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Money: How to Make it Serve You! Part 4 of 5 Series

We Receive What we Invest in, in our Lives!

We can only receive what we can allow ourselves to receive and this is completely proportionate to what we believe, think, feel and how we act towards what it is we want to attract.

If we want to attract more money to our lives; we must first learn how to water and nurture that area, which usually requires some form of transformation or resetting our minds regarding money!

How is our mental blueprint formed?

We need to think of our minds as computers – highly advanced computers – that are programmed from the time of our conception to think, believe and ultimately make choices and take actions, based on those thoughts and beliefs.

Essentially, our money blueprint (Ecker) is based on the program we’ve received in the past from parents, authority figures, teachers, media, culture, religious leaders, etc regarding our thoughts and attitudes towards money. Their ways of thinking about money, became ours.

The following outline is my summary of what Harvey T. Ecker lectures about in his 6 part series on our Money Blueprint; here are the ways in which we have been programmed to think about money:

Verbal: Phrases and messages we heard when we were young, such as: “Money is the root of all evil!” “You can’t be rich and spiritual” “Money can’t buy happiness!” “We can’t afford it!”

Modeling: What we saw when we were young – what model or example did our parents establish for us? Was money a source of joy or bitter arguments? What happens to us when we see our parents or people we respect act towards money? “Monkey see, monkey do!” Ecker says, “humans aren’t far behind.” We either model what our parents taught us through their example or we do the exact opposite because we are angry or in opposition to being like our parents.

Specific Incidents: What did we experience (emotional charges) around money, success and rich people? We validate what we are taught in our adult lives. For example, if we witnessed examples of conflict over money, conflict regarding money will ultimately show up in our lives. Perhaps, we watched our parents receive money only to have it taken or lost in the form of an emergency in the family or something in the house needed to be repaired. We grow up believing that money will go out as quickly as it comes in and we will continue to create or attract scenarios where this exact phenomenon keeps happening to us.

How do we reset our Money Thermostat?

Ecker uses the comparison between our mental blueprint about money and a thermostat. If the thermostat is set to maintain the house at 72 degrees and someone comes and opens a window and lets the cold air in – no matter what, the thermostat will kick-in and drive the temperature back up to 72 degrees. If we set the thermostat in the summer to keep us cool and it becomes very hot outside, the thermostat or central air will again kick-in to bring the temperature down and maintain it at what we have programmed it.

Ecker says this is exactly the same with our mental thermostat regarding many issues – particularly our thoughts about what we “need” in order to be comfortable or happy. If we grew up poor or middle class, we were most likely programmed that just getting by or being able to pay our bills with some left over for entertainment is “living comfortably” and guess what? That’s all our thermostat will ever allow us to be – comfortable, but not wealthy and not abundant. Hence, we need to reset our internal thermostat.

How do we do this?

First we must understand that we are made up of four elements: Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, and Physical and whatever is going on in the M. E. and S. will manifest itself in the Physical realm.

Beliefs (Spiritual) = Thoughts (Mental) = Feelings (Emotional) = Our Actions and Our Results

Before we can begin to change our Money Thermostat, we must first learn how rich people think. Here are some basic rules, Ecker outlines that we must follow before we do anything else:

1. Stop judging rich people – give up the beliefs that “rich people are greedy or selfish” and simply observe and begin to appreciate how they think. Replace our old programming with new statements:

Rich people are Cheap = Rich people are generous

It takes money to make money = It takes creativity to make money

I’m too old to make a change = I am able to learn new skills

I can’t be rich and nice = I am rich and a nice person

2. Give up the victim stance and take full responsibility for our own financial situation (stop blaming the economy, others, high interest rates, our parents, etc.)

3. Take Ownership over our lives and financial situation: “I create my life!” vs. “life happens to me!”

4. Stop justifying that we don’t need money, can just get by, just want to be comfortable or that money isn’t that important.

5. What we focus on, EXPANDS, therefore focus on what’s RIGHT in our lives – not’s what wrong!

6. Immediately, stop complaining! Complaining = garbage magnet!

All change begins with Awareness and with new thinking comes new results!

