Just after reading the first post, hubby and I went to research recliners for our TV room. It’s a tiny space so we didn’t think we’d find anything with a small enough profile that would be comfy. WRONG – we found these amazing Norwegian recliners which are perfect and gorgeous. We hadn’t planned to buy them right away but they were so perfect, we ordered them then and there. We left a deposit and will pay the rest when they come in mid-February.

On the drive home, I was smacked between the eyes with a barrage of gremlin thoughts. Even though we have plenty of money coming in between now and February, I went into the biggest guilty panic mode – OMG they’re too expensive (I don’t deserve the ‘good’ furniture); OMG how will we pay the rest (I don’t have it now so I’ve gone ‘into debt’); OMG that was so irresponsible (we didn’t spend weeks calculating and saving up and scrimping) … you get the picture!

After picking myself up off the figurative floor, I did all the right things. Points 1 to 4, to be exact. And that was almost, but not quite, enough. The guilty panic was gone but I could feel it hovering just out of vision, waiting to pounce again.

The final step that provided the feel-good relief that I needed was so simple – totting up just how much we have coming in our pay packets before Feb and realising it’s WAY more than we need.

Sometimes, it turns out, my gremlins are happy with a bit of so-called information – even though it’s all in the future so none of it is ‘real’ yet. I imagine them snuggling up to the number representing our pre-Feb income like kids with their fluffy toys, curling up and going back to sleep.

Now I can enjoy the anticipation of our lovely chairs coming just in time for me to curl up on mine with Kim’s next book, hee hee!

Get over it; Let go; Turn it over to Universe – however we think about it, that releasing is a crucial element.

And thanks for helping me “re-think” meditation. Much appreciated!

I’ve used all the suggestions above–I do a lot of daydreaming (it’s my profession actually EFT, pray rain journal, and the 1) Relax, 2) Get Curious, 3) Check References, 4) Re-Think are all very helpful (and good reminders).

I would like to add a 5th:

5) Get Over It

Basically, I just let it go. Whatever the desire is, I just stop thinking about fulfilling it or not having. I take a holiday from the thought.

I’ve done this with money at the moment. I have (as I mentioned in the ‘problem post’) no idea how much, if any, money there is in my bank account. I haven’t looked for months. I realize as an author (not in the Rowling/Meyer category this year but next year’s another story I am paid biannually, so I don’t do a lot of regular maintenance (none) but the idea here is to just let go of the desire/concern/reality all together.

Meditation is my main support in this. Through meditation, I experience life in a different way, one where money and air (and everything else) is the same.

Even if you glimpse that feeling for a few minutes a day, it changes your life because for those moments you are ‘over it’, you are relaxed, your are curious, you are checking references (really big ones) and you are ‘re-thinking’ in the most profound way possible.

For anyone who get’s bored or fidgety meditating, there is an active way to do it that works just as well… It’s call ‘dance’.

Kim

Well, Listen, I had this type of thought a couple of days ago, I was watching tv and it was advert time and there was a guy jumping up and down on a window showing that the window did not break and literally, I saw the thought trail in front of my eyes, “O boy, replace the windows in the house? I can only pay my mortgage, if that!”

I was shocked! I could not believe that was my thought. Me, queen of positive thinking but I sat there with the thought and just, “played” with, “I have more than enough money right now to replace all the windows in the house and the cabinets too!” and I spent a few moments in that space and boy it was awesome.

This is how we have thoughts that we do not know that we have.

Same with your post. I thought about it and observed that I have never thought about making so much more money than Femi that he felt like a kept man.

How liberating!

I love it.

I also know how it feels to be the one making money and he is not. I have had that experience and guess what? It did not unbalance our relationship. It was just a temporary thing and it really did not matter in the long run.

But I have never allowed myself to be wildly rich in my fantasy and taking care of him or not being concerned about what he is making.

How liberating again!

I like that that thought.

Also, you are right, me making all the money feels like us making all the money because he is so supportive of me, I must be the luckiest girl ever!

Hugs

Iyabo

I especially liked this last part: “The process of manifesting has become as much fun as the manifestation itself!”

That’s a fun place to be, huh?

EFT works wonders for me too, like Michael said. Sometimes I like to Pray Rain Journal right after a thorough EFT session. Talk about powerful!

I talk to myself in the car too. I told myself a story today about all of the Christmas presents I’m buying for my loved ones (and myself!!!) with all of the money that’s rolling in. That one had me bouncing in my seat!

I also use Abe’s method of pivoting, which is noticing that I’m having a thought that doesn’t jive with what I want and then turning around and focusing on the opposite. This morning I caught a lurking belief whispering something like, “It takes a long time to manifest money, and you can’t manifest a whole lot of it right away.” So I used your phrase, Jeannette, which has become one of my favorites since I heard it in your Money Mojo interview: “That’s a bunch of crap.” LOL! New thought: Of course I can manifest money quickly!

Another fun one… (Can you tell I’ve been working on this a lot lately? ) …is imagining my current circumstances from the point of view of having already manifested the things I want. Putting myself in the future and looking back at where I am now. It makes everything I’m living seem a lot friendlier when I can see all of the wonderful stuff it leads to.

But regardless of what method I use, I keep reminding myself that the goal here isn’t to make money or anything else come to me. The goal is to make myself feel that I already have it. This work is a lot easier, and a lot more fun, when I focus on own feelings rather than trying to manipulate things outside of myself. I surprised myself last night when I wrote in my journal, and meant it: The process of manifesting has become as much fun as the manifestation itself!