Parts Work Meditation for Releasing Limiting Beliefs
Parts Work Meditation to Release Limiting Beliefs
Have you ever tried to think your way out of a limiting belief?
You tell yourself something new — I am enough, I am safe, I can rest — and maybe it feels true for a while … until life gets stressful and you find yourself right back in the same old pattern again.
That’s because limiting beliefs aren’t just thoughts you can change.
From a somatic perspective, they’re living memories of who you had to be (and what you had to believe) in order to stay safe, loved, or connected during overwhelming moments earlier in life.
Somewhere deep inside, a younger part of you learned that love required caretaking, or that visibility came with risk, or that expressing a need led to disappointment.
And those parts of you still live within you. They show up in the way your shoulders tense when you fear disapproval, in the breath that catches when you speak your truth, in the ache in your chest when you feel unseen.
They live in your body and subconscious, coloring how you interpret the world before a single conscious thought even forms.
So when mindset work doesn’t “stick,” it’s not because you’re doing something wrong. It’s because these deeper layers, the parts that still carry the emotional memory of what once felt unsafe, haven’t yet been met with the compassion and presence they need to finally release.
How Body-Centered Parts Work Helps Us Heal
In body-centered parts work, we don’t try to argue with these beliefs or talk our parts out of them. We meet them through the body, the only place where real change can happen.
Instead of analyzing or forcing, we slow down.
We sense where these parts live, maybe as a heaviness in the heart, a tightness in the throat, or a subtle trembling in the belly. We listen to what they hold, the emotions they carry, and the meanings they’ve made.
And we hold three compassionate truths close:
This part is carrying this limiting belief for a reason.
If it could have let go already, it would have.
Every part of you deserves compassion, love, and support.
As we bring curiosity and care to these inner experiences, something begins to shift. The parts that have been working so hard to protect you start to realize they’re not alone anymore. They soften. The body relaxes. The nervous system reorganizes around safety rather than fear.
This is what makes body-centered parts work so powerful. It reaches the roots of your limiting beliefs, the implicit memories and emotional learnings that live in the body, and helps them gently release.
Side note: to go deep into this topic, listen to EPS 101: A Somatic Perspective on Limiting Beliefs: Why Mindset Work Isn’t Enough
How This Parts Work Meditation Helps You Release Limiting Beliefs
In today’s Parts Work Meditation to Release Limiting Beliefs, we’ll use a somatic process called Regenerating Images in Memory® (RIM) to help you connect with the parts of yourself that are carrying these old beliefs.
RIM is a body-centered emotional processing technique that allows you to drop beneath the conscious mind and access the imagery, sensations, and emotions stored in the body and subconscious. It’s gentle, intuitive, and profoundly effective because it helps the body do what it already knows how to do: release what it no longer needs.
You won’t need to force anything or figure anything out.
You’ll simply bring your awareness to what’s already alive inside you, the sensations, feelings, or inner images that begin to emerge, and meet them with care.
As you do, those parts of you that have been holding on for so long begin to realize they’re not alone anymore. They start to soften, to connect, and to release what they’ve been carrying.
This is what it means to truly release limiting beliefs, not by pushing them away, but by meeting the parts of you that hold them with love and compassion.
A New Way of Relating to Yourself
True healing doesn’t happen at the level of your thoughts… It happens through relationship, through the way you relate to your inner world, to your emotions, and to the younger parts of you that are still waiting to feel safe.
This is the deeper work of somatic healing: learning to bring presence to what’s been long ignored, and discovering that what was once unbearable can finally be met and held.
And if you’re ready to go deeper, to explore this kind of body-centered transformation in a small, supportive group, applications are now open for Rooted + Resilient, my six-month program for deep somatic healing.
Because transformation doesn’t come from fighting with yourself. It comes from turning toward what’s been hurting, listening with compassion, and offering the safety that was once missing. Over time, the parts of you that have been holding on so tightly begin to soften. And in that softening, life starts to move through you with more ease, wholeness, and truth.
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Episode timing:
00:00 - How Body-Centered Parts Work Helps Us Change Our Limiting Beliefs
05:59 - Parts Work Meditation for Releasing Limiting Beliefs (using RIM)
38:00 - Conclusion
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