Self Awareness Journal Prompts: Overcome Limiting Beliefs With Journaling

Today I’ll focus on self awareness journal prompts. Because, as I mentioned in Simple Writing Prompts, I would journal more about the potential limiting belief I discovered and share it.

That belief was about how I felt I had to give a lot of disclaimers for realizing something simple in my own journal and wanting to share it.

Why do I focus on self awareness though?

Because, I need SELF AWARENESS to be able to notice and understand potential self limiting beliefs like this one.

So, to understand mine better, I wrote the situation and questions in my journal and thought about it. In a later part of How To Journal I’ll explain in more detail how I normally do this…

After journaling about that, I realized what the deeper reason was. I probably thought other people might find certain realizations or ideas too simple and that might not be worth sharing. Is this a limiting belief?

Limiting beliefs meaning

If someone were to ask me to define limiting beliefs, this is how I would answer that. Limiting beliefs are any conscious or subconscious beliefs that stop me from becoming the best version I can be and doing something that I actually want to do like achieving my GOALS and DREAMS.

And if that person wanted limiting beliefs examples then the reason I described above is a good one to start with.

Because, even if it’s a simple realization or detail, it can help others like how it helped me. Personally, when someone explains something to me, I always like all the details, even if they’re simple.

(Writing this reminds me of an internet meme someone shared with me this week that I thought was funny. 13-year-old me: “Don’t tell me what to do! ”. Me now: “Could someone tell me exactly, in chronological order and with great detail, what I have to do?”.)

Why is it important to become aware of limiting beliefs with self awareness journal prompts?

If I am too scared of what other people think and let those negative beliefs stop me, then I won’t do what I actually want to do and I’ll regret that later.

I don’t think anyone wants regrets, right? Don’t you want to live the beautiful and exciting life you actually want to live? Don’t you want to be yourself?

In my case I wouldn’t be able to help other journalers with what I learned. It also would be a missed opportunity to emphasize to beginners what I wrote in How To Journal.

There, I mentioned that my goal with free writing is to simply write down directly onto the paper whatever is on my mind. It is supposed to be raw and UNFILTERED. You are allowed to be yourself.

So, if I would start filtering too much then it wouldn’t be a good example of how the process really works.

Because, I know there are beginners who think “oh no this is too silly to write down”, “maybe this is not worthy of being written down” or “it would be too embarrassing if someone read this”.

You don’t have to worry about these things, you can write whatever you want. What you write about is just for you and nobody else is supposed to read it.

On the other hand, the only reason why I do share examples of things that I journal about and learned, is because I specifically created TROFKY to help journalers. Me sharing one of my own recent examples of self limiting beliefs is also for that purpose…

(You might think ”Ah I don’t have limiting beliefs, I already know myself”. Or maybe that’s also a limiting belief? BOOOM! Journalception plot twist!)

How to become more aware of negative beliefs?

Experiences like these remind me that it’s not easy to notice limiting beliefs, because they’re normally subconscious and very subtle. Luckily, I use 2 great ways to notice them:

1. Instead of doing it on my own, I ask other people around me to point them out for me. It is easier for other people to notice them for you, because they can observe your thoughts with less emotions from a distance.

2. I use my journal to REFLECT on my thoughts and actions with daily journaling like I described in the beginning. This is especially helpful when the people around you are not aware enough to notice limiting beliefs or are too busy with their own life. Maybe sometimes they are actually the ones who are even giving them to you.

One of my self awareness journal prompts for you this week

So yeah, free writing or using self awareness journal prompts is a good alternative.

And for this week, I have just that for you, lucky you. Here’s one of my self awareness journal prompts to write about and a solution that might help you with overcoming limiting beliefs:

“Why am I stopping myself from doing the things that I actually want to do?“

“Are those reasons or beliefs good enough to not do it? Where do these beliefs come from? What empowering beliefs can I replace them with?”

If you have dreams you want to achieve…

CREATE YOUR OWN LUCK!

P.S. Visit Journal Prompts for more inspiration, tips and tricks. That’s where I post new things from time to time. I’ll write more about replacing beliefs somewhere in the future.