One of the biggest challenges to making money has nothing to do with how hard you work or what method you choose. If you have a poverty consciousness, it will be very hard for you to jump out of the limitations of low income.

Poverty consciousness is an emotional state that keeps you constantly worried about whether or not you will have enough money. These thoughts come from beliefs that you developed in your early life about the flow of money and your personal worth.

Generally speaking, poverty consciousness is a set of attitudes, beliefs, and feelings that are associated with not having enough money. It results in a belief in limitation. When you have a poverty consciousness you are always in fear of not having money, and when you do have money you live in fear of losing it.

Breaking out of your poverty consciousness is essential to making more money and keeping the money that you make. By following a few simple steps you can liberate yourself from limiting thoughts and begin to embrace the abundance that is available to everyone.
 
First, you need to pay attention to the language that you use, both with other people and in your mental self talk. If you are constantly talking about your poverty, and using phrases like “I’m broke” or “I’m poor” or “I can’t afford it” you will find yourself manifesting what you say. (It can manifest no other way because money is not going to fight its way into your life while you’re proclaiming to be poor!)

Instead of focusing on these states of lack, tell yourself and others that “I am growing wealthy every day.” If something you want is not in your budget today, a neutral response is “I am choosing to spend my money in other ways.”

Replace your old thoughts and habits with empowering ones. Release yourself from previous notions of what it means to be rich. This is especially important if you were raised in an environment that valued poverty or equated money with evil. You need to do conscious work now in your adult life to redefine what it means to be wealthy.

If you are accustomed to feeling fear when your bank account drops, you will begin to expect that feeling of fear even when there is money in the bank. You may even begin to resent money coming to you, because you know the fear is just around the corner.

Instead of getting nervous or anxious when there is lack of money, work on changing your emotional state. By recognizing that money is just a way to exchange value, you can take the power of money away by changing your emotional state.

Visualize money acting like an ocean current that comes in and out across the beach. When the waves retreat, no one on the beach worries or wonders if it will come back. They don’t think negative thoughts about themselves or their worth. They trust that the tide will come back and it does, again and again. Viewing money in this way allows you to free yourself from the fear, and embrace abundance.

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