"Truly good people don't charge for helping others."

"People won't appreciate you as much if you charge them money."

"I don't want to be like_________, who earns a lot of money."

etc......

There are probably other writings, of course, which take the opposite position. They may say...

"Hey, I gotta eat too!"

"If I give this stuff away, people won't value it."

"If I don't earn more money, people will think I'm a nobody."

etc......

What we do about this--all of us--is earn enough money to satisfy both forms of self talk.

We blend these thoughts together and earn the appropriate amount so we don't violate too badly any of these "truths" written on our walls.

As a result, we are able to rationalize our financial status with great facility. We even use words like altruism.

We may not like where we are but we aren't going to change any of it until we shift the balance between the positive and negative fictions that dictate our lives.

We need to create affirmations and daydreams aimed at more abundant tomorrows and pay attention to the tail enders.

We need to EFT the tail enders until they have minimal impact and then allow our imaginations to pull us toward more than just financial freedom.

Many of the thoughts and "limits" we bow to would make great scripts for a Broadway comedy.

This is true, very true, and it makes one wonder just how that stuff got written on our walls?

I mean, did you every think about the details behind the process? Exploring this will also give us new insights into our uses for EFT.

When I was about age 10 my Mom's mother lived with us for several months. She was my grandmother, of course, and I called her "Gramma Effie." 

 She was an adult in my life who had, for me, a position of authority. What she said was the truth.

Why? Because she was my Gramma Effie. How's that for rock solid logic?

Gramma Effie was filled with advice and admonitions. Both my parents worked so Gramma Effie and I spent a lot of time together.

One of the things she repeatedly told me was the following...

"A gentleman never takes a lady's virtue, not even if she offers it."

She was forever saying this.  I knew she had to be right even though I hadn't a clue as to what a "lady's virtue" was.

She made me promise I would always be a gentleman and would never take a lady's virtue.

I dutifully promised. It was an easy promise to make, of course, because I didn't even know where a lady kept the darn thing (whatever it was).

It had to be important, though, or else Gramma Effie wouldn't have made such a big deal out of it.

Do you see a Broadway comedy within that?

To make matters worse, on the few occasions when I wasn't a gentleman and "took the lady's virtue"  I got to experience guilt for my ungentlemanly behavior.

What a box! The way Gramma Effie set it up for me, I could either deny my instincts or feel guilty.

Now let's look back at what happened. Why did I buy Gramma Effie's belief and allow it to be written so boldly on my walls.

 It's because both REPETITION and EMOTION were present.

These are the requirements to install a belief.

By contrast, if I had only overheard the statement once by someone I didn't know or respect, how much weight do you think I would have given it?

It would have been a non-event unless it was reinforced by similar beliefs through the use of REPETITION and EMOTION.

When someone shows up with beliefs that "people are bad," "God is going to punish me," "I'm worthless" and so on,

we can easily assume that these beliefs were installed through REPETITION and EMOTION

In the past, conventional therapeutic techniques had a hard time erasing this writing because it seemed etched in stone.

Now, with EFT and other energy techniques, we can erase them in relatively short order.

Basically, we collapse the emotional components which have served to contain the beliefs and keep them so vivid.

This allows our basically positive nature to bubble up to the surface.

It also clears the way for us to install new, more useful, beliefs and enter The Palace of Possibilities.

The advertising industry spends $billions in this manner so that their writing is put on your walls. And they spend all that money for one reason and one reason only.

It works. This is obvious and we would do well to borrow from those highly paid Madison Avenue "shrinks."

Why not advertise to ourselves?