No B.S Friday: We always forget about the other side of the coin.
Ok, so I reckon that there are two roads available to you if you want to call something into your life – like wealth or more happiness or whatever.
The first is to go “blockage-busting”. We go and get all Mario and Luigi and get into our plumbing to see why things aren’t flowing.
Why aren’t I wealthy? Well, I had abusive parents so I don’t value myself, and so I don’t expect others to value me either.
Or, “I’ve been conditioned to believe that money is evil.”
Or, “I’m afraid to test my own potential, so I cling to excuses I can hide behind, like never having the money to do what I wanted to do.”
Or, “The bloke on the $100 note looks like my Father.”
Once we discover what these blockages are (and there’s a lot of work just to get this far), then we can start trying to break them down. We can get our hands dirty with affirmations, visualisations, past-life regression therapies, ketamine microdosing clinics in LA, whatever.
If we can deconstruct these blockages, replace them with positive beliefs, things start flowing again. The pipes open up. Money comes.
This method works, but man, I’m getting tired just thinking about.
Is there an alternative?
I would say a better way to start is to drop in and connect with the part of you that wants to be wealthy (or you know, whatever.)
You have parts that don’t want to be wealthy, sure. You don’t need to change that. All you need to know is that within you, there is a part of you that wants to be wealthy.
So drop in and connect with that. Why do you want to be wealthy?
“So I can help my friends and family.”
“So I can achieve beautiful things.”
“Because I am a better and more loving person when I am financially secure.”
Whatever it is, align yourself with that part of you that wants to be wealthy. Align your energies there.
Feel now how you are not in opposition any more. You are not fighting against something. Rather, you are siding with something – in collaboration.
Align yourself with the part of you that wants to be wealthy. Give it energy. Drop in with it everyday. Connect with what you will achieve and do with the money. Give yourself a taste for the joy and happiness that it entails.
In time, and with relatively little (but consistent!) effort, it will become a force to be reckoned with.
It will start to shape your life.
You will still have blockages, just as you will still have a part of you that doesn’t want to be wealthy.
But your life changes simply by changing the power relationship between these two competing forces.
The point I want to make is that both strategies work. Both strategies are necessary.
But we put too much focus on working with our resistances, and not enough focus on alignment. And working with alignment, in my opinion, is quicker and you get more bang for your buck.
Not only that, it’s more fun. It’s more fun to dream about how you’re going to spend all this money than it is trying to make space in your heart for your great grandmother’s tears as some hippy smudges your chakras with patchouli.
So have a think about it. From where I stand, alignment is better than resistance.
JG.