Programming FOR Prosperity
How Tapping Changed Our Money Mindset
In my last post, I shared the beginning of our story about life’s challenges: raising four young children, building houses, moving frequently, financial strains, and discovering the tapping technique that could quickly and easily transform deeply held beliefs.
I previously wrote about the incredible impact of changing just one belief about my self and how it so significantly changed me in a way that was obviously evident to my husband. This transformation naturally encouraged my husband to join me in applying it to our financial issues.
The core premise is fascinating: we make choices based on a subconscious database of beliefs. To each individual, the beliefs are inherently true, and we unconsciously create situations validate them.
It’s similar to computer programming. Our subconscious “code” determines our decisions, with some experts suggesting that 90-95% of our choices are controlled by this subconscious programming.
The power of tapping lies in the ability to “uninstall” the undesirable programs and “install” more empowering beliefs. In our case, it made the most sense to focus on our next efforts on changing our money mindset.
Our first task was comprehensive: we wrote out every belief we’d ever heard, absorbed, or deduced about anything money related. Consider doing this yourself; what comes up may surprise you. It is actually a reality that we sometimes consciously think an idea silly or false while subconsciously it is still held to be true!
Our list included familiar phrases like:
Money doesn’t grow on trees.
It’s easier for a rich man to go through the eye of a needle than to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Money is the root of all evil. (Actually, this is mis-quoted from the Bible, but it is what many have heard.)
It’s wrong/a sin to be rich.
It’s righteous to be poor.
Rich people are crooked/evil.
It is righteous to struggle.
We can’t afford that.
Rich people are unhappy people.
I wish we’d kept the list! I don’t remember how many we wrote out, but I know we “tapped out” every one of the limiting beliefs, and we tapped more constructive replacements:
Money is a tool to be used for good.
God is my abundant Source and Supply for all material and spiritual Substance.
I accept good things into my life with gratitude.
While I wish I had journaled the exact details, the transformation happened relatively quickly. From the tapping to the end of this list, I’d guess it all occurred within the last six months of our second year in that house.
My mother-in-law encountered a neighbor in town, who needed to rent out their farmhouse. It turned out to be perfect for us, just a mile up the road from the farm where my husband grew up. We sold our house within three weeks at an excellent profit (this was in 2005, before the 2008 housing crash).
About two years after moving, friends offered my husband a job that not only matched his current income but also provided exceptional health insurance, retirement benefits, and promising wage increases.
Now 20 years later, we’ve never again experienced such financial hardship. While some might attribute this chain of events as mere coincidence, I believe our deliberate work in changing our fundamental money beliefs was crucial. Unlike the familiar story of lottery winners who quickly return to previous financial struggles, we had transformed our foundations to finances.
Our beliefs are powerful architects of our realities, and with the right tools, we can redesign them. “…and be you transformed by the renewing of your mind…” (Rom 12:1 KJV)