Guide To Abundance
Guide To Abundance
Guide To Abundance
Guide to Abundance
Make a Transformation Using EFT
Part I
Copyright 2008
Photographs by Julie Engelmann
Contents
Part I Visualizing the Process
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
About this book
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Distraction is the problem; Two Tasks
Chapter 1: Create Vibrational Alignment
Med itation:
Connection, Visualization, Feeling, and Appreciation . . . . . . . . 13
Roll Up Your Sleeves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
The Law of Attraction
Step 1: Decide What You Want . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
The Born Loser’s Guide to the Law of Attraction; Marvin
Step 2: Identify You r Fears and D oubts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Emotional Obstacles; Financial Programming; Emotions From Our Past Associated with
Money; Decisions, Vows and Pacts; The Choices Technique; Other Help
Step 3: Set Your Goal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Giving Back; Two Big Fears; Fear of Not Achieving Your Goal; Fear of Achieving Your
Goal; What’s the Downside?; Yeah-buts; Give Me Insight
Step 4: Clarify Your Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Chapter 2: Make It Happen
Step 5: Make a Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
The Many Faces of Fear; Extracting a Plan from the Universe; Brainstorming; The
Power of Questions
Step 6 : Com mit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Imagination and the Sliding Scale of Consciousness
Step 7: Take Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
The Valley of the Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
What’s Ne xt? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Coming soon: The Born Loser’s Guide to Abundance, Part II, Getting Nitty and Gritty
About Chip Engelmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Acknowledgments
How to L earn More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Talk to me
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Preface
“Hello, Chip.”
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But this is not a book about how big a loser you are. This is a
book about attracting abundance. Being a born loser and
attracting abundance have nothing to do with each other. The
fact is, it doesn’t matter if you are a born loser or hot stuff. You
can still attract abundance. They are not mutually exclusive.
There are four possibilities here.
And I say,
“No. You still don’t get it. I have ‘limiting beliefs.’ As long as I
have limiting beliefs I’ll never have riches. But I can become
rich if I work really hard at eliminating my limited beliefs, and
once they are gone money will flow, baby, money will flow.”
And I say,
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• You can be a born loser with limiting beliefs and not
have riches.
• You can be a born loser with limiting beliefs and have
riches.
“Let me try to explain this so you can get it. For me, money and
self-worth are tied together. I have low self-esteem because I
don’t have money. I don’t have money because I have low self-
esteem. It’s a vicious cycle. I need to find a way to break this
cycle if I’m going to become rich.”
The point is, it’s not about any of those things. It’s just about
where you put your attention and how you act as if.
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About this book
Introduction
Pssst. This book assumes that you already know the basics of
EFT. But never fear, an additional short book (by yours truly)
was included in the email with this book. It’s called The EFT
Quick-Start Method. You can learn what you need to proceed.
So scurry off, read that book, and come back when you’re
ready. We’ll be here waiting.
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Welcome back. Don’t worry, to the rest of us it didn’t seem like
you were gone at all.
“Thanks, but why do I need EFT if I can have issues, low self-
esteem and limiting beliefs, and still have abundance?”
I know. It’s a paradox. You can have your limiting beliefs, etc.
and still have abundance as long as you put your attention on
abundance and act as if you have what you want. But the second
you place your attention on your limiting beliefs (which is an
unfortunate habit that Born Losers tend to have - and hopefully
this book will help rid you of it), you get sucked into that
vibration and act as if the belief is your reality. You then
manifest the limiting belief.
Look at it this way. You know you want abundance. You can
imagine what it is like to have abundance. You can feel how
you feel when you are abundant. You can taste it. All you need
to do is move into the reality.
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But do you do it? Chances are, at about this point you feel fear
and stop. Your thoughts and feelings revert to the comfort of
habit. And you get distracted by your limiting beliefs, issues and
low self-esteem.
So, you can have issues and limiting beliefs and even be afraid,
and - as long as you don’t let those things distract you - still
have abundance.
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You can overcome the fear, limiting emotions and mindsets in
four ways:
Two Tasks
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1. Make the transition from who you are now to someone
who thinks, feels, acts and vibrates like you will when you
have achieved your goal.
“But didn’t you just say that all I had to do was act as if?”
