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How can I change my beliefs and improve my self-image?
By Jan Mitchell of Expanding Minds
Self image is how you see yourself; talk to yourself (self talk) and
feel about yourself. Yours may be positive with empowering beliefs and
behaviours, or negative with limiting beliefs that cause you problems.
Based on what you believe, your unconscious mind creates results that
support your beliefs. If you believe you are attractive, your experience
will be dramatically different from someone who believes they are not good
enough. You can improve your self image by dressing attractively, dieting or
affirmations. However, while excellent habits, without changing limiting
beliefs they are effective only short term.
A limiting belief such as “I’m not good enough” may transform into “No one
will love me because I’m not good enough or attractive enough”; “I can’t do
that because I’m too old”; or “I’m not successful because I’m not smart
enough”. Your limited self-image affects your personal and social life,
relationships, career, weight and more.
Perhaps you had a loving childhood, yet still have limiting beliefs. As a
teen, you may have struggled with not feeling popular; or as a young child,
your parents were busy with family or career and your needs were not met; or
your parent were stressed or sad. You may have intuitively picked up on it.
Some people develop limiting beliefs in the womb or even before that, in
what I believe may be past lives. Limiting beliefs are compounded in
family’s where a parent is emotionally or physically unavailable or abusive.
Although you may be uncertain where a limiting belief came from, by choosing
a competent counsellor with the wisdom and skill to guide you, you will heal
and make positive changes that fit you and your life.
Begin to create a clearer picture of your positive self-image by answering
the following questions:
1) Specifically what do I want?
2) How will I know when I have it? What will I see, hear and feel in my
life?
3) What stops me from having it now?
4) What am I willing to do to improve my self-image?
5) What do I need to achieve this? I may need persistence, confidence, to
learn something, support, or to believe I deserve it.
For more advice on changing limiting beliefs, please contact Jan Mitchell
of Expanding Minds at 403.225.2973, email
expands@telusplanet.net
or visit Jan’s website at
www.expanding-minds.com
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