Money And Emotions: The ancient Egyptians knew this, early scientists knew this, and early Christians knew this: there was a 10,000-year-old ancient teaching that can give you exactly what you want, and it's called the mirror effect. I'm going to show you a simple everyday exercise you can use with your own mirror in your own house as the most powerful manifestation tool in the world.
So let's start back then. I was broke. I wasn't very happy; I was borderline depressed; I was lonely; the girl that I thought that I was in love with ended up leaving me for another dude; and I was so sad, so you could insert some sad violin music here. Seriously, I wasn't happy with my life, and you might also have things you want but don't have; don't worry, I'll show you how to fix them. Read this if you want to find out more - 5 Signs Money Is Coming To You Now.
You Have To Understand How Things Work
I learned that in order to get what you want, you have to understand why things are the way they are, so let's look at how my life got that way. First, you receive information from your five senses, which ultimately forms two things: emotions and attitudes. Your brain processes, records, and stores these emotions and attitudes just like a camera stores what it records, just like a camera recording a video is picking up information from the environment. Your mind interacts with the world in the exact same way you receive information from the world around you through your five senses. Your brain processes these pictures and events as electrical signals, and then you neurologically interpret all that electrical activity and all that information, which forms your emotions, your beliefs, and your personality.
When you combine your emotional associations with your attitudes and beliefs, that's your personality, which ultimately reflects back to you as your personal reality. So you could say that your personality, your emotions, and your attitudes are a mirror that reflects your personal reality, and this is big idea number one.
Emotions Plus Attitudes Equal Personality
Emotions plus attitudes equal personality. Your personality mirrors or reflects your personal reality, so the mirror effect equals emotions plus attitudes. Emotion is just the association that you have with something; that's all it is. So for example, I wanted to be financially successful as an author, but I had no luck, and every time a new thing happened in my world, such as another YouTube video failing, a book publisher rejecting me and telling me to piss off, or a client denying me, I generated negative emotional associations towards money and success. I knew what my goals were, and you probably know what your goals are, but emotionally, I felt powerless, helpless, unworthy, incapable, and fearful. Read this if you want to find out more - When You Have No Money, Do This!
Once your emotions about your world are established, they form your attitudes. So for example, growing up, maybe you heard that money was evil; maybe your dad was in debt; maybe he hated people with money; and as a result, you built negative emotions and feelings toward money and success after your negative financial emotions from childhood were established, and you formed your attitudes and beliefs. Those attitudes might cause you, now as an adult, to sabotage yourself financially. Maybe you believe you'll never have money, so you might as well spend it all, so as a result, you are always in debt as an adult, and maybe you're having the same financial problems that your parents had when you were just a kid.
Emotions Plus Attitudes Equal Future Destiny
Emotions plus attitudes equal future destiny. The point is that once your emotions and attitudes about something are formed, the mirror principle begins to reflect them back to you as your life circumstances change. Now, in a normal mirror, you walk in front of it and you see yourself instantly; there's no time lapse. The images reflecting in the mirror are instantaneous, but in the mirror effect of the world, there's a time delay for you to see what you're manifesting; there's a time delay for your emotions and attitudes to mirror your personal reality, so you don't realize it's happening, but physics shows us that energy is always moving.
The law of perpetual transmutation of energy works just like water transforming from liquid to steam to gas. The emotion and attitude that you carry about something that you desire is creative energy that slowly and surely influences physical matter, causing it to take shape and form as your life circumstances dictate. This universal mirror is working in real time, and this leads us to big idea number two.
Feelings And Beliefs Are Stronger Than Desires
In the mirror, what you've been taught to habitually feel and believe is more powerful than what you consciously desire, so for example, you could want money, but your fear of losing or failing could have stronger inertia than your optimism for success. This energy has a gravitational pull that reflects the mirror's image as financial struggle in your life even though you want financial abundance, and that's why, if you've ever watched my videos before, I always talk about success hypnosis. If the mirror that you're seeing is your bank account, then how do you change what you're seeing in the mirror? You have to go to the subconscious, and I started using success hypnosis to do that, and it started working like magic.
