This is a brilliant coaching question.
One that a new client presented to me recently.
She’d been working her ass off (her words 🙂) in her business to try and make more money, but everything she’d tried, wasn’t working.
She was exhausted and anxious and she came to me for some coaching to change this…
Intellectually, she was doing all the right things and her desire to make more money was strong, yet somehow she couldn’t manifest it.
What was getting in her way?
Your limiting beliefs are a huge impediment to making your desires real.
As I listened to her talking I noticed her language was negative, it was like she didn’t believe she could do it, even though she intellectually knew it was possible, something was holding her back.
It was like she was tethered by an invisible force!
She was being held back by a limiting belief.
She was telling herself the stories based on her past behavior. Continuing to believe those stories was keeping her stuck and manifesting the same old limited results.
If my client wanted to make more money in her business then these stories would have to be eliminated and rewritten.
Most people have the desire to make more money, but can’t understand why despite their hard work and planning, it doesn’t happen. If you don’t believe that you can make that amount of money, it’s going to be very challenging for you to actually make it happen.
A note about manifesting
When you desire something you have already received it in your heart and mind. Think about that for a moment…
It is already real inside of you.
The next phase is manifesting it in the physical world.
To do this there has to be some level of resonance with the vibration of the thing you are desiring, but there also has to be a level of confidence and belief at the conscious and especially in the subconscious level.
For my client, the antidote to her fear of not making money was to have faith in herself by rewriting those limiting beliefs.
How do limiting beliefs work?
Limiting beliefs can shut you down and make it hard for you to achieve your goal. Because deep down, you still don’t quite believe in yourself or in the outcomes that you are wanting to achieve.
You may believe it on a conscious level but not on a subconscious level. For example, you might be thinking:
I don’t deserve more money or I always quit before I finish something, or I never see things through to completion, I’ve never gotten beyond this point before…
All of these are stories in our subconsciousness that we tell ourselves. Sometimes we are not aware that they are even running in the background because we are too busy focusing our attention on working so hard to get results.
How to change your limiting beliefs
You have to eliminate the old stories and create a new positive story and use repetition and reinforcement to support it and make it habitual…
There are many ways to do this.
I coach-mentor my clients to reframe their limiting beliefs using my Pattern Revealer Tool. This helps them break free of their patterns and move forward and manifest their desires and dreams.
Reading or listening to positive books, watching videos, podcasts, meditating, and creating affirmations might also help you to make a shift. Anything that can uplift you and change your perspective.
Those limiting beliefs will begin to self-correct once you start developing habitual positive ways of thinking.
A lot of our limiting beliefs are deeply entrenched because they have been programmed at a subconscious level from our early experiences during our first seven years of life.
The pain for my client was real. She was exhausted and anxious because she was holding back, based on her limiting beliefs.
How to create a shift
Let’s roll up our sleeves and go a little deeper here. To make a shift you have to become consciously aware of the following, then you can rewire your programming:
Your thinking + Your feeling + Your action = Your results
You may be familiar with this as it forms the basis for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and is the concept behind how I coach-mentor my clients using my Pattern Revealer process.
Understanding this simple concept gives coaches an excellent way to question limiting beliefs and help their clients reframe them to create better outcomes in their life.
How you think affects how you feel which affects the action you take and ultimately your results!
My client believed that if she did the work the results would just happen, but there’s more to it…
You have to believe that you can make more money if you want it to happen.
Aligning your Three Centers of Intelligence (Your Head, Heart, Gut) in vibrational balance with your desire at a higher level, you’ll not only have a level of resonance with the vibration of energy but you’ll also have the belief and the confidence on a conscious level AND the subconscious level.
You’ll have faith in yourself!
If you can help your clients to learn to understand how and why they feel the way they do, you can help people to change the way they think and act in order to feel better and create their dreams and goals.
Empower them to find ways to think more positively and help them to create new positive habitual ways of thinking.
The first step towards this is recognizing that your limiting beliefs exist and they are not the truth, they are just past programming, nor do they limit what are capable of achieving.
Know that when you set a goal or intention and you have a true desire for it to happen, your manifestation wants it more than you do! Any limiting beliefs will hold you back from what you want.
It’s time to let them go!
This is what my client did…
At a subconscious level she didn’t believe that she could get beyond the point that she’d always reached before and therefore based on this limiting belief, she stayed stuck.
Through a deeper dive into self-awareness, she was able to recognize these subconscious stories and re-write her limiting beliefs. She set herself positive affirmations and created a few new habits.
By reframing her old beliefs into positive ones and being persistent in her new habits, she truly believed and had a deeper faith in herself and her business. As a result, she manifested additional income in her business!
Limiting beliefs are something that you have to give attention to and recognize, and these need to be turned into positive beliefs for you to properly receive all that you desire, and make your dreams and goals a reality.
You are unstoppable!
So let’s start rewriting those pesky limiting beliefs! 🙂