It is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe something as being restricted or confined by certain thoughts or ideas. For example, "John felt as though his creativity was limited by his own limiting thoughts."
"You can begin to put this science into practice by noticing, intercepting and challenging your negative or limiting thoughts.
If you have found that you hold your ideas -and yourself - back, join Caroline Korda Poole for an interactive workshop that will allow you to investigate the limiting thoughts and patterns that prevent you from presenting your ideas with confidence.
Then, using a quick method developed by Mel Robbins, you will be able to give yourself the 'activation energy' you need to move past any limiting thoughts you have and to do or say that which matters to you.
Fabienne Fredrickson, a Female Entrepreneur of the Year in 2012, wrote that "breakthroughs happen when limiting thoughts and behaviors are challenged". Leaders can reach a higher level of capacity when they challenge themselves and move past behaviors that limit their leadership.
You may spend your time obsessing over events in the past (Was that good enough? Did I say the right thing?) and projecting similar limiting thoughts into your future (How can I get this right? What if I'm not good enough?).
Then, start noticing your habit of believing your limiting thoughts.
Believing that your capabilities are capped by your innate intelligence or skills is a very limiting thought.
When you discover a limiting thought and feeling ask yourself, "What would I LIKE to be thinking?" "What do I DESIRE to feel?" Then focus on feeling and thinking what you desire in that very moment.
First, unless I did something different my business would always be the same and it scared me; it was a limiting thought, because of where I WANT to go.
When we see this is available to us and know thought is the source of our experience, we are less likely to fuel and get gripped by limiting thought patterns, and when we do, it is easier to take them less seriously and not hold them in place as long.
While preparation-based curricula may reflect creative reflective thought by educators, they seriously limit thought of this kind by students, even when they purport to foster it.
