Overcome your early childhood programming to unleash your greatness

September 2, 2007 · Posted in Education, Family, Motivation, Negativity, Self-help 

You are:

  • too little
  • too big
  • too slow
  • too shy
  • not good in (please insert the trait you have heard most often in your life)
  • never going to amount to anything
  • a failure
  • holding me back

These thoughts and many more are impressed upon our defenseless but highly receptive minds from an early age by otherwise loving and influential people, namely – parents, siblings, teachers, coaches, organization leaders, members of the clergy and others.

Programming damages

This programming results in an inestimable reduction in the effectiveness of our lives because often we never even attempt things that may contradict what we’ve been told directly or what we’ve heard indirectly.

  • If you are so slow, then why go out for sports?
  • If you aren’t strong in math, then why attempt to major in engineering?

It’s a huge lie

The sad part of this situation is that most of this programming is a lie. However, because we’ve heard it so often and from such a very young age, that we assume that it must be true. Therefore, this limiting propaganda becomes true for us because we believe it to be true.

Remedies

1. Challenge your long-held beliefs about yourself.

Do these limiting beliefs stand up to intense scrutiny? Are there any instances in your lifetime when you have proved them to be wrong?

I have a friend who was supposed to be just “another athletically talented jock”. He began to be recruited by colleges for an athletic scholarship so it was decided that he should take the SAT. He had not been expected to do well in school and did nothing beyond the average, scholastically. To everyone’s amazement (as well as his own) he scored a perfect 800 on the math part of his SAT’s!

I did not know him then, but I can’t imagine how anyone could have missed his brilliance and creativity.

If you have ever done anything to prove any of your programming about yourself to be wrong – even if it is only one time, then those beliefs are misconceptions and they no longer have the power to diminish your capabilities.

2. Approach those people who have tagged you with your self-limiting beliefs.

Ask your parents, coaches or relatives what motivated them to label you with whatever misconception it is that is holding you back. You may be surprised by how ridiculous the answers are.

3. Examine yourself.

Listen to your inner voice. Use your natural curiosity to examine your beliefs about yourself. What do you really believe about yourself? Are you really shy or is that just what you’ve heard all your life?

Often we feel an unnatural conflict that results from how we feel about ourselves and what we’ve been taught. Listen to yourself.

4. Educate yourself.

This article is a start, but do some more research. Find out how the teachings that are impressed (over & over) on you from a very early age can affect the rest of your life. Armed with an understanding of the issue, you will be motivated to throw off the useless dead weight of falsely held beliefs that have been hindering your true self.

5. Motivate yourself.

Motivation is like a fire – you’ve go to keep pouring the fuel to the fire to keep it roaring. Hopefully, I’ve stirred a passion within you, that on an instinctive level knows that you are capable of great things. Give your instincts a little free-rein and see where it takes you.

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One Response to “Overcome your early childhood programming to unleash your greatness”

  1. Chris Melton on September 3rd, 2007 8:51 pm

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