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An EASY Introduction to the
Emotional Freedom Techniques
by Karen Curry
www.joyfulmission.com
Emotional Freedom and The Science of Getting Rich
Dear Reader,
Thank you for taking the time to read this short introduction to the Emotional
Freedom Techniques. I have written this manual to provide a brief introduction to
this exciting new method, and to encourage you to seek further training in the EFT
process.
If you would like to learn more about EFT or would like to schedule a private
session, please contact me: Karen@joyfulmission.com or call (612)-799-3247.
I look forward to working with you and sharing this powerful technique!
Happy tapping!
Love,
Karen
Karen Curry
A man has migraine headaches on a regular basis and nothing ever seems to help
them. With the guidance of a practitioner, he “taps” on the headaches and they
appear less frequently and with much less intensity than before. He “taps” some
more on his own, and the painful migraine headaches eventually disappear, never
to return.
A woman constantly feels guilty about not making weekly visits to her parents’
house, (“You never come to see us anymore”) even though visiting requires
hauling her four children over there and disrupting her family’s weekend schedule.
She “taps” on her guilt and then decides that her parents can make the effort to
drive the 10 minutes over to her house once in a while. Her guilt is gone.
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A child has recurring nightmares about monsters coming out of his bedroom closet
at night. With his mother’s help, he “taps” on the nightmares, which do not return.
In their place he has nice dreams.
They have all discovered that when they are stuck with a problem that won’t go away, and
nothing else has worked to solve it, they can “tap” on that problem with the Emotional
Freedom Techniques, and that “problem” will become nothing more than a powerless
memory. This is the world of EFT, and this new world is waiting for YOU.
Imagine that you live in a house where everything is broken, and you don’t have any tools
to make the repairs — not even a wrench. You know what is wrong in the house, but you
just can’t fix it. You probably don’t enjoy living in that house very much -- it feels like a
dump.
Then a friend drops off some tools from the hardware store—hammers, screwdrivers,
wrenches, etc.— and he shows you how to use them. Now you can repair the house and
enjoy living in it much more!
YOU are like that house, parts of your life don’t seem to be working the way you want
them to. You may have physical, psychological, emotional, or even spiritual issues that
you wish you could resolve. But try as you might, you don’t always seem to have the right
tools to fix your life.
Now, imagine, for a minute, that each one of your so-called “problems” is actually the
result of a simple disruption in your body’s natural healing system. Your body and mind
would heal themselves if only you could remove those disruptions… All you need are the
right tools to remove those disruptions to your system.
EFT provides the tools you need to remove the disruptions in your body’s
natural healing systems!
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1) EFT Often Works When Nothing Else Will! Try it and see.
2) EFT is a TOOL. Even if you had never seen a screwdriver before, I could
probably show you how to use one in less than five minutes. A screwdriver
works on everything from cars to videocassette recorders. EFT is like that. It
is a general tool that can be used to "repair" your emotional system.
For example, if you were to hand me a set of tools and ask me if I knew how
to use them, I would answer “yes." If you asked me to repair your car with
those tools, I would answer “NO WAY, I KNOW ABSOLUTELY
NOTHING ABOUT FIXING CARS!" Maybe I could take your car apart,
but to put it back together would require that I know something about
applying the tools to an automobile.
EFT is like the tools and YOU are like the mechanic. The EFT process
always works IF you know how to apply it to the particular issue you want to
resolve. After you learn the basics from this introductory manual, we highly
recommend that you pursue additional training and support through the
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resources at EFTU. The more you learn, the greater success you will
experience with the Emotional Freedom Techniques.
4) You get out of EFT what you put into. Like exercise or meditation, EFT is
a self-applied process. And, you will get results in proportion to how much
time and effort you give to the process. If you rarely use EFT, it will rarely
give you results. If you use EFT every day on every issue you will get results
every day on practically every issue. So use it!
In the mid 1990's, a man named Gary Craig took elements from other
meridian energy therapies and he created a simple healing protocol which he
named the "The Emotional Freedom Techniques." He began teaching those
techniques to people in workshops and with video tapes of his seminars.
Psychologists, personal coaches, hypnotherapists, message therapists,
chiropractors and others have flocked to EFT in overwhelming numbers. For
many professionals it has become their main tool.
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The basic theory behind the application of EFT is expressed in what Gary
Craig calls the "Discovery Statement" shown below:
By clearing disruptions in the energy system we allow the mind and body to
heal themselves.
When you say the Set Up phrase you focus on the issue you want to resolve,
bringing it into your awareness, and when you do the Tapping, you tap on
several “energy” points on your body. The “energy” points relate to the
meridian points from Chinese Medicine and are sometimes called
acupuncture points or acupressure points. Some people simply refer to these
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points as “relaxation” points, because you will often feel very relaxed after
you tap on the points a few times.
THE SET UP
For the Set Up part of EFT you identify the issue you want to tap on, and you
say a very special phrase while tapping on the side of your hand (SH) with
one or more fingers from your other hand. Here is the typical Set Up phrase:
"Even though I have this (name the issue), I deeply and completely accept
myself."
You can adapt the Set Up to fit any situation or issue. In advanced practice,
the way you say the Set Up can sometimes make ALL the difference in
whether or not the tapping works. Learning to say THE exact Set Up that
will help THE exact problem you are working on is a skill which you will
develop as you practice EFT and continue to study the art of delivery of EFT.
As a beginner you can use the standard Set Ups such as:
“Even though I have this back pain, I deeply and completely accept
myself.”
“Even though I feel angry at that car that just pulled out in front of me, I
deeply and completely accept myself.”
“Even though my I want that piece of cake, I deeply and completely accept
myself.”
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As you tap on the meridian points, you repeat to yourself a “reminder” phrase
to keep the issue in your mind. For example, if you are tapping on a
headache, you say “this headache” as you tap. Repeating the reminder phrase
keeps you focused on the issue at hand.