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Chapter 1
Create Vibrational
Alignment
Task One
Make the transition from who you are now to someone
who thinks, feels, acts and vibrates like you will when
you have achieved your goal.
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Meditation:
Connection, Visualization, Feeling, and
Appreciation
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If you identify the feelings you will have when your
desire is fulfilled, you can start finding ways to feel
them now. Notice what you are doing when you feel
that way, and do that more often. The universe
responds to the vibrations you emit through feelings.
The more you feel exactly the way you will when
your desire is fulfilled, the faster the universe can
accommodate you.
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When you embark upon the course outlined by Napoleon Hill,
that is the time you roll up your sleeves and get to work. Here
we will use a variation of Napoleon Hill’s framework that was
developed by Steve Wells, an Australian EFT Practitioner
(although, in a variation on a variation, our content differs).
Wells outlines the process of manifesting what you want as
follows, using EFT to eliminate emotional obstacles:
“Well, it doesn’t look like I’m going to get out of a whole lot of
work using this system.”
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Some people refer to it as God. The Law of Attraction is as
fundamental to life as gravity is to the planets and stars.
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“Getting a little abstract here.”
Here’s my version.
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any other aspect of our existence. Ultimately, however, the true
purpose of learning the Law of Attraction is to teach us the
skills that will lead us back to the Source, Self-Realization and
God-Consciousness.
“Well, let me get to where I can pay my bills first. Then maybe
I can go for God-Consciousness.”
For those of you who hold the belief that you can’t be rich and
spiritual at the same time, take heart. It’s not only possible, but
for some of us, it is necessary.
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Step 1: Decide What You Want
This step seems easy: decide what you want. But frankly, we
tend to put much more attention on what we don’t want than on
what we do want.
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problems are cropping up in our relationship or kids or home or
car. We may look at a nice home or car and see no way of
getting it. We might wish we weren’t alone.
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These negative motivators can be an obstacle in Meditation #2
(imagining your goal fulfilled), as well as in manifesting your
dreams. So in your meditation, gently lift the fears out of the
way and tell them they can come back later if they want. Make
it your focus to feel the success and contentment of the dream as
it is fulfilled, now.
The feeling is why you are doing it. Find the why. Motivational
gurus tell us that the bigger the why - the more important it is to
us - the more likely we will achieve our goal. Napoleon Hill
tells us that we must create a desire to be rich. Let me put it this
way. Are you content to dream about abundance, read about it,
maybe even do some exercises in a manual, or are you
determined to do whatever it takes to receive your abundance?
(Pregnant pause.)
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story about Marvin, a character developed by Douglas Adams.
If you are not one of these people, read it anyway. It will be a
fun diversion.
One thing you can count on: no matter how bad you think you
have it, someone always has it worse. When you think of them,
you get a sense of relief that you are not in their shoes. If you
focus on that sense of relief, you will bring on more experiences
of relief. The more you build on this relief, the faster you can
turn your life around. Abraham advises us not to try to jump to
the top of the emotional chart all at once, rather to seek out what
it is that gives us a sense of relief. That is, go one step in the
direction that feels like relief. When you’re in balance there, go
another step that feels like relief.
So, if and when you are feeling depressed and abandoned, think
about Marvin.
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Marvin
The fact is, Marvin was so depressing to be around that the crew
gave him menial tasks just to get rid of him. At first, this tactic
backfired on the crew because wherever Marvin went, the ship’s
systems would shut down to avoid interfacing with him.
Eventually the ship’s systems learned to function while ignoring
Marvin.
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One day Marvin and Captain Zaphod were stranded on a
desolate planet. There was nothing but sand and dirt - no people,
no water, no vegetation. Zaphod got separated from Marvin and,
tired and hungry, discovered he was actually in communication
with his starship. He ordered the ship’s computer to take him to
the nearest restaurant.
Over drinks and dinner, Zaphod and crew figure out that the
restaurant is strategically located on a planet that is best suited
for viewing the universe’s destruction - the very planet Zaphod
was stranded on. So when Zaphod told the ship’s computer to
take him to the nearest restaurant, the ship took him to
Milliways, which was located on the very spot he was standing -
only 500 plus thousand million years into the future.
