Written by Barbara Huson
If you’re not where you want to be financially, consider this. Your difficulties may have little, if anything, to do with money, but your fear of or ambivalence about power…because you don’t understand true power.
Basically, there are 3 kinds of power:
1. Power Over (Domination)
2. Power With (Collaboration)
3. Power-From-Within (Dominion).
The drawback with the first two is that exercising power depends on others cooperating.
Written by Barbara Huson
I spent much of my adult life in financial turmoil. Even as I learned more about money, I still felt out of control. Then everything changed.
The answer didn’t come from a financial text, but a spiritual one, A Course in Miracles.
From the Course I learned that we have “two thought systems” or two distinct “voices” in our head:
The Soul and the Ego have conflicting agendas. Thus, they produce dramatically different results–either miracles or misery.
“You cannot follow two masters,” the Course warns. “There is no compromise between the two.”
Written by Lynda Jo Schuessler
To most people, obstacles are like ticking time bombs, something to quickly defuse or preferably avoid altogether.
But for the financially successful, obstacles are doorways to healing, portals to prosperity. What seems to get in the way is the way to transformation.
Difficulties are not diversions from Greatness but evidence of dysfunctional patterns that must be corrected in order to follow your true calling.
Every challenge provides the chance to respond in a new way, as if your Soul is saying: “Choose again, not as you have in the past.”
Written by Barbara Huson
It’s been said that you’re never given a wish without the power to make it come true.
But how many times have you wished for more—more success, more money, more love, more __________(fill in the blank), and nothing happened, no matter what you did?
That powerless feeling is one of life’s greatest frustrations. I know!
Years ago, right after my divorce, my ex left the country, leaving me with no money in the bank and over a million dollars in tax bills. I knew nothing about finances. He handled everything.
The tax bills were looming and with 3 young daughters to support, I knew I needed to get smart…and fast. I was desperate.
I’m an intelligent woman—how hard could it be? But no matter how many books I read, classes I took, advisors I talked to, my eyes would glaze over, my brain would fog up and I’d feel hopelessly, incurably stupid.
Written by Barbara Huson
I’ve been turning to A Course in Miracles a lot more these days. I may not be able to control current events, but, as the Course constantly reminds me, I can train my mind to control how I react to them.
This teaching has come in quite handy during the pandemic. Miraculously, in the midst of all the madness, I’ve managed to find serenity.
“Your ability to redirect your thinking,” the Course exclaims, “is the most powerful device that was ever given you for change.”
The ability to redirect your thinking is based on what the Course calls “the most important concept that exists in the universe:” The Law of Cause and Effect. The Course explains this law very differently from the world’s Newtonian version.
To the world, a cause is an external incident which produces an internal effect. The market crashes (cause) and you panic (effect). Your boss complains (cause) and you get upset (effect).
Written by Barbara Huson
In my book Sacred Success, I issue a warning: When you commit to Greatness, everything unlike itself will come up to be healed. Life gets in the way. Obstacles arise. Shit happens. Breakdowns occur.
To the masses, obstacles are like ticking time bombs, something to quickly defuse or avoid altogether.
But for those pursuing Greatness, obstacles are doorways to healing and growth. What seems to get in the way is the way to transformation.
“Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again.” A Course in Miracles tells us, “So where you made a faulty choice before you can now make a better one and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought you.”
Difficulties are not diversions from Greatness but proof of dysfunctional patterns that are, thankfully, being brought into awareness so you can correct them. These patterns are precisely what’s been preventing you from achieving Greatness.
Written by Barbara Huson
All my life, I’ve been a self-improvement junkie. Show me a seminar touting personal growth and it was like throwing raw meat to a ravenous lion. I’d hungrily pounce on it.
But then life went into lockdown, removing a myriad of distractions. That’s when I noticed something disturbing—how brutally critical I am of me. This wasn’t a new insight, of course, but I began to see how awful it felt.
So, I made a conscious decision. Rather than pushing myself to improve, I decided to practice Radical Self-Acceptance, loving myself, warts and all…especially the warts.
Don’t get me wrong. I still aspire to be better. But I’m finding a remarkable sense of freedom and well-being as I learn to fully embrace my shortcomings and my strengths, my achievements and my failures, without fear or false humility, without shame or recrimination.
Written by Barbara Huson
(This was inspired by a discussion last week, in my online community, The Wealth Connection. I listened with awe to women who put this principle into practice and reported miraculous changes.)
You want to create financial miracles? Let me tell you how.
The secret is deceptively simple, incredibly powerful, yet can be so uncomfortable, many won’t want to do it.
But if you’re willing to try, and you’re consistent in your efforts, you’ll experience significant change, often within a very short time.
The secret is this: Stop telling your old story.
Stop talking about your life as it’s been: your flaws, your fears, your sorrows and distress. And start talking about the life you desire to create: who you want to be, what you want to do, how you want to feel, as if it’s already true.
“What you share you strengthen,” A Course in Miracles explains.
Written by Barbara Huson
I spent most of my adult life desperately trying to figure out finances. I dutifully went to classes, read books, talked to advisors. Nothing helped.
And then I began journaling about my experience. That’s when I had a realization that, I know now, began the rewiring process in my brain and I finally began to breakthrough my formidable blocks.
That realization led me to create a fundamentally different approach to empowering women financially—the approach I now call the Rewire Process.
I realized that traditional financial education focused almost exclusively on the practical facts. And in too many cases, it still does today.
But my experience taught me that when the facts don’t make sense and all of the practical knowledge makes no difference, the key may be hidden inside you.
As I wrote in my journal, I heard that familiar voice in my head telling me how stupid I was. But instead of letting that voice hold sway, as I always had, I decided to get to know it better. I asked the voice where it came from and what it wanted.
Written by Barbara Huson
“There is another way of looking at the world.” When I read those words in A Course in Miracles (ACIM), I had no idea what a game changer they would be for me.
I realize now, after studying neuroscience, the Course was telling me a profound, but simple, secret to creating miracles AND rewiring your brain.
The secret is this: whenever you’re upset, disturbed or challenged, say to yourself: “There must be another way of seeing this.”
Then consciously and consistently change, or reframe, the way you interpret an event. It makes no difference if it’s true or not.
The moment you start telling yourself a new story, your brain’s wiring will change. And when your brain changes, your world changes miraculously.
Admittedly, reframing can be difficult. I’ve found three techniques that have helped me shift my perception—and, as I’ve only recently understood—reprogram my unhealthy beliefs and behaviors into much healthier ones (which, in itself, is a miracle).
