Limiting beliefs are a negative form of thinking that can drastically alter your chances of succeeding in a given situation. It focuses your mind on failure, and it attracts things to you that will result in little chance of success. Limiting beliefs make achieving – if not attempting – success nearly impossible, and can vastly alter the way that you experience the world. When you feel that you are experiencing many limited beliefs, you need to try to change your outlooks and have hope for the future.

NLP is one of the best ways to stop your limiting beliefs. It can empower you to attempt to achieve what you set out for yourself, and has the ability to alter the way that you view your chances of success in all situations.

NLP recognizes three different types of limiting beliefs:

• Worthlessness – Any belief that somehow you as a person do not deserve to achieve the success you wish to achieve.
   
• Hopelessness – That there is no/slim likelihood for your success.
   
• Helplessness – It is not success that is the problem. It is that you cannot do it on your own.

It is these three types of limiting beliefs that NLP focuses on addressing. In my next post, I will talk about the questions NLP asks in order to challenge these beliefs that help you overcome this type of harsh negative thinking.

7 March 2011