It was 1992, I had just graduated university in England, 8 month's pregnant & alone, I could no longer trust my boyfriend of 6 years so I had ended the relationship. I had finished a temporary job that I had taken because being a student before you get pregnant meant that you don't qualify for maternity benefits, only those who were unemployed or employed did. I had to work until they would no longer let me work. After my son was born I got financial help from the government, it wasn't much but it was enough to live off for which I was grateful but I knew that things had to change. I just couldn't remain stuck in this poverty trap, I knew I deserved better. Little did I know that things were about to get much, much worse. I applied for entry level graduate jobs & landed myself one. The wages only just covered my 1 room apartment rent & childcare costs. I knew I had to do it anyway to get myself out of this situation. I was determined to do whatever it took to set myself free, to have the income that both me & my son deserved. What it took was: getting a pushbike & having a baby seat fixed to the back. Riding my son to the childminder, then racing the journey to work that would have taken anyone less desperate at least 25 minutes. Working a 7 hour day only taking a 30 minute lunch break. Racing back to the childminder because if she worked more than 7 hours she charged overtime rates which I didn't have. Getting us home to feed & bathe my son before putting him to bed. Eating white bread with a slice of ham & mayonnaise for dinner. It took me going from my usual 58kg down to 44 kg. It took me walking out of work slamming doors after asking for raise & being told that if I was "serious" about this job then I would put more hours in! (even though I told HIM about my situation) It took every ounce of my energy, fat, determination & will power, then I got a raise. The raise that allowed me to eat & for me to be healthy again instead of just making sure my son was healthy. I shed a tear writing that, taking myself back there. They were the hardest of times. I am also proud of myself for those times. That raise was the start of many. Over the next few years I not only earned plenty but I also invested wisely & grew my money significantly. 8 years & 2 more children later I left that same job because I had achieved everything society told me would make me happy & I wasn't happy. I had the money, I had the job which I only worked school term time so that I could spend time with my children. I had a few holidays a year. I had a new car. I had a big house. I had it all, but I felt so empty inside. The life I was living wasn't fulfilling me. I made a brave decision & gave it all up. I needed to follow a new path. I started meditating & got onto the path of a deeper more fulfilling life. Unfortunately, for my financial wellbeing only, this path had me reading spiritual books that told me that I should be of service to others, that I shouldn't want things for myself, that this would happen naturally as a result of helping others. It didn't. It was a lie. Unfortunately I was around spiritual people who were abundantly challenged, who told me I shouldn't be doing anything for myself, that I would get my reward after I die (this sounds so ridiculous to me now it makes me laugh). But laugh as I might now, I believed it all back then. I went from being wealthy to having nothing, literally nothing. Because I love helping others with my gift this nothingness stuck with me for many years, only just getting by, thinking that if I just help others my reward will come some time, some time soon maybe universe, sometime before I have to pay this bill universe? I was missing something fundamental, something that I had realised way back in 1992, that I deserved better, that I deserved financial plenty for ME, for MYSELF, for MY life, for MY enjoyment, for MY wellbeing, for ME. I had spent years trying to barter with the universe, pretending like everyone else was more deserving than me "I'll help hundreds of people, just please help me pay this one bill" & I did! I was so depleted, surrounded by people that needed help, both in my professional life & in my personal life. It was exhausting. But still I didn't get that I needed to know that I deserved it, I needed to want it for ME Every time I was guided to look at my reasons for wanting money the spiritual guilt would come out from hiding & I would try to find more righteous reasons for wanting the money "I'll give it away", "I'll help many people with it", "I'll help the needy" always thinking that everyone else was more deserving than I was. These spiritual beliefs about money crippled me for so many years. I could clearly see when it had happened, when the money stopped growing & rapidly started to disappear, but I couldn't pin it down to the actual belief that had caused me to only just survive again... until I did. In 2012 I published my first book "The Healing Path Within" I meditated to talk to my guides & said "Great! Now I can help millions of people!" my higher self said "Not likely, you won't allow the results of it back" That was a punch in the gut, but I knew it was true. Why would a book help when everything else I had done hadn't helped? So over the last 6 years I have focused on healing my abundance, on questioning my beliefs about abundance, on releasing past money memories, blocks & raising my abundance consciousness. The final step was to recognise that I deserve plenty for ME, for MY life, for MYSELF. What beliefs hold your greater abundance away? Comment below I'm Claire Louise Hay, I help you claim your true power to manifest the life of your dreams through self-awareness and alignment with your higher self. Want to work with me? Click here to find out how!