Money and Emotions: Take A Deep Breath And Smile
If you're with me right now, take a deep breath, put a smile on your face, and remember that what you feel and believe is more powerful than what you desire. So let me explain this a little bit more. You could deeply want your soul mate. You could really wish for your dream romantic relationship, but you could be struggling tremendously. You could want it, but perhaps your dad cheated on your mom. When you were a kid and they divorced, it was really painful, and it sucked. You grew up with only your mom, who was deeply emotionally wounded and angry about what your dad did to her. Read this if you want to find out more - Attract Money Now with this Visualization.
So every day, your mom told you that men are rotten and that love is pain. She told you that ultimately men cannot be trusted, but through repetition of those emotions and attitudes about love, that formed the basis, and now 20 years later, the mirror principle reflects that back as your personal reality, which is full of crappy love and crappy relationships that always end badly, and you go, "Why does this keep happening to me? Why are there no good guys left? It's because of the mirror principle that started in your childhood, but you can change it, and to keep it simple, perhaps the mirror effect is best summarized by Wayne Dyer when he said, "You don't get what you want, you get what you are now." This leads us to big idea number three.
Start Changing What You See In The Mirror
Start changing what you see in the mirror. This is how you make it practical, and you start using it in your life. So what I started doing was talking to myself in front of the mirror for a few minutes every single day. I would tell myself about my goals. I would tell myself that I was worthy of everything that I desired. that I was good enough. that I was smart enough, that I was a millionaire, and that I was a successful author. At first, it was really weird and uncomfortable. I was afraid that maybe someone could hear me, and then they would think I was a freak. I was uncomfortable looking into my own eyes in the mirror. I was trying to finish as fast as possible.
So I started taking deep breaths almost like I was doing a meditation, relaxing, and looking right into my eyes, and I realized that the exact emotions and attitudes that I had that were stopping me from achieving my goals were coming up during this exercise. They'd pop up, and they'd go, “You're not going to become a millionaire author; you're just a college dropout; you're just a young idiot that's obsessed with this new age stuff.” When you do this, all of your old emotions about feeling unworthy start to arise, and when you sit with that, that's when you can change the reflection in the mirror.
So this exercise becomes a perfect mirror where you can actually see your own thoughts and feelings about yourself. You could actually see what you think about yourself, and it allows you to find those deep emotions and attitudes and actually begin to heal them. So every day I kept going in front of my bedroom mirror and doing it naked. I'm just joking; I didn't.
Money and Emotions: My Outside World Changed
I started to see my outside world change. My first big break started happening in my career. There was a big internet marketer with a huge email list who offered to promote my first self-published book. Then Dan, the man known as the Life Regenerator on YouTube, who had hundreds of thousands of YouTube subscribers, offered to interview me about my book. In just a couple of days, I sold more books than an entire year, and in a matter of 24 hours, I got more YouTube subscribers than I did in years of work. The brakes started to apply, and the outside world was starting to mirror the new inner world that I was building.
So I encourage you to give this a try. I suggest doing it for at least one to two minutes every morning. Just go in front of the mirror, take a deep breath when it starts to feel uncomfortable, and that's when you relax. You look yourself in the eyes, and you repeat your goals. You tell yourself, "I'm worthy of the money, I'm worthy of the love, I'm worthy of the health, I'm good enough, I'm smart enough," and you just let it flow. Every time those emotions arise, just stop and then tell yourself the opposite about how you're worthy and how great things are coming.
When you do this regularly, it's almost like you clear the fog up on the mirror, and then what happens is the holographic mirror of reality starts to reflect back to you what you truly desire instead of how you were programmed to create reality. Let me know in the comments how it works for you. I'm worthy of what I desire. Be sure to get my free success hypnosis, which is right there down below at jakeshypnosis.com. pin to the comments and in the description.