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Author Insight
Reset Your Money Anxiety Autopilot
Is your autopilot set on scarcity or abundance? It doesn’t really matter how much money your family of origin possessed. Lots of people always felt that they had enough of everything they needed. Looking back, they say “We had very little money, but I never thought about being poor.” They embrace abundance. Many people from well-off families are constantly worrying about not having enough. They only feel happy when they know they have purchased something at the lowest possible price. No matter how much they have, they never feel comfortable. It depends a lot on what you heard and believed when you were a child. If you heard “Money doesn’t grow on trees.” or “We’re not made of money.” or similar statements regularly, you learned that there is never enough. That process set your autopilot on scarcity. To embrace abundance in your life, you need to reset the autopilot. There are lots of books on various methods that take lots of time and energy to reshape those frozen old beliefs. A simpler, much faster, and more effective way is to use the magic sentences used repeatedly in “Embrace Prosperity: Resolve Blocks to Experiencing Abundance.” Get a copy and start practicing reclaiming your energy from the old beliefs. You’ll be amazed at the change you experience.
Book Excerpt
Embrace Prosperity
You Need to Start Where You Are Now
If you don’t feel like you have enough money, you’ve probably learned to believe some ideas like these:
- Money burns a hole in your pocket
- The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
- You can’t win for losing
- Money is the root of all evil
- One way to lose a friend is to lend him money
- Save it for a rainy day
- Marry a rich man—or woman
- Money doesn’t grow on trees
- You spend money like it’s going out of style
- We can’t afford this
- It’s only money
Did you hear your parents, grandparents or religious institutions insist that this is the truth, even the absolute truth? How did hearing them help you learn to believe in scarcity?
Laurie: Whenever I teach a class about relieving money anxiety, the first thing I ask participants to do is create posters of statements they heard about money when they were children. We put them on the wall and refer to the statements throughout the workshop. Later, we try to answer the following questions about each statement:
- How did you learn this?
- Why did people in your environment repeat this when you were a child?
- How has this idea been useful to you in your life so far?
- Is the statement useful now?
Laurie lives and works in the US. Willem lives in Switzerland and works internationally. When we asked an international group of folks what they heard about money when they were children, these are some of the things they posted on the virtual wall of the Internet.
- Money doesn’t make happiness
- Learn to live within what money you earn or receive
- Don’t throw away your old shoes before you get new ones
- Easy come, easy go
- Money doesn’t grow on my back
- Money is not everything
- Money is all you need
- I’m not your ATM, I’m your parent
- Spend half, save half
- You will become a pauper
- It’s too expensive
- You can only become rich by being a criminal
- You have to work hard for your money
These messages are rarely shared with evil intent. Children don’t experience limits and often share freely. Many people who grew up in poverty had no idea that they were poor when they were small. Others who grew up in wealthy families learned to fear not having enough.
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