Mindfulness practice 13,
Challenging our limiting beliefs.
Get comfortable in a seated position.
Breathe.
With your eyes closed or gaze down,
Focus on your inhales and exhales.
Let go of any distractions that come into your awareness.
Consider a limiting belief from your inventory list and ask yourself the following questions.
Question one,
Is it true?
Perhaps based on your experience or the stories you have been told about yourself,
You believe it is in fact true.
Question two,
Can you absolutely know that it's true?
Using your observer,
Consider whose idea this originally was.
Consider the question,
Says who?
Is the assumption something that was told to you or said about you when you believed it?
Can you say that it is true beyond any doubt?
Question three,
How do you react?
What happens when you believe that thought about yourself?
What does it feel like in your body?
Does believing the thought give you an expansive,
Open-hearted feeling or a closed,
Contracted feeling?
How might this assumption be affecting your sense of self,
Of who you really are?
Might it be covering up your inspired self?
Question four,
Who would you be without the thought?
What might your life,
Your thoughts,
Or actions be without this assumption?
What might it feel like in your body to be liberated from this long-held misconception?
Stay with that feeling as long as you like.
Even get used to it.
When we let go of an idea that no longer serves us,
It is often useful to replace it with something useful.
Perhaps a new idea or positive affirmation.
I like to add question five,
What thought or idea could you call to mind to replace your now debunked assumption?
What might a different thought be that would affirm all that you are?
Consider something positive like,
I have so much potential,
Or I believe in me,
Or as my friend likes to say,
I love me some me.
Make a pack with yourself that the next time you notice a limiting belief arise,
You will focus on your response to my fifth question.
When you are ready,
Take another deep breath and flutter your eyes open.
Stretch your body and take a moment to transition your focus back into the room.
Welcome back.
Feel free to journal now about your experience or about any ideas or insights that arose for you.
