A limiting belief is an idea, or an unconsious conviction, or assumption that you think to be true that limits your thoughts or behaviour. This limiting belief could be about you, the way you interaction with other people, or with the world and how it works.Limiting beliefs can have a number of negative effects on you. They can stop you making good choices, taking new opportunities, or reaching your potential. Ultimately, limiting beliefs can keep you stuck in a negative state of mind and hinder you from living the life you truly desire.Or even stop you realising the things you desire. We build negative connotations into our psyche through learnt behaviour from families and friends. We can learn inferiority, unworthiness, to think we are stupid or ugly often due to the behaviour of others. These beliefs become part of our thinking and personality and often we are unaware that they drive our behaviour.Have you ever made a statement like “I’m not good with people” or “I have two left feet and would never make a good dancer”? “Have you ever felt unlived? Unloveable? These are examples of limiting beliefs that put you in a corner of your own making and often falsely define you.In order to live life to the full we have to learn to recognise and deal with our limiting beliefs. Not an easy task.

Fear - Khalil Gibran
It is said that before entering the sea
a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled,
from the peaks of the mountains,
the long winding road crossing forests and villages.

And in front of her,
she sees an ocean so vast,
that to enter
there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.

But there is no other way.
The river can not go back.

Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.

The river needs to take the risk
of entering the ocean
because only then will fear disappear,
because that’s where the river will know
it’s not about disappearing into the ocean,
but of becoming the ocean.
Khalil Gibran