When you have a victim mentality, life is happening to you. You can spend years letting life beat you down, take control of you, and decide your fate, or you can take control of your life and overcome your victim mentality. Following are two steps to start developing a more powerful way of thinking.
Recognize That You Are Acting Like A Victim
Most people get trapped into believing that they 'are' a victim instead of recognizing the fact that they 'choose' to be a victim. We can all make choices that benefit us, no matter what situations we are in, so we all have the power to move out of a victim state and into a more powerful state of being.
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Once you can see that these statements are not the truth, they are just how you choose to view a situation, then you can start overcoming your victim mentality.
Recognize Your Beneficial Beliefs And Build Upon Them
People with a victim mentality have very limiting beliefs. All limiting beliefs are only true some of the time. In other words, you may have had no control over something in the past, but that doesn't mean you have no control over something now.
Deep inside of you, there are beliefs that are not limiting. They are where your power lies. But, with a victim mentality, you are ruled by your limiting beliefs. They take away from your true power. If you want to get rid of your limiting beliefs, you have to start strengthening your beneficial beliefs.
Sit down and identify the beliefs that you have about yourself that are not victim orientated. They may be that you are good at something, have freedom in this life, or that you deserve a loving
Recognize That You Are Acting Like A Victim
Most people get trapped into believing that they 'are' a victim instead of recognizing the fact that they 'choose' to be a victim. We can all make choices that benefit us, no matter what situations we are in, so we all have the power to move out of a victim state and into a more powerful state of being.
Recognize that your life is not determined by other people's actions or behaviors; instead, your …show more content…
Once you can see that these statements are not the truth, they are just how you choose to view a situation, then you can start overcoming your victim mentality.
Recognize Your Beneficial Beliefs And Build Upon Them
People with a victim mentality have very limiting beliefs. All limiting beliefs are only true some of the time. In other words, you may have had no control over something in the past, but that doesn't mean you have no control over something now.
Deep inside of you, there are beliefs that are not limiting. They are where your power lies. But, with a victim mentality, you are ruled by your limiting beliefs. They take away from your true power. If you want to get rid of your limiting beliefs, you have to start strengthening your beneficial beliefs.
Sit down and identify the beliefs that you have about yourself that are not victim orientated. They may be that you are good at something, have freedom in this life, or that you deserve a loving