HOW ARE MY LIMITING BELIEFS AFFECTING ME?

There’s this concept in the study of Neuro-Linguistic Programming that says

“Your reality is your perception, and your perception is your interpretation.”

This may sound complicated or super-spiritual, so let me explain.

Our mind takes in 2 million bits of Data-Per-Second (DPS).

Yet consciously, we’re only able to process 126 bits of DPS.

What happens to all of that other information? It goes through a process in the unconscious I call GDD (it gets Generalized, Distorted, and/or Deleted). Nearly everything you perceive has either been generalized, distorted, and/or deleted in some way by your unconscious.

What does Generalization, Distortion, and Deletion mean?

Generalization — a general statement or concept (or belief) obtained by inference from specific cases (eg. in the past, you’ve sat in a chair and it didn’t break, so you generalize that all chairs will hold you).

Distortion — a change, twist, or exaggeration that makes something appear different from the way it really is.

Deletion — the removal of data.

Reality may exist outside of you, but before you experience it with your conscious mind, it goes through your unconscious — and therefore gets generalized, distorted, and/or deleted.

So how does your unconscious mind know what to generalize, distort, or delete?

It focuses on what you believe to be true, and then Generalizes, Distorts, and/or Deletes the rest.

In Psychology, we call this process Confirmation Bias.

In real life, we say, “You only see what you want to see.”

The specifics of your beliefs (conscious or unconscious) tell your unconscious what to focus on — therefore telling it which 126 bits of DPS to become consciously aware of, and which 1,999,974 bits of DPS to generalize, distort, or delete altogether.

So if you have a limiting belief around money (e.g. “I’m not good enough to make a lot of money”), then your unconscious mind will take that belief and try to find anything in the external world that confirms this belief (e.g. Noticing specific people who make more money than you), and then generalizes, distorts, or deletes the rest (e.g. how you make more then most people with your job title).

And the worst part is, the unconscious mind takes these limiting beliefs through the GDD process already — it distorts and deletes them, making them difficult to identify.

This was an excerpt from an article titled:

Your Money Script: Is a Limiting Belief Holding You Back?

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