[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

Paul, I was reading on your site about when you found an affirmation you used to do that stated a certain level of income and that's what you became stuck at years later. I don't have anything like that though.

Originally Posted by impaul99

Sure you do, you're just not consciously aware of it.

Yes, you're right, I see what you mean. It may not have been affirmations, but something else.

Have you worked with a coach before? I've been working with coaches for the last year or so and I've seen some major improvement in myself. Why? Because it is so much easier for my coaches to see through my blindspots than it is for me to see them.

If you have any interest, maybe I can coach you through this.

I have not worked with a coach before, and if you can coach me though this, it would be the most wonderful amazing thing.

You're probably stuck inside a limiting belief loop that needs to be cleared.

Imagine yourself like an avatar character inside a video game that happens to be a football player. Now imagine that with every affirmation, every visualization you strengthen that player and add extra layers of padding onto his shoulders. The more you do, the stronger he is. However, this football player in the game right now has these giant iron shackles around his ankles that are rooted deep in the ground. No matter how strong you make the football player in terms of muscles and shoulder pads, he's stuck to the ground with shackles and can't get on the football field to do anything.

You need to unshackle that football player and then he'll actually get on the field and play, and all the visualization and affirmation you've been doing is going to pay you back big time.

I got emotional reading your description of the giant iron shackles . . . man, that really is how it feels.

I've done a lot of work in regard to my beliefs/feelings about money/prosperity over the past several months, and I really thought the most recent one which I discussed here, the fondness I have for that "Mother Earth News" sort of lifestyle, was a big key that I could clear up, by coming to realize that the lifestyle is not incongruent with wealth. But . . . once again, there has been no significant shift in my reality to correspond with the shift in belief.

I thought of one more thing yesterday, which is in regard to the fear of lack. Actually this is a subject I've been thinking about since last fall, and have spoken about it with a couple people, but I don't think I have actually tackled the fear.

It would be like this -- let's say a moderately successful actress wants to work in Oscar-winning films. But because she's always afraid she won't get offered a part in a film like that, she takes lots and lots of parts in bad movies, a decision which undermines her reputation and takes away the energy and time she would need to take on a part in a really excellent movie. It's a Catch-22 . . . she can't stop herself for taking on these roles, because she's afraid then she won't get anything at all. She's afraid that it will be like this: she stops working in lousy movies, tries out for good movies, doesn't get offered anything, and then she'll have nothing.

And that fear and action highlights the fact that she does not have a real belief that she will get offered something much better.