The Secret to Unleashing Financial Abundance | Rhonda Byrne EP 547

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:11What else about money do you feel like people are missing when it comes to manifesting in the law of attraction? One of the reasons people want money, and you know they say money isn't spiritual, there isn't anything that's not spiritual. Everything's spiritual, and people think they don't deserve it. Like, for example, there is all the money that everybody needs and wants, waiting there for them. And there's only one reason it's not in their lives and that's because they're stopping it from coming into their lives. Really? Oh yeah. How are we stopping it? By thinking we don't have enough, by thinking we don't deserve it, by maybe being programmed the way you were, that my family didn't have very much, you know, I'm destined to not have very much, kind of born on the wrong side of the tracks kind of thing, or to believe that we only get money through our job.

1:04If you believe that that's the only way you're going to get money, that's the only way that you're going to get money. But you can get money from unbelievable, unlimited different ways. And so you start to open up your mind that money can come from anywhere, everywhere. So straight away you open up because law of attraction can only do what you believe. And so if you believe you only get money from your job, you see what we do. We are unlimited beings and we limit ourselves down to nothing. The world and all of its riches and joys is all of ours. But we, through our beliefs, for this reason, I don't deserve it.

1:51I don't deserve it because I didn't work hard enough. I need to work harder to get this or I need to suffer. You know, I know that people, you know, have money they had to suffer. So we have all of these limitations that we impose on this unlimited being that we are. Why does it seem like money is one of the hardest things to break through when it comes to believing we are deserving of money? I think it is to do with our deservability. What about all the things, you know, money doesn't grow on trees, you know. I came from a really humble background. you know, we had secondhand clothes. So I had a whole lot of lack fed to me just by my day-to-day living as a child and growing up.

2:42I didn't ever feel that, but I certainly grew up with lack because I knew when I discovered the secret, I had to turn my mindset from lack to an abundance mindset. And so I set about to do that. And that's why I know anyone can do it because I did it. What was that process for you of turning it from lack into abundance? It was all affirmations, gratitude, being grateful for everything I had, affirmations, that I'm wealthy already, you know, affirming that I have plenty of money, that I attract whatever I need. And anything that gave me a bad feeling around money, I reversed it. And one of those things was paying bills.

3:27Why? Because you never have enough money to pay the bills. So how did you reverse that? When bills would come your way, what were you doing? I pretended they were checks. So back then, I would open the mail. It was like all these window-faced envelopes. And I would open the mail and I'd go, oh my gosh, you didn't have any way to pay all of these bills. It was like a dread feeling. Oh, horrible. My stomach would just, bruh, to my knees. I played games. Law of Attraction doesn't know if you're imagining something or if it's real. Doesn't know. Doesn't care. Doesn't have an opinion. Doesn't have an opinion at all.

4:03And so I would play these games where I would open it up and maybe it was like$1 ,200 or something. And I'd be excited. $1 ,200. And I would write it down and I'd tally up the amounts of money that I got for that day. And it got to a point where I didn't feel I was getting enough. Like it wasn't a tally. So I would add zeros. So the$1 ,200, I would turn into$12 ,000. And then I would add zeros. and then I would say, yes,$150 ,000 is mine today, you know. But it was really bills. Yeah, they were really bills. Oh, my goodness. And so I would play that game so I would feel better and then I would pay what I could.

4:45But do you know when I paid, I would do something else. I played another game. When I paid, I would imagine that this money is not a bill but I'm donating to the company. I'm making a donation. because this company has been really great in supplying me with electricity. And so I'm making a donation and this money is going to help all of the people educate their children. Wow. It's going to help them buy food this week. It's going to pay their mortgage. So I would think about all of the employees and the difference this money would make by giving this money. and so that would cause all the resistance to go away, right?

5:30A total meltdown. So I took the circumstances where I didn't feel good about money. Back then, we got bank statements. They were not pretty, but I changed that around. Really? Just with a bit of marker. And I think that is the thing I want people to take away from this story is the play nature that you had with it. where there's a lot of stress and overwhelm around money for so many people. It was the same for you for a long time until you started to play. I had all these credit cards to the hill. I overdrafted my company. I had a mortgage in my home, making the documentary. And I wrote out this desire list of all of the desires that I wanted.

6:15I look like a mad woman, right? Like I'm riding, you know, the car that I wanted and that house that I wanted overlooking the ocean and all of these different things. Absolutely every one of those things on that list manifested. And that's something else too. It all manifested. Everyone. Is there a specific way to create a desires list so that they all manifest? Easy. Just write down the things you really, really, really want. Law of attraction doesn't care what your reason is. Doesn't care. Writing down your desire list, whether it's five or ten things that you really desire. Yeah. The law of attraction is about what you're thinking about and desiring it and how you're feeling around that experience.

6:56It's not, I want this, but I don't feel good about it because I don't have it now. It's thinking the desire and feeling the joy and excitement and being happy now is the key. Is the key. If you're going to go and have a test at the doctor's and somebody says to you, oh, how did you go with the test? I don't know yet until it comes back. Then it could be anything. Right. You've got to say what it is. You've got to decide what it is. Down to the smallest things in life, right? Everything. Everything we have to intend and say. We have to choose it. We've got to declare. We are an unlimited being.

7:37Don't limit ourselves and say, I don't know yet. My father used to mute the commercials when any type of medication or sickness commercials would come on. So whenever we're watching a sports game and commercials would come on, he would always mute it or he'd turn the channel because he didn't want that program of sickness, disease, medication constantly running in my mind and my siblings' minds. And I really thank him for that because we start to believe lies that are out there, even though it's not the truth, right? But if we start to believe it, it becomes true for us. with anything, whether we're seeing other people gossiping or talking about negative things that don't serve the moment.

8:21It's turning the channel, it's changing the conversation, it's switching our thoughts, it's removing ourselves from the situation. We need to be standing guard to our mind and our thoughts. Yeah, I know, very well put. It's exactly what we need to do.

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