About the time they figured this out, Marvin called. You
remember Marvin, right? This story is about Marvin. Marvin
was in the parking lot.
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“Parking cars.”
Zaphod and the crew went to the parking lot to find out what
happened to Marvin. So while Zaphod had been transported to
the End of the Universe, Marvin had been waiting.
In other words, Marvin was, first, left to spend the rest of time
on a barren planet. Second, when time was finally about to end,
he was given an endless job of parking cars at the restaurant
where time kept repeating over and over again for the pleasure
of the patrons.
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what happened to him. See if you can find a little relief. Let the
universe respond to your relief, not the depression.
So let yourself feel that anger and take back your power. When
you start to feel hope, then you can let go of the anger with
EFT.
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Step 2: Identify Your Fears and Doubts
Take a deep breath and rub on your sore spot and repeat several
times:
Maybe you have to use larger steps, say, starting at $50,000 and
increasing by $50,000 increments. You will find that at the
levels below your comfort zone you feel anxious to get to higher
levels, and once you exceed your comfort zone you will feel
increasingly heavy and uneasy–among other things.
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Actually, you could have taken a short cut and just looked at
your actual earnings for the last few years. You are probably
already established in your comfort zone.
“Bummer.”
It follows then that if you want to increase your money flow and
rise above your comfort zone, you have some emotional
obstacles to take care of. There are already lots of good books
and systems for getting rich in every way under the sun. But
EFT can erase the real, underlying reasons why you’re not there
already, so you can get on with your life unencumbered.
Emotional Obstacles
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• Making a plan
• The many faces of fear
• Commitment to your goal
• Reinforcing the emotion of your success
• Your identity
Financial Programming
As you grew up, you put together the meaning of money and
accepted it as true. Your parents’ attitudes and beliefs about
money, the lifestyles and transactions you saw around you, and
your own experiences with money became combined in some
way to form your financial programming. Your financial
programming may include sayings or beliefs you’ve heard
throughout your life or accepted as reality:
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• We can’t afford that
• We can’t get ahead
• To get a good job you need a good education
• It’s hard to make money
• Money isn’t important
You get the picture. Take a minute or two and write down all
the things you heard and thought as a child, and growing up,
about money.
Then tap on the eight tapping points using the reminder phrase:
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Emotions From Our Past Associated with
Money
More difficult are the emotions from our past that we have
associated with money. These feelings, which often lie buried
and deeply embedded in our identity, may range from fear and
doubt to shame and low self-esteem. The most efficient thing to
do is to “take them out” as they arise. And they will.
The fourth and youngest child in her family, at about eight years
old Julie’s selection of hand-me-down clothes ranks her as less
than cool. She is in the store with her mother and ogles a pair of
cut-off blue-jean shorts. Her mom unexpectedly says, “Oh,
those are on a good sale. We can get them if you like.” Julie’s
heart soars. Her mom has never bought her something cool
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before; this is a first-in-a-lifetime event. To Julie, it means she
might feel “normal” like the other kids for the first time.
Trembling with anticipation and holding the shorts all the way
to checkout, she can almost taste the elated feeling of being
accepted. The checkout lady rings up a price Mom didn’t
expect, and says the shorts were mis-marked. Partly out of
frugality and partly out of righteous principles, Mom insists on
putting the shorts back. Julie is crushed.
From this set of lessons that Julie accepted as true, we can get to
a number of emotions that Julie might tap on:
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We can use EFT to diffuse this core event by tapping on each
emotion:
Even though I’m sad that I didn’t get the shorts, and I really
wanted them so I could fit in with the other kids, I deeply and
completely accept myself.
And so on. As Julie taps on these phrases and clears them out,
other issues might come forward that weren’t obvious before:
And so on.
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As these issues clear, Julie remembers a lot of good things that
her parents gave her. She gains an understanding of the
circumstances that her parents were in. She feels a sense of
peace and resolution about the whole thing so she can move on.
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out of a prized possession by a friend may vow to “never trust
anyone again.”
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The Choices Technique
The first step is to transform our core belief into a statement that
is more supportive. For example, if we decided:
These two statements give us the basis for our set-up phrase,
which is a combination of our past belief and our new choice.
