Why Crushing Your Limiting Beliefs Is Like Training A Toddler?
Posted on September 12th, 2008
I have been reading Louise L. Hay’s “You Can Heal Your Life”, and I came across this section that I believe is crucial to overcoming your limiting beliefs that may be currently holding you back from achieving your dreams.
“If you have a little child who has been allowed to stay up as late as she wishes for a long time and then you make a decision that you now wants this child to go to bed at 8:00 every night, what do you think the first night will be like?
The child will rebel against this new rule and may kick and scream and do her best to stay out of bed. If you relent at this time, the child wins and will try to control you forever.
However, if you calmly stick to your decision and firmly insist that this is the new bedtime, the rebellion will lessen. In two or three nights, the new routine will be established.
It is the same thing with your mind. Of course it will rebel at first. It does not want to be retrained. But you are in control and if you stay focused and firm, in a very short time the new way of thinking will be established. And you will feel so good to realise that you are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.”
Quite often we try to look for a complex solution to a rather simple problem. To overcome your limiting beliefs it is simply a matter of retraining your mind to accept the positive thoughts that you want to hear and if the limiting belief reappears then tell it that there is a new set of rules and think of the positive thoughts you have used to replace it. There will be a certain amount of rebellion from your mind but simply persevere and you will ultimately become the victor.
Thank you to Louise Hay for putting what can be a difficult concept so simply for everyone to understand.
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One Response to “Why Crushing Your Limiting Beliefs Is Like Training A Toddler?”
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Jim Spence Says:
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