Yesterday I uncovered a limiting belief that “I’m a failure if someone else doesn’t fulfill their obligations.”
I can think and rationalize and tell myself this isn’t true (because logically, it’s not), but that only works until the next time I find myself in a similar situation.
Until I shift how my body responds by allowing it to experience different information, it will respond in the same way.
Our beliefs don’t live in our minds. They live in the body.
You’ve probably heard of “The Body Keeps the Score” by Bessel van der Kolk about how trauma is stored in the body. Or Gabor Mate’s “When the Body Says NO” about the cost of hidden stress.
We’re often consciously unaware of our limiting beliefs because they live in our subconscious.
The body is the subconscious. It’s the body that has experienced the pain, the joy, the frustration, and every other emotion. The mind makes up the story around it and gives the experience meaning. The brain processes the information about the experience.
If you want to make a change in a system, would it be better to focus on what goes in or what comes out?
Through noticing and changing the sensory information that we put in, we can change the outcome. That’s what we’re doing when we move and shift our bodies intentionally and consciously. It’s also what’s happening when we address our body mapping and balance systems in our bodies.
The sensory information received by the body that gets to your brain is 20% of that at best. And even less gets processed by the thinking part of your brain. That’s why including the body is so helpful. And trying to will yourself to change your mind is so HARD.
Change can be a lot simpler than we believe. Focus on changing what goes and you’ll be leaps and bounds ahead of the rest.