We say this set-up phrase three times while tapping on the
karate chop point:
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I can’t have that.
I now know the Universe will give me all that I can imagine.
I now know the Universe will give me all that I can imagine.
I now know the Universe will give me all that I can imagine.
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Other Help
Another tool you can use to get a head start in this process is to
go through the exercises in Dr. Carol Look’s book, Attracting
Abundance with EFT.
(http://www.chipeft.com/store.html#Look) This book will point
you in the right direction as to what types of issues you may
need to deal with.
At this point, let’s talk about needing help. No matter who you
are, you have a subconscious agenda. You aren’t aware of the
agenda because it is subconscious. However, your agenda can
be very evident to someone who knows what to look for. I’m
sure you’ve seen examples. A person may date all the wrong
people and wonder why their relationships keep turning out
badly. Their problem is obvious to you, but they don’t see it. A
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good EFT practitioner will help you navigate around your
subconscious barriers.
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Step 3: Set Your Goal
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Since achieving your goal requires changing who you are, the
farther the goal is from where you are now, the harder it will be.
In other words, the farther the goal is away from your comfort
zone, the more emotional garbage you have to drop to achieve
it. So you want to choose your goal wisely.
With goals, look for a sweet spot between choosing too high a
goal and choosing too low a goal. If you shoot low, like a goal
made by Mary who makes $50,000 to make $53,000 a year
within 3 years, you have no incentive to get off your butt and do
something. If you shoot too high, like a goal made by Mary who
makes $50,000 a year to make $2,000,000 a year within the next
year, the goal seems unrealistic either consciously or
unconsciously. You will feel doomed to failure, so you won’t
get off your butt and do something. Even worse, now you have
the added burden of guilt about not keeping your commitment to
achieve your goal.
Giving Back
You also have to decide what you are willing to do for your
goal. It’s an equitable exchange. If you want something from the
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Universe, what are you willing to give back? Praying, “God, if
you give me a million bucks I’ll be good,” doesn’t cut it.
You have to provide some sort of service. Value for value. This
giving is in addition to giving up those emotions that have kept
you stuck where you are.
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When you believe, know, and vibrate that you are giving fully,
the Universe will respond in kind.
“Hey, I like this idea. How I feel about what I’m doing
determines whether it is right or wrong, not because it actually
is right or wrong, but because how I feel about it is all that
matters. That means I’m the authority on knowing which
decisions and priorities match the vibration of my goal... if I pay
attention to my vibration.”
To play at a high level and get rich quick, push your goals to the
upper limits of the sweet spot and use your extreme desire to
focus in on the goal, like the light passing through a magnifying
glass to start a fire.
But pushing the goal has its price. The more you push beyond
your comfort zone, the more uncomfortable you will be. In other
words, your fears will be stronger. These fears will take one or
both the form of:
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Fear of Not Achieving Your Goal
The fear of not achieving your goal includes all those reasons
why you are not worthy: low self-esteem, shame, guilt, not good
enough, not deserving, self-pity, doomed to failure, not smart
enough, overweight, too sick, and on and on.
Like all of nature, you are a perfect creation of the Universe just
the way you are. Your desire to do something already contains
the keys to its achievement. You created the situation that brings
you to this book and to other help so that you could take one
more step toward your bliss. Feelings of unworthiness speak of
core issues, but they don’t all have to be solved before you can
move forward. Let go of your own mind games and visualize
the perfection in your creation.
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Okay, while it is well and good to point out the high road, we
have to deal with what is going on right here right now.
Obviously, if you sit down to meditate after just having hit
yourself on the thumb with a hammer, you are going to be
distracted. The pain creates the impetus for you to get off your
duff, get some ice, reduce the swelling, and wrap your thumb in
a bandage. Then it may still hurt a little, but you can do the
meditation without distraction.
Emotions can be dealt with in the same way. When they come
up, you self-reflect, locate the emotion and take it down with
EFT. What’s really encouraging is that you don’t have to take
out every single emotion that hampers the achievement of your
goal; you only have to take out enough so that you are not
distracted.
The point is, keep focused on the feeling you will have when
you have reached your goal.
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If you believe that rich people are evil, then you will be afraid
of turning into an evil person by becoming rich. This fear will
cause you to sabotage yourself. So will the fear of becoming
greedy or climbing on the backs of the poor. You simply will
not let yourself become those things.
