Why Does Your Life Keep Repeating Itself?

Why do certain areas of your life keep turning out differently than you want, even when you know what you want to change? Despite what you’ve told yourself, the problem isn't a lack of effort, discipline, or knowledge. It’s that you’ve been building that part of your life from beliefs you developed through adaptation and have never thought to question. Adapted beliefs don’t feel like beliefs. They feel like truth. Relationships are hard. I can't trust people. There is never enough money. I'm bad with food. I have to work hard to be successful. I can relax when everything is taken care of. This is just who I am. In this video, I'll walk you through a simple practice to help you uncover some of those beliefs. You'll look at five areas of your life: relationships, finances, health, purpose and fulfillment, and peace and well-being. You'll consider how satisfied you are with each area, identify some of the beliefs underneath the way you approach it, and begin exploring an important question: Is this actually true, or could it be something I adapted to believe? From there, we'll look at how an adapted belief can influence the way you think, feel, choose, and respond, eventually helping to create the very circumstances that seem to prove the belief is true. The practice will help you recognize what has been shaping your life and become curious about is possible if you no longer had to build from it. This video is part two of my August series on the Adapted Self and the Expansive Self. You can watch the first video, Why You Feel Like Two Different People, here:    • Why Do I Do What I Do Even When I Don't Wa...   If you want to go deeper into how adaptations develop and what allows them to change, my book You're Not the Problem walks you through the role of safety, capacity, and energy in creating the internal conditions to adapt again. Learn more about You're Not the Problem: https://www.lorimontry.com/books/ Subscribe for weekly conversations about nervous system health, adaptation, emotional healing, behavior change, self-awareness, and creating a life that reflects who you are rather than who you adapted to become. #YoureNotTheProblem #AdaptedSelf #SelfAwareness #NervousSystem #LimitingBeliefs #PersonalGrowth #BehaviorChange #EmotionalHealing #Authenticity