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What bad habit do you want to stop? Today I decided that I want to stop spending so much time inside in my air conditioning & get outside more. I have a very active life, working out almost every day, riding around my tropical island on my bicycle, going to the pool for a swim, but even so, the majority of my time is spent in my room in my air con, working, reading, listening to podcasts, meditating, watching movies, etc. So this morning I went for a beach walk after my daily fresh juice to kick start a new habit. What good habit do you want to start? Today I decided that I want to start writing a new blog twice a week. So guess what? Here I am, after my meditation, my fresh juice, my beach walk & breakfast, sat writing a new blog. And what better subject to write about than the thing that I am personally focused on today? When I ask my customers these two questions the answers that usually come back are general such as "I want to stop feeling anxious. I want to start to be motivated" I categories these as intentions rather than habits. A general intention of wanting to stop feeling one way & to start feeling another way are great intentions. They plant the seeds within you, they place an order with the universe that your higher self can lead you to. Then all that you need to do is to follow the clues, to read the books that you stumble across, to listen to that podcast that someone posted about, to become more self-aware of what is actually going on inside of you when you feel that feeling that you no longer want to feel, & to seek help from someone who has already achieved this so that you can easily achieve it too. Intentions are great, but habits are a different beast all together. Habits are a specific thing that you can do every day that will lead you to feeling a certain way, that will improve your life in some way, that will put you on the course that you really want. Habits show the universe that you intend to do something about your intentions! Your intentions can be general, but if you make your habits specific you will be on a fast track, an upward spiral, to achieving those intentions. So let's get specific! Answer these questions in the comments below & let's do this together. What bad habit do you want to stop? What good habit do you want to start? I'm Claire Louise Hay, I help you claim your true power to manifest the life of your dreams through self-awareness and alignment with your higher self. Want to work with me? Click here to find out how! I've heard it said that we attract everyone into our lives because we are somehow in alignment with them. However, I have seen & experienced that this is not true. It can be true, but ONLY if we are going with the flow of the law of attraction. 3 days ago I was in a friend's restaurant, I was in there for a couple of hours but one moment I felt to go say hi to him. When I did he was crying with joy he was so happy, he had just received amazing news & he was high flying. That was a reflection of my vibration. I could have gone to say hi to him when I first arrived if I believed that I "should" have, but I didn't, I went with the flow & the encounter happened when JOY was present. Many years ago I had repeated bad experiences with my family because I thought I "should" be around them, somehow fix the relationships, I "should" have been able to hold my vibration to make everything alright. I couldn't. It was impossible. They were always themselves no matter what my focus. I carried the weight of that on my back for so long until I gave up. On giving up I just didn't have those kinds of encounters with them or anyone else like them anymore. I didn't feel the need to sacrifice myself, my happiness, my life, to be around them. I lost my "should" & suddenly I was in the flow of all the good stuff. I was meditating 2 weeks ago & received a lesson about this subject. Our vibration is constantly changing, one hour we can be joyful, the next hour we might be fearful, etc. As we flow with these feelings we attract a match to what we are being. So we attract those who are joyful, or the joyful part of someone (to the point of their OWN personal ability to be able to reach that vibration) when we are in the joyful vibration, as long as we allow ourselves to be around those who are flowing with us instead of forcing ourselves to be with family, friends, lovers, husbands, people in need, or whoever else we feel we "should" be around. Likewise, we attract those who are fearful, or the fearful part of someone (to the point of their OWN personal ability to reach for fear) when we feel fear, as long as we are flowing with life & are not forcing ourselves to be around those we think we "should" be with. The same goes for any experience in life, jobs, places, customers, businesses, restaurants, anything. If we think we "should" be there or go there or do that & that is not where are good feelings are directing us to, then we buck the current of the law of attraction. The good things that the universe has for you are NEVER found in the "shoulds" Share your experiences & ah ha's in the comments below I'm Claire Louise Hay, I help you claim your true power to manifest the life of your dreams through self-awareness and alignment with your higher self. Want to work with me? Click here to find out how! Have you ever noticed that the better you feel the better life gets? Have you ever been getting ready to go on a night out & you are so excited you just know it is going to be an epic night, then it is? Have you ever noticed how easy it is to manifest something that is just fun? You want a panda suit for a dress up party & then bam you stumble across one. You want to go away for a fun weekend with friends & then bam you manifest the money to do it. You really want to go to that event & the universe just seems to line up so that you can go do it. Then on the flip side have you noticed how hard it is to manifest things that are not fun? Like manifesting the money for bills that make you feel terrible? Like manifesting an outfit to wear to work or school when you can't really wear what you want, but you have to wear their uniform? Like finding a replacement for that washing machine hose that broke the other day? There's a reason for all of this: You are an electromagnetic being. You attract your life experiences from your thoughts (electric) & your