Creating Abundance
Learn
to overcome personal growth issues about creating abundance in your
life.
Affirming
Money
By Skye Thomas
Creating
abundance is probably the hottest topic across the internet. Whether
you're looking to start a business from your home computer or trying
to payoff your mortgage in time to retire with comfort, everyone
seems interested in how to get more money.
There
are personal growth and spiritual growth lessons involved in creating
wealth that have been oversimplified. Most people have issues around
money that cause them to block themselves from actually creating
a life of wealth and abundance.
A
major piece of changing one's self talk is in stating positive affirmations.
However, without hard work and a bit of old fashioned elbow grease,
affirmations are worthless.
First
off, let's look at why we even need affirmations.
Many
of us were taught that money is the root of all evil. The real quote
should read, "The love of money is the root of all evil."
Yes,
greed is the real topic, not the amount of money in one's bank account.
For whatever reason the lesson about greed has been taught all wrong
and people think that money in and of itself is evil.
Money
is simply a means for barter, a trade system. I'll trade you a chicken
for a new dress. We agree to swap paper money or coins that create
the equivalent of the trade so as not to have to haul chickens and
dresses around with us. Money is just a means of creating trades.
It's also a way to save up for later. I'll give you a chicken today,
but I want apples when you harvest them from your trees this fall.
Money
can be accumulated towards a larger deal. I've worked all year making
shoes for the entire village so that they'll all come help me build
my new house this summer. Saying that money is the root of all evil
is like saying that trading goods and services is evil. Trading
is trading, it's cooperation in a numeric format. Nothing more nothing
less.
Another
concept that many of us have to unlearn is the idea that it's really
difficult to earn a living or it's really hard to amass any kind
of wealth. Personally, I hear my father telling me throughout my
childhood that "Things are a lot harder when you get out into
the real world."
Truth
be known, nothing in my life has been as difficult as my childhood
was. For the first fifteen years after I left my dad's home, I had
to work really hard at making every penny because that's what I
thought was the grown up way of doing it.
I
have a friend who was raised on the exact opposite mindset. He was
encouraged as a child that he was completely capable of making money
with or without any fancy college degrees and such. The result is
that he's always had money and it flows in and out of his hands
pretty freely. He even built a business from the ground up on his
first try because it never dawned on him that he was supposed to
fail and struggle.
Our
belief systems around money definitely matter. What we think about
ourselves and money is more powerful than many people realize. Most
kids raised in wealthy families are not only taught how to make
money, but also there's an underlying belief that they'll naturally
carry on the family tradition.
Most
kids raised in poverty are taught nothing whatsoever about how to
amass wealth and are conditioned to believe that they'll never be
rich anyway. Those are the extremes. Most of us are somewhere in
the middle and so is our perceived earning potential.
Take
some time and seriously dig through your thoughts about money. What
were you taught? What was role modeled to you? Facing your self-limiting
thoughts will help you to stop letting them run your life. You will
have to work overtime guarding your every thought as you proceed
down the trail towards a life of abundance.
A
big piece of that will involve stating affirmations. It is a method
of changing the computer program running in your brain.
Let's
say that your original software was designed to believe that there
isn't enough wealth to go around and therefore it's going to be
next to impossible for you to get your hands on any of it. You want
to upgrade to a newer program that helps you to manifest more money
in your life.
Unfortunately,
the human brain doesn't allow a program to be erased once it's put
in place. So, you're going to have to put an overriding program
overtop of the original flawed program.
Every
time the old program starts babbling about scarcity and the lack
of money to be found, you have to immediately tell your brain to
stop and play the new program that believes that there is more than
enough to go around. You do that by telling yourself positive affirmations.
Force your mind to really see tangible proof that there is enough
money in the world for you to live the life that you dream of.
Affirmations
are amazing and powerful, but all by themselves, they aren't going
to do you a bit of good.
Very
few self-made millionaires did it be sitting in the lotus position
stating to the cosmos that their bank account was magically growing
all by itself. You still have to get up and do something. Sell something.
Give away a service. Teach something. Make people feel something.
Build something.
Yes,
you ought to pick something that you love doing because it'll be
easier to become really good at it. Nobody wants to be an expert
in a topic that bores them to death.
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Skye
Thomas became a writer in 1999 after twenty years of studying spirituality,
metaphysics, astrology, personal growth, motivation, and parenting.
Her books and articles have inspired people of all ages and faiths
to recommit themselves to the pursuit of happiness. To read more
of her articles, sign up to receive her free weekly newsletter,
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