2. Repeat the setup affirmation 3 times while tapping the (SH) point.
"Even though (name the problem), I deeply and completely accept myself."
Example: “Even though I feel sad about _______ , I deeply and completely
accept myself.”
4. Check in with your mind and rate the problem again. Is it still a 10? an 8?
a 2? If it is not a zero (0), repeat the EFT sequence.
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KEY
EB = Eyebrow
SE = Side of Eye
UE = Under Eye
UN = Under Nose
CH = Chin
CB = Collarbone
UA = Under Arm
SH = Side of Hand
Nevertheless, I have included a couple of advanced topics here for those who
want to understand more about how EFT works.
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When you tap on a problem, you may have another feeling or other problem
pop into your head. This is your mind telling you “Hey, there is more to this
issue, here is the next aspect you need to tap on.”
To successfully clear the negative emotions from an event, you must address
ALL of the aspects. It just won’t do to address one small part and leave the
rest of the sub-issues untouched. For some issues, therefore, you will have to
tap on many aspects.
The best way to learn to follow a trail of aspects is to work with an EFT
practitioner either individually or in a support group. You can also learn by
listening to recorded sessions. When you hear or see an EFT session you will
clearly understand what aspects are and how to chase them.
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When you have secondary gain, some part of your personality mind thinks
that to get over the problem will require giving up something that you need or
that is essential for your survival.
Conscious Mind =
“I want to get over this problem.”
Unconscious Mind =
“I don’t want to get over this problem because…”
Our ego can hold onto thousands of reasons for not getting over an issue.
Let’s look at some common examples of how stoppers work against you
when you tap.
Example One:
A boy gets sick. His Mom, who usually works, takes the day off and lavishes
attention on boy. This pattern is repeated throughout childhood. The boy
grows up into a healthy man and gets married.
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The grown man has very busy wife, who is CEO of her own company, and
who works until 8 p.m. every night. The seemingly healthy grown man
repeatedly comes down with flu, colds, etc. Nothing seems to help him get
better, so he tries tapping. He taps on his "repeated illness" issue with no
immediate improvement in symptoms, but he realizes that he misses his wife
when she works late every night.
He decides that there might be a secondary gain for keeping his illnesses,
such as the belief: If I get sick, people will pay more attention to me. This is,
in fact, the exact pattern he learned in childhood.
So, the grown man taps on his feeling of needing attention from his wife:
Even though I feel like my wife is not paying enough attention to me, I
deeply and completely accept myself. tap…tap…tap
Immediate result: Grown man realizes he can simply ask his wife for more
attention. He asks wife to take off early on Wednesdays so they can spend
some time together.
Long term result: Grown man gets sick less often, finds other appropriate
ways to get attention.
In the example above, the grown man had no conscious knowledge of his
secondary gain belief, and, his pattern of illnesses no longer gained attention
as it did in childhood. It was an old energy pattern that no longer served him
and his highest good, yet it was resurfacing repeatedly.
Please note: in the example above the man was not getting sick on purpose!
The whole cycle was entirely unconscious on his part. A few rounds of
tapping on his getting sick issue didn’t solve the getting sick, but it did point
him in the direction of the real issue, which was that he wanted to spend more
time with his spouse.
Many health problems (both physical and psychological) have very obvious
secondary gains which no one seems to notice UNTIL THEY TAP ON IT.
We have seen so many clients get a look of enlightenment on their faces when
they realize they may have been unconsciously maintaining an unhealthy life
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pattern because it got them something that they wanted in the past, but that no
longer serves their highest good in the present time.
You may think you want to get over a particular habit or fear, but there may
be a part of you that wants to keep that problem. Look for the secondary gain
in an issue and tap on letting go of the need for that secondary gain, and—
surprise—you will find the issue opens right up and begins to improve.
The woman divorces her most recent abuser and gains 50 pounds. Years later
woman struggles to lose weight. Diets don’t work and she just gains more
weight. The woman feels like her body is working against her.
She discovers EFT and has new hope. She taps on food cravings and similar
issues with little result in terms of actual weight lost. Knowing there might be
a secondary gain for keeping the weight on, she asks herself, “If I lose this
weight then __________________.”
The woman has a huge “aha” moment and realizes she might holding on to
excess weight in order to look less attractive to men, so they will not “hit” on
her and so she will not begin another relationship with another man who
might abuse her just like the others did.
Even though I am afraid to lose weight because I will look more attractive
to men, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Even though I always attract the wrong kind of man, I deeply an completely
accept myself.
Etc…
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Immediate result: The woman laughs at herself and realizes she has been
keeping the weight on to keep from attracting men. While her conscious
mind was saying “I’ve got to lose some weight!” her unconscious mind was
screaming out “I’ve got to stay fat!”
Long term result: She continues to tap on her issues of attracting dangerous
men, and she gradually loses weight with less effort than before.
(If you think we are making these examples up, think again. The above
example occurs frequently with women and sometimes with men.)
“Even though I don’t really want to get over this problem, I deeply and
profoundly accept myself.”
“Even though part of me wants to stay sick…”
“Even though some part of me enjoys feeling this sadness…”
“Even though I don’t want to heal my grief yet…”
“Even though I like having this problem…”
If you remain stuck, seek help from a an EFT specialist or a support group.
The saddest result of secondary gain is that the people who have the most to
gain from EFT often won’t use it PRECISELY BECAUSE IT WORKS!
You see, their system senses that EFT will very efficiently resolve a
challenging issue, but part of the mind desperately want to hang on to that
issue for protective reasons, or because that negative energy pattern is the
only one that the person’s system has known. The best way to get around
secondary gain is to tap with a practitioner or a support group.
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Below are short summaries of three EFT success stories. We include these to
illustrate how someone can apply EFT to a specific issue with success.
Even though I have this headache, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Even though I have this headache, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Even though I have this headache, I deeply and completely accept myself.
tap…tap…tap…
Headache gone.
