In this post you’ll be getting a money mentality makeover! Your thoughts about yourself, money, wealth and the rich will affect how you see money, how you see yourself, and how money flows into or out of your life.
If you have some negative ideas around the subject of money, and most people do, we’re going to shine the light of awareness on it, so you can change it! You can’t change something if you don’t even know it exists! So shining a light on your deepest feelings about money is a good first step.
This is an exercise to help you get more clarity about how you think about money. Be honest with your answers and write anything positive/negative which may be in your mind. The more fully you answer these questions, (and the more honestly), the more you will discover about the potential hidden “blockers” to money in your inner mind:
- Money is….
- Wealth is….
- Rich people are…
- The reasons I can’t or may not be extremely wealthy are…
- Some of the possible negatives about being rich, or going through the process of trying to get rich are…
- My greatest worries and fears regarding money and wealth are…
- The worst thing about money is…
- My reasons why I don’t want to be rich are…
- Poor people are…..
There’s more questions in my article money mindset pdf too. Go through the article and write out all your answers being as honest as you can.
Money Mentality Makeover – Changing Your Mind
Write out the following on a piece of paper and answer as fully as you can:
- What did you hear around money, wealth and rich people as a child (from your parents, family, society etc.)?
- What are 3 unsupportive beliefs you have or have had around money, success and being rich?
- Write a positive or more empowering belief for each of the above.
The thoughts you carry about yourself, money and becoming more wealthy are likely offering you some resistance to increasing money in your life. If you harbour negative ideas in your consciousness, you’re going to attract situations, circumstances and events which are a match for those beliefs/ideas. Wouldn’t it be a better idea to offer up new beliefs which are more supportive of your ideal outcome of making more money?
“…the key to success and the key to failure is this: WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK ABOUT” – Earl Nightingale The Strangest Secret
By choosing our thinking more deliberately, we can “feed” our subconscious mind with thoughts of wealth and plenty.
Money Mentality Makeover: A Meditation
The trouble is, we think the way we have always done habitually for many years. So thinking becomes an unconscious habit. You can’t very well change that if you’re totally unaware of it! So the first step towards your money mentality makeover is to become conscious of the thoughts you habitually give energy to.
This can take some inner work and we’re going to cover that here.
Sit comfortably in a place you won’t be disturbed. Close your eyes and pay attention to your breath. Watch the breath as your body raises and falls with each in and out breath. Count from 1 to 5 with each full breath and then start again at 1. As you continue with this practice for several minutes, you will notice your mind interjecting. The “chatter” of your mind can almost bring the practice to a stop. But be patient and simply watch the mind, without entering into any discussion with it.
Make this a daily practice by starting with just 5 minutes. As you persevere you will start to see that the chatter of the mind doesn’t stop. Extend the time each day until you are meditating for 20 minutes at a time for each sitting. Each time you notice the mind chatter, bring your awareness back to your breath and counting from 1-5 again.
Stalking The Mind: Yaqui Indian Style
This stalking technique comes from the books of Carlos Castaneda. You can find it in this book, the teachings of Don Carlos:
This technique can help you identify your thoughts and actions which you perpetuate and helps you become more conscious of both. Take a timer, and set it to go off at intervals throughout the day. Make them arbitrary, so you won’t guess when the timer is about to go off. So not on a hourly interval, because you could easily guess when it would go off. The idea is for the timer to catch you off guard.
Keep a pen and paper handy and when the timer goes off, write down these three things:
- What were you thinking?
- What were you doing?
- Do you want this?
The benefit of this exercise is to give you clarity on your thinking and “doing” processes, which are often unconscious. By shining a light of your awareness on these two important aspects of your life, you can gain much clarity on the ideas you perpetuate through your thoughts and actions.
By answering the third question each time the timer goes off, you can become clear on whether these are the thoughts and actions which are taking you where (you say) you want to go in life.
Summary
“The brain simply believes what you tell it most. And what you tell it about you, it will create. It has no choice” – Shad Helmstetter, What You Say When You Talk To Yourself
So why not talk success, wealth and happiness into your life? The reason is that your habitual thinking patterns are well worn in. They are like grooves in your mind which have deepened over the years. To change your engrained thinking patterns isn’t an easy feat. After all, your whole life is a reminder that your thoughts were real, because your life represents the reality you have created.
Your friends are mirrors who reflect your beliefs back to you:
Jim Rohn “You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with”
To make change you need to get conscious about the ideas you give energy to. Start by observing and uncovering your limiting beliefs around the subject of money. Notice those around you, your friends and relatives, and how they talk about money. Is it all positive? Most likely not. Most likely there is some charge on the subject and some negativity and limitation.
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