Self Limiting Beliefs: Why Negative Emotions Are Signposts, Not Enemies

One of the common misconceptions of new creative life designers is that once you realize your thoughts form your reality, you become terrified of thinking anything even remotely negative.

Fortunately, reality gives us a bit of lag time between the things that we think and the reality that manifests.

But there’s a more important point here. Negative emotions are not the enemy. They’re messengers. And they’re often pointing to self limiting beliefs that need your attention.

The Problem with Suppression

It can be detrimental to not feel negative emotion when it comes up. Until you treat the root limiting belief creating it, you’ll just keep having those negative emotions. They’ll return, again and again, until you address what they’re pointing to.

There’s a big difference between the way that you feel and the beliefs that you hold, as opposed to the actual laws of reality. You can use negative emotion as a way to identify and probe your belief systems to understand the self limiting beliefs that you hold.

It’s easy to get into a pattern where you’re afraid of feeling negative emotion. But this is just bottling up the negative emotions until they explode without any creative control. That’s far worse than simply allowing yourself to feel what needs to be felt.

What Are Your Beliefs Creating?

Look into the beliefs that are creating the way you feel and see if they’re unfounded. Ask yourself: What are the beliefs I hold that are creating this negative emotion?

Negative emotion is just a signpost to show you that you’re not in alignment with the perfect being that you are. Use negative emotion as a jumping off point for discovering self limiting beliefs. Once you understand what a limiting belief is, you can start working on changing it to one that’s more beneficial.

All is well in all of creation. The negative feeling isn’t evidence that something is wrong with reality. It’s evidence that something in your belief system needs examination.

A Personal Example

For me, time and the idea that you have to be doing something to deserve good fortune was a limiting belief that was really holding me back and causing a lot of guilt. I had to do a lot of meditation and alteration of that belief so that I could move forward without HAVING to always be DOING something.

The belief that you must earn everything through constant effort sounds virtuous. But it can actually block you from receiving.

Once you get rid of a limiting belief, you remove the resistance to the things you desire, and good fortune just starts to flow into your life.

So the next time negative emotion arises, don’t panic. Don’t suppress it. Ask it what it’s trying to show you. The answer will always point you toward greater freedom.