Limiting beliefs often start in childhood, according to Elizabeth Makepeace, a spiritual guide who works in Australia. She tells Jeremy Van Wert that children absorb the patterns around them before age seven, and that a belief like not good enough can then run in the background of adult life. She explains her method, recoding, and how she says people loosen those beliefs.
ᛉKey takeaways
- Elizabeth says children soak up what they see at home from the womb to about age seven, which can leave a running program like I'm not good enough.
- She believes the first step out of conformity is knowing you can do more, then choosing your day on purpose instead of drifting.
- Elizabeth describes balancing masculine action with feminine reflection: pause, listen, then act.
- She says her method, recoding, aims to neutralize the neural pathways behind a limiting belief, so memories remain but the old reaction does not.
- Her advice for parents is to ask children what they would like to create instead, and to avoid dimming their ideas.
ᛃ Moments in this one
ᚠWhat are limiting beliefs, and what is recoding?
Elizabeth Makepeace is a spiritual guide and healer who says she has worked for about 25 years, mostly online and with clients around the world. She supports women and some men to take ownership of their higher self. Her process is called recoding, and she also teaches what she calls the secrets of alchemy and creation.
In her words, recoding clears the resistance, old patterns, limitations, beliefs, memories and trauma that are wired into our neural pathways. The aim is to get these out of the way so a person can focus on what they want to create. These are Elizabeth's own descriptions of her method.
Jeremy ties this to his view that children begin as curious, happy people and then enter institutions that train them to conform. He says the magic of possibility gets ground out of people without their knowing. Elizabeth agrees, adding that we are given small moments to dream so we stay inspired, while the system keeps running.
ᚢWhere does feeling not good enough come from?
Elizabeth explains that the unconscious mind develops in the last stretch of pregnancy and is especially open from birth to about age seven. From zero to three, she says, children are in a brainwave state similar to hypnosis, so they absorb information without a rational brain to judge it. She uses the phrase that in a house full of thieves, it is the kid who will not steal who gets into trouble.
Children also notice how parents talk about money and how they treat each other, she says. If a child is told off for exploring, for example, the child does not know it was meant to keep them safe and may simply conclude they are naughty. Enough of that, in her view, and the unconscious settles on I'm not good enough to explore or be adventurous.
That program then shows up when a person expands a business, says hello to a possible partner or tries something new. Elizabeth suggests building a relationship with the unconscious instead of fighting it: thank it for keeping you alive back then, then explain that you have grown up. If these early messages sound familiar, Jeremy offers a straight read on whether therapy and retreat work suits you.
ᚦHow to break free from conformity and choose your day on purpose
Jeremy asks how to unlearn conditioning that makes one way of living feel like the only option. Elizabeth says the first step is knowing you can do more and that you are the creator of your own reality. The second is focus, because most days we drift through routine, scrolling or listening to the radio, without choosing what we do toward a dream.
She suggests pausing each day to imagine living the life you love and feel what it is like in your body. She describes this as balancing masculine action with feminine receptiveness: stop, receive and reflect, then let the will take action. She says living only in doing means being run by an unconscious mind with limited information, which she links to what epigenetics says about stored generational data.
As an example, she tells how she met her partner on a beach. After a long training day, she followed an impulse to walk to the water instead of making dinner, and a man walked past. They discovered they had lived on adjacent streets for about a year.
ᚨQuieting the mind chatter and developing intuition
Elizabeth describes noticing odd moments as a child, and a friend's urging that led her to a psychic in her twenties. She says she then spent years learning to trust the voice inside her head as intuition, and that seeing ghosts was only a phase. She presents all of this as her own experience.
For developing intuition, she starts with setting an intention, then quieting the chatter that pulls you back through meditation, mindset training or simply being present. She says people who try recoding often report feeling lighter and having space in the head.
Jeremy says his mind chatter is constant and makes it hard to focus, and that psychedelics have been a profound part of his own path because they quiet it. This is his personal experience and not a recommendation. If you want help with a busy mind or the patterns behind it, you can look into coaching and therapy with Jeremy.
ᚱNeutralizing limiting neural pathways: what clients describe
Elizabeth says recoding neutralizes the neural pathways that wire together around a belief such as I'm not good enough. In her account, a person keeps the memory and the wisdom but not the emotional, mental and physical reaction that used to follow. She says that lets someone create from a creative space instead of from sabotage beliefs.
She shares a client who felt locked into her family's business and wanted to explore her life as a singer. As the client worked on her own beliefs, Elizabeth says her father began treating her differently, which Elizabeth attributes to her changed vibration. In the end, the woman left the business and asked for her share.
Elizabeth also mentions a serious health diagnosis she received about two and a half years earlier and says she listened to her higher self at every step. This post does not suggest any practice replaces medical care.
ᚲRaising kids without dimming their light
Jeremy asks what parents can do. Elizabeth says she would regularly ask a child what they would like to create instead, and feed their imagination. If a child says they want to be a firefighter, she would explore every part of the job with them, including the stressful sides, and perhaps visit a firehouse.
She regrets a moment with her own daughter. When her daughter said she wanted to be a massage therapist, Elizabeth told her it was hard, and she watched her light dim.
ᚷElizabeth's own self-sabotage belief
Jeremy asks what she still struggles with. Elizabeth says her go-to sabotage belief is that she is incapable, and that she recently realized she has been in a comfortable bubble. She has achieved more than the rest of her family, and she believes that contentment kept her from reaching a bigger audience.
Her answer is to remember what she has already done and keep going. Jeremy closes by saying she helps people heal from years of disempowering messages. If you want to explore your own patterns alongside people who ask the same questions, the Mindful Mutiny community is one place to start.
Elizabeth's views on the unconscious, epigenetics, neural pathways and energy are her personal beliefs, not medical advice. Psychedelics and plant medicines may be illegal where you live and aren't right for everyone. Nothing here is a recommendation to use any substance.
ᚨ Questions people ask
What are limiting beliefs?
Elizabeth describes them as old patterns, beliefs and memories wired into the neural pathways, often formed in childhood. Examples she gives are I'm not good enough, I'm incapable and the voice saying you can't or you're too old.
Where does feeling not good enough come from?
Elizabeth believes it forms in early childhood, when the unconscious absorbs messages from the home. A child who is scolded for exploring may conclude they are not good enough to be curious. She sees this as a survival program, not a flaw.
What is recoding?
Recoding is Elizabeth's own process. She says it neutralizes the neural pathways behind a limiting belief so that a person keeps the memory but not the old emotional reaction. These are her claims, not established findings.
How can you stop living on autopilot?
Elizabeth suggests first knowing you can do more, then pausing each day to choose your day on purpose. She also recommends setting an intention and quieting mind chatter with meditation or simply being present.