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Seize Every Opportunity to Play

Seize every moment that you are handling money to make the money multiply by feeling good. Feel love when you pay for anything! Feel love when you hand over money! Feel love with all your heart by imagining how much your money is helping the company and the staff who work for the company. It will make you feel good about the money you’re giving instead of feeling bad because you have less money. The difference between the two is the difference between having plenty of money and struggling with money for the rest of your life.

Here is a game you can play so you remember to feel good about money each time you handle it. Imagine a dollar bill. Imagine the front of the dollar bill as the positive side, which represents plenty of money. Imagine the back of the dollar bill as the negative side representing a lack of money. Each time you handle money, deliberately flip the bills so the front is facing you. Put bills in your wallet with the front facing you. When you hand over money, make sure the front is facing upward. By doing this you are using money as your cue to remember to feel good about plenty of money.

If you are using a credit card, then flip the credit card to the front where your name is, because the front of your credit card is telling you that there is an abundance of money and it has your name on it!

When you pay for anything, as you hand over your card or money, imagine an abundance of money for the person you are handing it to, and mean it. Whatever you give out, you receive back!

Imagine that you are wealthy right now. Imagine that you have all the money you need right now. How would you live your life differently? Think about all the things you would do. How would you feel? You would feel different and because you would feel different, you would walk differently. You would talk differently. You would hold your body in a different way, and you would move differently. You would react differently to everything. Your reaction to bills would be different. Your reaction to people, circumstances, events, and everything in life would be different. Because you would
feel
different! You would be relaxed. You would have peace of mind. You would feel happy. You would be easygoing about everything. You would enjoy every day, without giving any thought to tomorrow. That’s the feeling you want to capture. That is the feeling of love for money, and that feeling is magnetically sticky!

“Capture the feeling associated with your realized wish by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of the thing you desire, and your wish will objectify itself.”

Neville Goddard
(1905-1972)
NEW THOUGHT AUTHOR

Say Yes to Money

Remember, any time you hear of another person receiving more money or success, get excited, because it means you’re on that frequency! It is evidence that you’re on a good frequency, so be as excited as if it were happening to you, because your reaction to the news is everything. If you react with joy and excitement for the other person, you are saying
yes
to more money and success for yourself. If you react by feeling disappointed or envious that it’s not happening to you, your bad feelings are saying
no
to more money and success for yourself. If you hear of a person winning the lottery, or you hear of a company making record profits, be excited and happy for them. The fact that you heard the news tells you that you’re on the same frequency, and your reaction of feeling good feelings for those people says
yes
for you!

A few years ago, I reached an all-time low with money in my life. I had several credit cards that I had charged up, my apartment was mortgaged to the limit, and my company was in debt for millions of dollars because I was making a film called
The Secret
. I think my situation with money was about as bad as anybody’s can get. I wanted money to finish the film, I knew the law of attraction, and I knew I had to feel good about money to bring it to me. But it wasn’t easy because every single day I was confronted by the mounting debt, with people calling for money, and I had no idea how I would be able to pay my staff’s wages. So I took drastic action.

I walked to an ATM and drew out several hundred dollars from my credit card account. I needed that money so badly to pay bills and buy food, but I took the money in my hand, walked down a busy street, and I gave the money away to people on the street.

I put a $50 bill in my hand, and as I walked, I looked at each person’s face as they walked toward me, trying to decide who to give the money to. I wanted to give money to every single person, but I only had a certain amount. I let my heart choose and I gave the money away to all kinds of people. It was the first time in my life I had felt love for money. But it wasn’t the money itself that caused me to feel love, it was giving the money to people that made me feel love for money. It was a Friday, and afterward I had tears of joy all weekend about how good it felt to give money.

On Monday afternoon something astounding happened: my bank account received $25,000 through the most incredible sequence of events. That $25,000 literally fell out of the sky into my life and into my account. I had bought some shares in a friend’s company years earlier, and I had forgotten about them because they had never increased in value. But that Monday morning I received a phone call asking me if I would sell my shares as they had skyrocketed in value, and by Monday afternoon the money for the shares was in my account.

I didn’t set out to give money away to bring more money to me. I gave it away so I would feel love about money. I wanted to change a lifetime of feeling bad about money. If I had given away that money in order to get money, it would never have worked, because it would have meant I was motivated by feeling a lack of money, which is negative, instead of being motivated by love. But if you give money away, and if you feel love when you give it, most surely it will return to you. One man wrote a check and donated $100 to a charity he felt was really worthwhile. Within ten hours of writing the check, he closed the largest sale he had ever had in his company.

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”

Mother Teresa
(1910-1997)
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE–WINNING MISSIONARY

If you are struggling with money, in order to feel really good about money, you can send thoughts of abundance of money to the people whom you pass on the street during the day. Look at each of their faces and imagine giving them plenty of money, and imagine their joy. Feel it, and move on to the next person. It’s a simple thing to do, but if you really feel it, it will change how you feel about money, and it will change the circumstances of money in your life.

Career and Business

“True genius without heart is a thing of naught – for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together make genius. Love! Love! Love! That is the soul of genius.”

Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
(1727-1817)
DUTCH SCIENTIST