Has anyone ever sat you down…
At any point in your life…
Maybe when you were a child,or a teen, or even an adult…
And asked you the question…
What do you believe about money?
I don’t know about you, but my answer to that question is a big, fat NO!
No one in my entire life has ever really asked me about my beliefs around money, even though it’s something that I deal with on a daily basis and has a huge impact on the scope and breadth of my life!
And now that I’m aware of it…I can’t figure out why? Why didn’t anyone ever sit down with me and directly talk about Money: The Good, Bad and Ugly? Why isn’t there Money 101 in school? Even in college, why don’t they offer a course in Money-Making 101? It’s well-known that there are understandable, systematic ways to creating money or generate wealth, so why aren’t the masses educated in this most important, even vital aspect of living…of living a quality, satisfied life? If education is SO important and knowledge is power, then why aren’t we being equipped from our earliest educational years, how to understand money, positive and negative beliefs about it, and how to create it and sustain it’s flow? Why?
If you ask me, it’s a good question to be asking…
Especially if you are interested in creating positive income for yourself in order to support you, your loved ones and your lifestyle.
Some people seem to come by it naturally, others struggle, sometimes their whole lives. I have to admit that up until I began asking these questions, I would fall into the second category for many, many years.
Let me tell you a story….
Once upon a time (yes, in case your wondering, this is for adults) there was a young women living in the early 21st century. She was born and raised on American soil, but had a World Wide curiosity. She was born into a middle class, hard-working family…one where you worked hard, were frugal with money, grateful for everything you had and where the understood motto around money was “getting by is good enough“.
There was seldom any direct reference to money when she was growing up and a few of the ideas that she picked up from watching and listening to her family’s story around money were as follows…
-wanting money is bad
-you should be thankful for what you have and not covet more
-you have to work hard to make money
-lack around money is just part of life
-money is scare and hard to come by
You get the idea….these are the messages I received and without knowing it, adopted as my own belief concerning money. And guess what?
I have lived out those very beliefs until recently when I began to challenge my own limiting beliefs that I held around money. Until I became aware of that fact that I was holding onto and manifesting limiting beliefs around money, I simply thought that all those ideas/beliefs were just true because I received those messages from the time I was very young.
The great news is….that they aren’t! A belief is something that you can acknowledge and change! And that is precisely what I have been working on for the past several months. And slowly, but surely, my limiting beliefs and negative energy around money have begun to shift. I am creating a new script with money and the coolest thing is…anyone can do it!
Here’s a great quote from Joshua Benavides, a well-known and respected EFT Practitioner, on the idea of limiting money beliefs. (click anywhere on the quote and you can visit his webpage)
“If you don’t clear out past negative beliefs about money and success, you’ll never create the wealth you desire. That means: THINK, FEEL and ACT congruent with a Wealthy Mindset. If you want more money but your Unconscious Mind feels it’s not safe to have more (or that you don’t deserve it) there’s no way that you’re going to have it. Joshua Benavides
How do they know you will never have it under those circumstances?
Because your subconscious mind controls a huge portion of your life and will carry out whatever beliefs are held there regardless if you know they are there or not. And regardless if those beliefs help you or hinder you in your life. If they are there, your subconscious mind works to manifest them.
(click on the link ‘subconscious mind’ in the sentence above to read more in depth on this subject)
This was simply amazing to me when I discovered this idea.
All these years I have been holding huge limiting beliefs around the area of money and I didn’t even know they were there. AND, I have been living them out daily, even though it’s been the EXACT opposite of what I truly want!
Well, it looks like this is going to be Part 1 of this post. Too much great info to cram into just one post around this subject that affects each one of us so profoundly in our lives. So will wrap this up for now. Between now and when I post Part 2, I want to take a second to ask you a question.
What do you believe about Money?
Take a few minutes, get a piece of paper and jot down the top five things that come to your mind when you think about Money. You might be surprised what you find.
For some truly liberating information on audio by world renown Energy Medicine Therapist Carol Tuttle, who is also amazing at helping people identify and change limiting beliefs in their life, click on the link below.
http://www.caroltuttle.com/freeaudio
In Part 2 of this post I will be discussing how to deal with these limiting beliefs and will share some amazingly simple techniques for changing these beliefs that work surprisingly fast if you can be honest with yourself! So don’t miss the follow up and if you haven’t signed up to recieve email updates for my blog you can do that at the top right of this page.
Cheers… to Busting our limiting Money Beliefs!
Kristi Jayne
Embracing Your Life 