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Fears and Beliefs
This exercise will put you in touch with your limiting beliefs and negative thought patterns. First, write the following questions in your journal, leaving space for the answers. Don't look at the page filled with blank spaces and go nuts.
There's no need to address them all in one session. 1) What are my beliefs about my love life? 2) What are my beliefs about my career? 3) What are my beliefs about myself? 4) What are my fears about my love life? 5) What are my fears about my career? 6) What are my fears about myself?
If you'd like, you can list additional questions concerning certain issues or problems you are having: your relationship with your boyfriend or girlfriend, your weight, a special work project, whatever. This exercise works like a charm for anything and everything.
To begin, close your eyes, breath deeply, and quiet your mind. Concentrate on the first question on your list. With your eyes closed, repeat the question in your head a few times. Record everything you feel, both your negative and positive feelings. Don't judge yourself, edit your words, or think too much. If you are hesitant and nothing comes into your head, you are letting your brain get in the way. Don't despair! The first question is the toughest. Just begin writing and the block should go away. When you have written everything that comes to mind, go to the next question and repeat the process.
When you have done this for all your questions, reread each of your answers. Leave the positive beliefs alone, but for each negative belief, go back and ask yourself the big one: Where did that belief originate? Get into a deep state and let the truth flow. Was it when you were six and your mother yelled at you? Was it when you failed your first chemistry exam? Was it when you broke up with your first boyfriend/girlfriend? In your deep state, the origins of these beliefs should be as apparent as the beliefs themselves. Write everything down.
Once you have your negative beliefs and their origins on paper, look at them for what they truly are. This will take some quality thinking. Since you now know what caused you to take on these beliefs in the first place, you can separate the original experience from the belief you carry with you and create a new belief that will better suit your success. To do that, take a moment to figure out what you would like to believe about your love life, career or yourself. Write these beliefs down.
Put your new list of beliefs everywhere--on your refrigerator door, your phone, and your bathroom mirror. Begin applying these new beliefs in your life, one experience at a time, until you are doing it as second nature. This may take some getting used to but with enough reminders lying around it becomes a lot easier.
AT A GLANCE... Fears And Beliefs 1. Write down fundamental questions in your notebook. 2. Close your eyes, take a deep breath and quiet your mind. 3. With your eyes closed, repeat each question in your head a few times. Write down everything you feel. 4. Reread each of your answers. In a deep state ask yourself, "Where did this belief originate?" 5. Quality thinking time. Look at the beliefs and their origins for what they truly are. Figure out what you want to believe and write it down. 6.End your session by recording in your journal how you feel about these major revelations.
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