The thoughts we hold about money, are often the very thing which affects how we attract or repel it.
Who doesn’t want more money? How thrilling is it when we see a coin on the ground or, even better, a dollar bill? Millions dream of winning the lottery, and others of receiving a cash windfall. For many, money consumes our thoughts. We need it to live. It provides us with all of the niceties of life. And yet, most people feel they don’t have enough, and those who do want more.
Have you ever wondered why people who have money attract money? People who come from affluence have a better chance of making money than those from impoverished backgrounds, but that does not guarantee that they can or will make it flourish. Abundance is not about the luck of the draw or rolling the dice of life. To develop the Midas touch, we must seize the opportunity to change our beliefs and embrace the new ones until they become our truth.
Money is simply energy
Before there was money as we know it, people would barter for things—your energy in exchange for my energy, trading your eggs for a farmer’s corn or pelts from a hunter for a need of the hunter. In modern society, the physical energy used is now replaced with paper money assigned a value, but the energy exchange is still the same.
To get what we want, we trade our money (energy) for something else’s value (energy). It is a give-and-take. The boss pays the employee with money, which is the energy for the value of the work (energy) expended. However, because we have lost touch with the concept of energy exchange, we have become confused about what value is.
An example of this give-and-take is illustrated by what I learned from a hypnotherapist, Marissa Peer.
Please take a moment to:
Take a breath.
Now exhale. Exhale all of your breath, every ounce of it. You cannot inhale. Keep exhaling. You are not able to inhale. No matter how badly you want to, you cannot inhale. Keep going. Exhale until you cannot exhale anymore.
Now. Take a deep breath. Inhale deeper and deeper into your lungs. Fill them to the brim. Hold your breath in. DO NOT exhale. Keep inhaling until you can’t anymore.
Ok, breathe!
How’d that go?
Your exhale is you giving your energy away. Your inhale is receiving energy, receiving abundance.
Everything in life has a balance. A yin/yang, a black /white, a give and take. Without one, the opposite cannot exist. And so it is with the energy that we call money.
Each of us has a personal relationship with money. To be the money magnet we dream of, we must first identify the beliefs preventing money from flowing to us.
We learn these beliefs from early childhood. They may have been known from our family or picked up from society. Then, quietly guide us into adulthood with ideas that may work against our innermost desires of abundance.
The following are some common ideas we hold about money. Look at each one and see if any of them resonate with you.
Money is the root of all evil.
Money is dirty.
I don’t deserve to have money.
There will never be enough money.
You have to work hard if you want money.
You are greedy if you want money.
Only rich people have money.
If we agree that money is just another form of energy, let’s replace the word money with energy.
Look at those statements again.
Energy is the root of all evil.
Energy is dirty.
I don’t deserve to have energy.
There will never be enough energy.
You have to work hard if you want energy.
You are greedy if you want energy.
Only rich people have energy.
To attract money into our lives and keep it requires changing our perspective. A belief is a thought that we keep thinking. Change the thought, change the situation. By changing the stories we grew up believing were true and then creating new ones, we will be able to manifest abundance.
Another component of the energy money is inherent in how it was acquired. Ken Honda, a writer and speaker, bases his bestselling book on Happy Money, with the idea that if you bring in money through activities that give you joy, the money will bring a different and more positive energy than if earned in drudgery.
Money is only a tool, but it will not make us happy. Happiness does not result in the acquisition of money; it comes from joy and the possibilities of what it can provide.
We keep the status quo if we continue to retell the same stories. We cannot have it both ways. If we focus on stories of scarcity, scarcity is what we will attract. Thoughts are the most powerful tool to create the world we want. Change the story to change the outcome.
Let Go and manifest what you deeply desire. Are you ready to rewrite the story of your relationship with money?
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.
~Maya Angelou