NOTE: I have had other headaches that took several rounds of tapping to
eliminate, so don’t give up if yours doesn’t disappear instantly. Remember
that if the true cause of your headache rests in some physiological need, then
your tapping will probably not make the headache disappear. For instance, if
you have consumed very little water during the day, you may have a
dehydration headache. You try tapping, but during the tapping you may
notice you feel thirsty. So drink some water!
Or, you may need to catch up on sleep and your headache is a message from
your body saying “Hey, take a nap!” So you should take a nap!
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This next case study shows how one short event lasting only a few
minutes can create patterns in a person’s energy system. These patterns
can exert control over that individual for the rest of her life unless the
“short circuit” is corrected with EFT.
Kathy had come to a seminar on “EFT for Weight Loss” and had made some
good progress during the day. She responded wonderfully to EFT and at the
end of the afternoon session, she asked if I could help her with a phobia
relating to driving over a particular highway overpass in Houston.
This phobia caused her to feel fearful and tense whenever she had to drive on
this overpass or similar ones, so she would usually drive out of her way to
avoid having to go on that part of the freeway. This particular phobia didn't
appear to hamper her life tremendously, but it was a nuisance to feel so
controlled by a simple fear of driving on one stretch of the highway.
Consciously, she felt silly not being able to drive on the highway like any
normal person. No amount of conscious reasoning would unlock the stuck
pattern in her mind-body system however, and she remained prisoner to her
emotional and physiological reactions.
Kathy even knew the source of this fear, but knowing it didn’t make the fear
go away.
She explained to me that she had been in a very bad accident on a similar
highway overpass about two decades earlier. The previous accident had not
been her fault in any way. She had come over the hill and had run into a
multi-car pileup that had started several cars ahead of her on the freeway.
The accident had begun with only two cars, but because the overpass went up
steeply on the front side, she had not been able to see the accident over the
crest of the hill. And when she came over the top of the hill at about 50 mph,
there was no time to stop. Several other cars did the same, resulting in a
multi-car collision.
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She was not seriously injured in the wreck, but some people in another car
had been killed, and she saw their bodies being taken away. She was taken to
the hospital for minor injuries, and her mother came to get her. Since that
time, driving over similar overpasses, especially very steep ones where the far
side is not visible, continued to scare her.
Kathy felt more than normal caution about such areas. She had so much fear
that she would simply drive far out of her way to find a different route to
where she needed to go, rather than cross such an overpass. If she could
resolve this phobia she might save herself considerable time in getting
through downtown.
We started by rating her fear of driving on the highway overpass, which she
put at about an 8 or 9 on a scale of 1 to 10. I asked her where in her body she
felt the tension when she had to drive on these kinds of overpasses. She said
her stomach and chest would feel tight and compressed—knotted up.
First we tapped on her fear of driving on the overpass, and then we tapped on
her most obvious physical symptoms with the following Set Ups:
“Even though I’m afraid to drive on the 610 overpass at I-10, I deeply and
completely accept myself,” and,
“Even though I have this tension in my chest and stomach when I think
about driving on that overpass…”
After each round of tapping I asked her to imagine driving over that part of
the road and to rate her anxiety.
A couple rounds with these Set Ups had brought her anxiety down a little bit,
to a 5 or 6. At that point I felt that we should move directly to the most
obvious aspects of the anchoring event, the car accident from her youth, and
go through each of those aspects one at a time.
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“Even though I ran into another car, I deeply and completely accept
myself.”
“Even though I still see the dead bodies from the other cars…”
After clearing a few of these aspects of the accident, Kathy felt a lightness in
her body, and a lessening of anxiety. But she told me that one other aspect
probably continued to bother her more than the actual wreck and its
associated traumas. What made her feel the worst, and what had stuck with
her the longest, was the look on her mother’s face when she (the mother)
walked into the hospital, not knowing if her daughter had been badly injured.
“Even though I feel really guilty about the look on my mother’s face…”
and,
“Even though I feel responsible for my mother’s fear at the hospital…” and
“Even though I made my mother sick with grief for several hours while she
though I might be dead…”
It was during this last set of rounds that Kathy began to feel even better. At
this point I asked her to tune into the idea of driving on that overpass, and rate
her anxiety.
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She tried to vividly imagine driving over that particularly steep stretch of
highway. Before we started tapping, she had felt considerable fear and the
tightness in her chest and stomach just from thinking about driving on that
road. Now, however, she could not call up any fear. She felt sure that she
could confidently tackle that part of the highway.
I tested her new confidence by having her imagine coming over the crest of
the hill and seeing an accident on the road below her. She said she had maybe
a little anxiety, maybe a 1 or 2 on the scale we had been imagining. So we
did a couple of rounds on:
“Even though I might have another accident like the one before…”
At this point Kathy felt completely clear of this phobia. We were not able to
test her at that moment, she would have to do that on her own by actually
driving on that stretch of the freeway. It might be that she would find a new
aspect as she drove over the freeway in that spot.
Perhaps the particular time of day would trigger memories of her previous
accident, or perhaps a certain color of car in front of her might cause her to
remember more about that day in her youth. And her symptoms might return.
On the other hand, it was very possible that she might never feel those
particular symptoms in that situation ever again.
This next case study demonstrates the power of EFT to help a purely
“physical” problem. It also illustrates the fact that we often know, at
some level, what is really at the root of our pain.
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Bob had very painful gout in his left foot and was just recovering from gout in
his right foot when I met him. Medications and other treatments had
produced a slight improvement, but the gout wasn't going away.
After chatting for a few minutes about EFT, Bob rated his pain for me.
Sitting down he gave it an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10, but he said it would
probably be a ten if he were to put any weight on it. (He was using a walking
stick to get around without hurting his foot.)
We started by tapping on the pain itself, and the swelling, just to see what
would happen. We used the following Set Ups:
We made very little progress with these Set Up statements. Bob said the
tapping felt good, and he felt maybe a little relaxation in his foot. He rated
the pain at about a 6 or 7. We did a couple more rounds, but the pain did not
decrease noticeably.
