Unlock Your Full Potential: How To Overcome Limiting Beliefs That Are Holding You Back with Shelly Lefkoe

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth, WHOOP, and BON CHARGE. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, we revisit one of the most powerful conversations over the past year with international speaker and philanthropist Shelly Lefkoe. In this episode, Shelly and Dhru discuss the ways our belief systems can hold us back from living our best lives and their personal stories about overcoming their limiting beliefs and why knowing where they come from is key to letting them go. Shelly Lefkoe is the cofounder of the Lefkoe Institute, a San Francisco Bay Area firm whose mission is “to significantly improve the quality of life on the planet.” Shelly has helped thousands of clients worldwide recreate their lives by ridding themselves of a wide variety of problems, including phobias, relationships that never seem to work, violence, procrastination, unwillingness to confront people, health and wellness issues, and sexual dysfunction. She is the author of Parenting the Lefkoe Way, a manual for raising confident kids. In this episode, Dhru and Shelly dive into: -The top ways our beliefs create stress in our lives (2:14) -Swapping out the question “what will people think of me?” with a more empowering one (18:57) -How to begin unpacking the limiting beliefs we have supporting evidence for (28:22) -The meaning we assign to things is through the lens of our belief systems (45:00) -How we can begin to step into freedom and live our best lives (47:56) -Getting rid of old beliefs and replacing them with new ones (1:00:57) -If we let go of our beliefs, does that mean our lives lose meaning or value? (1:08:23) -Why it takes commitment to live life differently (1:13:55) -Figuring out how our limiting beliefs are connected to pain and suffering (1:18:19) -What to do if you feel scared about letting a belief go (1:25:22) -Breaking free from limiting beliefs when it doesn’t seem possible (1:36:20) Also mentioned in this episode: -Eliminatebeliefs.com -Lefkoeinstitute.com For more on Shelly Lefkoe, follow her on Instagram @shellylefkoe, Facebook @shelly.lefkoe, and through her website, Lefkoeinstitute.com. Cozy Earth are the most comfortable, temperature-regulating, and nontoxic sheets on the market. Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com and use code DHRU. WHOOP is a personalized digital fitness tracker and health coaching platform that monitors your physiology 24/7 and provides personalized recommendations based on what your body needs. To get yours, go to join.whoop.com and to 15% off your membership with code DHRU15. BON CHARGE is a holistic wellness brand with a HUGE range of evidence-based products to optimize your life. Right now, my community can go to boncharge.com/DHRU and use coupon code DHRU to save 15%. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	No matter what you do, somebody's not going to like it, so you may as well do what you want.
0:07.0	However, what might the consequences of my actions be?
0:12.0	Way better question.
0:14.0	Today's conversation is about how to break free of limiting beliefs that hold us back in all aspects of life.
0:21.0	Whether you have a health goal, whether you have a goal in your relationship, whether you want to make progress on some creative endeavor that's important to you,
0:29.0	we must capture and identify our old belief systems that are holding us back and understand that they are not true.
0:38.0	And that's what today's conversation is all about.
0:41.0	Welcome to the Drew Prod podcast.
0:43.0	Each week we explore the inner workings of the brain and the body with one of the brightest minds in wellness, medicine and mindset.
0:50.0	This week's guest is Shelley Lefko.
0:53.0	Shelley Lefko is the co-founder of the Lefko Institute, a San Francisco-based firm whose mission is to significantly improve the quality of life on the planet.
1:03.0	Shelley, who's been a guest on the podcast previously, has helped thousands of clients, including many of you who have reached out to her, recreate their lives by ridding themselves of a wide variety of problems including phobias, relationships that never seem to work, violence, procrastination, unwillingness to confront people,
1:22.0	health and wellness issues and even sexual dysfunction.
1:26.0	Her clients have eliminated emotional patterns such as fear, hostility, shyness, anxiety, depression, worry and so much more, but most importantly, they've rid themselves of what people think of them and the negative sense of themselves.
1:41.0	Today's conversation with Shelley expands on all these ideas and more, starting with the most fundamental thing of what are our beliefs,
1:51.0	how do some of them hold us back from the things that we say are important to us in life, and how do we begin to be aware of them so that we can let them go?
2:01.0	It's a fascinating conversation with Shelley. I hope you enjoy. Stay tuned.
2:07.0	Shelley, welcome back to the podcast. It's a pleasure to have you here. I want to jump right in and we're talking about beliefs and stress.
2:14.0	So when I start at the top, what are some of the top ways that our beliefs can cause more stress in our life, which impacts everything, including of course, our health and fitness goals?
2:28.0	Everything and it's great to be back. It's always great to be with you.
2:32.0	So first of all, I just want to for people who haven't seen me, I want to say that my definition of beliefs is a statement about reality that you hold as the truth.
2:46.0	So when I talk about beliefs, that's what I mean. It's something that is true, so nothing else can be true if that is.
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