Question about limiting beliefs

[InterruptReQuest]

I often hear people describing limiting beliefs as a voice in their head telling it to them. However I have never experienced this. I am pretty sure I have limiting beliefs, but I don't know what they are, and this is something I'd like to find out so I can sort them out. Is not "hearing" the limiting beliefs a good or bad thing and what it means if I don't hear them? Or am I just misunderstanding what a limiting belief feels like? Is the voice that is telling the limiting beliefs the same as monkey mind? 

[JosephKnecht]

5 hours ago, InterruptReQuest said:

However I have never experienced this. I am pretty sure I have limiting beliefs, but I don't know what they are, and this is something I'd like to find out so I can sort them out.

Maybe your limiting belief is the fact that you think you don't know what limiting beliefs are. Maybe not knowing is just a belief.  

When you limit yourself not to know, how could you know?

[OctagonOctopus]

The more detached one is from the ego and more connecting with awareness the easier it is to sense beliefs going on in the present. The ego is a web of beliefs, and all beliefs are limiting. Notice you don’t really need to believe anything to just be. 

[InterruptReQuest]

Both are good points. How should I go about figuring out which one it is in my case (or if it is something else). Detaching from the ego is something I'd like to do, but I don't think it is relevant at the moment. At least trying to fully detach from it anyway. There are few things that I should be doing, but I can't get myself to do them. I thought that maybe a limiting belief is holding be back, but I couldn't say for sure. Could be something I haven't even thought of yet. 

[aurum]

6 hours ago, InterruptReQuest said:

I often hear people describing limiting beliefs as a voice in their head telling it to them. However I have never experienced this. I am pretty sure I have limiting beliefs, but I don't know what they are, and this is something I'd like to find out so I can sort them out. Is not "hearing" the limiting beliefs a good or bad thing and what it means if I don't hear them? Or am I just misunderstanding what a limiting belief feels like? Is the voice that is telling the limiting beliefs the same as monkey mind? 

Limiting beliefs are usually subconscious. Because if you were truly conscious of what they were, you'd let them go.

So yeah of course you feel like you don't know what they are.

That's why you have to study psychology and spend a lot of time introspecting on yourself.

Also, your life is always mirroring back to you your limiting beliefs. So start taking a look at all the areas of your life that seem like a mess. It will clue you in on what's going on.

[OctagonOctopus]

@InterruptReQuest

To see a limiting beliefs observe the way in which you act. Ask questions about why you doing the things you do. What you are attracted to/ repulsed by? And why? 

There really is no detaching, just being and realizing you are always being. Being conscious of something is night and day to believing something. Anything that isn’t in the present moment that you think is real is a belief, if you have an idea about what something is, that is a belief. The truth of the thing is always what it is, never thoughts about it. 


 

[Loving Radiance]

They are dream killers, and it's commonly assumed that they are reality. They are not.

They are working in any area of life with bad results.

1. Ask yourself, "Where do I have bad results? What would I have to believe to get the current results?"
2. When you recognized them gain awareness how they are: their origin, specific times when they come up, ...
3. Once you know the frame (origin, situations, ...) go about reframing them. Read this thread for examples.

Here are a few limiting beliefs. You have to log in with your actualized account to view them.

Edited November 16, 2020 by Loving Radiance

[Origins]

@InterruptReQuest Yeah in psychology (not necessarily my opinion) we call those "introjects" and in some circles those introjects that happen to be negative are often associated as what makes up the "inner critic", some go further to say that the latter is the action of the "superego" in the Freudian sense. You may wish to look into these terms if you haven't already!

I could probably write a lot about this subject but I don't have too much time at the moment, will be interesting to see what people say hope mentioning those terms give you a theoretical base to bounce other ideas you may have in your mind about the subject.

As a basic thought experiment for yourself, perhaps you might like to imagine you've just appeared in this body for the very first time as this consciousness you have right now [so you have zero prior memories], by trying to act (in the "method acting" sense: its an acting term that you've probably heard of) with behaviour that reflects this truth I'm sure you'll discover that its hard to type a reply, to know just how much you can type, what you will type, how much you can explore those ideas, what you're typing on, and so on and so fourth let alone know just what kind of a reply you might get back!

A limit is a descriptive limit of perceived awareness or knowledge about the environment which can be inclusive of being, when we're absent of memory or even just the experience of a new body with the same memories, for the latter we at the very least have to re-explore just what is truly possible and in doing so, add a little bit more knowledge to our perception of what limiting beliefs not only constitute but just experientially feel like. 

Awesome post great exploration for everyone here! 

Edited November 17, 2020 by Origins