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The first step to changing limiting beliefs is actually to recognize that you have them. If you keep telling yourself affirmations such as ‘I am slim, fit and happy' when you are currently several pounds overweight, your conscious mind will reject the statement and stop it from going into the subconscious mind.

But, on a deep level, your core beliefs, and you may not even be aware of what they are, will prevent you or compel you to act in particular ways and bring about results that may be very different from what you want or expect.

Of course business owners want to be profitable, and many believe that the service or product they're providing through their business is the fulfillment of their life's purpose, and yet after even How to Change Your Life a short time of difficulty they want to give up... because in order to succeed they would need to change their belief system.

Those who planted such beliefs in your fertile young mind were not necessarily trying to harm or fool you, but had not in fact examined their own beliefs & may have been passing down the same harmful beliefs they were given or labeled in their youth.

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As they let go, you'll find that the energy and focus you had been using to resist them becomes freed, and you can then redirect this energy toward positive change instead of resisting negativity in your life.

The subconscious then takes this processed piece of information and, according to our rules, associates it with other information that we classify as 'solid' and 'accurate.' During this association, we begin to understand the new information and are better able to assimilate it for future reference.