Everybody experiences limiting beliefs from time to time,
And that's because we live in a world and we're connected to the human collective consciousness,
And whatever we're connected to,
Guess what?
It lives in us as well.
Limiting beliefs,
I'd like you to think about them in a couple of different ways.
So for one,
A limiting belief can be something that we think we cannot do.
We feel limited by the belief.
We feel like we are not capable of doing something,
We're not good enough,
We're not loved enough,
We're not valued enough,
Whatever that is.
That is one way that a limiting belief can affect us.
On the flip side,
A limiting belief also limits the amount of pain that we experience.
So we may have a limiting belief in place because we don't want to be hurt.
We don't want to feel rejected.
And so we will establish a belief about ourself,
About others,
About the world that will prevent us from experiencing more pain.
The issue with that is that while it might seemingly prevent us from experiencing pain,
It actually limits the amount of love and joy that we experience.
As humans,
We need love.
We thrive off of love.
Love is a key ingredient to helping us to feel like whole,
Healthy beings.
Without access to love,
We hurt each other.
We try to take from other people because we feel empty.
If you're afraid of getting hurt,
You're afraid of being left,
And you put up walls so that you don't get close to anyone,
You're blocking yourself from love.
This causes us to grow weary,
Skeptical and critical of others.
It causes us to cripple ourselves.
If you look around,
You don't see healthy,
Shining people who have cut themselves off from the flow of love.
They are being watered by love to some degree.
A sign of the lack of love in someone's life results in a lack of health,
Illness,
Disease,
Atrophy,
Bad breath,
Stomach issues.
If you're experiencing health issues,
Depression,
Anxiety,
I want you to start to ask yourself,
Where am I not allowing love to come in?
There's a part of us that knows how important love is.
Some of us have had experiences in our lives that cause us to believe that we're not going to get the love that we need,
And that it's not available to us.
Because of this belief,
Especially if it entered into us at a young age,
Such as childhood,
Then anyone who shows you love,
You may be skeptical of them,
Distrustful of them.
You might think that it's a ploy or that they're out to get you or out to hurt you in some way.
So I invite you to just take a deep breath into what I'm saying right now,
And I'd like you to imagine a different possibility for yourself,
That if you have been cutting yourself off from the flow of love up to this point,
And it has not gotten you to where you want to be,
Then you don't have a lot to lose by allowing some love to enter into you.
Even just a little bit.
It's like opening up the windows and allowing a little more light to come in to a dark room.
You don't have to open the windows all the way.
You can start by opening them up just a little bit and see what it feels like.
See what it feels like to receive love.
See what it feels like to give love,
Not to get more of it,
Just to have the experience of feeling what it feels like to allow love to move through you and from you to another.
What does that look like?
How do you do that?
Love is free of criticism and judgment,
So you can start by just feeling less critical and looking at others through the eyes of love,
Seeing that they are people just like you,
Trying to figure it out,
Trying to do the best that they can,
Even if it seems like they're idiots.
That's a word that we sometimes use when we think someone is behaving in a way we would never behave,
That seem less intelligent than we,
But they're not really idiots,
Are they?
Maybe they're confused,
Lost,
Hurt,
Just like you have been at some point,
Just like I have been.
We just start to look out at the world to the degree that we can through the eyes of love.
It feels too big to look out at the world like that because it's pretty big.
Start closer to home.
Who's in your home that you can see with more love?
If you live alone,
Who's at the grocery store,
The coffee shop?
Who's at work that you can see with a little more love?
Love is gentle.
Love is soothing.
Sometimes we associate love with being fierce,
Being direct,
Fierce love,
Dark love.
But love really is soft.
It's a nutrients that heals us.
It's a nutrients that helps us to feel connected to the heart of the world,
The heart of each other.
It's not scary.
It's not rude.
Love takes you in like a warm embrace and reminds you of your goodness.
The more that you're able to look out to see with the eyes of love,
The more space you make within yourself to receive love.
If others are worthy of love,
Surely you are as well.
There's no one any better than you regardless of what you've done,
Where you've been.
We are all deserving of love.
Take some deep breaths into your body.
Hear and really feel what I'm expressing with my words and see how this lands on the deep inside of you.
Where are these words touching you?
See if you can feel that in your body.
Wherever you notice that you can feel it,
Try to continue to come back to the same place.
This is likely a window or a doorway into the inner self that is free of criticism,
That is hopeful,
That does know that it is connected to the heart of humanity and is deserving of love.
Remember this place and come back to it time and time again until it grows bigger and bigger and bigger and you are eventually able to take more love in and allow more love to come out.
I love you.
I am you.
You are me.
And we are here.
We belong to this world.
We belong to each other.
This great,
Great planet of human beings,
Full of love,
Full of light,
Learning how to shed the beliefs that keep us in the dark.
