#breaking mental barriers

[suadinspireimpact]

How to Identify and Break Through Limiting Beliefs: Unlock Your Full Potential

Do you ever feel like you’re stuck in a cycle, unable to move forward no matter how hard you try? You set goals, but something holds you back whether it’s fear, doubt, or a nagging voice that tells you “I’m not good enough” or “I can’t do that.” If this sounds familiar, you’re likely dealing with limiting beliefs those invisible mental barriers that keep you from reaching your full potential. In…

[infoincharge]

There is an animal called the African impala. If you know about it, you’d know that it can leap nearly 3 meters high while standing in one place and can jump forward up to 9 meters.

However, 

When this African impala is captured in a zoo, the wall surrounding it is only about 1 meter high, yet it never tries to jump over it. When research was conducted to find out why it doesn’t jump, it was discovered that unless the impala can see what lies ahead, it feels it cannot move forward. 

Read Also: Be a Bee, Not a Fly: Your Choices Shape Your Destiny

The same thing happens to us. When we can’t see the road ahead, we hesitate to take that first step because we want to see everything all the way to the end. But the truth is, there’s a much bigger path ahead of what we can currently see. 

You should take that first step. When we start climbing stairs, we don’t practically see the last step, but as you move forward step by step, you eventually reach the final step.

Vikram Sharma...

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[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Break The Science Barrier : Why Science Matters - Richard Dawkins

Break the Science Barrier is a TV documentary that I presented on Channel 4 in 1996. It argues for the importance, for society, of scientific ways of thinking. In it, I interviewed David Attenborough, Alec Jeffreys, who discovered DNA fingerprinting, and Douglas Adams, who gave a wonderful impromptu eulogy for science. I also interviewed a man who was wrongly convicted of murder because none of the lawyers, on either side, knew anything about science. The program ends on a more positive note – what I later came to call Science in the Soul.

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"Like most scientists, I'm a realist, but I'm also a bit of a romantic. I appreciate that there are people who think they need something more than science can offer. Something, frankly, undefinable. But I think science does offer all we need. Not just to understand the 'how' of life, with its great richness and complexity. For me, science goes as far as we meaningfully can go towards answering the 'why' as well."

[davebebubidifiersdehumidifierdpo]

the only downside to relistening to amnesty once or twice a year is that i am always viscerally reminded of the devastating lack of ducknerva content. a real tragedy

[adiyo]

When Does Lowering Expectations Turn into Pessimism?

I had a conversation over the phone with a good friend today, and it shook something loose in me—this habit we all have of lowering our expectations to avoid disappointment. I was telling him about an interview I’d just had, and while he was hyping me up, I found myself downplaying every little thing. I said something along the lines of, "I just don’t want to expect too much. You know, expect the worst but hope for the best."

Side note: If you don’t already have friends who call you out when you start selling yourself short, get some.

After a while, my friend had enough of my self-deprecating act. He interrupted me and said, "We’re not doing this. We’re not going to sabotage good vibes, hard work, and you doing a good job. You need to be proud of yourself. Why are you going through life lowering expectations just to avoid being let down?"

His words hit me like a brick. It made me stop and think—at what point does "keeping expectations low" stop being about protecting yourself and start being pessimism? Isn’t limiting your expectations the same as limiting your potential? Isn’t it cutting off the wings of possibility before they even have a chance to take flight?

Suddenly, I realized this wasn’t about "being realistic." I was sabotaging myself. We convince ourselves that keeping expectations low will shield us from disappointment, but maybe it’s just fear in disguise. Isn’t it just another way of saying we don’t believe we deserve the best?

When you lower your expectations, are you really being cautious, or are you quietly telling yourself that the best outcomes are meant for someone else? It’s a slippery slope, and I’ve been sliding down it for too long.

What do you think? How do you balance staying grounded without snuffing out hope? And when does "managing expectations" turn into something darker—into pessimism that holds you back from the very things you deserve?