When you stop to think about it, you know that having money
will not change those things that are fundamentally good about
who you are. Being rich and being good are not mutually
exclusive. In fact, there are four possibilities:
Again, take the core belief and transform it into a statement that
is more supportive. For example,
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can be transformed into:
Our set-up phrase, used while tapping on the karate chop point,
will combine our past belief and our new choice.
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However, it is not the money that attracts these dire
circumstances into your path, it is your fear and beliefs that
create these situations. The Universe responds to your vibration.
If you are enjoying your new riches, the Universe will respond
by giving you more. If you are vibrating the fear that someone is
waiting to take it all away from you, the Universe will
accommodate that as well.
Use EFT to take out that fear. A core event may lie at the basis
of your fear. It may not have happened to you; it may have
happened to your parents or your grandparents. Emotions and
attitudes are passed from generation to generation like hair
color. Define your fear and tap out the intensity. Once it has lost
its charge, use the Choices Technique to restructure your
beliefs.
Lastly is the fear that you will lose your friends if you become
rich. Unfortunately, that part can be true. You’ll still like them
and they you, it’s just that when you become the different
person you need to be to attain your goal, your vibrations
change. Your friends’ vibrations will likely stay the same. They
may no longer be attracted into your life, because they don’t
vibrate in harmony with you. The good news is that you will
attract new friends who will vibrate in harmony with the new
you. You can speed up the process of obtaining wealth by
seeking out those people now, watching what they do and
vibrating the way they vibrate.
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What’s the Downside?
“Heh heh, been there done that. I guess that’s why the Law of
Attraction gets the credit for making my efforts work: setting a
goal, making a plan and taking action aren’t enough.”
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Julie not getting her shorts. Use EFT to tap on the aspects of that
event. Can you identify a decision or vow? If you can, use the
Choices Technique to change it to a more empowering
statement.
Yeah-buts
and you are not even on the road to making one million dollars
per year, then you probably have a “yeah-but” - what Gary
Craig would call a tail-ender. The unspoken version of the
affirmation would go something like this:
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The thought is “one million dollars per year,” but the vibration
is “Yeah, right!” Of course, what the Universe will give you
back is the vibration - the “yeah right” - all day long.
“Got me again.”
and
I’m so happy and grateful that I don’t make $200,000 per year.
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Even though I believe $200,000 per year is out of my league, I
deeply and completely accept myself.
and get the next yeah-but and work through its core events.
Keep cycling it through until no more emotions or yeah-buts are
associated with the affirmation. This process may take several
days to accomplish.
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The goal is to strip away the negative emotions and limiting
beliefs from your affirmation, so that when you say it,
what you will feel is how happy and grateful you are that you
make $200,000 per year.
Now go back and do the whole process over for the reverse
affirmation:
I’m so happy and grateful that I don’t make $200,000 per year.
Give Me Insight
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In the Give Me Insight technique, when you get stuck on an
issue or don’t know how to proceed, you give yourself the way
through it. This is useful while working through the yeah-buts,
when you can’t quite put your finger on the problem. Basically,
you use the set-up phrase to both frame the problem and give
yourself the wherewithal to solve it.
Even though I don’t know what I’m feeling, I give myself the
insight to understand it.
Even though my plan has gaps, I give myself the insight to see
what to do next.
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Even though book-work bores me to tears, I give myself the
patience to work it through.
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Step 4: Clarify Your Values
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Less obvious, it is easy to get so wrapped up in your work that
you spend extra evenings and time on the weekends to get it
done. Next thing you know, three years have passed and you
have lost that good, quality family time. Even if you rationalize
that the work you are doing is for them, the family will still have
grown away from you.
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You can have it all if you keep your perspective, remain clear
and focused, and follow the flow of your bliss. The point is,
don’t focus on one aspect of your life so intently that you
exclude something else just as important. Case in point: most
people rank health high on their list in terms of what they value,
but only when a crisis occurs do they do something about it.
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Chapter 2
Make It
Happen
Task Two
Go through the steps necessary to make your goal
happen. Napoleon Hill outlines them in Think and Grow
Rich: create a desire, set a specific goal, make a plan, and
take action. Omit any of these steps and you might as
well throw in the towel.
