The third article of a series of articles.

Wealth ConsciousnessIn the previous article I spoke to some of the more common debilitating thought-forms that act to sabotage a person’s wealth. Now I will show you HOW TO address these ‘œinner robbers of wealth’ and HOW TO rid them from your psyche, forever. I invite you to read and practice the self-help exercises below for this ‘œaddress and rid’ process. Afterward, once your psyche is cleansed your mind will be more receptive to being anchored with healthy core thoughts pertinent to your wealth enhancement. Onto the ‘œaddress and rid’ process (you’ll need a pen and paper or a journal book).

Self-Help Exercise: Investigating Poverty ‘œah-ah’ Moments
One way to understand any subconscious barrier to money harmony is to reflect on your ‘œchildhood story.’ Reflecting can pinpoint the source of a victim based thought-seed. ONCE YOU’VE UNCOVERED THE SEED, YOU’LL NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHY YOU’VE NEEDED TO BE MOTIVATED BY THAT PARTICULAR SEED. This insight (‘œah-ha’ moment) is crucial, as it will assist you in releasing the ill-thought so as to make room in the mind for a positive thought. With that in mind, perform the following four steps below.

1. Marker Moments: Take time now and scan your past for clear ‘œmarker moments’ that imprinted negative relationships about money onto your psyche. (For example, suppose that when you were young your father stole your paper route money, making you feel worthless; or your father was really rich always giving you money, making you feel dependent). On a piece of paper or in a journal book, succinctly pen five unhealthy money experiences along with the people who were involved. Try to go as far back into your past as possible.
a. __________________________________________________________________
b. __________________________________________________________________
c. __________________________________________________________________
d. __________________________________________________________________
e. __________________________________________________________________.

2. Negative Core Thoughts: Looking at the five marker moments that you’ve recorded next determine the negative core thoughts about money that these experiences produced. (For example, using the prior example of the paper route and dad stealing your money, let’s say that you came to think that you didn’t deserve money. Your subconscious thought-form would be ‘œI don’t deserve money,’ thus blocking the full flow of money to you. On the other hand, using the prior example of dad always giving you money, let’s say that you came to think that you didn’t have to work for money and therefore you grew lazy and irresponsibly dependent on dad. Your subconscious thought-form would be ‘œMoney will always be there,’ which may attract money to you but at the expense of you not stepping into fulfilling your life mission. This, too, is unhealthy.) Write your negative core thoughts down now on your same piece of paper or in your journal book:
a. __________________________________________________________________
b. __________________________________________________________________
c. __________________________________________________________________
d. __________________________________________________________________
e. __________________________________________________________________

Whatever your five marker moments are and whatever your negative self-sabotaging thoughts are, the fourfold recipe for healing them involves you doing the following:

  • ACKNOWLEDGING them (as you are doing now by writing them down);
  • UNDERSTANDING the major life lessons/messages that you’ve learned from them (‘œah-ah’ moments);
  • THANKING the experiences and thought patterns for the lessons; and,
  • RELEASING them from your life, as they no longer serve your balanced well-being and best financial interest.

3. Message: Given this therapeutic strategy, next you’d write down what you’ve learned from having lived with these negative thoughts. In other words, what have been the major life lessons that these negative thoughts served for you? (For instance, using the prior example of dad stealing your paper route money when you were a teen followed by you growing into an adult thinking that you didn’t deserve money, perhaps one of your silver linings is that you got to open your heart to compassion, as you could identify with poor people. Compassion is an ‘œinner adult’ quality (a healthy, positive quality to develop). The way in which you learned to be compassionate, however, through victim consciousness, is unhealthy and needs to be shifted.) On your same piece of paper or in your journal book write down the many layers of THE SILVER LINING BENEATH THE CLOUD, so to speak, from your previously penned marker moments and their corresponding negative thought-forms:
a. __________________________________________________________________
b. __________________________________________________________________
c. __________________________________________________________________
d. __________________________________________________________________
e. __________________________________________________________________

4. Gratitude: Since fear, however it shows up (e.g., through anger, pain, sadness, etc.) and love cannot share the same space, when you TRULY feel grateful, you release the negative emotional charge around the event you are focusing on. Your BIG task here is to thank your negative thoughts and the marker moments they were associated with. You are thanking them for the lessons you learned from them.

THANKING CAN TAKE PRACTICE. If you are having a hard time feeling the joy associated with being grateful for the lessons you learned from your victim based experiences then try this technique: In your mind, think of someone or something that you love deeply and allow that wonderful feeling of love to spill over from your mind into every part of your body so that you feel that you are radiating love. In your state of radiating, call to mind the victim based experiences, their associated negative thought-forms, and the life lessons you learned, and immediately pull them into the love you are feeling and then focus on GIVING THEM GRATITUDE FOR THE WISDOM THEY HAVE GIVEN YOU.

