Spit Out Your Negative Beliefs

If you put something in your mouth that tasted awful, you'd probably spit it out to get rid of the experience.

A negative or limiting belief is something we don't like or want to experience but it can take a little longer to recognize it before we spit it out of our thoughts.

90% of the thoughts we think are the same thoughts we had the day before based on habitual behaviors, emotions, beliefs and reactions; we react to life instead of act because of habitual negative or limiting beliefs.

• The same thoughts lead to the same choices
• The same choices lead to the same behaviors
• The same behaviors lead to the same experiences
• The same experiences create the same feelings and emotions
• The same feelings and emotions influence your thoughts

Your habitual thoughts, choices, behaviors, experiences and feelings cause everything in our body to stay the same based on your negative and limiting beliefs (don't take my word for it, neuroscience backs this up!)

When you finally get tired of this habitual pattern that's been going on for however many years old you are, you might be looking for a way to spit out your negative beliefs before they can cause any more negative experiences in your life.

• The key is to start paying attention to what you're thinking about.  You have to become conscious of your unconscious thoughts that are feeding your negative or limiting beliefs and pay attention to how they make you feel!
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• When you learn how to think about what you're thinking, you can start identifying what you're feeling; is it guilt, sadness, grief, shame, unworthiness, pain, frustration, resentment; what is the feeling you're living with every day but have been resistant to pay attention to?

Once you're able to answer "what is the feeling I'm living with day in and day out" the answer is like shining a light in a dark corner of your mind; you light up with new thoughts and beliefs!

The word, "meditation" means "to become familiar with." Meditate to become familiar with what you're thinking about, the more familiar you are with your limiting beliefs, such as:

• I can't
• It's too hard
• I don't have enough
• It's my ex's fault
• It's my boss' fault
• It's my parent's fault
• It's because of what someone else is saying or doing to me...

Whatever negative thoughts you accept, believe and surrender to at any given moment are also creating your negative experiences!

If you want to create a practice of spitting out your negative beliefs as soon as you're aware of them, you've got to start being aware every time you say or think:

• I'm tired
• I'm unhappy
• I'm sick
• I'm angry
• I'm struggling
• It's someone else's fault...

Do you complain, do you blame, do you make excuses, do you feel sorry for yourself?  In other words, do you keep making the same choices but get frustrated that your life stays the same?

There is a positive contrast to every negative experience but unless and until you're willing to sit with what you're thinking and feeling, you'll keep having the same negative experiences.  Stop trying to resist what you're thinking and feeling by staying preoccupied with meaningless things, retail therapy, alcohol, calling your friends, scrolling or posting on social media or any other distraction you choose to try to keep you from paying attention to your thoughts, feelings and emotions.  The only way you can spit out your negative beliefs is to recognize the so you can stop finding things to help you resist them.

When you're ready to step out of your "Known Zone" (the beliefs you have based on your known experiences) to unlearn the negative thoughts and beliefs that have gotten you where you are, you'll get much quicker at spitting out those negative beliefs before they become your habitual response!

A habit is defined as "something you've done so many times that your body knows how to do it better than your mind"

The good news is, you can create happy experiences based on habits from your positive thoughts just as easily as you can create unhappy experiences based on your negative thoughts!

Life Is All About Choices!

​Nancy Mueller ~ Life Sensei at MasteringYourBeliefs.com