To make a money mindset shift isn’t easy because you’ve likely been thinking the same thoughts about money for years. Before you were 10 years old, you will have picked up ideas about money, the “rich” and what you’re capable of from your parents. You didn’t have the cognitive skills to reject any ideas as a child. So they simply entered into your mind and became solid beliefs which continue to shape your world view.
Think back to the thoughts and ideas your parents had about money. What were the messages you received from them? Were there thoughts of plenty and abundance, or were there some ideas of lack and limitation there? Did your parents fight about money, or control? Ideas backed by strong emotions are powerful, especially if you picked them up when you were very young.
What are some of your beliefs about money now? How do you think of the rich? How does your thinking limit your ability to make more money?
Money Mindset Shift – Noticing Your Thinking
One way you can bring awareness into your thinking processes is through the practice of meditation. When you meditate, you can sit quietly and observe your thinking. In particular, notice strong emotions which relate to your ability to make money. You can also notice what your friends and relatives talk about when it comes to money. Pay particular attention because you likely have similar ideas around the subject as those you spend the most time with.
“You are the average of the 5 people you spend most time with” – Jim Rohn
Once you start noticing how your circle of influence see money, and how they see you too, you can bring some awareness to the topic. Spend some time silently noticing how people around you talk about money and related topics. Do they talk of plenty/abundance of of lack and struggle? Once you practice this regularly you will start to notice how you literally talk money away from you with some of the things you say. Especially notice when there’s strong emotions attached to it. When you talk strongly about your struggles, about lack and limitation and how difficult things are, you’re re-affirming it to yourself.
Money Mindset Shift – Affirmations
Affirmations can help you shift your money mindset towards more ease and abundance and away from lack, limitation and hardship. So once you have spent some time noticing how you talk about these things, you can begin to create some new affirmations which are more supportive of your intention to create more abundance.
Old ideas, once made conscious can be switched to new affirmations. Here’s a few examples:
- Money doesn’t grow on trees: money comes easily and frequently
- The rich are greedy: the rich are generous
- I’ll always struggle with money: I allow myself to make money easily
- I hate capitalism: the free market allows me more freedom
- I’ll never be rich: I am already rich in many ways
- I can’t afford it: How could I afford it?
- Why do things never work for me?: How can things work out better for me?
So as you start to bring more awareness to the negative ways in which you talk money away from you, replace negative affirmations with these new ones.
The Power Of The Subconscious
Your subconscious mind is powerful and listens to everything you are thinking and saying. Since your mind whirls continuously, it’s important to give yourself some new stories to replace the old ones with. If you keep telling yourself “you’re no good”, or that “life’s a struggle”, the unconscious mind receives this message and begins to deliver results of a like nature.
When you notice these destructive thoughts pay attention, you are sowing the seeds of your future with them. Once you learn how to switch the script which continuously flows through your mind, things can and will change, and quite rapidly.
No one will talk to you as much as you talk to yourself. So getting inside this inner dialogue and changing it to a more positive script is paramount to your money mindset shift.
You can read Shad Helmstetter’s book “What To Say When You Talk To Yourself” here.
Shifting your inner dialogue is one of the most powerful ways you can instigate change permanently in your life.
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