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Step 5: Make a Plan
An old adage goes: Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. Or you
could say: If you don’t plan your success, success ain’t gonna
happen.
A lot of people get stuck at the step of making a plan, and fall
off the get-rich wagon. Up to this point, getting rich has been a
mental/spiritual exercise. Now it’s time to do something.
Planning toward your goal can be hard work, especially if you
don’t know how you’re going to pull it off.
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“I don’t like to put plans on paper when I don’t know what I’m
doing. It feels like I’m committing to half-baked ideas that are
naive and limiting.”
When it’s the Universe’s job to make you rich, that’s well and
good, but now you have to put a plan up or shut up. All the fears
about who you are will be in your face, and you have to plan
anyway.
But you say, “It doesn’t feel like fear.” And it doesn’t.
Our society values people who are fearless, and ridicules those
who are “chicken.” So we become ashamed of our fears and
learn how to stuff them without ever experiencing them. Then
the fear manifests in strange ways.
For instance, we might feel the shame of our fear, and think the
reason we can’t move forward has to do with self-worth. Off we
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go on an EFT quest to solve our self-worth, rather than admit
that we are afraid.
Fear has a job: letting us know when things are not right and
when to get ready for fight or flight. When we are outside our
comfort zone, fear lets us know we are in uncharted territory.
Like our five physical senses, it helps us navigate through the
Universe. If we understand that the role of fear is simply to keep
us safe, we can calm the mind and move forward - for in this
case there is nothing really dangerous about abundance. But our
shame of fear reacts so quickly, we don’t ever see the fear. We
get shuttled off on a wild goose chase.
“But wait,” you say, “I’ll just use EFT and make those fears go
away.”
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Even though I was taught to be ashamed of fear, I now choose
to experience fear as a guide to help me through the Universe.
So now you’ve come this far, you’ve looked fear in the eye and
you’ve said, “I’m going to do it, dad gummit.” Where do you
start? You start at the end, at your success.
You’ve already decided what your final outcome will be, and
you know what you are going to give in the way of service, so
go backwards and ask yourself or the Universe how you got
there.
Then ask yourself questions: How, pray tell, did you do that?
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What was so brilliant about it?
Now you see that four questions into it you are getting to the
nitty-gritty. The next step is asking who your target customer is.
This step is critical, not only in terms of marketing but in terms
of pricing and production.
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At any point in this process you may have to make decisions or
do research. If your plan is to run an operation that corners the
mouse teleporter market and you don’t know the rudiments of
business, start learning them. Check out library books or order a
course such as the ones offered by Loral Langemeier or Robert
Kiyosaki, or put an intention into the universe to find a
knowledgeable business partner.
Keep working backward until you see what it is that you have to
do and what you have to have in order to get there. Besides your
marketing plan, you might ask broad questions like:
“I’m overwhelmed.”
Your plan could be a lot simpler. Your answer to how you are
going to make a gazillion dollars might be:
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Well, I researched the best psychics from all over the country
and hired the top 50 to tell me the winning numbers. Then I
played those 50 numbers.
Or,
Or,
Or,
Or
“Yikes.”
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Acknowledge these needs, feel the vibration of mastering them,
and plan in as much detail as needed how you are going to meet
these challenges.
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I found two strong companies that would benefit knowing each
other, showed them how they could work together to make 100's
of millions, and got a $1,000,000 finder’s fee.
On the Internet.
You don’t have to know all the answers to get started working
toward your goal. You just need a logical way to proceed. Start
somewhere and give the Universe something to work with. Your
plans will evolve and change.
“Okay. Starting from the end: I’m putting this book on the shelf
and exclaiming, ‘By golly, it worked!’ Oh wait, it’s an eBook.”
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Brainstorming
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Other ways to create your plan include free-writing ideas as
they pop into your head, meditation or prayer, or discussing
your ideas with someone you respect. Any way you can get to
where you want to go is fine.
Often when you look at one question, you will find more
questions. This process is good, because it is the questions, not
the answers, that determine your path. Once you form a
question, the universe must provide an answer.
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The way your brain prioritizes this data and selects what you
will experience is based upon your understanding of the world.
