The world you see is a direct reflection of the thoughts you think. As Wayne Dyer is so often quoted, “Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life!”
I’m not telling you anything new.
But isn’t it frustrating as hell when you KNOW that your thoughts are limiting your ability to live a life that sets you on fire, but you can’t, to save your life, actually shift into a more empowering belief system?
Here’s what didn’t work for me:
“Just chant new affirmations!” Well I don’t know about you, but that just felt like a big tug-of-war between my old mind and new. I never really got anywhere just affirming something I didn’t deep down believe. The idea is nice, but who’s getting that shit to work??
“Envision the life you want!” Truth be told, visualization from the perspective of trying to change a belief just made me feel like shit. I was envisioning the life I wanted, but didn’t have. Not fun.
“Create a vision board!” For me this was just another form of visualizing and reminding me of how far I had to go before I was living it up!
The popular ways of manifesting just didn’t work for me. And I gave it my best effort! I studied manifesting for over 10 years like a Jedi, no joke, with very little to show for it.
After that decade was almost over, I decided I didn’t want another 10 years to go by with me trying so damn hard and still feeling like a complete failure.
So I decided to search for another way.
Which is, of course, what I found…and I’m going to give you my 3 favorite mindset-shifting practices to help you permanently change your beliefs! (You’re welcome)
- Ask Effective Questions: Your mind loves to search for the answers to your questions. The problem is that we often ask the wrong kind of questions. Usually we are feeding our minds questions that lead us to receive disempowering answers. Like, “How could I be so stupid?!” Well, ok…here’s how…
Effective questions lead to answers that make you feel better. So if you’re feeling unworthy, incompetent, or not good enough, an effective question would be, “What does it feel like to know 100% that I’m worthy?” “How competent does the Universe think I am?” “What if I just knew that I was more than good enough?”
The trick is to ask the question, and then just leave it alone. Your mind will go on a hunt to find the answer, and when you design the question to give you the most empowering answer, you’ll start to see things from a different perspective.
- Simply release: This shifter might sound over-simplified, but often shifting a belief really is as easy as releasing the belief that no longer serves you. Once you become consciously aware of a limiting belief, just try, in that moment, to release it. You might need to release several times before it’s gone for good, but it is time well-spent! Once you release a pattern of thinking that doesn’t work for you, you allow a higher level of truth to take its place.
- Model others: This is one of my favorite mindset shifters. It stems from the understanding that from a spiritual perspective, we are all one. So what someone else has within them also exists within you. A talent, belief, ability, thought system, way of being…all of these things are available to everyone if they are available to anyone.
If you feel challenged by simply releasing a belief (shifter #2), step into the mind of someone else who already has the opposite belief (or a belief you want to emulate) and feel what it feels like to think from that perspective. When I was struggling to allow myself to receive a certain amount of money because it felt selfish and undeserving, I tuned into the frequency of a millionaire mentor of mine who had already embodied the energy of “it just comes to me with ease!” and felt what it was like to be her. When you do this, YOU actually experience the emotions. And EMOTION is what wires in those new beliefs!
There you have it! 3 very easy ways to help you get your mind straight and working on your side instead of against you!
Let me know which one is your favorite!
xoxo
