Name: How to Attract Money
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Author: Joseph Murphy

What’s in it for me? Learn how to attract a life of wealth and possibility.

When you imagine being rich, what do you actually picture? You might think of a beautiful mansion with luxury cars parked outside. Maybe you picture sipping champagne on a yacht at sunset. Or maybe it’s sending your children to an expensive school for a world-class education.

Whatever you imagine, there’s probably something in common. You’re imagining an experience that involves being happy, healthy and supported. Money is not what makes you happy or fulfilled, but money allows you to live a full, happy life.

It’s your right to be rich. You deserve to live a happy, healthy and abundant life, and that means you deserve to have the means you support that life. So if you’re interested in changing your attitude toward money, and attracting wealth in the process, look no further than this Blink.

Don’t romanticize poverty

We are conditioned to think that money is evil. Movies and TV shows love to portray money as a corrupting force. But money isn’t some mystical thing driving people towards bad behavior. It’s a system for swapping goods and services.

There is nothing inherently evil about money, and wanting more is not an evil thought. In fact, thinking about money as evil can be very dangerous.

Let’s change our perception a little by thinking about money as a symbol of exchange.

When you think, “I want more money”, what you’re actually thinking is that you want the capacity to do things that require money. For you, that could be anything from buying your partner a beautiful piece of jewelry, to just wanting to buy groceries without worrying your card will bounce. Money is not the goal, the goal is something that money facilitates.

It’s not evil to want a better life. In fact, it’s one of the most natural desires for a human. Security, health, happiness, an education, a future for your children – none of these things are evil. So why would it be evil to want the tool that allows you to achieve them?

Often, people have a subconscious aversion to pursuing their financial goals because they think that poverty is virtuous and wealth is evil.

Of course, people can do awful things for money, and can do awful things with the money they have. But when we consider money as a symbol of exchange, rather than an end in itself, money as “evil” starts to seem like superstition. The same electricity that powers your house could just as easily kill someone, but that doesn’t make it evil. Nor does it make a dark room somehow virtuous.

Our ingrained ideas about wealth impact our relationship with money. So if you want to improve your financial reality, you need to address your subconscious negative thoughts around it. Let’s look at how.

What you believe shapes your life

Our beliefs create our reality. This is a core concept not only in psychology but also in faith. And it means that the only thing preventing you from living an abundant life is you believing that you can’t.

The author once worked with an Australian man who desperately wanted to be a doctor, but didn’t have the money for college and hadn’t even finished high school. He made a living by cleaning for the doctors he wanted to be like.

Stealing from yourself

By now we’ve learned that in order to attract money, you need to foster positive ideas around your own wealth and financial situation. But this also means being conscious of how you think about other people’s wealth.

Feelings of jealousy, envy and bitterness all damage your relationship with your finances. If you allow these feelings to grow unchecked, you are feeding the parts of your subconscious that believe you are lacking, and that keep you from harnessing your own potential.

final summary

Improving your psychological relationship with your finances is the key to attracting money. Training your subconscious to have positive thoughts about money will lead to better decisions and a wealthier life.

Your beliefs shape your reality, so be aware of how you see your own wealth and that of others, and use positive affirmations to address your subconscious doubts about your own capacity for wealth. You are the captain of your ship. Point it in the direction you want to go, and the rest will follow.

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About the Author

Joseph Murphy (1898-1981) was an educator, counselor and lecturer and the Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. Born in Ireland to Roman Catholic parents, he eventually moved to Los Angeles where he built into one of the largest New Thought congregations in the country. In the next decade. His book The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (1963) sold millions of copies and was translated into numerous languages.