Seth Early Sessions, Vol 8, Session 404
Applying The Law Of Attraction To Finances
Now Joseph, a few remarks. These may sound simple to you. Ruburt has learned, the hard way, that the
physical image is a direct materialization of the inner state of mind.
He knows this now through direct personal
experience. If he had believed me in the
beginning, and followed the precepts in the material, he would not have had
such an experience.
Now.
I recommend Maltz because his exercises are based on truths, even though
he does not fully understand what lies beneath.
Do you want me to tell you how to better your financial circumstances or
do you want to learn the hard way?
(“No. Tell me.”
See Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz.)
You have been told but you have not taken
the information seriously because you were not ready, as earlier Ruburt was not
ready to. First of all, all negative
attitudes must be removed from your consciousness. You are attracting further financial problems
in your desperation. You are focusing
upon poverty rather than wealth.
It may seem to you highly impractical, unrealistic
and downright foolish to ignore the physical circumstances of debts and
expenses. To focus upon them, I tell
you, is to bring more upon yourself. The
rule of expectation applies.
When you receive a bill do not
automatically react as you have, instead as if you were contemplating a new
painting. Form in your mind the image of
a check to that amount. See yourself
celebrating as you pay the final amount on your car. See in your mind’s eye a surplus of money in
your folder when the month’s expenses are paid.
Now your financial situation will not
change no matter how you push yourself, unless you apply such simple
exercises. You do not do this naturally,
which is why they are required. You must
indeed think consciously in terms of plenty rather than of want. On several occasions Ruburt has followed
these and your wants have been fulfilled.
You have been fighting him in this regard,
and this has impeded the efforts he has lately been making. Now these exercises will prove themselves out
in practical terms, but you must give them the opportunity to prove themselves.
Your subjective life has been somewhat
permeated by thoughts of want, and literally poverty, until you have indeed
exaggerated your own situation. The
exaggerated situation could come to pass however if you persist in projecting
those images outward.
They would not help you get a raise but act
to the contrary, and they have done so in the past. I am giving you advice in very practical
terms. What you do with it is up to you. But you have severely limited yourself in
this respect.
In the past Ruburt helped you generate such
negative ideas, but he has been making an attempt to combat them. His own experience has proven to him that I
was right in other regards. As long as
you believe that others are taking advantage of you, they will do so. The origin is in yourself, and this is what
you have not so far understood.
(“I
think I have been aware of that.”)
The origin is not in others. For fifteen minutes a day agree to suspend critical
judgment, and following the Maltz method imagine yourself vividly in the
position you would like to be. The rest
of the time consciously make an effort to control your attitude when you find
yourself thinking in terms of want or poverty.
Then switch your thoughts to ideas of plenty. This need not involve hypocrisy, indeed must
not. You must feel that this is
legitimate and practical, because the thoughts of plenty will automatically
begin to attract plenty. This is
sufficient. There should not be an overemphasis
on material possessions or security however.
Now this program if faithfully followed
will bring results. It will initiate
intuitive concepts, ideas in your work which will automatically attract others
to possess them. It will initiate other
actions that will result in financial betterment.
Do you have any questions pertaining to
this particular material?
(“I
have a lot of them. It’s hard to ask
them all at once on short notice though.”)
Part of your attitude is a result of your family
situation and of identification with the past.
(“I
know it. And I’m tired of it, too.”)
Still the old feeling, always an excuse,
that poverty is pure and more virtuous.
Now. An overemphasis on financial
matters is indeed detrimental, but if you are worrying about money you are as
overly concerned with it as any miser.
(“I’d
like to forget all about it.”)
If you could then this would also be much
more effective than your present course.
(“I
keep telling myself to forget it.”)
Now I am telling you to forget it. I have told you that you will never be in
severe financial difficulties again, but you do not trust my word enough, so
far. You must instead insist upon watching
every dollar in the bank, and fearing it will dwindle away. And then of course it does, and you think
that the physical circumstances certainly justify your attitude. But your attitude caused the circumstances.
(“My
attitude alone?” This I could not
believer.)
Your attitude in the main of late.
(“How
about the dwindling attendance at the ESP classes?”)
Ruburt maintained this fairly well. You own worries have been causing some
difficulties here.
(“Why
can’t his positive attitude override my poor one then?”)
On occasion it does indeed. Or he would not have any students left. I mean that literally, since in the beginning
particularly you did not believe that any would last for any period of
time. He does indeed have the ability to
attract money, though in the past he was not able to use this ability. He is only now learning to do so, and free
enough to do so. Your combined abilities
will serve you well here, if you follow my advice.
