You are truly blessed to have been liberated from the burden of such beliefs. I too have very little attachment to beliefs that don’t serve me, naturally gravitating to the side of limitless possibility.

Sadly, for many their beliefs hold them prisoner, often without their conscious awareness. In these situations, change must be preceded by a process of discovery, acceptance, and dismantling before they are free to move toward empowerment.

Happily, once the deepest limiting beliefs have been dismantled, there is usually a quantum shift in the whole person. Like someone who has been freed from a dungeon. A liberation of thought and perception that is wonderful to witness.

I used to work with little kids who wanted to learn to play piano (mind I can’t read a note of music) . They had tried conventional lessons and felt they were total and compete failures at piano and could never learn because they had failed at traditional piano lessons. So their established relationship to the piano was one of deep failure.

Once these kids came to me and I presented the piano as nothing more than something that made sounds, and then said, “Now, lets find the sounds that YOU like and we’ll learn to put them together.” It was almost instant that these kids — once presented with NO rules, anything goes, we’re here to explore, there are NO mistakes, and so forth — they immediately shed all previous beliefs about themselves and their relationship with the piano and music.

They learned to transpose, compose and play the music they heard inside themselves. It was astounding. Given a totally free environment, one with NO judgment, no rules, they found their own music, the music we ALL have inside us. When I told them no one owned music, music was free and part of us, that chimpanzees were banging on hollow logs to communicate danger and excitement long before the piano came into existence….these kids were set free.

So in that case there was no need to anchor the old non-serving belief into something negative, there wasn’t even a need to mention it. Even when they talked about it. I would simply tell them what “I” saw in them, which was ALL positive.

Another example (which I may write about in my next post). When I was younger I had this almost unconscious mindset of living to 65 – 70 tops. It probably came from family, culture, friends parents, school and so on. Then one day I met a couple, husband in his 80s, wife in her 70s and they climbed icy mountains and canoed white water, hike miles and miles for days in the mountains and camped and traveled all over the world, riding camels and living with Aboriginals and spear fishing with them and on and on. Now THAT was all it took for me to INSTANTLY shed my non-serving belief that I would die at 65 – 70ish.LOL!! I said to that belief, “I’m outta here.” It totally lifted the lid for me. The sky was the limit and beyond.

As I think about this I realize I tend to be just the opposite. Almost all my non-serving beliefs were shattered by something positive. I don’t know why this is and I will have to think more about it. Maybe it comes from the fact that I want freedom SOOOOO badly that it takes little to lift the lid for me. I have great faith in Life and the great swell of possibilities. Or maybe it is as you said, I have few beliefs. My experience is that anything is possible, just point me in the right direction. LOLOL!!!

Aaah, Jonathan, it is ALWAYS a joy and I always see more of myself when I come here. Thank you much for that. Again, forgive the length of my comments.
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