YOUR MONEY SCRIPTS

The mass perception of fewer options (no pun intended) is seizing people, rendering them practically paralyzed. I see it happening with people in my own life. Are there ways to loosen this self-imposed stranglehold?

I've witnessed how this climate tends to magnify people's self-talk. Money scripts are running off the page so fast, you can't keep up. If it was fear around money, it's more fear now. If it was fog, more fog. If it was deprivation, more deprivation and scarcity.

What are your scripts?

We can't control anything but ourselves. As readers of this Newsletter by now you know that money issues are not about money. The root causes are the result of the underlying beliefs you carry - subconsciously, for many.

I believe that particularly in trying times like this, it is all the more important to have complete awareness around your money relationship. Please take a few moments to write down your responses to the following:

Write down the first 8 to 10 words that come to mind when you think of the word "Money."

• Underline all of the words you have identified which you think have anegative connotation.
• Write down three things that you are proud of in terms of your relationship to money.
• Write down three things that you feel badly about in terms of your relationship to money.
• Identify which list was easiest for you to complete.
• Write down your most joyful experience with money.
• Write down your most painful experience with money.
• Identify which memory was easiest for you to recall.

Take a twenty dollar bill and look at it. Write down the answer to the following question: What has this ever done to hurt you?

Save a possible paper cut, the obvious answer is that the piece of paper you were holding has never done anything to hurt you. Rather, the hurt you may have identified related to money resulted from your experiences with people and situations, not the actual money itself.

Let me know which of your money scripts are running. You can always reach me at Helen@YourMoneyRelationship.com. I might like to address an aspect of it in future newsletters and I am 99.9% sure that people will be able to relate (Don't worry; your name will never be revealed : ).