Hello

It is common fact, that if you want something, or dont want something, you will get it.
Once I read a quote that "NOT" is not valid in you wishes.
So if you say "I dont want my wife to nag me" she will nag you even more.
If you say (my personal experience) "I dont want all woman around me to use me only for material things and force me to take care about them" the amount of that women will even arise (and it did).
Since I stopped saying that and change my mind on "women are beautiful and romantic" amount of women requiring me to take care about them dramatically went low and I met quite nice romantic girls
So it does work this way...I am a proof

But...my question is:
If I say "I dont want money" or "I dont want to be rich" will I became rich or will I have more money?

If "NOT" is not valid it should be working this way but anyway I never seen a person who "dont want to be rich" really being rich and I know plenty of them

What do you think about it?

Bless you all

It's more about the visualization! See yourself living the life that you desire.

My first a-HA moment after beginning Rebecca's course was that I was already rich; then even more riches came to me! Now I am grateful for everything in my life and for everything that is coming to me!

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But...my question is:
If I say "I dont want money" or "I dont want to be rich" will I became rich or will I have more money?

From what I understand it WON’T work because, it’s the FEELING that powers the ‘wanted’ or ‘unwanted’ thing.

The power of the thought is in the FEELING that is imbued with it. (You don't REALLY, with FEELING, NOT want money.)

That’s why we get things we FEAR, as well as things we LOVE. Both are strong feelings.

Thus, if you want to NOT have something you FEAR, then simply find a way to resolve the issue so you no longer have much feeling about it. For example, if you fear GOING BROKE, you can examine the condition until you realize that you could be peaceful with going broke. Once you do that, you erase any attraction to it.

Conversely, with money, if you say you WANT it, but also are AFRAID of it, afraid you can't handle it, believe it's bad somehow, beleive it's hard to get, etc., you disempower your having it.

Phil

I've wondered about this myself. Phil's explanation doesn't quite follow logically, so I'm still a bit curious.

I know SOGR works, though. No way am I going to examine this too closely until I'm secure in my power of attraction.

If you guys want to pick it apart and figure it out, though, be my guest. I'll be very interested.

Love and blessings,
Rachel

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Originally posted by Cloode:
If I say "I dont want money" or "I dont want to be rich" will I became rich or will I have more money?

If I recall right, Mr. Wattles expressed it like this in Chapter 7 ("Gratitude"):

"The Creative Power makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention."

In other words, you or I may (and often do) give our attention to things which we either DO want or DON'T want. And whatever we give our attention to, inevitably shows up in our lives and experiences as corresponding conditions and circumstances.

So, it would seem (at least to me, baed on Mr. Wattles' recommendation) that the word "NOT" has little if any effect in the matter. Because, if our attention is on that which we say we DON'T want, that mental and emotional position will inevitably deliver it to us.

A later writer, who might have been influenced by Mr. Wattles in his own time, once put it like this - and it is possible that either Phil or I might have mentioned this before:

"NEVER Expect what you do not Desire, and NEVER Desire what you do not Expect."
- Raymond Holliwell, "Working With The Law" (published 1964)

More on this, later (I'm off to the airport).

Heh...I dont really want to examine it further, I would be graceful to get rid of all of mine bad habits and thoughts so I finally can get rich

My example with "dont want money" is based on my family...
My mother and father were earning quite nice money on that times, and anyway, they never had money.
And I realized it is because they always said "there are no money" "we have no money".
So even if they had money, but with this attitude they always manage to lose them.

Phils response is great for me, because I am currently working on getting rid of old mental habits, so this is helpful for me

"Now I am asking questions, but there will be a time, when I will be giving answers"

Peter

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"Now I am asking questions, but there will be a time, when I will be giving answers"

The questions are more important, I think! And don't take ANY "answers" you find here TOO seriously. I mean, don't believe anything just because it's in this forum, no matter who wrote it down, including me. The answers that are right for YOU are all inside YOU. The best anyone here can do is point you back that way.

And Having the Courage to follow the answers you find inside.

Love

Rohan

I like what Abraham-Hicks says, when you go to a restaurant, you don't tell the wairer what you don't want to eat, so firstly, be clear and focus on what you do want.

The other thing - how you feel is important but if you don't feel all that good, simply see if you can release a little of the resistance to the ill feelings. I often consciously say to myself "let go" and I feel my body relax.
It's amazing the tension we keep in the body, even when we're supposedly relaxing!

The final thing, aim to appreciate the little things, notice what you like in your environment and slowly as you begin to do more of this, you can simply enjoy the present moment and trust that whatever shows up will be fine.

I've found that the "need" to have things look a certain way or to have things show up, is like shining a light on what you don't have, and so the focus is again what you don't want, which is what keeps showing up!

Release the resistance, feel great now, and bring the best you can to all you say and do.

Hi to all,

Interestingly I used to want money to buy things because buying things made me feel better albeit temporarily - something it took me a while to become conscious of. On my journey about money I went through a period of having very little and debt collectors harassing me. I learned to enjoy the challenge of spending as little as possible without feeling deprived. Then things started to resolve and I started to earn more (as well as getting lots of things for free like a new mattress a friend didn't need and access to a workshop when I enrolled in a shopfitting course and.... too many things to mention).

Now I have money in the bank and I look at the shops I used to frequent and shrug because I don't need or even want anything. I have given up my weekly fantasy of winning the lottery (followed by the weekly feeling of loss when I didn't).

I am a bit like Tom - I look at all the things in my life and realise how very rich I am. Then if I need money for something specific I just ask the universe. I am going on a trip in September and was just thinking the other day another $1000 or so would make me feel more relaxed about it. Then I got a call from a section of the Catholic Church that I have facilitated abuse cases for previously. I hadn't had a referral in over a year - now suddenly there is a case for me to manage and better still it is in Canberra where my brother lives so I will probably earn around $1500 and get to see my brother and niece too.

Perhaps instead of wanting it works better to be happily expecting.

That's as far as I have travelled on the journey anyway.

cheers
Pauline