Breaking Free From Limiting Beliefs: Embody Your Full Potential.
Our beliefs are stored deep within our subconscious mind, body, and nervous system. Until we bring these beliefs into our conscious awareness, they remain unconscious — quietly running the show, shaping who we are and creating our external reality.
We learn these beliefs when we are innocent children, simply observing and absorbing everything around us. From our caregivers, parents, society, and through the traumas we experience, we form a lens through which we view ourselves and the world. The subconscious mind takes everything literally and creates experiences that reinforce these beliefs — until we choose to break free.
For example, if we grew up in an environment of scarcity and lack, and heard things like "Money doesn’t grow on trees" or "You have to work hard for every penny", we naturally take on those beliefs as truth. As adults, we may continue to experience a reality of struggle and limitation, mirroring what we witnessed. But here's the key: once we recognize a limiting belief and bring it into our conscious awareness, we gain the power to choose a new belief — one that supports the life we actually want to live.
From this point of awareness, we can decide to reprogram the subconscious mind and embody a new belief system. And as we do this inner work, it will be reflected back to us in our physical reality — because the universe mirrors who we are being.
So, how do we actually change a belief system?
We rewrite the story — through repetition, mantras, mirror work, embodiment, and aligned action.
Let’s say the belief you hold is "I’m not enough" — a belief I feel many people in the world are currently working to integrate and release. From this belief, you may desire to ask someone out but feel frozen with fear. In that moment, when the opportunity arises and you feel the contraction in your body, pause — take a deep breath.
Rewrite the story in real time with powerful affirmations like:
"I am loved."
"I am enough."
"I am everything I need and more."
"I am a gift to anyone who shares my energy."
Place your hand on your heart, soften your body, breathe deeply. This tells your nervous system: I am safe. Now, from this grounded space, take aligned action — walk up to that person and speak your truth. This is how you start embodying the new belief system.
Tools to support reprogramming:
Mantras in the mirror: Look into your own eyes as you speak. This bypasses the ego and speaks directly to your subconscious.
Repetition: The subconscious mind learns through repetition — speak, act, and think the new belief daily.
Ask powerful questions to dismantle limiting beliefs:
"Is this belief actually true?"
"Who would I be without this story?"
Often, when we see that a belief is false, it becomes easier for the subconscious to let it go.
Embodiment and the nervous system:
Pay attention to your body. When a limiting belief is active, you may find yourself hunched over, avoiding eye contact, shrinking your energy. Shift this immediately:
Open your posture.
Stand tall, lift your head, soften your jaw.
Breathe deeply into your belly.
Ask yourself: How would the version of me who holds this new belief stand, walk, speak, and breathe? Practice being that version of you in every moment.
Remember: The universe reflects our energy — who we are being.
We don’t "become" the person we want to be by waiting — we become that person by acting and embodying them now. When we show up for ourselves, life shows up for us.
Reflection prompts to uncover limiting beliefs:
Where am I playing small in life?
What stories am I telling myself that no longer serve me?
What do I truly desire to experience, and how can I act on that today?
Practices to support new belief embodiment:
Visualization: See yourself living as the version of you who holds this new empowering belief.
Meditation: Sit in stillness, connect to your breath, and repeat the new belief within.
Breathwork & somatic bodywork: Move the energy through your body — combining breath with visualizing the new belief rewires the nervous system.
For example, you can do a simple 4-7-8 breath (inhale for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8) while visualizing yourself succeeding, speaking confidently, or receiving abundance. Feel it as if it's real now.
A reminder:
Always treat yourself with love and compassion as you shift belief systems.
Talk to your nervous system:
"It’s safe to be this new version of me."
"I am always doing my best."
"I love myself in every moment, no matter what."
Final takeaway:
I invite you to reflect on one limiting belief that may be holding you back right now — journal on it, bring it into awareness, rewrite the story, and take one aligned action today to start embodying the new belief.
You are powerful. You are enough. And you get to create the life you desire — from the inside out.
Big Love,
Sean-.