I had already suspected that we would need to address some deeper issues
than the obvious presenting symptoms. For those with hypnotherapy training
or who have read Louise Hay’s book Heal Your Body, you know that a
problem with the feet can represent fear of moving forward, or fear of the
future.
I asked Bob if he had any clues as to a potential emotional cause for his gout.
Bob was very open minded about pursuing an emotional or mind-body
connection, but we didn't get anywhere for the next few minutes. So I asked
Bob to fill-in-the-blank on the following statement to draw out his
unconscious knowledge.
“If I get over this gout then I will have to ______________” ???
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As soon as I got to the blank, Bob grinned and blurted out “I’ll have to go
back to work!”
I had a strong intuition that the job territory had everything to do with the
gout. So I asked for any reason why he would want to miss work, and he
gave me a rundown of his current work situation.
Bob worked at a very successful and fast growing company that always
seemed to be short on employees, owing to the constant increase in new
customers. Being a supervisor and minority owner in the company, he felt
tremendous pressure to take up the slack so that customers would get good
service. For Bob that meant 10 – 12 hour days and working some Saturdays
as well. (He is an artist and novelist to boot, and 12 hour days leave little
time for a second career.)
Bob had worked this grueling schedule for a long time and saw no end in site.
As long as the company kept growing, they would always be short on
employees, and Bob would seldom, if ever, get a day off or a vacation.
As he told this story, I didn’t have to connect the dots for him, he could see an
obvious connection between gout and having some time off of work. When
he had had gout in his other foot, he had missed about four days of work, and
now he was missing several more.
So now we had a lot to tap on. We used a number of Set Up phrases for the
next 20 minutes or so, but for the sake of brevity I will summarize the
procedure below. Here are some of the statements which we used:
“Even though I feel like I will never get a break from work….”
“Even though I feel guilty taking time off from work, because I own part of
the company, and I feel responsible for its success…”
“Even though I think things will fall apart if I don’t take up the slack…”
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“Even though I feel guilty asking the company to hire more help…”
and so on…
I periodically asked for a rating on Bob’s pain. Both the pain and the
swelling came down considerably while we tapped, and Bob reported feeling
“whooshes” and “zings” of energy flowing from his feet out his head during
some of the rounds. His foot grew noticeably smaller before our very eyes.
We ran out of time, though, and had to wrap things up with Bob’s pain still at
about a 1 or 2. We had made progress in finding an emotional root for the
gout, and Bob could continue to use EFT on his own if he chose to do so.
A few days later he reported that the gout pain had continued to subside and
he had returned to work the next Monday (we had tapped on a Saturday).
More importantly, he informed his boss that he was going to work a more
reasonable schedule in the future. He had no guilt about asking for this
change. His attitude toward work had shifted considerably during our session
of tapping.
The success stories above represent only a fraction of what the Emotional
Freedom Techniques can do. The tapping process can literally be applied
to ANY issue in your life!
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Aren’t there more meridian points on the body that can be tapped?
Absolutely. You can tap on many other points than the seven shown on the
basic diagram. You can learn more about the other points in the Audio
Training Available at EFTU, http://www.eftu.com.
What if I am driving my car and I want to tap, but I can’t tap on the SH
point, how do I do the Set Up?
One of the best times to tap on issues that are bothering you is while you are
driving or waiting at stop lights. As you try car tapping you may find it hard
to tap the side of one hand with another. I use the Collarbone spot for the Set
Up phrase while I am driving a car or if one of my hands is full at any time.
But any spot will do for the Set Up.
CONCLUSION
If you have read this manual and started tapping, congratulations. You have
just put a turbo rocket onto your personal development go-cart. Keep in mind
that this manual barely touches on the vast potential of EFT as a tool for
personal evolution. At this point, you may feel ready to pursue some
vigorous results with EFT. If so, get advanced training or work with a
practitioner today!
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Karen Curry learned EFT from Gary Craig’s video series, and in live training
with Gary and other EFT specialists.
Karen works as a trainer, personal coach seminar leader, and a public speaker,
pursuing a mission of promoting peace through the teaching of The
P.E.A.C.E. Process (Personal Evolution And Consciousness Expansion).
Their most important tools include EFT and Human Design. Learn more
about Karen visit www.joyfulmission.com
As you use EFT to discharge fears, angers, traumatic memories, and the like,
you will find yourself acting from a more peaceful and loving frame of mind.
You can't help it. The more you tap, the more peaceful you feel.
Don't keep that powerful peaceful feeling to yourself! A peaceful world can
only result from world full of peaceful people. By attaching this e-book to an
email you can send it to one friend, or ten friends, or a hundred friends, and
you will have an immediate impact on world peace. Or, you can put this
manual on a CD and share it with a friend, or even print it and give it to
someone you love.
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Help us promote emotional peace for our planet, and individual peace for its
inhabitants. Share this manual with others!
Sincerely,
Karen Curry
www.joyfulmission.com
IMPORTANT NOTE: The description of EFT given in this manual is a
short-cut version of EFT which is effective most of the time. If you would
like to learn the complete EFT system and the history of the techniques,
please visit http://www.emofree.com
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writings of the authors mentioned above; and if you wish to reap the fruits of
their philosophies in actual practice, read this book and do exactly as it tells
you to do----
Wallace Wattles
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After you have absorbed the power of each chapter, complete the journal
exercises. Pay attention to the emotions that are triggered by your journal
entries
Use EFT to clear any limiting beliefs that may come up for you when you
read this book. I’ve included some sample EFT setups in case you need help
putting words to your feelings.
The last three chapters have no exercises. Just read the chapters and enjoy
them. You’ll find that each paragraph is full of a richness and a depth that is
as powerful today as when it was originally written. Universal laws never
change.
Enjoy your journey through this book. I hope it brings you as much
inspiration and excitement as it always brings me.
May you become a Certain Thinker and powerfully rich in all ways!
Love,
Karen
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Do you believe that you can easily and joyfully become rich?
