Change Your Beliefs about Wealth
One of the things that people don’t understand is that everything that you have in your life is a result of your beliefs. I am not talking about religious beliefs. What I am talking about are the beliefs that are formed as a result of your upbringing and handed down from your main caregivers early in life. When most people think about beliefs they think about religion, politics and topics like that. Most of these thoughts are actually opinions and not beliefs.
Most of your beliefs whether you are aware of it or not are unconscious. They become wired into your brain and body and you don’t even realize that they are beliefs. You just somehow acquired the notion without really questioning or challenging the belief. Becoming aware of these unconscious beliefs is often a very painful process because it suddenly will become clear just how much of your life you have lost to living in this unconscious manner.
Some of the many beliefs that people get about wealth are something like this:
- Money is the root of all evil
- Rich people have sold their soul to get that kind of money
- There is not enough money for you
- People with money are corrupt
- It is not OK to have needs and desires
Whatever your beliefs about money and wealth deprogramming your self limiting beliefs requires patience, perseverance and a willingness to do something different.
The idea that money is the root of all evil will pervade your entire life. You will read books that will prove it to be so and your situation will become it’s own self fulfilling prophecy. You will hang out with people who believe the same thing further supporting your belief. You will see it all around you how money is the root of all evil – in TV shows, in the homeless on the street, on your attempts to make more that just get you further in the hole.
It is true that some people are greedy and exploit others for the sake of making money. It is obvious in our current economy with companies who willingly gave loans to people who couldn’t afford them all for the sake of making the bank money.
Thinking that you don’t want to be one of these greedy people and that you would rather be good you forsake making money and put yourself in the moneyless bubble. If you are good and follow a career helping others or doing noble work, you won’t be a part of that class.
Many who are living in a moneyless bubble blame their lack of money on the economy or a bad situation. You easily think that your economic status has nothing to do with you. After all you are such a good person. You maintain the self programming by blaming others for your situation.
Buying and having nice things gets equated with being bad or greedy. Living without is somehow more holy giving you an air of importance. Selling out and becoming a part of the class that makes a lot of money would be shameful and guilty.
Your beliefs about money and wealth are very strong and have a hold on every aspect of your life. You could have more if you wanted more but of course you don’t want more. If you had money it would somehow change you for the worse. It is better to serve others than to lead others. If you had money you would then have the freedom to do as you want day in and day out. You would have to take more responsibility and that is also a very painful process.
Now it is hard to change your thinking and your beliefs since of course they are unconscious. The way to become more conscious is to start paying more attention to your feelings. Your feelings will tell you when you are buying into these old beliefs. When you are feeling anything but love or joy, you can know you are falling into the moneyless bubble. Since you were born, you were a precious being filled with love and joy. Along the way of growing up your personality was formed and you often think that you are your personality. Your personal essence gets buried in your personality, in the jobs you choose and the choices you make. Your personal essence is who you really are and your feelings will tell you when you are out of harmony with your personal essence.
As you start paying more attention to your feelings and can also know when you are feeling bad that you are just wanting something and the bad feeling is coming from the fact that you are focused on what you don’t want rather than what you do want. Complaining is often a good indicator. When you complain about something like the lack of money you can know that what you do want is money. Changing it around and focusing on the solution will keep the bad feelings at bay and keep you focused on what you do want and will keep you feeling positive.
Wealth quite simply is the number of days you can live without having to work. Having enough money to do what you want to do on any given day or even moment is true freedom. Having that much freedom is often scary at first.
Most of these beliefs are centered around the idea that you are not good enough or important enough. They were created to protect you from the pain of not being the center of attention in your parents eyes. They are a part of our wanting to melt like butter together in a safe cocoon of love and acceptance. We look for that sense of deep merging with another in everything we do and say but will never find it outside of the womb. Each time we look and fail we are left with gaps in our inner essence that we try to keep filling to avoid the pain. The emotions that arise are really the way back to connecting with your essence and breaking through the old beliefs that you are not worthy of having money or making money.
The more you feel your essence the less you will be plagued by these emotions.
Not being in charge of what you make brings with it a state of dependence and surrender that you experienced as an infant when you were completely attached to your mother and father. To recreate this state you keep yourself from having money. If you had money you would no longer have to make any excuses. It is often easier to just remain poor and live with less because it is more noble.
So with all of these beliefs about wealth and having money and the continual projection of these beliefs onto the world, beliefs are very difficult to change but it can be done. In order to change your beliefs at their core you will need to allow yourself to become more aware of your feelings and go through a catastrophic meltdown that can actually melt away your old beliefs. It begins with gathering new information that actually will create tension within you surrounding the old belief patterns. The new info must be in direct opposition to your old beliefs. At first you will respond with defensiveness, disbelief and resistance. If you keep at it there will be eventually a moment of surrender – a snapping point in breaking this old belief.
You have just started by reading this whole post! You can continue by reading this blog and taking small steps to being financially aware and changing your beliefs about wealth. I highly recommend that you also invest in some of these great books that got me started on my way to a better financial life as well as personal life.
Making the Switch to Being Rich
Steve Capellini’s book on how to deprogram the brainwashing that happens around beliefs about money.
Diamond Heart, Book One: Elements of the Real in Man (The Diamond Heart Series , No 1) (Bk.1)
A really good book on personal essence and personality, it is the first in a series of 4 books that are all highly recommended.
Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness
It was the Hicks first book ( The Law of Attraction) that actually got me started on the fact that it is your emotions that are the key to changing beliefs but this one focuses on the concept of money.
Why Women Earn Less: How to Make What You’re Really Worth
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