Moving Beyond Self-Limiting Beliefs

Insights from The Seer's Explanation

We know for sure that our rational analysis and problem solving skills are the best tools we have for getting more of what we want. We know this because everybody says it’s true. But what if that certainty turns out to be a superstition? What if we have more powerful tools at our disposal and our belief in the supremacy of rationality constitutes a self limiting belief?

For example: you consider one of your problems. You talk to yourself about it. You discuss the pros and cons of one or more possible solutions to it. You hear yourself talking about it, and the voice you hear is yours. That’s you speaking “inside your head,” isn’t it? It’s sometimes called the internal dialog, and all humans engage in it.

But what if that’s not actually you?