How do you feel about getting rich from doing work you love?
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salmon.
But, aside from these general limitations, getting rich is not
dependent upon your engaging in some particular business,
but upon your learning to do things in a Certain Way. If you
are now in business, and anybody else in your locality is
getting rich in the same business, while you are not getting
rich, it is because you are not doing things in the same Way
that the other person is doing them.
No one is prevented from getting rich by lack of capital. True,
as you get capital the increase becomes more easy and rapid;
but one who has capital is already rich, and does not need to
consider how to become so. No matter how poor you may be,
if you begin to do things in the Certain Way you will begin to
get rich; and you will begin to have capital. The getting of
capital is a part of the process of getting rich; and it is a part
of the result which invariably follows the doing of things in
the Certain Way. You may be the poorest man on the
continent, and be deeply in debt; you may have neither
friends, influence, nor resources; but if you begin to do things
in this way, you must infallibly begin to get rich, for like
causes must produce like effects. If you have no capital, you
can get capital; if you are in the wrong business, you can get
into the right business; if you are in the wrong location, you
can go to the right location; and you can do so by beginning
in your present business and in your present location to do
things in the Certain Way which causes success.
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Make a list of the top ten reasons you don’t have all the
money, love, health and creative fulfillment you desire in
your life right now.
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Is Opportunity Monopolized?
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Are there areas in your life where you are going “against the
tide” and not seeing new opportunities and ways to fulfill your
dreams and life purpose? Are you fluid and “in the flow” of
abundance?
EFT Setups:
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Even though in the past I was not one of the lucky ones when
it came to wealth, I now know that I have all the resources
and knowledge I need to create my own abundant life and
that there is more than enough for everyone. I joyfully
celebrate the wealth and abundance of my Divine Sibling and
know that I, too, can have everything I dream of and more!
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The First Principle in the
Science of Getting Rich
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There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and
which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills
the interspaces of the universe.
A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is
imaged by the thought.
Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his
thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he
thinks about to be created.
You must lay aside all other concepts of the universe than
this monistic one; and you must dwell upon this until it is
fixed in your mind, and has become your habitual thought.
Read these creed statements over and over again; fix every
word upon your memory, and meditate upon them until you
firmly believe what they say. If a doubt comes to you, cast it
aside as a sin. Do not listen to arguments against this idea;
do not go to churches or lectures where a contrary concept of
things is taught or preached. Do not read magazines or books
which teach a different idea; if you get mixed up in your
faith, all your efforts will be in vain.
Do not ask why these things are true, nor speculate as to
how they can be true; simply take them on trust.
The science of getting rich begins with the absolute
acceptance of this faith.
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Remember the list you made of the top ten reasons you don’t
have what you want in your life? Can you see how these
“thought-forms” continue to manifest in your reality?
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Increasing Life
YOU must get rid of the last vestige of the old idea that there
is a Deity whose will it is that you should be poor, or whose
purposes may be served by keeping you in poverty.
The Intelligent Substance which is All, and in All, and which
lives in All and lives in you, is a consciously Living Substance.
Being a consciously living substance, It must have the nature
and inherent desire of every living intelligence for increase of
life. Every living thing must continually seek for the
enlargement of its life, because life, in the mere act of living,
must increase itself.
A seed, dropped into the ground, springs into activity, and in
the act of living produces a hundred more seeds; life, by
living, multiplies itself. It is forever Becoming More; it must
do so, if it continues to be at all.
Intelligence is under this same necessity for continuous
increase. Every thought we think makes it necessary for us to
think another thought; consciousness is continually
expanding. Every fact we learn leads us to the learning of
another fact; knowledge is continually increasing. Every
talent we cultivate brings to the mind the desire to cultivate
another talent; we are subject to the urge of life, seeking
expression, which ever drives us on to know more, to do
more, and to be more.
In order to know more, do more, and be more we must have
more; we must have things to use, for we learn, and do, and
become, only by using things. We must get rich, so that we
can live more.
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The desire for riches is simply the capacity for larger life
seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an
unexpressed possibility to come into action. It is power
seeking to manifest which causes desire. That which makes
you want more money is the same as that which makes the
plant grow; it is Life, seeking fuller expression.
The One Living Substance must be subject to this inherent
law of all life; it is permeated with the desire to live more;
that is why it is under the necessity of creating things.
The One Substance desires to live more in you; hence it
wants you to have all the things you can use.
It is the desire of God that you should get rich. He wants you
to get rich because he can express himself better through you
if you have plenty of things to use in giving him expression.
He can live more in you if you have unlimited command of
the means of life.
The universe desires you to have everything you want to
have.
Nature is friendly to your plans.
Everything is naturally for you.
Make up your mind that this is true.
It is essential, however that your purpose should harmonize
with the purpose that is in All.
You must want real life, not mere pleasure of sensual
gratification. Life is the performance of function; and the
individual really lives only when he performs every function,
physical, mental, and spiritual, of which he is capable,
without excess in any.
You do not want to get rich in order to live swinishly, for the
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Journal Exercises:
Think about all the dreams you have. What is the true desire
behind all of your intentions? What are you seeking to fulfill?
Where do you stop yourself from believing you, too, can have
wealth. When you think about “wealthy” people, what kinds
of thoughts and feelings come up for you? What if you were
a wealthy person? What would you be like?
When you allow your wealth, how will you use that wealth to
help others?
EFT Setups:
Even though I feel guilty for not being satisfied with what I
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Even though in the past I believed there was honor and virtue
in sacrificing myself and my abundance for others, I now
choose to know that the most important way that I can
contribute to the growth and abundance of others is to
gracefully allow my own abundance in wealth, health and
spirit. My own abundance creates a foundation from which I
can consistently and strongly lift others up to their abundance
and abundance is our birthright.
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How Riches Come To You
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his life than the thing he give you in exchange, you can afford
to stop it. You do not have to beat anybody in business. And
if you are in a business which does beat people, get out of it
at once.
