“You will never perform consistently in a manner which is inconsistent with how you see yourself.”
….Zig Ziglar

How do you see yourself and how is that image affecting your life?
What is showing up in your life?

Is it not working for you or not what you intended for your life?

A NETWORK OF BELIEFS

There is a whole set of interconnected beliefs that lie beneath the surface of your mind. They are often hidden beliefs about who you are, what you are and what you’re capable of. And underneath that is some kind of hidden belief that you’re not good enough for this. You’re not strong enough for this. You’re too weak for this or You’re too old for this.

But the core belief is a common negative belief that most of us face and have to work on. It is the belief, I’m not good enough. If there was a universal belief, that would be it.

When you go about your day, most of the people you see will be operating on that belief. They won’t like it. They’ll be maintaining a really strong external façade, but many are harboring that belief in some way. We all do, especially if we are attempting something new for the first time.

TRANSFORMING the BELIEF of I’M NOT GOOD ENOUGH

Step 1.

Sit in a quiet place and close your eyes. Feel any tension or stress in your body and release that energy. Just let it go and feel your body relax. When you are relaxed, whatever belief you’re working on, just either repeat the belief out loud or in your mind, or focus on it – feel it fully.

Step 2.

Practicing a mindful approach, pay attention to what’s happening in your body. Where in the body do you feel this? And if you can identify that, focus on that feeling. Sometimes just saying the belief or thinking the belief, “I’m not good enough” actually just makes that feeling get stronger. If that’s the case, then keep saying it because eventually you’ve got to be able to say it and it won’t have the same strong connection. You’re not trying to make the feeling do anything. You are just noticing it and you’re feeling it fully allowing the feeling to dissipate.

Step 3.

In some cases, you may need to go back and find the specific events in the past that created this belief. For example, you might ask yourself, “Where have you felt this feeling before?” “Where did I learn first learn this belief?” “Who taught me this?” You want to try to access some of the events where you learned this.

Step 4.

To access this is really quite straightforward. You take the event and you run through it as you basically go through the story of what happened. You can run a movie if you’re visual, but if you’re not very visually bonded; you can just go through what happened and get a sense of how that felt and what was happening at the time. As you go through the event, any parts of it that are really intense, simply stay with the feelings and thoughts that are associated with that. Stay with the vision and your emotions until the feelings have softened and dissipated.

Go easy on yourself. Be gentle with yourself. Anytime that you find yourself being down on yourself, try these steps to release some of those past emotional blocks and it will be really worthwhile.

…Love and Light, Christina

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