There have been plenty of people over the past decade plus who have talked about limiting beliefs and how they work. Any time I hear this term, it brings to mind a book I read back in 2015 called The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks.
In The Big Leap, Gay unpacks what he calls the Upper Limit Problem and how we upper limit ourselves in a number a ways, but most specifically, by limiting how much good we can handle in our lives. Gay’s understanding of the multi-faceted way we limit ourselves other than consciously deserves a revisit here for the New Year.
Gay Hendricks has been a leader in the fields of relationship transformation and bodymind transformation for more than 45 years. After earning his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1974, Gay served as Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Colorado for 21 years. He has written more than 40 books, including bestsellers such as Five Wishes, The Big Leap, Conscious Loving and the new Conscious Loving Ever After, the last two co-authored with his co-author and mate for more than 35 years, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks.
He is also a mystery novelist, with a series of five books featuring the Tibetan-Buddhist private detective, Tenzing Norbu. Most recently, he has launched a new mystery series featuring a Victorian-era London detective, Sir Errol Hyde. Gay has appeared on more than 500 radio and television shows, including Oprah, CNN, CNBC, 48 HOURS and others.
As we speak, Gay is actually working on the sequel for The Big Leap which will be out toward the end of 2018.
Today we are going to unpack the key aspects of The Big Leap and how we can create a better awareness for those times where we are upper limiting ourselves.
In this episode you’ll learn
- Why fear can cause you to self-sabotage when you begin to feel too much happiness
- How you can start to develop more connection and intimacy in your relationships
- Strategies to increase your awareness and identify destructive thoughts and behaviors
- How to reinvent yourself for a future filled with abundance, joy, and love
- Why you should avoid things in your zone of incompetence and spend more time in your zone of genius
- How the body is keenly wired to let you know when you’re out of harmony
- Ways to ensure you don’t superimpose your patterns from the past on current relationships
- The importance of cultivating a willingness to receive
- How you can begin to heal the gap between your body and mind
- Learning to uncover the ways you block growth and expansion
- Why opening up to your fears will bring more excitement into your life
- How you can start to open up to abundance and new possibilities
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– The Gospel of Thomas
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Resources
Pick up The Big Leap on Amazon
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