To be perfectly clear, your brain selects the sensory images that
support and recreate your world-view. As long as your concept
of the world remains the same, your brain will sort the data to
recreate the world as you believe it to be.
However, when you ask the brain a question - and focus on the
question - the brain must search through those other 4 billion
pieces of data until an answer or the path to an answer is found.
Likewise, when you create a goal and maintain your focus on it
and vibrate in harmony with it, the brain will work diligently,
searching through the data and making connections, until your
goal is achieved.
“Hallelujah!”
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Step 6: Commit
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Suppose your goal is to be a millionaire. What is your level of
commitment to obtain that goal?
My mom used to say, “Wish in one hand and spit in the other
and see which one gets full faster.”
You can’t just wish your life better. It’s not like a popular movie
suggests: that the universe is a giant genie and all you have to
do is wish and the universe will provide. You have to do your
part. At the very least, you have to become that which you
desire and vibrate in resonance with being it.
This is the point where we finally take action that will make a
difference. We know we will do whatever it takes to make our
goal happen.
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The most direct path is to jump to the last level of commitment:
being. A person who is being their ideal thinks, feels and acts
like a millionaire right from the start. Because she does, she
creates goals that a millionaire would create. She creates plans
like a millionaire would do. And she puts them into action like a
millionaire puts all her plans into action. Because of this, she
achieves her goal quickly, like a millionaire does.
“Way to go!”
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A poor person might look at a rich man and see a greedy, evil
player who got his gains climbing on the backs of the poor. A
rich person might see that same rich man as a caring and giving
person. A Westerner may see the planet Earth as being “as real
as it gets,” while an Easterner may see Earth as the ultimate
illusion. Reality is in the eye of the beholder.
Let’s assume that Mary, who makes $50,000 per year, wants to
be a millionaire. She has just learned about the Law of
Attraction and knows that she has to resonate with being a
millionaire. She creates a difficulty when she approaches the
problem as if she were going to the store. If she is “here” and
she wants to get to the store “there,” then she gets in her car and
drives from here to there. Likewise, if Mary makes $50,000
“here” and she wants to be a millionaire “there,” she has to get
from here to there. This is the trap. Mary has the perception
that being a millionaire is “there,” located somewhere outside
her reality. She spends her time looking for a way to get outside
her current reality to get there.
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The problem is, Mary’s perception that being a millionaire is
not part of her reality, is putting it out of her reach. There is also
an assumption that reality is a fixed point, and that we are in the
process of moving reality from $50,000 Mary to Millionaire
Mary.
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Millionaire Mary, by placing her attention upon Millionaire
Mary and acting as if she is Millionaire Mary. This does not
have to be an all-or-nothing deal. In addition to the other myriad
of places she puts her attention, she can place her attention some
of the time on $50,000 Mary and some of the time on
Millionaire Mary. There is no duality, because Millionaire Mary
and $50,000 Mary are part of the same continuum, Mary’s state
of consciousness. There is no getting it right or getting it wrong,
success or failure. There is only where you put your attention.
When Mary places her attention on Millionaire Mary and acts as
if and vibrates in resonance with Millionaire Mary, the lower
end of the scale moves up and the whole scale shifts to
accommodate her.
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Step 7: Take Action
Many people create “To Do” lists. Tony Robbins believes that
this system dooms us to failure. In the to-do system, we write
down all the things we have to do and assign dates by which
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they need to be completed. We then do as many of the things on
the list we can on the first day, and come to learn just how
optimistic our scheduling was. So we roll over those things we
did not complete to do the next day. If we could not finish one
day’s tasks in one day, we certainly can’t get more than one
day’s tasks done the next day. But we have to keep on schedule,
so we work a couple extra hours and we still end up rolling over
our tasks. It doesn’t get better. Pretty soon it is all so
overwhelming that we become depressed. To-do lists create in
our lives failure after failure after failure. Living a life where
we fail day after day creates a vibration of failure and leads to
powerlessness.
You can, as a part of your planning, create a task list. A task list
is like a to do list, except it does not schedule the tasks. It is
simply there to organize the steps to achieve your goal. Some of
the steps on your list might take a while. A task that takes days
or weeks can be divided up into smaller chunks so you can
complete them quickly and feel some satisfaction. For example,
this eBook could be written a section at a time with the
completion of each section a cause for celebration.
