The first step to having money and wealth is to know and understand what these concepts are, and what they are not. Few people know what money and wealth really are, in and of itself. What is money or wealth? What causes it? What causes the cause of it? Let us start with money, the world’s symbol of wealth.
Money is not real. Money is merely legal tender, a form of exchange. We use it to exchange value. The very purpose of money is simply to represent value.
Money is the “body” of value. It is the physical representation of value that rises and falls in ourselves, within us. Not within “things” outside of us, but within us. For without us, what can the value of a car be, to us? Nothing!
It is we, the observers, that place value in things, but this value is really value in us-we give value to the material things. Material things have no “money” value in themselves-they only have the value that we give to them.
Learn not to look at or focus on money. If you do, you are focusing on the wrong thing – an illusion or shadow. Money is not the real thing. Looking at the shadow, physical money is very unwise and unhealthy for you and your finances. Look, instead, at the value within you and within people, and the flowing and exchanging of this value between people.
Our internal value is what creates money. Money is the shadow of our internal value. Develop this internal value in yourself and in others, and your external money and wealth will correspondingly rise automatically, without fail.
Your internal wealth value (that is reflected in the material world as money) is called wealth consciousness. Wealth consciousness is available to all people equally and can be developed by and within all people equally. It is your choice to develop it or not develop it, or to exercise it or not. At any time, you can change your choice, and nothing outside of you can stop you.
You require nothing outside of yourself to increase your wealth consciousness and, therefore, your money. All you need to increase it is within you right now. You may have forgotten it, but it is right there. The first step is to always remember that money is not real; it is the shadow of something else.
And here is another secret: Wealth consciousness is simply the expansion of your consciousness and awareness of the wealthy parts of yourself. All that you need to increase your wealth consciousness is within you already. You are already wealthy, but you have been taught to choose to not experience your wealth.
This insight changes everything! Just like wealthy people, you can now choose to start experiencing the wealthy you. You have more wealth capability within you than you can possibly experience in a lifetime. You need not worry that you have reached your limit of becoming wealthy in any way or because of any condition. Neither do you need to know how to convert wealth consciousness into paper cash money – it will happen automatically. All you need to do is expand your wealth consciousness and exercise it, act on it, be it, and the situations and opportunities or the equivalent conversion into cash money will present themselves automatically to you.
Once you have wealth consciousness, it will be very difficult for you to not have success and wealth. Success and wealth will follow you automatically wherever you go. You need not concern yourself with the quest of finding wealth, because it will find you. You will be free to experience other aspects of life that you may not have even dreamt of before, dimensions of Self and Life that are truly amazing!