Transforming a limiting belief into an Ally!

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Time for another Expanding on Expansive with me, Anna Gatmon. Hello!

I usually take a post from the post I posted this week, or a theme within a few posts and dive deeper into the teachings behind, or a practice or a tip that you can do today in order to experience more spiritual-material unity in your life, greater spiritual-material balance and create and generate true spiritual material-abundance in your life. So let’s begin today.

The focus, the topic, today is how to turn a limiting belief into an ally. And so the post that came out last week was, “When it comes,”– here it is– “When it comes to your work or self-expression, what is a limiting belief that it’s time to let go of?”

Now I picked your self-expression or your work because your self-expression is all about the essence of who you are. Whether you get paid for what you do or it’s volunteer, or it’s a hobby, or however you do it, but your self-expression is the essence of who you are. And so that is who you are meant to be in this life and what you’re meant to share, and the gifts you are meant to offer through your work and interactions with other people in your self-expression.

And so it’s really important to look at limiting beliefs around our self-expression in the world. And so the first step, and that’s all we’re going to do– the first step today, is how do you turn a limiting belief into an ally? You bring it out from the shadows and take a look at it.

So it’s not just running you and you’re aware of it, but you keep pushing it away all the time and ignoring it, but it’s just tormenting you, you bring it out into the light from the shadows and just acknowledge it. This is part of you here. And so I want to share with you a limiting belief that I have around my self-expression in the world, as crazy as it might sound. I have the very limiting belief that what I have to offer the world has no value to other people.

So here I am, you know, sharing wisdom and sharing so much with people, right? I can help people master their intuitive, superpower, and I can help them find their spiritual essence and help them express it in the world. And I can help people find inner peace within themselves, but also outside in the world. And yet, while I’m doing all of that, and I have a book, and a TEDx talk, I have all of that. And I have all the confidence in the world to have done that. I hold a limiting belief that what I have to offer the world has no value for people.

So as long as I keep that hidden in the shadows, then it runs me. It controls me. But as a first, if I bring it out from the shadows into the light, I’m befriending it; I make it an ally. I own it. Here it is. Now I can start working with it. And so the question is what is the limiting belief that you have around your self-expression in the world, in the public, or in private, that is limiting you and running you? What is one such limiting belief? And so befriended. make it an ally. By bringing it out from the shadows, into the light and owning that this is a part of you as well.

Now these limiting beliefs come from, you know, they can come from our personality. They can come from our childhood, childhood dramas and traumas, our parents, our karma, past lives. They come from different places and they become also motivators that, you know, motivate us to change if we use them and we don’t just have them paralyze us. But as long as the limiting belief is in the shadows, it is paralyzing us and it is running us. So what is the limiting belief around your self-expression that you want to bring out into the light for yourself? You don’t have to announce it yet outside on Instagram or Facebook, but just to yourself, bring it out and own it. Maybe share it with one person. Suddenly it doesn’t have a hold on you anymore. So you could do that and see what comes up and what, what is the belief that you can befriend?

Now, there was another post that came out this week that said, “When it comes to your work or self-expression, what is a belief you want to embrace?”

What is a belief you want to embrace?

And so ask yourself that same question. You see, it’s two simple questions. One is: what is the limiting belief that you want to bring out into the light from the shadows that it’s time to let go of? (But for now, we’re just going to bring it into the light and befriend it; make it an ally.) And then what is a belief that you want to embrace about yourself when it comes to your self-expression in the world? And so if I take my example, my limiting belief is that what I have to offer the world has no value. And I hold that belief while I believe that it has a lot of value. But when I tap into the lack of value, I feel I have nothing to offer. Okay, it’s cute. It’s something, but it’s not something really meaningful. And you can imagine the mood it puts me in. And then the state of mind and being my spirit feels, you know, feels stifled by it. And that it just pops up suddenly, right? And then I’m like feeling low from it. While I’m continuing, and I’m doing, and feeling so confident, I have this parallel, you know, at the same time, crazy-making and we all have that. We all have these double, you know, slides. One is telling us something positive. One is telling us something negative and we don’t understand why we’re stuck and we’re not moving. We’re paralyzed. We’re not moving anywhere.

So we need to choose one or the other, right, in a sense, to have one lead. But to do that, we have to bring it out into the open. And so I ask you, what is the belief that you want to embrace this year? 2021? 2020 has been a challenging year. I’ve experienced it like the Vipassana retreat. I’ve never been, and I’ve never gone because it seems so challenging. But here it is nine months of the Vipassana retreat, facing ourselves, rising to the challenge, rising the wave. Like when you surf. Because if we go under, we’d be in the washing machine. So we want to be on the wave. And so we each tried to rise to the occasion, but it’s challenging to hold that much energy.

So what do you want to embrace for 2021? Again, if you hide it inside you, it becomes a dream that you’re dreaming, and you just, “Oh, well, when it will happen, I will share it.” But if you bring it out into the light, suddenly you have to acknowledge that this is a belief that you have. And so the belief that I want to embrace is the same belief that I have, which is limiting just the opposite. So the limiting belief is that what I have to offer the world has no value for people. And what I want to embrace is the belief that what I have to offer has value for people.

Profoundly simple, but profound transformation is possible. When you discover the essence of your calling and can express it in your world, in your work, the people you serve, the people you live with and the people you love. Tapping into your intuitive superpower, I have the formula for it. If you practice it, it works. And you know when to be intuitive and when to listen to your reason and how to execute your intuitive hunches.

Finding inner peace, yes, I can help you find it within, but also without because it’s everywhere, outside as well as you go about your day. It’s not just when you meditate inside. So all of these things are valuable things. And that’s the belief that I want to embrace in 2021, that what I have to offer has value for the world.

And so I ask you, what belief do you want to embrace in 2021 that has to do with your self-expression in the world? Bring it out from the shadows into the light, acknowledge it to yourself. Sometimes it feels uncomfortable because you actually have to acknowledge, ‘this is what I want to believe in and this is a limiting belief.’ And to acknowledge both takes it out from the mind chatter, from it just turning around. It’s outside here. Now it’s outside. You can befriend it and start the process of being an ally. But the first process, the first step of being an ally is befriending. Just acknowledging it, starting a dialogue with it.

So I hope this is helpful, helpful for time off during the holidays to think and reflect about these two beliefs, the one you want to embrace and the limiting one that you would like to let go of. And towards 2021, what do you want to be working with? What do you want to embrace? What do you want to befriend in yourself? How do you want to tap into your full potential, the potency that you have, and how do you want to share your gifts with the world? So I leave you with that and send you with a lot of blessings.

Have a wonderful rest of your day, week, and weekend, and I’ll see you next week again, with another Expanding on Expansive.

Blessings.

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