feelings (magnetic). Thoughts are straight forward, think about what you want, not what you don't want & you will attract it. Don't think about the drama of not getting it, think about already having it. Use your imagination to think about what you really want to live. Feelings are straight forward too. The better you feel the stronger your magnet. Joy, fun, laughter, love,... they attract things so fast like a really powerful magnet. So how can you feel great about manifesting the money to pay off that debt, when it's not fun, it doesn't make you laugh, you don't love it? It's not by pretending that salads are hilarious, you can't fool the universe by pretending to feel something that you don't feel. It's not by going into the bank laughing & pretending it's so much fun to be paying off your debt. It's by putting YOU & how YOU feel first. So you might THINK the most important thing you NEED to manifest is to pay off that debt, but if you go within truthfully and ask yourself what you really want, what does your heart really want? What will truly make you feel joyful? It's that new bikini, or that trip away with friends, or that gorgeous dress you saw in that shop, or that event, ... You know deep down that you don't want to ignore your debt, or that washing machine hose, or that uniform you need to buy, because that would make you feel guilty about the joy you are having with your new bikini, dress, on that trip away with your friends. You want it all! This is the key. To have it all requires you to know that you can. When you know that you can you will change your asking to include it all. For example, you won't ask for $60 for a new bikini, you'll ask for $560 for all the bills which will leave you enough left over for that new bikini. In this way you have prioritised what makes you feel good so that you DO feel good AND you have made sure that the stuff that will make you feel bad if you ignore it is taken care of too. The prize is the bikini, the path takes care of everything else. This is abundance thinking. Just manifesting one thing, the most serious, the most pressing, the scariest, is SOOOOO hard to do, in fact it's impossible, your thoughts are likely to be on the drama of not getting it & your feelings are like that post stick note that falls off the fridge. So write down the whole list of what you want & ask for it all. Set your prize to be those things that make you feel AWESOME & know the other stuff will be taken care of along the way. This shift can have instant manifestation results, so be sure to share in the comments below your ah-ha & your manifestations! I'm Claire Louise Hay, I help you claim your true power to manifest the life of your dreams through self-awareness and alignment with your higher self. Want to work with me? Click here to find out how! If your religion keeps you in poverty then there is something wrong with your religion. I have witnessed more "spiritual" people in poverty than any other religious group. This means that the collective general beliefs that "spiritual" people have block off their prosperity. You create what you believe. What you believe you deserve & what you believe is possible. 18 years ago I was a wealthy woman. I was earning a lot of money. I had great things. I always seemed to choose the right investments that multiplied my money fast. But I also had emotional issues from abuse that I needed to heal. This need brought me to "spiritual" people. This is when my prosperity turned into poverty, it happened very fast too. Because along with the soothing & the beliefs that were helping me to heal my emotional issues from abuse, I was also listening to & believing in the negative beliefs about wealth. So my blessings stopped, my manifestations stopped, I could no longer magically pick amazing investments, my money dwindled to zero & then I only ever had enough to survive on. In the last 6 years I have healed this in myself. In my quest for healing I actually picked up more issues that required healing! The beliefs that plummeted me into poverty were: That I am not powerful. That I shouldn't seek to be appreciated or thanked. That it's wrong to want & have wealth. That the world is broken & the source of most of the problems are the rich. That material things are not spiritual. Amongst others. What I know now is that when I am using my true power, my mind, in a positive way, by thinking positive thoughts that make me feel good, & my emotional state, feeling love, good feelings, joy & my beliefs are that of love & perfection in ALL, incredible manifestations happen every single day & they include money manifestations. One of the greatest changes in my manifestation ability came when I learned to love myself. It was my belief in myself that was the last key that unlocked all of my blessings. So if you think "The ultra rich are causing poverty" & you don't realise that YOU CREATE WHAT YOU BELIEVE, meaning that it is YOUR beliefs that cause your poverty & THEIR beliefs that cause their ultra richness. Nobody else's beliefs can affect your experience in any way UNLESS you listen to them & believe them too, as I had. So thinking that the ultra rich (or banks, or anyone else) are causing your poverty is like thinking that the ultra healthy are causing your sickness, you understand easily that it makes no sense that someone else's health, their eating, their exercise, their belief in their body's ability to heal, their looking after themselves has anything to do with your health, your eating, your exercise, your belief in your body's ability to heal, your looking after yourself. So why believe that money is any different? Because it really isn't. We have a power in ourselves that is the most powerful force on this planet & that power is our mind & our emotions. When we think & feel right, right meaning aligning with our higher selves thoughts, aligning with source, magical miracles & manifestations happen every day. We need to have our own spiritual practices that keep us from picking up on the negativity around us, so that we can be in alignment with OURSELVES & not follow blindly follow a religion or any group's negative beliefs. I'm Claire Louise Hay, I help you claim your true power to manifest the life of your dreams through self-awareness and alignment with your higher self. Want to work with me? Click here to find out how! |
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