Today we’ve got some empowering mindset advice from Namaslay® YTT graduate, Jennifer Madrid. Jennifer attended our first Namaslay® YTT in Thailand, traveled around Southeast Asia after graduation, settled in Bali, and never left! She’s taken the tools from the business and marketing aspect of our training and is creating a life she loves, empowering others in business and life. Read on for her methods of overcoming limiting beliefs, and check out the next Namaslay® Business and Marketing Intensive at Namaslay® Studios in January to learn more about building your brand, hosting events, developing passive revenue streams, and fostering partnerships as a yoga teacher or wellness professional! xo - Candace
Your beliefs shape your life. That is why your mindset matters and is key to creating your dream life. Let’s deep dive into what keeps you from actualizing your goals – limiting beliefs.
What is a limiting belief?
Limiting beliefs are the stories you believe to be true. It is the mental chatter that supports a belief that was introduced by society, family, peers and/or any experiences that resulted in your adoption of them. This belief has now been ingrained into your everyday routine and found a comfy seat in your mind, which often causes self-sabotaging behavior.
Why do we have them?
One word: ‘ego’
The purpose of a limiting belief revolves around protecting your ego and self-worth. When you fail to get what you want in life, your mind quickly creates a limiting belief such as, "I am not enough," in order to protect itself and make sense of the world.
To work through these limiting beliefs, we have to ask ourselves: “Is it true?”
Limiting beliefs are built in a space of insufficient knowledge. Humanity insists on filling in the gaps of understanding we all have, so we place a limiting belief “to make sense” or validate a limit with which we can feel comfortable.
So what makes it limiting?
When you have a limit to how happy you think you should be, or what you think you deserve, or what you think you are capable of doing. Essentially, when beliefs no longer serve you and the larger consciousness, we consider them limiting.
Limiting beliefs do not allow you to expand but rather constrict your potential in this world. They keep you comfortable and hence support you playing small, and we know if you are reading this – you are not about that life.
What happens if I don’t change my limiting beliefs?
You will continue to attract what you believe to be true. For example, if you are not trusting of people or experiences, you will never receive the gifts that are experienced with trusting the universe and relationships in your life.
The universe wants to offer you limitless abundance and support in all that you desire. If you hold tight to your limiting beliefs and pain, then you create a shield that does not allow those gifts to seep through.
Here is the kicker: Beliefs are Created and Strengthened by Repetition – YAS!
Just as they were introduced and repeated in your life – you can rewrite those bad boys and elevate your outlook on life with beliefs that serve your higher good.
Let’s put this into action, below are 6 steps you can take today (And I have created a free guide for YOU on all you need to know about your energetic blocks - the cliff notes version):
Step 1: Pick an area in which you want to clear limiting beliefs.
You can select finances, work or relationships to start off with. Pick the 1st one that comes to mind, and let yourself be guided by your intuition.
Step 2: Write down a list of limiting beliefs you have in this area.
Write down all your beliefs about the topic you chose. It is important to aggregate all of them, so you can see what is really going on in that mind. For a finance mindset example, “Money doesn’t grow on trees,” might be a limiting belief you’re holding.
Step 3: Thank these beliefs for how they have protected you.
It is important to honor these thoughts. They have been with you for a long time and were created as a result of your experiences.
“Money doesn’t go on trees,” could’ve stemmed from your parents in the age of depression and was a belief from eras before you even arrived – it was true at some point, but you are capable of determining a belief that empowers you to allow money to flow effortlessly to you.
Step 4: Forgive yourself and others for all the different beliefs you have developed.
The act of forgiving yourself and others for the events that caused these beliefs is important. Forgive yourself for letting them in your life, and forgive others for being the cause of them.
Step 5: Give yourself permission to honor your limiting beliefs and move past them. Replace them with an empowering belief.
You are an amazing spirit and the possibilities in front of you are limitless. Give yourself permission to tap into the impossible. Give yourself permission to move beyond these limiting beliefs.
Write a true and empowering belief in place of the old lie. Instead of “Money doesn’t grow on trees,” you might write, “Money flows to me with ease and frequency.”
Step 6: Communicate and share this experience and your new belief.
The act of announcing your new belief tells the universe you mean business and strengthens the new belief in your subconscious. Keeping things in secret allows for shame, guilt and fear to continue to thrive. Find like minded individuals that support your vulnerability to share and dispel these limiting beliefs.
As you do this work, you will feel the emotions associated with these different beliefs change, and you will even feel lighter energetically.
Remember this with everything you do. When you shed light and awareness into an area you want to grow and heal from – it will dissipate fear, it will lessen the weight that this belief holds over you.
Practice and spread the wisdom, goddesses. If you would like to deep dive on all you need to know about your energetic blocks, you are welcome to download my free guide.
Jennifer Madrid is the Creator of She Vibes High, a platform for female activation. Her programs guide women to reclaim their power & be the boss in their life. She teaches digital marketing + mindset management to birth your Online Biz while actualizing a freedom filled life. If you are looking to work with She Vibes High, check out the Fall Group Coaching Program; ‘Align + Activate’ that deep dives into mindset, spirituality + digital biz all with a soulful tribe by your side. Let us know if you have any questions for Jen in the comments, and we hope to see you at Namslay® Studios in January!