“And appreciation.”
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Yes, you should celebrate your successes, even the small ones.
My dad used to tell me, “Nothing succeeds like success.” He
was joking, but the truth of the matter is that the more you get
into a habit of success, the more you will succeed. So celebrate
your successes.
Feel yourself feeling good and tap that feeling in: no setup
phrase, just tap once through the points, repeating,
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Tony says that if you impact your life in two ways every day,
by the end of thirty days your life will be profoundly different.
If you do it every day for the rest of your life, there’s no limit to
what you can become.
“Just the joy, power and self-worth built up from achieving all
those daily successes would make me feel like a million.”
Tony also says that 90% of the people who buy his motivational
CDs never make it to the second CD in the set. Likewise, more
than 90% of the people who make the goal to become rich never
get to the stage where they take action.
Why didn’t these people take action? Because they were afraid,
or something came up (they were afraid) or someone did
something (they were afraid), or they got sick (they were afraid)
or because they were just plain afraid.
With EFT, we can take out the fears. But a lot of people will not
use EFT on their fears. Why? Because they are afraid.
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This is where a coach, mentor or an accountability partner is a
big help. Some people can make promises to themselves and
keep them. Others work better when they make promises to
someone else. Telling a coach or accountability partner what
you plan to do, and knowing that you will come back and report
what you have done, is a powerful incentive to take required
action. Even better, when the accountability partner or coach
knows EFT, they can help you get to the core issue at the heart
of your fear and help you take the emotional charge out of it.
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The Valley of the Shadow
Luke enters the pitch-black cave, working his way through roots
and spider webs that pull at his hair and clothes. Suddenly,
Darth Vader appears in front of him. Luke draws his light saber
and the battle begins. Finally, Luke severs Darth Vader’s head.
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It rolls on the floor, only to reveal that it was actually Luke
himself behind Vader’s mask.
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For some people this idea that you can choose your illusion of
life might be hard to comprehend. For others, it might be scary.
For still others, it might lie outside their religious system or
sense of scientific fact. The Law of Attraction works no matter
what your religious system or scientific concept. Learning to use
the Law of Attraction makes you the creator of your universe.
Even though my world seems so real and solid, I give myself the
freedom, courage, and strength I need to let go of it and create a
world more empowering.
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“Whoa. That’s intense.”
What’s Next?
Now that you’ve gotten to the end and you have a decent grasp
of what needs to be done, it’s time to go back to the beginning
and start living it. Remember, if you do nothing, nothing will
change.
Start where you are comfortable, but move steadily toward your
goal. Your goal lies outside your comfort zone, but there is
nothing unsafe about living in abundance. You have EFT in
your toolbox if you need it.
Above all else, enjoy the process. It is, after all, fun, delightful
and, by definition, what you have dreamed about. Celebrate who
you are and what you are becoming.
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Coming soon:
Part II
Getting Nitty and Gritty
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About Chip Engelmann
But it didn’t start out that way. Chip became uniquely qualified
to pen this treatise, The Born Loser’s Guide to Abundance,
when a heartbreaking divorce in 1982 led to a string of self-
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sabotaged business opportunities. Well, that particular
qualification makes him unique along with millions of others
who have felt the sting of failure and the thankless cycle of
building toward promising dreams that mysteriously collapse.
Your friends and clients may download The Born Loser’s Guide
to Abundance, Part I free through Chip’s web site at
www.ChipEFT.com. Chip’s free online newsletter also contains
fascinating techniques for using EFT to improve your life.
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Browse dozens of Chip’s articles on EFT and natural health at
http://www.chipeft.com/ArticlesPrime.html. Several of Chip’s
articles have been published on EFT founder Gary Craig’s web
site, www.emofree.com.
Acknowledgments
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How to Learn More
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down, modern version - I have developed an easy-to-read ebook
version of the now public-domain text.
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Talk to Me
Chip Engelmann
EFT and Abundance Specialist
Indiana, Pennsylvania
724-357-9149
[email protected]
www.ChipEFT.com
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Getting Nitty and Gritty
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