If money is an issue for you – if you feel you never have enough of it, or find yourself regularly saying “I can’t afford that” – you might want to starting your own ‘tapping for money’ journey. The first place to start is in any negative emotion you feel around money – beliefs such as “money is the root of all evil” or “rich people are greedy / unhappy / selfish” will most certainly keep you poor. With such beliefs in place, your subconscious is going to do its darndest to make sure you never become one of those horrible rich people!
Scarcity Mentality
Childhood experiences around money are key – especially for those of us brought up by parents with direct experience of the second world war: a time of shortage, rationing and financial hardship. My father couldn’t go to school for lack of shoes. Does he believe in financial scarcity? You bet! Ask yourself: do you have a ‘scarcity mentality’? Do you believe there’s only so much to go around, or that there’s never enough? Did your parents tell you things like “money doesn’t grow on trees”? (Because if they did, that’ll probably be your belief too). Have you been involved in any upsetting situations where money was involved: a divorce, for example, or wrangling over an inheritance? Those memories will need clearing with EFT and/or re-writing with Matrix Reimprinting.
Valuing Yourself
Tapping on money-related issues will ultimately lead you to your own worthy/deservingness issues. Money in our culture is tied into a perception of value – if we are valued, we are paid more. People who value themselves highly tend to earn more than people who don’t. Perhaps you have blocks around an earning ‘ceiling’ and can’t imagine earning more without, say, having to take on more stress or longer hours. Perhaps you don’t believe you could ever earn a reasonable living doing what you love, so you slog on in a job you hate, or do what you love but live on the breadline. Perhaps you’re self-employed and have trouble asking for money; or you seem to attract only clients that can’t afford to pay for your services, and you end up often giving your time for free.
Secret Success Blockers
One client of mine (a healing professional) recently did a single session on the issues underlying her lack of clients and discovered she was actually afraid of attracting more clients, because then she wouldn’t need to have a lodger, and part of her (a part she had never acknowledged before) was afraid she’d be lonely. We worked on clearing two related underlying childhood incidents and within a week she had four new clients (without any other effort on her part) – who then were not only coming back after their initial sessions but bringing in new referrals. Its fascinating what you can discover about yourself – and how rapidly you can change your financial situation – with a little tapping detective work.
And it’s amazing how much you can improve your life when you acknowledge your limiting beliefs and set about deliberately dismantling them using EFT. It can take a while to work though it all on your own – working with a practitioner will always lead to more rapid progress, but of course you might be counting the pennies right now.
The great thing is, whether you’re doing solo EFT or working with a practitioner, you’ll be able to tell exactly how you are doing; you’ll only have to look at your bank balance.
