Root Out Limiting Beliefs—May 18
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May 18, 2025
Sunday SAGe Newsletter Volume 35: Root Out Limiting Beliefs
Here is this week’s installment of Sunday SAGe, an email communication that shares wellness inspiration from The Wellness Ethic to help people thrive during the coming week (and beyond!).
On the docket this week are limiting beliefs. Limiting beliefs can hold a person back from realizing their full potential for happiness and fulfillment.
Root Out Limiting Beliefs
An excerpt from The Wellness Ethic:
Limiting beliefs impact most people to some degree, including me. Limiting beliefs are a person’s self-sabotaging thoughts about themselves or how life works. These deeply ingrained beliefs create a mental hindrance to success and are often influenced by past experiences and how someone perceives the world around them. Limiting beliefs are usually rooted in fear or irrationality—I’m not smart enough, I’m too old, I’ll never change, I always screw up, I don’t deserve happiness, I’ll never be successful.
What It Means
Uncovering limiting beliefs can be difficult. It requires you to get to the root cause of what’s driving your beliefs and behaviors. But if you notice that you’re treading water in life or find yourself repeating the same mistake over and over again, a limiting belief may be the culprit. Has a dream drowned in a flood of flimsy excuses because you don’t believe you’re talented enough to succeed? Do you resist adopting healthy habits, like eliminating junk food from your diet, because you falsely believe you don’t have the willpower to overcome temptation? Do you fear relationship commitment because you think the other person will eventually reject you?
One of the best ways to eradicate a limiting belief is to expose its fallacy through logic. Is the limiting belief really true? Are there examples where it isn’t? Then, consider alternative ways of thinking—how would your life-affirming SAGe reframe your belief so it reflects you at your best? Think along those lines and get excited about what could be possible. The light will begin to shine through. You’ll be on your way to shifting your mindset.
Your Call to Action
Think about your life. Do you have any limiting beliefs that have prevented you from living your life to the fullest? If so, are you okay with that? Do you want a different future?
Expose the fallacy of your limiting beliefs and take a step forward toward your best self without bearing the weight of pessimism. That step can start out small. What’s important is to take the step. Begin to deflate the limiting belief. Then take another step, and another one after that. Soon, you’ll have all the proof you need that your limiting belief wasn’t based in reality. There was a different truth all along, and it was a life-affirming truth that you have unlimited potential for growth and happiness.
Have a wonderful week!
