Manifest Wealth With Positive Affirmations
Posted June 19th, 2011 by adminIf you’re like most people, you want financial stability. Generally, people want “more money,” but they’re stymied in their quest to get more because its supply seems so limited. There’s never enough to go around, it seems, and the quest to “get more money” is a constant struggle.
However, if you want to manifest wealth in your life, you can; you have to put yourself in the position to be able to attract abundance through sources of income, or other means of prosperity. You can use affirmations to assist you in this process, but what are they, exactly?
Affirmations at their essence are positive statements you make in the present tense. Over time, they can literally reshape your thinking and your mind. Your behaviors and feelings in regard to money and wealth will change so that you will actually be open to receiving prosperity joyfully and easily.
The problem is, although most people want “more money,” they also have limiting beliefs about their abilities to obtain it. We’re taught a lot about money as children, though most of this learning is unconscious. Take a look at the following statements and see if any of them ring true for you.
- “Most people who are rich are rich because they did something illegal or dishonest.”
- “That’s not something we can afford.”
- “We don’t buy those kinds of things.”
- “Rich people are just greedy.”
- “Rich people usually just want power and control.”
- And finally, what is perhaps the granddaddy of all limiting money statements “You know money doesn’t grow on trees.”
You’ve probably heard statements like this all your life, from friends, parents, the media, family, neighbors, and so on. Unconsciously or consciously, you’ve had your beliefs molded by what others think about rich or wealthy people. You probably know that there are plenty of truly ethical rich people around, but the programming you have received throughout your life stops you from creating your own wealth.
That’s where affirmations can help. At their essence, the previous statements and other conditioning you may have received are really just affirmations, only they are negative affirmations. Take a look at them. They’re said in the present tense, they are said with conviction, and they’ve probably been repeated in some form or another over and over and over again. With that repetition comes belief and the shaping of how you understand the world. Unfortunately, they can also hold you back from obtaining true wealth for yourself.
It’s a good idea to write specific affirmations about the beliefs you may want to have in regard to wealth, such as, “It’s easy to make $1 million a year.” Before you do that, though, you will probably want to start more subtly, to change your beliefs about wealth in general. By replacing limiting beliefs about money in general with those that will empower you, you’ll make actually attracting money much easier.
So start by making a list of statements, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, or events that have had a great effect on what you particularly feel about rich people and wealth in general. What did your parents teach you about rich people, or about money? Write anything you can think of down on a piece of paper, and put it in statement form.
Your next task is to take each statement and reshape it so that it’s a positive affirmation about wealth instead of a negative one. For example, the statement, “Money doesn’t grow on trees” gives one the impression that wealth (or money) is something that is precious and scarce, limited and finite, a rare occurrence. You can reshape this belief into a positive affirmation that says something to the effect of, “Abundance is the natural state of the universe, and there’s always enough wealth for me to receive whatever I want.”
Once you confront your previous behaviors and beliefs about money, you can begin to change them so that they support your pursuit of what you really want. For example, if you really do want to earn $1 million a year, but you think rich people are shiftless, dishonest, or ruthless, it’s not likely that you will ever allow yourself to become “rich.” By changing your affirmations to something positive, you can replace those limiting beliefs with empowering statements that free you to pursue whatever you want.