welcome to the fourth lesson. This one is called “Beliefs." Let's get started. The Effortless English Club Automatic English For The People Beliefs Main Text

<p>The Effortless English Club Automatic English For The People Beliefs Main Text</p> <p>Hello, welcome to the fourth lesson. This one is called “Beliefs." Let's get started.</p> <p>Beliefs are another important part of managing your psychology, of strengthening your</p> <p>psychology so that you will learn English, or anything in fact, much faster. And there are</p> <p>two kinds of beliefs to general categories of beliefs. Limiting and empowering.</p> <p>Let's talk about limiting beliefs first. Now limiting means, limit is something that stops</p> <p>you. It's like a boundary. It stops you from going ahead. So a limiting belief is a belief</p> <p>that stops you from improving, a belief that stops you from getting better. And l'd say</p> <p>most English students have limiting beliefs and many English students have very strong</p> <p>limiting beliefs. I call these beliefs English trauma and I got that name from a few of my</p> <p>Japanese students. They would tell me “AJ, I can't speak English well because I have</p> <p>English trauma."</p> <p>What is English trauma? What is that, what are they talking about? Well, trauma</p> <p>means some kind of injury, some kind of hurt. Emotional hurt, deep emotional hurt. So</p> <p>what they mean is that they had some very negative, painful experiences with English in</p> <p>the past. In other words, when they were in school in English classes, even as adults</p> <p>going to other English schools, they had very negative experiences. And all these</p> <p>negative experiences have created some very negative beliefs, some very limiting</p> <p>beliefs. For example, they say "I am not good at English." Well, that's a belief. It may</p> <p>be true, it may not be true. But it's an opinion, it's a belief that they have.</p> <p>Another belief, a very common belief, English is difficult. Or, English is complicated.</p> <p>Well, that's just a belief. For me English is very easy, because l'm a native speaker, just</p> <p>like your native language for you is very easy. Tomoe can speak Jap