I’ve been thinking a LOT about How to Retrain Your Brain for Success! Not just because that’s the name of my upcoming workshop, but because of the amazing implications of clearing our limiting beliefs. We ALL have lots of limiting beliefs, and as we clear some of them, new ones come to the forefront. So what’s Tapping got to do with it all?
At its essence, Tapping eliminates stress. And at the root of limiting beliefs is stress. OK, that’s an oversimplification, but it gets at the essence of this work. Let me give you an example of the root of a limiting belief, and why we would hold on to it. Most people I work with tell me they have limiting beliefs such as “I’m not [good, smart, pretty] enough,” or “It’s not safe to be myself.” There are many more, but these are big ones. Beliefs like one of these are usually “learned” at an early age – by 5 or 6 years old. Sometimes someone actually TOLD us these things, and we believed them, or they IMPLIED it and we believed it. Usually this someone was a parent, teacher, sibling, grandparent. But not always. And there was emotion along with the learning of this “belief.” Like shame or humiliation or fear. Remember, this is a very young child’s mind doing all this learning, believing and feeling. There’s no logic to it.
So now this person’s brain is trained to be wary of anything that feels like that experience, or looks like that experience, or sounds like that experience, or even smells or tastes like that experience. And each time that happens, that person goes into “fight or flight” response, and often repeats the behavior that created the negative belief in the first place, reinforcing it more.
Fast forward 25 years, or 40 years or 70 years. This person has never done anything to overcome this limiting belief, and so still carries it around. Every time something new or exciting or wonderful is about to happen, the brain says “don’t forget, you’re not good enough,” or “don’t be yourself – people won’t like you.” It’s not always this obvious, but the person goes into fight or flight AGAIN, and sabotages themself.
Until Tapping! Now we can tap away the emotional responses, and clear out these limiting beliefs that weren’t true in the first place. AND we can forgive ourselves for holding on to these beliefs for so long. And as we begin to clear them, amazing things start happening. Events and situations seem to line up for us. Opportunities seem to come out of nowhere. We feel inspired. Our esteem goes way up. Life just gets better and better.
So join us, won’t you, for this 4-hour workshop on Thursday, June 19? It’s only $147, AND you’ll receive a recording of the event, so you can tap-along over and over.
