How to Manifest a Positive Money Mindset – Part 1
The first in a four-part series on how to feel your best about money. Inspired by Esther and Jerry Hicks’s book Money and the Law of Attraction I felt inspired to talk about how important it is to feel good before taking action. What started as a good read on maternity leave resulted in this movement to help you feel your best in every area of your life.
Money is a sensitive topic. Most of us are taught that attaining it is the ultimate prize. Some are judged for the abundance or lack of it. Bad people use money to amplify bad. Good people to amplify good.
Most of us want to live a life we love at a slower pace with freedom of time. If we could only make X amount more then we’d be good. It’s a complicated topic.
Why am I confident we can shift our relationship to money? Because we didn’t start our physical journey with barriers and blocks. Abundance comes second nature to us.
There’s an age-old saying that money is the root of all evil. Or that wanting money isn’t spiritual or aligned. Not true. Money is a big part of the human experience. It’s what we use to create environments and experiences that make us feel our best. There’s no ignoring or getting around it. So it would benefit us to feel good about it.
Whether you:
feel like you don’t have enough money
wouldn’t trust yourself when you do make a lot
are making money but can’t get past a certain number
feel shameful for wanting more money
You’re in the right place. No matter what your starting point is, there’s something here for you. My dream is that at the end of this series you’ll feel more easeful and ready to receive more money.
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Manifesting what you truly desire
Tune in to the other parts of this series here: part two, part three, part four ✨
This series was an idea that came to me during maternity leave. During those 3:00 am feeding sessions, my mind thought about a lot. Like what I wanted work to look (and feel) like moving forward. Before the baby, my work life wasn’t sustainable.
Meeting the demands of my copywriting clients while also staying in a creative headspace for TGS felt like a tidal wave crashing over my head. Thinking about going back to that triggered a sense of anxiety and vulnerability. And many conversations with my therapist.
What she encouraged me to ask was:
What do I want life to look like?
What would be meaningful?
Does that even include money?
How could I make more with less pressure?
Is it possible to?
My very real blocks around money reared their ugly heads. That’s when I picked up Money and the Law of Attraction by Esther and Jerry Hicks. To say it infused me with much-needed inspiration is an understatement. Most, if not all, of what I share will be inspired by this book.
A lightbulb turned on that I didn’t expect. It became clear that the common thread in every book I’ve read on abundance and the Law of Attraction was this: You can’t manifest what you truly desire without feeling good first. Or feeling your best first.
Period. The end. Scary it’s that simple. But it is. Because if you don’t feel good that means you’re not aligned with who you really are. Or what you really want. And taking action outside of who you really are and what you really want is counterproductive.
Then I realized this principle applies to every area of life: Relationships. Business. Family. Health. So here we are.
I want you to take a quick inventory right now. I’m going to ask you four questions and I want you to imagine them being seeds planted in your heart wherever you stand or sit as you listen. Then become to observer. What feeling is popping up? What answers are unfolding?
Here they are:
What do you want life to look like?
What would be the most meaningful thing to do or have?
Does that include money?
What are you willing to do or not do for the life you want?
If you desire it, you can have it
Who are we to want more money? Maybe your experience so far hasn’t given you the confidence you could make more. Or you feel guilty for wanting more. So let’s get this out of the way:
If you desire it, you can have it.
The Universe doesn’t plant seeds of desire that can’t grow. It also doesn’t plant desires that go contrary to who you truly are. So if you feel the desire to get into an attractive state towards money there’s a higher reason for that.
The only reason you may think otherwise is that you’re used to thinking you can’t do or have what you desire. But you can. It’s a simple, powerful, yet tough tweak to make. You’d be amazed at how much each of us downplays and minimizes ourselves. Even about the smallest things.
When my husband and I were apartment hunting in New York City we searched for over a month and nothing was working out. We weren’t finding spaces we felt good in or that felt worth the insane monthly rent. I remember breaking down one night and giving up completely. Then ten minutes later my husband found the apartment I could only dream about, in our price range. And this doesn’t have the ending you’d think.
We saw the place, fell in love, put in an application, and bid higher than the asking price because there were four other applicants. We’d always been chosen up to this point so I felt pretty good. After a week, the broker came back and said the owner picked someone else. My heart sank. I was pretty upset and started spiraling mentally.
Then I realized that how I choose to internalize this moment would affect my view of what I think I’m worthy of. This became an opportunity to speak a different narrative than I was used to. So I practiced saying things like:
If my heart holds a desire for an apartment that makes us feel good and fulfills our needs then that’s what we’ll get.
The apartment we didn’t get wasn’t ours, to begin with, and I couldn’t wait to see what was. Because the Universe wants me to have the best of the best and it’s still on its way.
Abraham Hicks says, “If this time-space reality has within it the ability to inspire a desire within you, it is absolute that this time-space reality has the ability to yield you a full and satisfying manifestation of that same desire, It is Law.”
The part where she says ‘full and satisfying manifestation’ is where we often get tripped up. The ego is ready to accept the bare minimum. To settle. Most of us struggle to hold out for the full and satisfying manifestation.
With money, there’s a variety of reasons it has yet to come to us. One reason is not knowing the difference between desiring and wanting.
Desiring vs. wanting
The act of wanting implies there’s a lack. Wanting money places our energy and attention on the lack of money not the having of money. Desire implies attraction and seduction. It focuses more on possibility and is a gentler, more playful kind of energy. I bet you can feel the difference between the two already.
What’s the best way to place our energy and attention on the having of money instead of the lack of money? Why it’s acting as if it’s already yours. It’s having the same energetic presence of someone whose desire is already manifested. It’s mine even if the physical proof of it is still on its way. Because having the energy of having something already can only attract the having of that thing.
With the apartment, I practiced thoughts of desire. Feeling the light, airy apartment. Seeing the laundry in unit with an extra room for an office. Seeing us being on the top floor. Mind you, these are nearly impossible to get all together in NYC but I didn’t care. I was going to test this principle out.
Another few weeks go by and we found the apartment we just moved into this month. It’s on the top floor, has laundry in unit, has an office, and more. Everything I envisioned. Remember, if you desire it you can have it.
Why negative emotions are good
After this experience and others like it, I learned the importance that negative emotions play. Rather than something to react and run from, they’re tools we can use to get what we want. I talk more in-depth about this in other parts of this series, too.
Abraham Hicks says:
“While almost everyone is aware of how they feel in varying degrees, there are few who understand the important guidance that their feelings or emotions provide…
Without exception, the reason for negative emotion is because you are focused upon something you do not want or upon the lack or absence of something that you do want.”
Boom bam. The reason for negative emotions really is that simple: to tell you you’re focused upon something you don’t want or the lack/absence of something you do want.
What do we do when we recognize this? We can pivot. That’s a sign to focus on what we do want. We do that by asking WHY we want something. That immediately brings focus and energy to the expansive feeling of what is wanted.
This changed everything for me. Now when I feel a negative emotion I pause and ask myself, “Am I focusing on something I don’t want?” If so, “What do I want? Why?” What a blessing to know that life doesn’t need to be complicated. Keep it simple. Make sure to keep reading other parts in this series to learn more about this concept.
Affirmation
I’m effortlessly aligned with who I really am and what I really want.
Writing Prompt
What do you want life to look like?
What would be the most meaningful thing to do or have?
Does that include money?
What are you willing to do or not do for the life you want?
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