I love when people ask me to write about topics.
Someone recently asked if I could write about abundance, money and prosperity.
My favorite!
The thing is, it’s such a gigantic topic, fraught with peaks and valleys and swamps and dark forests, and wide open vistas….
….who knows where to begin?
Except, you do.
First, you can begin by writing down, almost in list form (in other words, you don’t need a lot of details), what you dislike about money, or what people do with it.
Then….get personal.
In relationship to ME, what do I find disturbing about money? Where don’t I feel prosperous? Where don’t I feel abundant, thriving, unfettered?
This can be in the past, or in the present (or even in the future, for that matter).
Then notice the simple, stressful thoughts arise:
- I need more money
- I should have more money
- I want extra money
- I want money enough to live here, go there, do this, buy that
- he/she should give me money
- I don’t want to work for money (or do x for money)
- I HAVE TO do “x” because I need the money
It can feel like being in a prison camp.
That’s what a lovely inquirer shared with me recently, when it came to her job. She felt stuck, forced, and at her wit’s end. They wanted her to do certain things she hated doing. Ugh.
How do you react when you think you need the money, and it’s not here?
You do things you hate.
When I believed I needed more money, I felt such anxiety, I couldn’t sleep. I watched my bank account drain, without a job. I frantically applied for work, I went to interviews, I felt desperate.
But I also did The Work. I relaxed in between panic-stricken moments. I did the best I could, and then remembered, over and over again, that this was going to go as it did….that I was not personally in charge.
What I WAS in charge of, was my thinking. I could panic about my bank account draining, or I could do The Work.
Who would you be without the thought you need more money?
Any kind of more money, whether a little, or a lot? Even just a little more for that thing you’ve always wanted? Or enough extra to attend the School or a program you’ve always longed for?
Who would you be without the belief you need more money to do that, money that isn’t here?
Are you sure?
Woah.
You mean, if I think of something really amazing that I’d love to do, have, see, participate in….and it costs money….I do NOT need more money in order to do it?
Could that be just as true, or truer?
Isn’t that a little more fun, to imagine ways to find it, obtain it, move towards it? Do you have all the facts? Have you asked for support, or information? How could you get that money you believe you want, or need? And are you sure you even really need to do that thing? LOL.
Who would you be without your story that NOW you need more money to drop on your head, this instant (the mind gets so impatient, doesn’t it)?
What if you turned all your thoughts around, about money?
- money needs more of me (come out, come out, and play says money!)
- money should have more of me (have you been hiding something?)
- money wants extra of me (yes, bring out your gifts!)
- I already have money enough to live here, go there, do this, buy that and, I don’t need money to do any of those things
- I should give myself money, and they shouldn’t give me any (unless they do). I should give THEM money (that sounds kind, I love giving)
- I WANT to work for money, it’s exciting! Work is play, I’ll play for money, and I sure don’t want to lie on the floor all day doing nothing–I like activity
- I don’t HAVE to do anything, because I don’t need the money I can choose.
Much love,
Grace