(“I’m
not absolving myself, or trying to, but I find it hard to believe that I am the
only one involved here.”)
I did not say that you were, but only that
Ruburt has been making an attempt in the proper direction, and you have not
been able so far to make the same attempt.
(“For
some time I’ve felt alone in this deal.”)
You felt alone because you felt you were
worrying alone. Ruburt has for at least
two years been actively concerned, very actively. He has attempted however to give the
impression of not worrying, and to constructively think in terms of plenty.
Whenever you mentioned a particular bill
even in passing, he has immediately imagined it paid and given himself
directions so that the funds would be obtained.
When your rent was first raised within two weeks he had four new
students using this method.
(“Does
he still have them?”)
He has two of them.
(“Why does he have less students than ever,
then?”)
Because he does not have less than
ever. He has less than he did at the
time.
(“That’s
what I mean, I guess.”)
This was because of the interaction with
your own attitude. Give us a
moment. You think in terms of wealth and
sensuousness. Wealth as opposed to art
or aesthetics. Your father disliked his
brother who was wealthy. To have money
is therefore a betrayal of your father.
Since your mother pushed your father to
make money, then to make money yourself seems an added betrayal toward your
father, and seems to ally you with your mother, of whose emotionalism you were
always frightened. To you wealth is in
some strange way connected with the feeling you have toward using oil as a
medium.
(“I’m
getting over that.” And am grimly
determined, too.)
It was not safe, too rich and smothering,
like gravy that you also dislike.
(“I’ve
become quite mad at my parents in the last year or two.”)
Now these connections should help you. The inner resistance to these ideas I am
presenting should to some extent vanish as you reread the session. Your own abilities as a creator are extremely
strong, your powers of imagery brilliant.
Now in the financial realm you have been using them against yourself.
I would have come out more strongly in this
regard in the past but Ruburt would not permit it. Now he does.
Your combined abilities can directly change your material status. Do you have a question?
(“I
used to find it quite irritating when Jane passed it off when I mentioned
bills.”)
He is, as you know, more than usually or
normally attentive and sensitive to your remarks. He has always been much more concerned about
financial affairs than you realize.
There has been what you may call a natural misunderstanding here. But I tell you that in each of these cases he
was attempting to offset your negative attitude, and to use his abilities in
the way he intuitively realized he could, to help matters.
On his part in the past years this was
subconscious. He did not realize
consciously what he was doing, but was strongly impelled to take the stand that
he did, and outraged subconsciously that you did no understand why he took it.
(“Probably
because I didn’t see any concrete results.”)
You did not look for them, and you denied
and of course did not see them.
(“I
mean things like additional money.”)
I know exactly what you mean. You negated them.
(“Why
didn’t he negate my attitude?”)
Because at the time, in those days,
particularly consciously, he would not permit himself to. He was not sure enough. He was working on hunches, to him, and he
always followed whatever suggestions you made.
He had his own background also, and he was afraid of being successful. These feelings allowed him to follow along
with you.
(“That’s
why I’m harping on this point that I’m not alone in this deal.”)
I am trying to get you out of this deal.
(“I’m
willing.”)
The fact remains that you have in the
recent past not attempted to project thoughts of plenty, and Ruburt has.
(“I
am fully aware of that.”)
Your combined efforts can change your
situation.
(“Yes,
I believe they can. I haven’t felt that
we’ve been using any combined efforts particularly.”)
My dear friend -
(“Yes?”)
- you are defensive, because you realize
too well now the effect of your negative thoughts in this direction. The extent of your reaction should tell you
this.
(“Yes,
I agree.”)
You do not need to banish the thought of
money for you have not been concerned with money, but with the lack of
money. You have thought of your dwindling
bank account, and I tell you that this is why your bank account is
dwindling. The material is not
distorted. If you must think of your
bank account –
(“I’d
rather not.”)
- then make all efforts to imagine in your
mind those figures you wish there.
(“I
don’t have any.”)
Settle on a reasonable amount. See them in your mind as your balance, and
following Maltz you will then feel those emotions suitably connected with the
desired amount. This is what you have
not accepted.
(“I’d
rather think about painting pictures, I guess.”)
Whenever you find yourself thinking of your
bank account follow the exercise I have just given you. I am not suggesting that you take the time
out. I am suggesting that you devote the
same amount of time constructively that you are now spending destructively, and
that the new exercises take the place of the old automatically followed
negative exercises that you have indeed been faithfully following.
Simply this. Whenever you catch yourself in the old
worries, remind yourself of this session, and immediately substitute one of the
minute and simple exercises I have provided.