[baycitystygian]

guys I just survived a ladder that wanted to kill me. cheers

[battle-of-alberta]

do you ever just [exists in alberta]

i remembered my new years promise to draw less angsty ed so here is zero fucks ed instead <3

[ruminate88]

Expectations in relationships, and betrayal trauma:

let’s be real… We all go into relationships with expectations. Expecting that person to love us back, to be good to us, to do things for us and to be there for us no matter what. We expect them to be honest, trustworthy, and basically just have our back! (It’s a two way street)

What happens though, when that person breaks your trust? Obviously, it’s devastating, especially if you’ve been with that person for any length of time or if you’ve been intimately close with them. That really hurts. The wost part is when you’ve given yourself to somebody whether it be physically, emotionally or if you’ve told them your secrets. (You expect them to keep your secrets and cherish them too)

When I was with my ex Cody, I told him a lot of my dark secrets. secrets that I probably wouldn’t have just shared with anybody, and he too, was giving me secrets as well telling me all about his childhood and his disorders that he struggled with. so, I believe he trusted me and I trusted him. I had no idea that he was only letting me get so close so he could use me and then when he was bored with me, he randomly dumped me. Cody said he needed “space” cuz we had been talking 24/7 (I had not ate or slept in weeks. I was sick.)

The sudden halt after we were getting so close and sharing so much, really stunned me. I really opened up to Cody in a way that I hadn’t before, and I was lying to myself saying that Cody was the most special person in the whole entire universe like I never met anyone so special before and I tried to take such good care of his heart. I really truly wanted him to be OK. When he’s telling me about all these disorders and all these different situations he’s facing, my heart truly bled for him but when he ran away and suddenly dumped me, oh gosh, I was just like what in the world???? How can you just randomly break up with me for no reason at all???? But then he took me BACK AGAIN and got even CLOSER with me and shared more with me!!!! Cody told me how he puts up walls and shuts people out, and it made sense to me why he randomly dumped me to start with, but it still sucked for me and then I felt like I had to work so hard to make him trust me enough to stay with me, but then after he ghosted me, my trust was alllllll out the window!! Cody was never getting me back. Once he had blocked me, I moved on. I did not try to reach out to him ever again. 🥺🥺🥺

I don’t even know how I was able to trust Andrew after that, the way I did. It makes no sense to me how I was able to open up my heart to Andrew; When Cody had left me so numb, isolated and shutting down. some reason, I believed Andrew was also very, very, important and special to me and I put him on a pedal-stool and I worshipped the ground he walked on. I don’t know why I did it though, it makes no sense to me when Andrew literally hates my guts and wants me to hurt myself. I believed Andrew was someone who gets pleasure out of my pain😓💔

After Andrew, I chose to turn my life around. I decided I didn’t want to live depressed or suicidal. I wanted to like my life and I wanted a husband so bad I wasn’t going to stop trying for a husband. I met my husband and truly believed he was the nicest guy that I had ever met , and I slowly started to open up to him and let him in, but I now have expectations again. I feel that OK, you now know what Cody and Andrew did to me, so you will NEVER do that to me too or it’s over!!!!! If my husband ever treated me the way my exes did, I know for sure I would probably never love again … 😖

however, no one is perfect and no one can live up to everyone’s standards or expectations. I have learned that my husband is who he is and he’s not going to change. Just like my exes are not going to change, but my husband is still a nice guy he just doesn’t do everything I want him to , and unfortunately, he can’t fix me or my past and he can’t remove the emotional barrier in front of me and these trust issues are all my own. There’s nothing no one else can do about it but me and God.