Give every man more in use value than you take from him in
cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by
every business transaction.
If you have people working for you, you must take from them
more in cash value than you pay them in wages; but you can
so organize your business that it will be filled with the
principle of advancement, and so that each employee who
wishes to do so may advance a little every day.
You can make your business do for your employees what this
book is doing for you. You can so conduct your business that
it will be a sort of ladder, by which every employee who will
take the trouble may climb to riches himself; and given the
opportunity, if he will not do so it is not your fault.
And finally, because you are to cause the creation of your
riches from Formless Substance which permeates all your
environment, it does not follow that they are to take shape
from the atmosphere and come into being before your eyes.
If you want a sewing machine, for instance, I do not mean to
tell you that you are to impress the thought of a sewing
machine on Thinking Substance until the machine is formed
without hands, in the room where you sit, or elsewhere. But
if you want a sewing machine, hold the mental image of it
with the most positive certainty that it is being made, or is on
its way to you. After once forming the thought, have the
most absolute and unquestioning faith that the sewing
machine is coming; never think of it, or speak, of it, in any
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EFT Setups:
Concluding Setup:
Even though I don’t know how my big dreams will come true,
I understand that my job is simply to dream about the total
fulfillment of my desires. I know and trust that when I have
faith in my desires and dreams, the inspiration and
circumstances to make my dreams my reality show
themselves to me, as if by magic, and the fulfillment of my
dreams is easy, effortless and natural.
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Gratitude
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Thinking in the Certain Way
TURN back to chapter 6 and read again the story of the man
who formed a mental image of his house, and you will get a
fair idea of the initial step toward getting rich. You must form
a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you
cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.
You must have it before you can give it; and many people fail
to impress Thinking Substance because they have themselves
only a vague and misty concept of the things they want to
do, to have, or to become.
It is not enough that you should have a general desire for
wealth "to do good with"; everybody has that desire.
It is not enough that you should have a wish to travel, see
things, live more, etc. Everybody has those desires also. If
you were going to send a wireless message to a friend, you
would not send the letters of the alphabet in their order, and
let him construct the message for himself; nor would you
take words at random from the dictionary. You would send a
coherent sentence; one which meant something. When you
try to impress your wants upon Substance, remember that it
must be done by a coherent statement; you must know what
you want, and be definite. You can never get rich, or start the
creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings
and vague desires.
Go over your desires just as the man I have described went
over his house; see just what you want, and get a clear
mental picture of it as you wish it to look when you get it.
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the picture clearly. If that is all you do, you are only a
dreamer, and will have little or no power for accomplishment.
Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it; to
bring it out in tangible expression.
And behind this purpose must be an invincible and
unwavering FAITH that the thing is already yours; that it is
"at hand" and you have only to take possession of it.
Live in the new house, mentally, until it takes form around
you physically. In the mental realm, enter at once into full
enjoyment of the things you want.
"Whatsoever things ye ask for when ye pray, believe that ye
receive them, and ye shall have them," said Jesus.
See the things you want as if they were actually around you
all the time; see yourself as owning and using them. Make
use of them in imagination just as you will use them when
they are your tangible possessions. Dwell upon your mental
picture until it is clear and distinct, and then take the Mental
Attitude of Ownership toward everything in that picture. Take
possession of it, in mind, in the full faith that it is actually
yours. Hold to this mental ownership; do not waiver for an
instant in the faith that it is real.
And remember what was said in a proceeding chapter about
gratitude; be as thankful for it all the time as you expect to
be when it has taken form. The man who can sincerely thank
God for the things which as yet he owns only in imagination,
has real faith. He will get rich; he will cause the creation of
whatsoever he wants.
You do not need to pray repeatedly for things you want; it is
not necessary to tell God about it every day.
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"Use not vain repetitions as the heathen do," said Jesus said
to his pupils, "for your Father knoweth the ye have need of
these things before ye ask Him."
Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the
things which make for a larger life, and to get these desire
arranged into a coherent whole; and then to impress this
Whole Desire upon the Formless Substance, which has the
power and the will to bring you what you want.
You do not make this impression by repeating strings of
words; you make it by holding the vision with unshakable
PURPOSE to attain it, and with steadfast FAITH that you do
attain it.
The answer to prayer is not according to your faith while you
are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.
You cannot impress the mind of God by having a special
Sabbath day set apart to tell Him what you want, and the
forgetting Him during the rest of the week. You cannot
impress Him by having special hours to go into your closet
and pray, if you then dismiss the matter from your mind until
the hour of prayer comes again.
Oral prayer is well enough, and has its effect, especially upon
yourself, in clarifying your vision and strengthening your
faith; but it is not your oral petitions which get you what you
want. In order to get rich you do not need a "sweet hour of
prayer"; you need to "pray without ceasing." And by prayer I
mean holding steadily to your vision, with the purpose to
cause its creation into solid form, and the faith that you are
doing so.
"Believe that ye receive them."
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Health
Financial Wealth
Relationships
Creative Fulfillment
Lifestyle
Spirituality
(Hint. If you don’t know what you want, just write about the
opposite of what you are experiencing.
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How to Use the Will
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rise.
You do not have to use your will power to conquer an
unfriendly deity, or to make stubborn and rebellious forces do
your bidding.
Substance is friendly to you, and is more anxious to give you
what you want than you are to get it.
To get rich, you need only to use your will power upon
yourself.
When you know what to think and do, then you must use
your will to compel yourself to think and do the right things.
That is the legitimate use of the will in getting what you
want--to use it in holding yourself to the right course. Use
your will to keep yourself thinking and acting in the Certain
Way.
Do not try to project your will, or your thoughts, or your mind
out into space, to "act" on things or people.
Keep your mind at home; it can accomplish more there than
elsewhere.
Use your mind to form a mental image of what you want, and
to hold that vision with faith and purpose; and use your will
to keep your mind working in the Right Way.
