Limiting Beliefs hold us back from reaching our true potential. They also drain our energy every step of the way. Learn how to identify the presence of a limiting belief and how to being the process of reclaiming your power.

1. Liberate Yourself From
Limiting Beliefs

2. What Is This Thing We Call a Limiting
Belief?
A belief about yourself or the reality of the
world that keeps you stuck in suffering.

3. What does this look like?
Resistance to change.
Helplessness in the face of a new challenge.
Hopelessness about one’s ability to do things
differently.

4. What Does This Feel Like?
Most people experience a felt sense of
tension, heaviness, and/or cold in the body
when they are under the influence of a
limiting belief.
Also common is a freeze or collapse response in
the body.

5. What Does This Sound Like?
Just a FEW examples:
This is a dog eat dog world.
No pain no gain.
This is a man’s world.
The only person you can really count on is you!
Never show weakness.
Play is for children.
Man up.

6. Where do limiting beliefs come from?

7. From Our Past Experiences
Past experiences will influence our
ability to imagine future possibilities.

8. From Our Family of Origin
Our families are mini-cultures that help shape our
perception of ourselves, reality, and life possibilities.
Even the most supportive and fabulous families pass
down limiting belief systems.

9. Our Culture
Every culture has its own history. Some
communities have been subjected to more
adversity than other. This can make certain
communities more vulnerable to the power of
limiting beliefs.
Either way every community has a collective
consciousness that effects the people that make
up the community.

10. How Can You Get Out From Under the
Control of Limiting Beliefs?

11. Think About What You Think!

12. Listen to the little voice in your head.

13. Think about whose voice is speaking to
you via your thoughts.
Is the voice a…
parent?
Teacher?
community leader?
you?

14. Make conscious choices about what
messages you listen to and what
messages you ignore.
Ask: Does this serve me?

15. Be Mindful of Your Body

16. When there is tension, there is often
the influence of a limiting belief.

17. When there is inaction or a freeze
response, there is often the influence
of a limiting belief.

18. Is your body shrinking?

19. Don’t limit your growth away from
limiting beliefs by layering on more
limiting beliefs.

20. You are not broken for having limiting
beliefs.
You are not weak for having limiting
beliefs.
You are not stupid for having limiting
beliefs.

21. Take it one moment at a time.
Working your way out from under the
control of limiting beliefs is about
practice never about perfection.

22. Have Fun Getting to Know Yourself
Better!

23. By: Charlie Birch, CDP
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT LIMITING BELIEFS CONTACT:
KGBirch@gmail.com
@BeingHumanAlly
www.CharlieBirchProjects.com/BHA-consulting
Copyright 2013