Hidden Mechanisms Blocking Your Money #2
In the first article of this series, we talked about how you are changing, your worldview is changing, and along with this, your beliefs about money are also evolving.
Therefore, the most valuable gift each of you can give yourself is to clear out the rubble of outdated programs and beliefs.
When I explain in the training “Cash Flow Management 2.0” that for this you need to 1. see your limitation, 2. rewrite/reprogram it, many people are baffled.
“It can’t be THAT SIMPLE?!”
In this case, the simplicity is i-l-l-u-s-o-r-y. Because most people skip an important step. But more on that a little later.
First, it will be useful to understand {yes, yes, your mind never sleeps, it first needs to understand everything and put it in order} how you INTERNALIZE limiting beliefs.
After all, no one in their right mind would voluntarily agree to put on a straitjacket. Yeah, right!
Stages of Forming Your Reality
1. You make/hear a conclusion.
2. As a result, your behavior changes.
3. Changes in your behavior affect your beliefs about yourself.
4. Your beliefs become your reality.
Real-life Example #1:
A young family enters a store. A four-year-old child sees a chocolate egg and asks to buy it. Mom replies: “We don’t have money for that,” “Money doesn’t grow on trees,” or “Bought it, wasted it” — a phrase from my childhood.
What happens at that moment?
The child’s consciousness ACCEPTS the spoken conclusion, because parents are the most authoritative and beloved figures for them; their words are taken on faith unconditionally…
Real-life Example #2:
Let’s say you’ve heard the phrase from your mother more than once or twice that “money is earned through hard work and sweat.” Every evening you watched your exhausted father come home from work, with no strength or desire… just to eat and sleep. When you asked to buy new jeans, you were refused… there was no money for it.
As a result, you AGREE with the assumption that earning money is hard. You need to work a lot for it. And so you get your first job. You work like a horse, get paid little like a novice. And now your assumption gains proof that this is how it is.
You change, because now any talk about money or extra spending is directly linked to the amount of time spent working, aching bones, and fatigue.
You are firmly convinced from within that money comes with sweat and blood. And if you want to allow yourself to rest, there will be NO money.
The more such assumptions and beliefs you have inside, the NARROWER the space around you becomes.
For some, it’s the size of a pea. All the rest of the space is occupied. Occupied by limitations!
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9 signs to identify it.
All the limitations we absorbed in childhood and during our growing-up years, I call MYTHS. Myths about money and the people who have it.
They bear the “stamp of the past,” when unverified data was accepted as an axiom and a guide for action.
Everyone has their own set of myths. I specifically asked participants in my training “Cash Flow Management 2.0” to share their personal stories.
As a result, we see that a child’s pure consciousness turns into a metropolis of all sorts of limitations… not just financial ones.
Unlimited reality in childhood ==> Limited programmed reality of an adult
We’ve figured out how limitations appear.
Let’s quickly run through WHERE they come from.
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3 main sources of limitations
1. The most common option — your parents and relatives you frequently interacted with in childhood.
A child’s consciousness, like a sponge, absorbs everything around it. Not just on the level of information, but also feelings.
2. The second point, but no less common, is personal negative experience with handling money.
This includes your financial instability during a certain period, mistakes in investments, purchases, etc.
3. Mass media. {I won’t even explain. I haven’t watched TV for about 5 years, and I don’t read news online. You’re either in the matrix, or OUTSIDE it — my choice is obvious.
“To neutralize negative programming, you must reverse the spiral, turn it outward, away from your limited programmed reality.
Gradually, you overcome programmed limitations by creating a new reality, and you become a person with unlimited possibilities.”
— Robert Griswold
3 steps to reprogramming money beliefs
1. Recognize which money myths are dominating you.
2. Decide on your new paradigm of thinking. To start, at least ALLOW for the possibility that it’s possible!
3. Act based on your new paradigm.
A change in your behavior leads to the emergence of a new belief. Your new belief becomes your reality.
At what stage do you think the breakdown most often occurs?
We’ll talk about this in the next article.
And don’t forget to share your opinion in the comments. It pleases me, and it shows what to write about next…
* The article uses drawings and quotes from Robert Griswold’s book “How to Bathe in Money”
In this series:
Part 1. The Evolution of Money Awareness
Part 3. Reprogramming the Money Paradigm
Part 4. Matrix Reality