NEW KIT! Limiting & Empowering Beliefs (LEB)
A limiting belief may be defined as a powerful personal conviction that impacts thoughts and restricts behaviour. Beliefs about ourselves shape our lives.
Science suggests that a restricting belief or self-perception may form after a repeated experience and social conditioning. The brain will create “a strong neural network around the belief” that, for example, one is not capable: “This is a survival mechanism; the brain tries to protect us from future harm by reinforcing the idea that avoiding certain actions or situations is safer.”
Discomfort may arise when a restricting belief conflicts with activities. For example, if one feels the world is not safe, they will avoid going out. Or, if one feels they are not good at an activity such as public speaking but school or a job requires it, there will be stress.
The kit Limiting & Empowering Beliefs offers stressors on both “sides” of a belief – in other words, the stressor may not that the signature called “I am stupid” but rather “I am smart”. The dissonance is not around failure but around success.
Much has been written by psychiatrists about how beliefs are formed and ways to reframe them. Clinical psychologist John Sharpe offers some insight on self-fulfilling prophecy in his Tedx Talk.
In this context, the study of psychoneuroimmunology also offers insight.
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