My husband has hurt my feelings a time or two as he’s human and everybody does. My own parents have hurt my feelings before too because it’s life. The problem is being betrayed by Cody and Andrew, it’s like I can’t hardly bear it. I can’t make my husband or anyone else understand that I don’t EVER want to be lied to again, used or abused ever again. I hate it for my husband because I feel like I’m pressuring him to just do everything right and he can’t and that’s not fair to him. Marrying my husband and being intimate with him, has been a really huge deal for me and I don’t know if he understands how big of a deal it’s been and I’ve been very very careful towards him but in the back of my mind it’s really sad because, why did my exes think it was OK hurt me the way that they did? When I felt like I gave them all of me and there was nothing left to give yet it wasn’t enough! I realize the problem is with them AND not with me, but it still sucks for me. I’ve still beat myself up thinking what could I have done better or different? It just makes no sense.

I know and believe everything happens for a reason. My exes deceived me, making me think that they could give love to me and that we could have something really wonderful together, but that’s far from the truth. Now, I’m trying so hard not to expect too much from my new man but some things ARE to be expected AND on my end too. My husband also has expectations and I try so hard to be a good wife but I battle inside my mind and it’s hard to express to him the pain and abuse because he’s never experienced that. Life in general, feels like a balancing act! Trying to balance out my feelings and choices. Not going to one extreme or another. Trying to be “perfect” when I can’t. Wanting to flip the narrative from my past and rewrite myself. Wanting to be a loving and genuine person. ONE DAY AT A TIME ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

[draco-renn]

Man. All I do these days is fail to meet expectations and then get upset at myself for failing to meet those expectations. This sucks.

[youarenot-theexception]

Is it too much to ask for to someone to just WANT to text me and get to know me and love me despite me putting up every single wall possible to prevent them from doing so, but their love for shatters these walls and makes it through??? I just want to feel seen, and not because I seek attention but I just want someone to want me the way I want to get to know my favourite people. Am i anyone's favourite? Why can't people just love freely these days? I just want someone to understand the way I feel loved and love me loud, proud and filled with joy and I want to feel it radiating from their presence too.

One day, man. One day.

[sporefound]

thinking about this but: on the divide between amanita / yvonne, nita tries to separate herself from her life as yvonne because she feels she is no longer worthy of the name / life connected to it. in her mind, she survived & thus that means she is deserving of life, but not that life if that makes sense? she failed as yvonne & her choosing a new name is her Essentially burying herself & using it as emotional compost

[relto]

more drawing practice today, when i start its always like nooo i dont wanna :( and then i ask myself. why? because its hard? and push through and it always gets easier after that.

[sastielsfandom]

I see a lot of advice for artists to draw every day even if it's "lazy" art. Doodle, throw color wherever, make some lines, just create!

That can be applied to writing as well. Forget about grammar, forget about plots, just throw some words down, write whatever! Whatever is in your mind, just do it.

It's the practice of it. It gets easier as you keep doing it. It doesn't have to be a masterpiece, let it be bad, let it be silly, let it be whatever, just let it be.

I've been doing my best to write every day and writing a thousand words used to drain me, now it feels like a warm up.

Writing anything used to take me a bit to recover and now I'm jumping in between stories and trying to tell myself to slow down the ideas aren't going anywhere.

It just takes time. And trust a lot of it has been bad writing and you have to accept that not everything will be good. But I'd rather create for passion over greatness any day.

So, open up a journal or a google doc, notes app, whatever is at your disposal and write something. Doesn't have to be long, just try.

[divorcetual]

like. oh my god it feels like im gatekeeping homicidal tendencies. I think if in the midst of my psychosis when I was convinced I NEEDED to kill someone and it consumed almost every waking moment, and I wasn't able to get past the mental barrier of doing it, while my mind was at its most fragmented, I think most other people wouldnt be able to do it in a stable state of mind

[teethrotter]

constantly can't do shit because i am unmedicated + overwhelmed to the point of severe executive dysfunction

[theresilientmnd]

Faith, Freedom, and Resilience: A Story of Transformation

Resilience is more than just a buzzword—it’s a lifeline. When we face life’s most challenging moments, our ability to endure, grow, and ultimately transform is what defines our strength. The story of one man’s journey from 25 years of incarceration to freedom is a powerful testament to the mental strength and resilience it takes to overcome the seemingly insurmountable. At the core of his…