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Liberate your mind and spirit from negative experiences in the past
Recognize that whatever you did in the past was done by a different person than the person
you are today. That person in the past behaved differently than you would if you had to do it
over again in the moment. Let it go.
Accept that you are not perfect and that you have done silly things in your life. So has everyone
else. Forgive yourself, and get on with the wonderful future that lies ahead of you.
How to Identify Beliefs

Why is identifying beliefs important to our lives? Let’s take the example of the lady who was
trying to lose weight. After some early success she couldn’t figure out why she reverted back to
old habits of binging on food that caused her weight loss to plateau.
With some investigation she discovered an idea in her mind that she agreed to long ago and
had since forgotten. She had agreed to feeling deprived if she didn’t eat everything she
wanted. Since our minds naturally direct us to avoid the unpleasant feelings like “deprived”,
she ate food to avoid these feelings. Beliefs in her mind she was not aware of, were driving her
to unwanted behaviours.

When she stepped outside the emotion and the perspective of being deprived she saw a
completely different picture. By overeating she was actually depriving herself of a healthy body
and physical vitality that she really wanted. By identifying that one belief about food she is back
on her way to changing her eating habits.
Finding these hidden beliefs often requires that we do some hunting. The process is rather like
investigating a crime. We begin by gathering clues until all the pieces fit in a way that we can
see the hidden belief that drives destructive behaviours and habits. You might also think of it as
solving the mystery of who you are.

Sometimes these beliefs in our mind are right in front of us and we don't see them. The same way
we might not see the windshield because we have trained our self to look through it. It might
not seem like much until we bump our head into it. Beliefs are the same way. We have to
retrain our mind to see the beliefs in front of us.
IDENTIFYING SELF-LIMITING BELIEFS

It is useful to understand why we form self-limiting beliefs in the first place and how we act them
out.

Caught between two decisions
“Should I go this way or that?” This is a dilemma that can result in nothing being done. The
limiting belief here may be “I can’t make decisions”.

Stuck in a mental rut
We may have always done something in a particular way that seems to have worked in the
past. We get frustrated when it doesn’t work this time, but stay with what we know having
“bought into the belief” as a form of habit. This limiting belief may be one of “I can’t change”.
Dreaming
Constructive dreaming is useful for realisation and attraction of goals, but we all know
that dreams do not become positive reality until some action is taken. The limiting belief
here might be “I can do it tomorrow”.

Fatalistic Attitude
“The bubble has to burst”, “My luck won’t last forever”. The limiting belief here is a
general one with a self sabotaging theme.