How to Break Free from Your Limiting Beliefs

Whatever you believe imprisons you

When what you believe locks your smarts.

Set yourself free from your beliefs. Pic by Moira Dillon

We don’t see reality; we see our version of reality.

One morning, while eating breakfast, a young woman couldn’t believe what she saw while looking through the window of her new apartment. Her neighbor is hanging the washed laundry outside.

“That laundry is not very clean” — she said to her husband. She doesn’t know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.”

Her husband remained silent. Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.

One month later, the woman was surprised to see a beautiful, clean wash on the line and said to her husband: “Look! She has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this.”

The husband said: “I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows!”

This story by Paulo Coelho illustrates how ‘what we see’ depends on the clarity of the window through which we look.

Your beliefs are a tainted…