Money Magic – V
Magicians who want to get money to come to them analyze objectively, not enviously, people who are successful at getting money to come to them. They isolate the mechanism involved. What distinguishes financially successful people like Bill Gates and Ted Turner?
The answer is that such people, even when they’re down and out, know that the money will come. They take their present lack of money in stride. Whether this faith is innate or learned from experience, they know in their hearts that the money will come. Their attitude is an object lesson for all of us of what our attitude towards money should be. It’s not like, “When the money comes then I’ll stop worrying about it.” which is what we tell ourselves. No, the truth is that the mechanism works the other way around. When you stop worrying about it, then the money comes.
Worrying about money, fantasizing about money, buying lottery tickets are, like magical techniques such as creative visualization, commands to the universe. However, they are commands of lack rather than fulfillment. They don’t have the confidence, the true faith, behind them of true commands to the Spirit. What these piddling commands are actually calling up is self-pity – excuses to pity oneself.
How do you stop worrying about money? This is where inner work is invaluable.* You have to analyze yourself and your history and figure out why you got yourself into this money worry trap in the first place. You weren’t born with it. What does money symbolize to you? Why is your self-esteem so low or your self-pity so high that you have to fret over money, instead of feeling good about yourself and your circumstances right this minute? Why are you not grateful for all that you have already, reveling in the sunlight and the feel of the breeze on your skin? That’s all you needed when you were little. At some point in your life you decided to torture yourself over money. This stand was not foisted upon you against your will, no matter what you believe and are telling yourself now. This is the purpose of inner work – to find that information out.
Until you find out exactly how you are tripping yourself up, keeping yourself in an uptight money situation to prove some stupid point to yourself, you will not be able to get out of it. Why are you putting yourself in that situation? What is your pay-off? What hole in your self-esteem are you trying to plug with money and possessions? When you understand the answers to these questions, then you can stop worrying about money. And then the money will come.
* Inner work can be done through therapy; or more cheaply on your own using a technique such as Active Imagination. See my book Thought Forms, or Robert A. Johnson’s book Inner Work (Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1986) for more information.
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