Mind/Body Weight Loss – Day 19
Mind-Body Weight Loss Day 19
Week 3 Shifting Your Thinking
What Are Your Core Beliefs?
Sometimes uncovering your core beliefs are can be tricky. Core beliefs are things you believe to be true about yourself based on your subjective past experience. I say subjective because they often revolved around an assumption about the way others perceive you. It is hard to know what may be floating around in your subconscious that is affecting your day-to-day decisions. Remember there is nothing more fundamental to our daily lives then the way we move and eat. So how we make these choices is fundamentally tied to our core beliefs. The interesting thing about these core beliefs is that many of them were developed as a child, before we had a level of discernment.
I had a client once that was overeater, he would finish his plate even if he was full and had to force himself to do it. Over the course of a conversation, I asked him about dinner as a child. He told me that it was a huge no-no not to finish his plate as a child. There were severe consequences for wasting food. He had a core belief that not finishing his dinner would make him disrespectful and deserving of punishment. So as an adult, he would force himself to finish his plate even when his conscious mind was telling him he was full.
The first step in changing a core belief is to identity them. Go back to Day 15 and look at your answers about fear. What are the core beliefs that you have behind those fears? Can you figure out where they stemmed from? A good way to uncover your core beliefs on things is to follow your emotions. A strong negative emotional response is a great signal that there is work to be done. Resentment, jealousy, guilt, fear are strong indicators that we made an energetic agreement with something that we know on some level, no longer serves us. It those moments it is the opportunity to do the soul level work. We have this strong response because we are challenging what is at our core or long established patterns of what we believe to be true. So for example, let’s look at feeling guilty after eating something decadent. Where does your fear arise from eating that piece of cake? Maybe that it validates your belief that you have no self-control. Now is that a rational belief?
