A Conversation on Limiting Beliefs with Glenyce Hughes

I asked Glenyce Hughes of The Healing Room to share her perspective on limiting beliefs.  As business owners, we have to eliminate our own limiting beliefs in order to succeed.  If we don't, we're held back from maximizing our full potential and that of our businesses.

Glenyce began by explaining her techniques for helping clients overcome limiting beliefs.

My experience is, we create in our life what we believe, so if we are having trouble in our business, there's a belief that we've got that's in the way that's creating that.

First, there's acknowledging it, recognizing that, "Okay, I do believe that being self-employed, you have to work 24-hours a day, and it's going to take ten years to see a profit," or something like that.  Recognizing that you've got that belief and then using whatever it may be to release that.

Some people can just decide, and it's really simple, "Oh, wow!  I've got that belief.  I'm getting rid of that, and instead I'm going to choose this one."  For others, there are other techniques.  For myself, I use two.  I use something called emotional freedom technique and also something called theta healing, and both of them work with acknowledging what the limiting belief is and then using the modality to release it and put in the positive belief that you do want.  In the example of needing to work 24-hours a day and not seeing a profit for ten years, it would be something like, "Being self-employed is easy, and profits come quickly," or something like that, just the opposite so that you can let the old one go that's not serving you.

Some people use journaling.  Some people go to counselors.  There's many different ways to release limiting beliefs, but again, the most important thing is acknowledging it and looking at the beliefs, because as soon as you move those, the world just opens up.

It's interesting how simple the solution can often be.

Absolutely.  I think, as humans, we're told somewhere along the way that life has to be hard, and we need to be fixed, and there's all these problems.  Often, if you listen to people talk, their common phrases will be, "Life's just hard.  Life's just like that," when they're making reference to a bad circumstance.  We start with just those simple beliefs that life is easy, and life is fun, and life is filled with joy.  If we could just shift those, again, the world opens up.

For people who are ready and open and willing, there's many different ways, and it can be just as simple as the awareness that you've got that one thing holding you back.  Lots of times, it's just a matter of listening to what you're saying, your thoughts.  Have a conversation with a friend and give that friend permission to stop you when you say something that's limiting.

That seems like another important thing.  You have to make room for it.  Keeping a journal, taking the time to consider your own thought patterns, having conversations with friends - you have to make room for all of those things.  We get so busy that we just push things aside and say, "I'll deal with that later," and sometimes, we may just need to make room for it.

That is truly one of the biggest beliefs with the majority of people that I work with, the time belief.  We really believe that we don't have enough time.  People will say, "Well, I don't.  Look at my to-do list.  Look at all my commitments."  It really is a belief, "I believe I have enough time," or "I believe that I don't have enough time."  It's just another belief.  There's always enough time in the day, or there's never enough time in the day.  It's just a belief that needs to be shifted.

That's a wonderful point, because if you want to journal or exercise and acknowledge that that's an important thing and want to incorporate that into your life, then you just say, "I have to do that."  You don't really think about how much time you have left in the day.  You just say, "I have to get to that," and you just make it happen somehow.  If you're thinking the opposite way, though, that there's never enough time, then you just boot it out.  You say, "I'm not going to exercise today.  I don't have time."

Exactly.