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Old 01-10-2008, 11:40 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by nick pagan View Post
Beliefs are just imagined facts or imagined models used to try and make sense of the world - to establish a cause and effect. However, a lot of beliefs are nonsensical but we try to obey them. The best thing to do is to turn a belief into a theory about personal behavior and then test the theory with real world results in a dispassionate way. Real world results can often undermine limiting beliefs and prove them false. This is the most direct way of getting those results that you want and proving that you can turn things around. It is far more practical than meditation and the law of attraction (I personally have short shrift with both of those methods).

If you can prove a belief wrong through some small real world evidence then just keep on doing the little things that proved it false in the first place. Before you know it you will have developed skill, competence and achievement and the limiting belief just has to crumble in the face of the evidence that you have created, little by little.

This article goes into greater detail:Turn Beliefs Into Theories

I hope that it helps you in your efforts to set yourself free of limitations

Nick
This makes more sense to me than the law of attraction. If one has a "self-limiting" belief then it might be true (at the moment). Confidence in various areas of life come from competence not from a belief.
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