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The majority of our programs, habits, and the way we think are created by emotional experiences in our past. Think about a hot stove. When you are a kid and you touch that stove and burn yourself, your brain automatically associates a hot stove with pain. Then as you grow older, you don’t think to yourself, “There is a hot stove. Remember when we were young and touched that stove, it hurt really bad. Therefore, I’m not going to touch it.” Your brain just kicks in and protects you from touching it based on a past emotional experience.

As we grow older, we learn that our brain is a powerful tool and we can reprogram it. Those who master changing their programs are some of the most successful people out there. When you were a kid you were constantly told not to trust strangers. Not only were we told, but we were given an emotional pain to associate with that, such as how strangers would harm us. The repetition of that warning and negative emotional association impacts us as adults as well. That is why the majority of us are nervous around people we don’t know because we don’t trust them yet.

But even though that is an emotional belief that we have, we can see how it holds us back. Those who realize this limitation and work on getting over it, understand the power that the mind has. They will rewire their brain with a new belief, and intellectual belief.

If you have beliefs that are holding you back in life, try to trace them back to when you first developed those beliefs. What happened? Was it an intellectual or emotional response to an experience? Once we understand how our brain works, we can rewrite these self-limiting beliefs and discover an exciting world that lives outside of your comfort zone.

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