Have you ever wanted something really bad, and as you get closer to getting it you start to talk yourself out of it or you distract yourself from getting it?

Do you sometimes feel like there’s this powerful force within you that is pulling you in the opposite direction of where you want to go?

That force is your subconscious mind. It controls 90 percent of what you say, do and feel and it is the monster that runs your life from behind the scenes. Behind the scenes because it is sub-concisions, meaning you are not consciously aware of it.

Your subconscious mind operates according to its programming. It does not reason. For example, if you push the button A on a keyboard, you know that the letter A will appear on the screen. This is the way your subconscious works too. It simply carries out the programming it already has.

This is why it is so hard to change. Your programming is set for you to think, act and believe in a certain way, and your subconscious mind is doing everything it can to stop you from changing. You are running most of your life on auto-pilot according to the programming in your subconscious mind.

This programming contains beliefs that were handed down to you by your parents and caregivers in the first few years of your life. Before you had critical filters to filter out anything you didn’t want to believe.

And now you are stuck with these beliefs. They are part of your programming – and they may keep you from living an ideal life and stops you from getting results in your business.

If your subconscious mind is not aligned with your goals, you will continue to experience resistance and struggle. You may respond by working harder and putting in longer hours to try to compensate for your subconscious mind pulling you in the opposite direction of where you want to go. I see this with my clients all the time and they tell me: “I know it’s me, but I don’t know how to change it. “

Some of the most common beliefs that are holding them back are:

• I am not good enough
• I need more experience
• People don’t have money to pay for what I offer
• I don’t deserve to make a lot of money
• There is not enough to go around for everyone
• People will not like me when I am successful

Trying to fight your subconscious mind is like wrestling with a bear. You will not win the battle no matter how strong you are or how hard you try. In fact, you may just exhaust yourself and finally give up.

But there are better ways. Instead of struggling to “battle” with your subconscious mind, you can align your subconscious with your goals. This will help you achieve the goals in your business with a lot less effort and more fun.

The first step in this process is to figure out which beliefs are holding you back. Once you are aware of your limiting beliefs and what you don’t want to believe, you can come up with new statements you to replace your old beliefs. For example: If you believe that “there is not enough to go around for everyone” a new belief could be “the universe is abundant and there is always enough for everyone”.

Then, it’s time to get these beliefs reprogrammed into the subconscious mind. There are ways you can do this yourself, using affirmations and visualization. However, it requires a lot of focus and discipline and it takes time for the new belief to shift on a subconscious level. A lot of people are not successful doing this on their own.

But I have a great free resource for you. I invite you to get a copy of my Success-soul™Living Starter Kit. In it, you will receive some great tools to help you reprogram your mind and heal internal beliefs and blocks that keep you stuck. You will receive a healing meditation that works just as if you did a healing session with me. This is completely free. You can get your starter kit here: free resources.

What are some beliefs that are limiting you in your business? Feel free to leave a comment below.