06/04/2023
LIMITING BELIEFS
By Kenneth Moore M.S. CSAC
On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister ran a mile in 3 minutes and 59 seconds, only one second less than 4 minutes. However, with that time and in that race... he officially became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. Before that, it was believed this was an impossible task, and something unachievable. Since 1889 for sixty-five years the best coaches and athletes around the world had been trying to achieve this goal... but to no avail. Then it happened by only one second, but it happened!
but it happened.
Within just 46 days after Bannister’s broke the four-minute mile barrier feat an Australian runner, John Landy bettered Bannister’s time by one second. He ran the mile in 3 minutes 58 seconds. A year later, three runners in the same race broke the four-minute barrier. The story goes on and today hundreds of collegiate athletes routinely run the mile in under four minutes. And over the last half century, more than a thousand runners have conquered the four-minute mile barrier that had once been considered hopelessly out of reach.
The question one has to ask themselves is this shattering of the 4-minute mile barrier because athletes are getting faster and stronger or is it reflective of the mental barriers that individuals put into place with their beliefs. This writer believes the evidence is overwhelmingly for the latter although athletes are constantly getting stronger as training techniques becomes increasingly more sophisticated and diets more refined. Never-the-less the power of the mind to sabotage and block the best efforts of individuals can always be seen in the subconscious programs they give themselves.
The four-minute mile example is an extreme example of the power of the mind and how it can and does effect performance. However, the belief in what one can accomplish and does accomplish can be traced back to lesser examples such as in The “Story of the Engine that Thought It Could” written by the Rev. Charles Wing and first appearing in the New York Tribune on April 8, 1906. You know the one that said “I think I can-I think I can-I think I can”… until it actually could.
When you limit your beliefs, by thinking you can’t do something, or by believing something will never happen… you are programming your subconscious to… MAKE IT SO... TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
When you accept a limiting belief… it becomes a truth for you!
What limiting beliefs are you believing and what limiting beliefs are you making come true in your life?
Just imagine what your life could be if you were not holding onto your limiting beliefs. THINK ABOUT IT!
In The Secret, a best-selling self-helpbook written in 2006 by Rhonda Byrne, the author talks about Manifesting. Manifesting is telling the Universe to make things happen by bringing those things into your life. Just how is manifesting to make things happen any different than programming the subconscious mind to make your beliefs a reality for you. And the answer is… there is no difference. Because what the Secret talks about is exactly what subconscious programming IS all about. It is about making your beliefs a reality.
The reality of subconscious programming exists and it is made real by the beliefs you believe in. Because when you believe something… you make it YOUR reality. And it does not matter whether that belief is positive and constructive. Or whether it is negative and destructive because the subconscious does not make a judgement call on what you tell it to believe. It just acts upon it and makes it so.
So I ask you again… What beliefs about yourself and your life are you holding onto from the past? What beliefs about yourself and your life are you making happen for your future? Are they going to help you? Or are they going to hurt you? Life takes place between your ears and it is always about choice… YOUR CHOICE!