Changing your blue print about money: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeNAGoFSqno

Next Post: Learn how to love and appreciate money! Part 5 of 5 Series

Money: How to Make it Serve You! Part 3 of 5 Series

Feb21

In What Area is Money Serving You? In What Area is it Not?

Many of us struggle with money – or lack of it – now and then. However, we do not necessarily struggle in all areas. This is an important detail of which to take note. For example, perhaps we are always lucky to land the right job at the right time; but we seem to always have an issue with having enough to pay our bills. Perhaps, we are blessed when it comes to people paying for our dinners or other things we need; but we often have breakdowns with our car or other maintenance issues. Maybe it’s that we are extremely lucky in winning money; but the next day, we have an accident and there goes the whole lot we’ve just won.

Why does this happen?

There is a reason why, in some financial areas we seem to thrive and in others, we are barely surviving. The discrepancy between these areas is where lies our personal growth; and ultimately, our financial growth. Our success is dependent on getting these areas healed and in order.

For example, if money often seems to come to us easily; but then a few days later, our car breaks down and it just happens to be exactly or close to the amount we have just “luckily” received, chances are we have a subconscious, core belief that we either do not deserve the blessing we have been given or we do not truly believe that we are lucky or fortunate or that our luck will last.

We may be in a perpetual struggle between two conflicting beliefs because our father was always stating that he had the “luck of the Irish”, but we perpetually heard our mother say, “Oh, I just can’t get a break!”

We are often fed many misleading and negative ideas regarding money and finances and sometimes we’ve heard so many conflicting beliefs, we continue to create them in our adult lives. I don’t know about you, but this can be very tiring and frustrating!

How do we break free of these beliefs once and for all?

Sometimes, it is as simple as recognizing them, writing them down and saying to ourselves that we no longer need these beliefs and they no longer serve us. At other times, if they are deep-seated beliefs or there is a great deal of emotion attached to them; it may require that we seek outside help from a psycho-therapist, spiritual healer, hypnotist or any other professional that can help us get to the bottom of these core beliefs. The other very effective technique that can release triggers and blockages is E.F.T: Emotional Freedom Tapping Technique (please refer to my series on E.F.T on my right sidebar of my blog for more information regarding it).

Mediation is a key strategy at getting to our core beliefs, because it is in this meditative state between full consciousness and semi-sleep that we can send messages to our subconscious successfully. Here are some key strategies to try within a meditative state:

1. As I have mentioned in my other posts regarding this money series, watching and listening to subliminal training videos can be very helpful to begin our journey to financial freedom.

How to Think Like a Millionaire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXPIVsDLRAM

2. Harv T Ecker is another expert on changing our money blueprint or mindset by thinking like the rich, instead of from a poverty mentality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeNAGoFSqno

3. Focusing on an item that is symbolic of financial freedom can also be very helpful. I have a picture of the type of car I am intending to own in the next few months and it happens to be a car that represents for me that I am in a very lucrative financial position. I imagine driving this particular car into my family’s driveway, right down to taking my dog cage out of the car and seeing my family coming out and greeting me to have a look at my new car. I currently enjoy and treasure the car I am driving, but I often imagine I am driving my new car when I am behind the wheel of my current one; I even imagine how much higher I will sit in the driver’s seat.

4. Visualizing Exercises: These are exercises regarding forgiveness and letting go of our parents’ beliefs about money and wealth, which can be very effective. I have visualized conversations with my parents; they are asking me for forgiveness for teaching me their limited views regarding money; and I am forgiving them and accepting from them a wonderful gift that they are happy to bestow upon me, allowing me to be physically and financially free from their home and moving towards my financially free lifestyle.

5. The key is to meditate on or visualize things that actually bring us into a state of feeling associated with owning or having wealth. For example, when I imagine driving my new vehicle, I can actually feel the excitement and the joy of the experience. If repeating affirmations about being a proud owner – (I am not limiting the Universe as to how it wants to bring me this car – or speaking over myself that I have to earn the money for it) – of this vehicle registers on a scale from 1-10 at about a 6, then actually visualizing driving it and feeling the emotions attached to the experience, puts us at a level of 9-10. This higher level is what will cause our subconscious and the Universe to respond more effectively to our request or desire.

