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The following process works well :-

1. Identify the irrational, restricting beliefs and the negative assumptions that reinforce them.
2. Challenge the validity of those beliefs by challenging the assumptions under them. In what ways could they be wrong or incomplete? The more
challenges you can develop, the weaker the ties will be to the restricting beliefs.
3. Explore positive beliefs that would challenge your negative ones. Find validation for empowering, rather than restricting, beliefs. Again, the more you
can reinforce empowering beliefs, the more lightly you will be attached to restricting beliefs.
4. Adopt a statement you are willing to work with that turns a restricting belief into an empowering one. Each time your habit pattern starts to move
toward reinforcing the restricting belief, go back to your written statement. That statement is your guide for turning around restricting belief systems.

Start with a single irrational belief. Don’t make your goal so ambitious that you sabotage yourself. One of my favourite authors on the subject, Tony Robbins,
in his book, “Awaken the Giant Within”, writes about breaking old belief systems by visualizing a negative situation in ways—often comical—that minimize
its power. The UK’s most famous expert on hypnotherapy, personal change expert and author Paul McKenna introduced similar principles. In his book “Change
Your Life in 7 Days” he details his “Movies of Your Mind” process which suggests the following:

1. If your belief involves a person, freeze frame the picture so it is still.
2. If the image is in colour in it, drain it down to black and white.
3. Shrink the image until it’s tiny.
4. Move the location of the image so it’s further away.
5. Give the person a clown’s nose, pink hair and Mickey Mouse ears
6. Imagine the sound of their voice. Then alter it by giving them a deep, sexy voice. Change it again until they sound like a squeaky little mouse.

If the source of the restricting belief is a person, see that person reduced in size, just as your dimensions grow. Place the person far away, or locked in a
container, or only as a cartoon with a squeaky voice. If it’s a place, play with size and structure so that its qualities become less than life-sized. When you feel
progress with converting the restricting belief you tackled, select another.

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