On your same piece of paper or in you journal book, fill in the blanks for each of the five marker moments you previously penned:

Marker Moment 1:
I thank the experience of ________________________________________ that is

associated with the negative thought-form(s) of _______________________________for

teaching me about _____________________________________________________ .

Marker Moment 2:
I thank the experience of ________________________________________ that is

associated with the negative thought-form(s) of _______________________________for

teaching me about _____________________________________________________ .

Marker Moment 3:
I thank the experience of ________________________________________ that is

associated with the negative thought-form(s) of _______________________________for

teaching me about _____________________________________________________ .

Marker Moment 4:
I thank the experience of ________________________________________ that is

associated with the negative thought-form(s) of _______________________________for

teaching me about _____________________________________________________ .

Marker Moment 5:
I thank the experience of ________________________________________ that is

associated with the negative thought-form(s) of _______________________________for

teaching me about _____________________________________________________ .

5. Letting Go: When you TRULY feel grateful inside that is when you are prepared internally to release your negative experiences and their associated thoughts. YOU ARE RELEASING THEM FROM THE CORE OF YOUR BEING. You are letting them go from your life, as they are no longer serving your best financial interest.

An effective way to let go of the past is to first transcribe each marker moment onto a loose piece of paper along with the negative thought patterns associated with them and the life lessons they taught you. Next, safely apply fire to the paper so as to burn it. The burning of the paper symbolizes the transformation of the experiences and thoughts and lessons back to dust. From one form of energy they pass onto another form.

On your same piece of paper or in your journal book describe your letting go process:
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

Self-Affirmations to Create a Positive Self-Image:
Once you’ve honestly and successfully dealt with the negative experiences and thought patterns that were governing your flow of money, you need to anchor your mind and financial self in positive core thoughts. This grounding will help to bring you into balance and therefore your economic situation into harmony, as well.

Using the list of Wealthy Thought-forms presented in Table 1 during the previous article, I want you to REPROGRAM YOUR MIND by saying out loud each thought. Repeat affirming them at least three times’”starting today’”and everyday thereafter so as to ingrain these powerful thoughts deep into your subconscious mind and have them over-ride any lingering negative thought-forms. DEVELOPING AND SECURING A POSITIVE MINDSET IS A VERY POWERFUL LIFE STRATEGY.

The mechanics of affirmations are fourfold:

  1. repetition (so as to imprint the new thought);
  2. feeling (so as to connect your emotions with what you are affirming);
  3. persistence (so as to experience results sooner than later); and,
  4. belief (so as to have unwavering faith in what you are affirming; never doubt or be in a ‘œwanting’ state, as you’ll never have your desire, you’ll forever be wanting).

One challenge that people can have with affirmations is to maintain the higher emotional vibration linked to their affirmation. This Self-mastery comes with practice. For example, looking at Table 1 (in previous article), one of the positive affirmations, ‘œI am a success,’ counters the negative affirmation, ‘œI am a failure.’ While you are repeating, ‘œI am a success,’ you also NEED TO FEEL being successful and HOLD that higher emotional vibration in contrast to carrying the lower emotional vibration that is linked to ‘œI am a failure.’ (This ‘œholding’ of a higher emotional vibration is akin to the holding of an exercise stretch position whereby the longer you hold the physical stretch the harder it gets and the body starts to shake and yet at the same time the more flexible you become and the more you can hold it for longer periods of time.)

The power of self-affirmations on one’s health has been scientifically documented. For example, one study showed how self-affirmations buffer stress. The lead author of this study, David Creswell reported: ‘œThese findings suggest that reflecting on personal values can keep neuroendocrine (e.g., cortisol) and psychological responses to stress at low levels.’1 Another study showed how self-affirmations are associated with fewer physical symptoms at a 3-month follow-up assessment on early-stage breast cancer survivors.2

I advise you to repeat the list of Wealthy Thought-forms (from Table 1 in the previous article) at least three times a day or more. Continue working with these positive affirmations each day hereafter so as to create STRONG associations within your brain. The goal is for these positive affirmations to take precedence in your mind.

In the next article I will show you how to build upon your enriched psyche that is learning to clear negative thought processes and be governed by positive thought-forms. I will show you how to apply certain MONEY VALUES (or positive core values) that are beneficial to the process of successfully handling and managing your wealth. Stay tuned.

End Notes:
1. ‘œStudy: Self Affirmation Helps Buffer Stress.’ Web article:
www.bodyandhealth.canada.com
2. Creswell, J. D., et al (2007). ‘œDoes Self-Affirmation, Cognitive Processing, or Discovery of Meaning Explain Cancer-Related Health Benefits of Expressive Writing?’ Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33 (2).

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