One of the primary myths about money that people have is that money will bring happiness.
People also believe that having money will eliminate stress from their lives. Certainly, having enough money to meet the commitments of a mortgage, a loan or other financial obligation relieves a certain amount of stress, but it won’t make you any happier than you are right now.
Money doesn’t make people happy
Several separate studies show that as societies become richer, they do not become happier. Statistically people today have more material possessions and money than they did fifty years ago, but they are actually less happy. In fact, the wealthiest countries have more depression, more alcoholism and more crime than they did fifty years ago and yet we have more material goods and more money than ever before. This paradox is true of the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, continental Europe and Japan.
What do we do when the government tells us there is a recession? Or we see the price of gas skyrocket, or the grocery store, or airline — the ones that haven’t gone bankrupt, tell us they have to charge more money to cover their rising costs? What can we do? Nothing. You can do absolutely nothing about it. But you can choose not to focus on something you have no control over, and quit focusing on financial stress.
Feel abundance to create abundance
The real reason people want a lot of money is they believe it will contribute towards their satisfaction and happiness in life. The word “believe” is the key. For example, people believe that buying more and more things, especially name brand clothes and cars, will make them happy, when in fact research has shown time and time again that this simply isn’t the case. The point is if you believe that when you get enough money it will make you happy, you will be very disappointed.
Why not be happy NOW? If not now, when? Cut out the middleman (all the stuff you think will make you happen when you get it) and just be happy NOW. From my point of view what we are really after is not what money can buy, but the freedom it gives us. Creating an unstoppable flow of money into our life gives us more freedom. And in order to align ourselves with the flow, we have to practice gratitude and let go of worry, stress and anxiety.
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To want is no need but to need is a must. As within as without. You can’t change no one but you can better the situation.
I have spent almost 7 yrs in a new country as an immigrant. Yes , that is the joke, after 7 years, I still call it a new country. i have even abotained the citisenship since then, but it is still new to me. I came with drems of making it big here, from a third world country. I have since watched my friends in the third world make it…and i am still struggling. After reading this exerpt, i believe its true, if not now, then when, ………we have to be happy now and cut out the middle man…whats tough though, is how do you manifest abundance , when the reality of your debt faces you daily?
Americans today are deeper in debt than ever. The money they do have is inflated, compared to years past, and pays for less. They might appear to have more, but its paid for by mortgaging their futures. Could all this be a prescription for financial stress and unhappiness? You bet. I think the real reason many people want more money is to relieve the misery caused by this stress.
Why not be happy now? Easy for those who have wisely stayed out of debt. Not so easy for those haven’t. True, money brings freedom, but in order to create an unstoppable flow of money into our lives, it’s essential that we bring ourselves into alignment with our own highest purposes so as to practice gratitude and let go of worry, stress, depression, and anxiety.
Zoey.I’m new to the website and look forward to getting the Rich Mind Program.In a previous post you mentioned a teleseminar Dr Anthony did for this new program.Is there a website for that recording,MP3,or Podcast?Thanks
Hi James,
The teleseminar is currently being produced as an audio download. We’ll have more information on that sometime this week. Thanks for visiting our site!
Happiness and Richness really does not correlate with each other. It’s the way that the conditionings happening around us that make us believe that these two objects are interconnected. Well, everyone could be richer and be happier or perhaps richer but less happier.
If one believes that money creates more happiness which later on when he has gained the richness he wants but not yet happier, he would tend to sabotage himself and be returned to the state where he might be happier but with less rich-ness.
The way should be is never link happiness with richness, they are independent objects. True for this and yet true for many things that related to money.
Anyhow, the best way to have anything in the moment of now is to feel good and be happy.
There is no recession but in our minds. I don’t feel it in my business. I simply don’t thing about that, neither about the food crisis everybody talks about.
I just do my best, intend to be happy an to be patient with myself.
I expect good things with faith.
Happiness and money are independent. Money is good and happiness is good, but neither causes the other.