Busting your Belief Ceilings

The Find Your Freedom Podcast

Today is about awareness....awareness of our thoughts and the thoughts that lead to our beliefs.
Did you know the average person has about 50,000 thoughts a day?
And only 15% of those, you're aware of.
That means the other 85% are automatic, subconscious thoughts happening without you even realizing it.
And of those, 70% of them are typically negative.
With those stats, it's no wonder why willpower and desire or a strong work ethic isn't always enough to get you past your comfort zone and into new territory.
You've been thinking thoughts over and over and over again, patterning beliefs into your subconscious that can hinder your growth. Today, we're going to talk about how this happens and what you can do about it.
Episode by time stamp:
Intro
3:15 Your negative subconscious thoughts are 4x more prevalent in the mind than the thoughts we choose.
5:20 Benefits of our beliefs can offer
5:45 growth requires proving some beliefs false. Beliefs are interpretations, not fact but we're wired to be RIGHT, so we don't want to change them ( even when they don't serve us anymore or we're given evidence to the contrary)
7:16 Beliefs lead to action ( or lack of action). Examples of consequences from our beliefs.
8:20 Inaction serves you by keeping you safe, but wont help you when the result you seek requires you to change or get out of your comfort zone.
9:10 Beliefs are patterns in the brain. You can retrain your neurons to wire together differently to store NEW patterns. You can actually use your brain's efficiency to your advantage.
11:00 examples of belief ceilings
14:20 You have to look for evidence that proves your belief false. You have to be willing to be wrong about it or go against the grain.
15:30 Q1 What is the result you're after
16:06 Explain why you don't have that result, whats in your way? determine fact vs story.
18:25 What is the result that yoru belief IS creating? What is it costing you?
19:35 Can you look for proof of the opposite belief? neutralize the argument.
22:00 Open up seeds of possibility. What if I was wrong about my belief being true? Then you get to have the result you're after!
24:00 Whats the worst that could happen if i'm wrong? let your subconscious uproot all the fear, doubt, worry, assumption, etc
27:30 Once you've acknowledged the worst case scenario, you're ego can't sabotage you anymore- you've made the unfamiliar, familiar!
30:15 Habits and beliefs are had to break because they, at some level, satisfy a core need: status, approval, safety.
31:42 Limiting beliefs and belief ceilings are not bad or negative- they just affect your action, which effects your result. If you don't need a different result, the belief isn't limiting.
33:20 Once you set your new belief in place, try it out, test it out, look for proof and live it!
34:13 Review

Links to resources discussed:
Belief Ceilings Worksheet
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