The problem with limiting beliefs

Concepts like limiting beliefs and self-sabotage explain the results of the problem, but misattribute the cause of it.

Why don’t you believe you can have what you want? Why don’t you believe you can leave the situation you’re in? These are questions that get thrown around often in the manifestation industrial complex, usually as an accusation rather than an inquiry. The implication is that the issue is not external circumstances but internal: a matter of belief, of mindset, of self-sabotage. But what if that framing itself is flawed? What if we are misdiagnosing the problem entirely? If we accept that limiting beliefs are just self-generated illusions, arising from nowhere and simply needing to be eradicated, then we open the door to shame. Because if the only thing standing between you and your desires is you, then the problem remains you.

Fix yourself, we’re told, and the material world will rearrange itself in your favor. But when you live under a system that profits from your exhaustion, your compliance, and your willingness to internalize its failures as your own, maybe you were never the problem at all.