in our way. We need to repeatedly affirm something with strong feeling in order for it to be become a subconscious belief. It may appear slightly daunting to attempt to believe something which isn't true for us right now, but that is not exactly the point. Our subconscious needs to believe it for it to be there in our life by default. And the subconscious doesn't reason or judge. It just accepts whatever it is being fed by the conscious level. This subconscious level of ourselves is where most of our experience originates from. And with this knowledge, we are certainly empowered as we realize that whatever we focus upon is what we become!
-Thomas
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