Self Limiting Emotions Hinder Success
Negative Emotions Limit Your Ability to Succeed and Thrive
Mar 29, 2009
Allowing self-limiting and negative emotions to control the belief you have in yourself and your ability to succeed and thrive, is like placing an internal glass ceiling on your hopes, dreams and goals.
The good news is that you have choices. You have the choice to control the negative feelings or allow self-doubt to dictate the future.
Emotions are defined by Dictionary.com as: "A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling: the emotions of joy, sorrow, reverence, hate, and love."
Success Often Stirs Powerful Emotions
Success can stir up emotions. Some of the feelings may be positive and healthy while others may be negative and self-limiting. Self-limiting emotions can often lead to disappointment and self-sabotage. Have you made time to recognize and understand your day-to-day success emotions?
Ask yourself this question: "What does achieving and enjoying long-lasting success mean to me? When I picture myself successful and happy, how does the future look?"
Answering with your first "gut" reaction can lead to a host of unconscious feelings about success, especially your success. Recognizing your emotions is a huge step toward understanding your inner thoughts and feelings about achieving and enjoying success.
While picturing your success, were the emotions your felt empowering or disempowering? What memories or pictures formed in your mind as you thought about achieving or not achieving success? What, if any, self-limiting emotions did you experience?
How about taking a few minutes and to make a list of positive and negatives "feelings" about enjoying the success? You may surprise yourself with just how many emotions are locked deep in the unconscious parts of your mind. Looking at your list, do you see mostly positive emotions?
Self-limiting emotions probably began somewhere in childhood. You may want to search your memory bank to remember what expectations, thoughts, words and emotions were associated with your ability to succeed.
The good news is that your have the power to change what isn't working into something more positive and empowering. It all begins with recognizing the self-limiting habits, beliefs and emotions that hinder success.
Giving Yourself Emotional Permission To Succeed
One should ask, "Do I feel worthy and deserving of success and happiness?"
Giving yourself theemotional permission to enjoy your accomplishments is a prerequisite to making and keeping a well-rounded and healthy successful lifestyle.
Breaking the self-limiting internal glass ceiling is allowing yourself the thrill, excitement and reward of enjoying a fulfilled life.
Right now, each person possesses the ability to thrive, succeed and prosper. You just have to give yourself the emotional permission to live a life of personal and professional success – the choice is yours!
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