The more steady and continuous your faith and purpose, the
more rapidly you will get rich, because you will make only
POSITIVE impressions upon Substance; and you will not
neutralize or offset them by negative impressions.
The picture of your desires, held with faith and purpose, is
taken up by the Formless, and permeates it to great
distances-throughout the universe, for all I know.
As this impression spreads, all things are set moving toward
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Further Use of Will
YOU cannot retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are
constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures,
whether they be external or imaginary.
Do not tell of your past troubles of a financial nature, if you
have had them, do not think of them at all. Do not tell of the
poverty of your parents, or the hardships of your early life; to
do any of these things is to mentally class yourself with the
poor for the time being, and it will certainly check the
movement of things in your direction.
"Let the dead bury their dead," as Jesus said.
Put poverty and all things that pertain to poverty completely
behind you.
You have accepted a certain theory of the universe as being
correct, and are resting all your hopes of happiness on its
being correct; and what can you gain by giving heed to
conflicting theories?
Do not read religious books which tell you that the world is
soon coming to an end; and do not read the writing of muck-
rakers and pessimistic philosophers who tell you that it is
going to the devil.
The world is not going to the devil; it is going to God.
It is wonderful Becoming.
True, there may be a good many things in existing conditions
which are disagreeable; but what is the use of studying them
when they are certainly passing away, and when the study of
them only tends to check their passing and keep them with
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us? Why give time and attention to things which are being
removed by evolutionary growth, when you can hasten their
removal only by promoting the evolutionary growth as far as
your part of it goes?
No matter how horrible in seeming may be the conditions in
certain countries, sections, or places, you waste your time
and destroy your own chances by considering them.
You should interest yourself in the world's becoming rich.
Think of the riches the world is coming into, instead of the
poverty it is growing out of; and bear in mind that the only
way in which you can assist the world in growing rich is by
growing rich yourself through the creative method--not the
competitive one.
Give your attention wholly to riches; ignore poverty.
Whenever you think or speak of those who are poor, think
and speak of them as those who are becoming rich;as those
who are to be congratulated rather than pitied. Then they
and others will catch the inspiration, and begin to search for
the way out.
Because I say that you are to give your whole time and mind
and thought to riches, it does not follow that you are to be
sordid or mean.
To become really rich is the noblest aim you can have in life,
for it includes everything else. On the competitive plane, the
struggle to get rich is a Godless scramble for power over
other men; but when we come into the creative mind, all this
is changed.
All that is possible in the way of greatness and soul
unfoldment, of service and lofty endeavor, comes by way of
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Others are poor because, while they feel that there is a way
out, they are too intellectually indolent to put forth the
mental effort necessary to find that way and by travel it; and
for these the very best thing you can do is to arouse their
desire by showing them the happiness that comes from being
rightly rich.
Others still are poor because, while they have some notion of
science, they have become so swamped and lost in the maze
of metaphysical and occult theories that they do not know
which road to take. They try a mixture of many systems and
fail in all. For these, again, the very best thing, to do is to
show the right way in your own person and practice; an
ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.
The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make
the most of yourself.
You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by
getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method
and not by the competetive one.
Another thing. We assert that this book gives in detail the
principles of the science of getting rich; and if that is true,
you do not need to read any other book upon the subject.
This may sound narrow and egotistical, but consider: there is
no more scientific method of computation in mathematics
than by addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; no
other method is possible. There can be but one shortest
distance between two points. There is only one way to think
scientifically, and that is to think in the way that leads by the
most direct and simple route to the goal. No man has yet
formulated a briefer or less complex "system" than the one
set forth herein; it has been stripped of all non-essentials.
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When you commence on this, lay all others aside; put them
out of your mind altogether.
Read this book every day; keep it with you; commit it to
memory, and do not think about other "systems" and
theories. If you do, you will begin to have doubts, and to be
uncertain and wavering in your thought; and then you will
begin to make failures.
After you have made good and become rich, you may study
other systems as much as you please; but until you are quite
sure that you have gained what you want, do not read
anything on this line but this book, unless it be the authors
mentioned in the Preface.
And read only the most optimistic comments on the world's
news; those in harmony with your picture.
Also, postpone your investigations into the occult. Do not
dabble in theosophy, Spiritualism, or kindred studies. It is
very likely that the dead still live, and are near; but if they
are, let them alone; mind your own business.
Wherever the spirits of the dead may be, they have their own
work to do, and their own problems to solve; and we have no
right to interfere with them. We cannot help them, and it is
very doubtful whether they can help us, or whether we have
any right to trespass upon their time if they can. Let the dead
and the hereafter alone, and solve your own problem; get
rich. If you begin to mix with the occult, you will start mental
cross-currents which will surely bring your hopes to
shipwreck. Now, this and the preceding chapters have
brought us to the following statement of basic facts:--
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and
which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills
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begin now.
And your action, whatever it is, must most likely be in your
present business or employment, and must be upon the
persons and things in your present environment.
You cannot act where you are not; you cannot act where you
have been, and you cannot act where you are going to be;
you can act only where you are.
Do not bother as to whether yesterday's work was well done
or ill done; do to-day's work well. Do not try to do tomorrow's
work now; there will be plenty of time to do that when you
get to it.
Do not try, by occult or mystical means, to act on people or
things that are out of your reach.
Do not wait for a change of environment, before you act; get
a change of environment by action.
You can so act upon the environment in which you are now,
as to cause yourself to be transferred to a better
environment.
Hold with faith and purpose the vision of yourself in the
better environment, but act upon your present environment
with all your heart, and with all your strength, and with all
your mind.
Do not spend any time in day dreaming or castle building;
hold to the one vision of what you want, and act NOW.
Do not cast about seeking some new thing to do, or some
strange, unusual, or remarkable action to perform as a first
step toward getting rich. It is probable that your actions, at
least for some time to come, will be those you have been
performing for some time past; but you are to begin now to
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to our syllabus:--
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and
which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills
the interspaces of the universe.
A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is
imaged by the thought.
Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his
thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he
thinks about to be created.
In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to
the creative mind; he must form a clear mental picture of the
things he wants, and hold this picture in his thoughts with the
fixed PURPOSE to get what he wants, and the unwavering
FAITH that he does get what he wants, closing his mind to all
that may tend to shake his purpose, dim his vision, or quench
his faith.
That he may receive what he wants when it comes, man
must act NOW upon the people and things in his present
environment.
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1. Keep a log for a week of how you spend your time. Are
you using your time towards creating that which you desire in
your life? If you have a dream, are you actively taking daily
steps to create it?
3. If you are not taking actions that you know you need to,
ask yourself the following two questions:
EFT Exercises:
Even though I feel guilty for not taking the actions I need to
take…
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Even though in the past, I worked hard and never saw the
results and I put off doing the things I needed to do, I now
choose to take powerful, effective action every day. I know
that I am joyfully creating exactly what I want in my life and
I release all beliefs and thoughts keep me from having
everything I want and more. I am a persona of action.
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Concluding Setup:
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Getting Into The Right Business
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Journal Exercises:
EFT Setups
Even though it’s hard for me to “let go” when I don’t know
“how”…
Even though there are others who are more gifted than me…
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and passions, that inspires me, fills me with energy and lifts
me up to the higher vibration of abundance. It is perfectly
natural to make money doing work you love and I’m ready!
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The Impression of Increase
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which he hath.
The normal desire for increased wealth is not an evil or a
reprehensible thing; it is simply the desire for more abundant
life; it is aspiration.
And because it is the deepest instinct of their natures, all
men and women are attracted to him who can give them
more of the means of life.
In following the Certain Way as described in the foregoing
pages, you are getting continuous increase for yourself, and
you are giving it to all with whom you deal.
You are a creative center, from which increase is given off to
all.
Be sure of this, and convey assurance of the fact to every
man, woman, and child with whom you come in contact. No
matter how small the transaction, even if it be only the
selling of a stick of candy to a little child, put into it the
thought of increase, and make sure that the customer is
impressed with the thought.
Convey the impression of advancement with everything you
do, so that all people shall receive the impression that you
are an Advancing Man, and that you advance all who deal
with you. Even to the people whom you meet in a social way,
without any thought of business, and to whom you do not try
to sell anything, give the thought of increase.
You can convey this impression by holding the unshakable
faith that you, yourself, are in the Way of Increase; and by
letting this faith inspire, fill, and permeate every action.
Do everything that you do in the firm conviction that you are
an advancing personality, and that you are giving
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advancement to everybody.
Feel that you are getting rich, and that in so doing you are
making others rich, and conferring benefits on all.
Do not boast or brag of your success, or talk about it
unnecessarily; true faith is never boastful.
Wherever you find a boastful person, you find one who is
secretly doubtful and afraid. Simply feel the faith, and let it
work out in every transaction; let every act and tone and look
express the quiet assurance that you are getting rich; that
you are already rich. Words will not be necessary to
communicate this feeling to others; they will feel the sense of
increase when in your presence, and will be attracted to you
again.
You must so impress others that they will feel that in
associating with you they will get increase for themselves.
See that you give them a use value greater than the cash
value you are taking from them.
Take an honest pride in doing this, and let everybody know
it; and you will have no lack of customers. People will go
where they are given increase; and the Supreme, which
desires increase in all, and which knows all, will move toward
you men and women who have never heard of you. Your
business will increase rapidly, and you will be surprised at the
unexpected benefits which will come to you. You will be able
from day to day to make larger combinations, secure greater
advantages, and to go on into a more congenial vocation if
you desire to do so.
But in doing all this, you must never lose sight of your vision
of what you want, or your faith and purpose to get what you
want.
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Journal Exercises:
EFT Setups:
Even though I feel that other people have power over me…
Even though I get worried that there isn’t enough for me and
I’ll miss my chance…
Concluding Setup:
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The Advancing Man
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Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of
work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of
success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you
do.
But do not do this merely with the idea of currying favor with
your employer, in the hope that he, or those above you, will
see your good work and advance you; it is not likely that they
will do so.
The man who is merely a "good" workman, filling his place to
the very best of his ability, and satisfied with that, is valuable
to his employer; and it is not to the employer's interest to
promote him; he is worth more where he is.
To secure advancement, something more is necessary than
to be too large for your place.
The man who is certain to advance is the one who is too big
for his place, and who has a clear concept of what he wants
to be; who knows that he can become what he wants to be
and who is determined to BE what he wants to be.
Do not try to more than fill your present place with a view to
pleasing your employer; do it with the idea of advancing
yourself. Hold the faith and purpose of increase during work
hours, after work hours, and before work hours. Hold it in
such a way that every person who comes in contact with you,
whether foreman, fellow workman, or social acquaintance,
will feel the power of purpose radiating from you; so that
every one will get the sense of advancement and increase
from you. Men will be attracted to you, and if there is no
possibility for advancement in your present job, you will very
soon see an opportunity to take another job.
There is a Power which never fails to present opportunity to
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Summary of the Science of Getting Rich
THERE is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and
which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills
the interspaces of the universe.
A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged
by the thought.
Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing his
thought upon formless substance can cause the thing he
thinks about to be created.
In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to
the creative mind; otherwise he cannot be in harmony with
the Formless Intelligence, which is always creative and never
competitive in spirit.
Man may come into full harmony with the Formless
Substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for
the blessings it bestows upon him. Gratitude unifies the mind
of man with the intelligence of Substance, so that man's
thoughts are received by the Formless. Man can remain upon
the creative plane only by uniting himself with the Formless
Intelligence through a deep and continuous feeling of
gratitude.
Man must form a clear and definite mental image of the
things he wishes to have, to do, or to become; and he must
hold this mental image in his thoughts, while being deeply
grateful to the Supreme that all his desires are granted to
him. The man who wishes to get rich must spend his leisure
hours in contemplating his Vision, and in earnest
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