You do not have to kneel down before a money god two hours a day.
For all of your objections Ruburt has
studiously taken 15 or 20 minutes a day in what he rightly believes to be
practical exercises to better your financial condition. He has had enough success spasmodically to
know that the exercises work.
When you have done the same, speak to me
again on these matters. I have not been
placing any blame on anyone. I thought I
was explaining the simple mechanics involved.
In other words you protest too loudly.
(“I
never used to say anything. I thought
speaking up was a step in the right direction.”)
It is indeed. I will also answer you now, which is a step
in the right direction. Joseph, it is
simple. You do have control over your
thoughts if you will but exert it.
(“I
agree with that.”)
Thoughts of plenty will bring you plenty in
material and financial terms, and in other terms. Thoughts of want will produce want. I have not made these rules. When you think in terms of want, and then see
physical materializations of want, you are tempted to think that your fears were
justified, and therefore those thoughts are reinforced. But the thoughts caused the want, and I am
simply trying to help you stop that cycle.
Now, if you and Ruburt could agree on the sort of home you would like,
and if you dreamed of it and thought about it specifically, you would have it.
Again, this does not involve anything
extra. Instead if you find yourself
thinking consciously about the limitations of your apartment, you would then
substitute an image of this home, you would automatically be bettering your
condition rather than maintaining it.
Now I speak, as you well know, for your own
benefit. If you have questions ask them.
(“No,
I guess I just felt I was alone in the deal.”)
You were not indeed, far from it. From the time you purchased your car Ruburt
has daily done exercises to lead toward its payment. Whenever your rent has been raised he has
done the same, and any outstanding bill for the last six months has met the
same treatment. Before this he made
subconscious efforts that he felt you did not understand.
(“He didn’t
say anything about it.”)
He felt that to open the subject was disastrous
to him, for he could not explain, and he did not know consciously how to explain.
This is one of the reasons why I chose this
subject this evening. Do you have questions?
(“No,
I guess not.”)
Your own visual abilities are often used subconsciously.
They are stronger than Ruburt’s. He must work for his. Therefore your subconscious negative imagery has
on many occasions superseded. You must realize
if you can that no blame is intended here. You would be even better off if you could forget
the whole issue.
(“I’d
like to. I try.”)
Since you are however so strongly concerned
with it these exercises will be of great benefit. I will give you a particular example here. Now Ruburt in his exercises has been imagining
vividly his dream book sold, selling. While
you have been imagining the dwindling accounts and pessimistically thinking that
after all the book may not sell, and to be practical you cannot be sure that the
outline will sell and your efforts therefore have been knocking each other out.
Your thoughts are the reality. Do you have questions? You may indeed speak up.
(“No,
I guess not. I can’t think of anything.”)
You may pile them up for me at your next session.
(“Is trying
to forget about the whole bit the best course?”)
The point is to let, permit, allow yourself
to forget, not force.
(“That
is what I mean.”)
You must allow yourself to think naturally,
and thoughts of plenty will flow. You should
not ideally have to do any exercises. They
are to counter the negative exercises that you are doing.
(“I know
it.”)
What you should do, you see, is simply trust,
for this is the practical point of it all.
(“Yes.”)
I cannot stress too strongly however the main
points I have made tonight. Give me a moment.
Now, from your own experience, when Ruburt and
you are in a condition of positive love, you see, do you sense the inner feeling
of abundance?
(“Yes.”)
This is to some extent of the same nature. That feeling of abundance and trust will in itself
bring you plenty and abundance. It will attract
intuitive ideas on your part, and intuitive actions on the part of others. Indeed Ruburt read an article this afternoon on
brain waves, but I tell you that you send out messages of abundance or want.
Now do not short change yourself. This trust is the basis of your existence. You have much that others more financially secure
would envy, and do envy. You have projected
those thoughts directing to yourself that which means most to you. Do not ignore what you have. The point is that in this one area you have felt
insecure for various reasons, afraid to possess money.
Understanding will help you. The exercises I have given you in themselves will
begin to negate the causes behind this failure. Do you see?
(“Yes.”)
(“Did
you hear me earlier, when I said I’d been mad at my parents for some time now?”)
I did indeed; and anger will not help you, nor
resentment.
(“I don’t
think I could have really escaped some of that, though.”)
You could not have. The point is, if you see yourself as financially
independent and of abundant means, this will come to pass and regardless of your
parents. They will be well cared for. Burdens will drop from your shoulders when you
begin to see yourself unburdened.
(“Okay.”)
Now I have tried to help you this evening, and
I hope that I have done so.