Check Out Tony Robbins “How to Breakthrough”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc4rWleclXs

Next Post: How to Create a New Blueprint for Our Money Consciousness. Part 4 of 5 Series.

Money: How to Make it Serve You! Part 2 of 5 Series

Feb20

How do we begin to have money serve us, rather than be its servant?

It’s actually very easy. We must first recognize that money was created by human beings – not the other way around. We created money as a form of currency to get what we need and desire. However, it is interesting how many of us have become a slave to money.

How can we be a slave to something that we ourselves created in order to serve us? Did money one day take up arms against us, revolt and take us over? No. However, our wants and desires did and therefore money has become our master instead of serving many of us. As soon as we put ourselves in a position of lack or desire; we are then slaves to money, asking the Universe, God or anything else to send us some form of it in abundance. We simply need to take back our power from money – as it is only an illusion that it has any power over us anyway.

How do we take back our power and become the master of money and the master of our lives once again?

Like any loyal and faithful servant that is hired to serve us; we must recognize our position of authority and act from that position. It wouldn’t do us much good if we hired a cook, gardener, cleaner or anyone else to provide a service to us, and then when they arrived at our house, we tell them, “you know what, do what you want; it would be nice if you would carry out your duties and I will pay you, but really, I have no authority over you, so you can just do whatever you want!” Hence, we must not do this with money either. Otherwise, it will do just that for us – nothing! Our belief that we are a slave to money will ultimately allow it to have mastership over us.

We must begin to establish a relationship with money that begins with honesty regarding our feelings and attitude towards it. Then, we can begin to take ownership over it and become the authoritative master to our loyal and faithful servant that was in fact, created for us and to serve us.

Let’s begin by writing money a letter:

Dear Money

I love you and I respect you. I have known you all of my life. I have appreciated your worth since time began – the extrinsic power that you have to create excitement, fear, loathing, abhorrence and pleasure. I have probably felt all of these things towards you at some point or another. I have felt excitement when I have been given you; when I have earned you; when you have been spent on me; and when I have spent you. I have felt sadness and despair when I have lost you and when you have been stolen from me. I have felt great and profound excitement when I’ve had you. I have kept you, saved you, wasted you, spent you and given you to others. I have felt for a long time that you have power over me and I have to beg to have you in my life. I’ve prayed, pleaded, asked, and cried over you at times. However, I now recognize my error.

I now recognize my authoritative power and I realize that I am not your servant – you are mine. You were created by humans in order to aid us in having and obtaining and keeping what it is we desire. I now recognize that you are a form of energy, manifested in paper and metals and have been created solely to serve us – to serve me. I now treat you in this form – an energy – a source in order to help me create and have the life I desire.

You are not only my faithful and loyal servant – you are my friend, my aid, my supporter in all things. You are in my life in abundance and more and more of you is coming to me and to my life. You are paying off my loans. You are paying all of my bills easily and effortlessly. You are coming to me – in my mail, in my email, in my bank account, in my hands and in the form of gifts, prizes, treasures, offers and opportunities that are coming easily and effortlessly to me. You are coming to me in abundance and I am attracting more and more of you each and every day. You are my loyal and faithful servant!

You are my loyal and faithful servant and you are to serve me and support me today and the rest of my life – in abundance. The only thing I owe you is my gratitude. I appreciate you and love you and allow you to NOW flow easily, effortlessly and abundantly into my subconscious, consciousness, life, bank account, wallet and my hands! My cup and my life runneth over with you! And I know this to be true.

Your faithful and loyal master, ________________.

I recommend that you write your own letter to money; preferably hand-written first. There is something very powerful about using our hands and the power of putting ink to paper. Then, if you wish, you can type it and post it somewhere you will read it every day for at least 30 days – although 40 days seems to be the magic number when it comes to creating a habit.

May you begin to see the physical manifestation in your life that money is not only your friend, but your loyal and faithful servant that wishes to be your companion and helper each and every day of your life!

Powerful Subliminal Training for Money: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlw97AQyswc

Next Post: Money: Taking Note of Where it is and isn’t Serving You!