From the pages of the UTS Hand Book: One of the first things you’ll want to do to change your perceptions is to throw away your limiting beliefs about how far you can go in life and about what you’re capable of accomplishing. Did you know that you can condition certain creatures to accept limits, even when the limits no longer exist? For instance, if you put a grasshopper in a jar and close the lid, it will eventually give up trying to escape—even after you remove the lid! Owners who raise elephants in Africa take a baby elephant, tie a heavy rope around one leg, and tether it to a substantial stake driven deep into the ground. The baby elephant can go only as far as the length of rope allows. He has food and water within reach, but he’s not able to roam wherever he wants. Even if mama elephant is at a distance calling him, the baby elephant struggles to no avail because the rope and stake effectively hold him back. After a period of time, the young elephant becomes passively resigned to his confinement and will struggle no longer. The owner can then replace the stout rope and substantial stake with a mere string and small tent peg, but the elephant will not even try to escape, even though he very easily could! Did you ever notice a ring on an elephant’s leg? Even with no rope attached, the ring reinforces the full-grown, multi-ton elephant’s perception that he cannot break free! Your limiting beliefs—ideas about yourself that you learned through bad experiences, or from others who criticize and belittle you—are just like that lid and that rope: they hold you back from achieving what you once desired: your LifeStar.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:05:43 +0000
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