Who needs therapy, or counselling?

by Keith Gilbert, NLP Life Coach

You don’t, do you? Of course not. You’re not depressed, and your life isn’t bad (or maybe you are, and maybe it is, I don’t know). But you do want more out of life, don’t you?

Or, if you didn’t know you could have more, you would probably be interested in what more might be like; more money, more fun, better relationships.
You see, what you believe yourself to be capable of is dependent upon the beliefs you developed as a child. Beliefs about who you are, are really beliefs about what you think you can do, and what you think you can’t do.

“I am a smart person.”, means I do smart things. “I am a dumb person.”, means I do dumb things.
So let’s imagine for a moment that you have a whole lot of beliefs about what you can and can’t do running around inside your unconscious, which means that for the most part you are unaware, consciously, of what your beliefs are. You developed them when you were a child and over time you forgot them... consciously. They’re still there, quietly humming away.

So if you have beliefs about what you can’t do, “I can’t have a meaningful relationship.” or “I’ll never have lots of money.”, what would life be like if you had the beliefs, “I CAN have a meaningful relationship.” and “I CAN earn as much money as I want by doing those things that I enjoy.”? Yeah... imagine that.
Well, if you developed beliefs as a child that begin with, “I can’t ______.” then that means that you still have the ability to develop beliefs today; new beliefs. That ability never left you. It’s just that, for many of us, there are pressures from family and social circles to not change, well, not too radically anyway. But to change, “I can’t _____.”, to, “I can ____.” is for many people a very radical change. And radical changes will affect the ways in which you relate to your partner, family, friends, and work associates. So why do it if it means, potentially, upsetting those relationships that are important to you?

Fair enough. But what if you could make changes to your beliefs and still maintain those relationships that are important to you. Would you like that? Of course you would!

And that’s where Inspiritive Life Coaching can help you. With NLP you can learn how to remember those old, limiting beliefs, switch them off (by putting them in perspective - from a child’s perspective to an adult’s perspective), and then design new beliefs that help you achieve more of what you want.
I can appreciate that for some people this might sound unbelievable, a bit like magic, and maybe that’s one of the beliefs that you want to change. Maybe, instead, you would like to believe that you can learn to do anything that interests you, irrespective of what other people think you can or can not do.

Have you ever heard people say, “That’s just the way I am.”? These people are telling you that they don’t know how to change. They’re stuck with their limiting beliefs. No matter how much they might want more out of life, at a conscious level, they believe that they can’t have it. And so they don’t try to achieve it.
And those beliefs, for many people, are the only things that stand between where they are and where they want to be.
But you won’t know until you give it a go, Inspiritive Life Coaching that is.

Article written by Keith Gilbert, NLP Life Coach