Mark Bristow, The Financial Healer, outlines why money beliefs are important and how they are formed. Mark explains through examples how beliefs about wealth and money can determine how wealthy you become. And he outlines what you can do about it, or in his words, how to change your self worth to change your net worth.

1. What Is A Belief?
Mark Bristow
The Financial Healer

2. A belief - often
described as a
feeling of certainty
that something is
true - is something
that’s engrained
into you.

3. It runs the
whole show.
It’s your take
on something.

4. If I believe:
"I will never be successful."

5. I’m thinking essentially I will never be
successful and that belief was created
by some event that sets that off.
Event Belief

6. It might be for
example, my
belief was
created because
when I was four
years old I lost a
running race and
I should have
won.

7. Maybe I tripped over but maybe
somebody came along and said
something about my 'failure' and at
that time I created this belief that I
won’t be successful.

8. And then certain things will come
along that our take on it would be well
my belief that I’ve created is “I won’t
be successful, so if I come second in
something else that means I’m not
successful because I wasn’t first”.

9. Whereas somebody else will look at it
and their take on it would be “You’ve
come second, you’ve done really well”.

10. How would somebody know if they’ve
got negative beliefs?

11. I think the
interesting thing is
that often they
don’t think that
they’ve got
negative beliefs
until we dig a bit
deeper.

12. For some people it can be on a
conscious level like “Money doesn’t
grow on trees...”

13. ...and you had parents that were saying
“I’m not made of money” then they
might be able to say this back to you
fairly quickly and it will become obvious.

14. For other people whose beliefs may
take a lot longer to hunt out.

15. One of my
clients had
this belief
that:
"Money
will always
be taken
away from
me."

16. She didn’t realise this until we found
out the source of that belief.

17. It came from the fact that she used to
save coins when she was a little girl.

18. And her mother
would come
along and take
some or all of
them.

19. In her head it
might have been
“Oh I’ll come
along and take
this change
because I have
to pay the
milkman.”

20. But at that point something as simple
as that created a belief.

21. For this lady, she could make money
but as soon as she got money it was
taken away from her.

22. And this proved a real stumbling block
because she’s never saved money.

23. She’s always found ways that she ends
up spending it.

24. Another example where a belief is
created…

25. I’ve got another
client where she
was told that rich
people are horrible
people because her
uncle happened to
be fairly rich but
wasn’t the nicest
person.

26. So she’s gone through life now thinking
that all rich people are horrible people...

27. ...based upon what she was told by her
parents about her uncle.

28. So, she has attracted into her life rich
people that are not very nice. So it’s
incredible how much one little thing
can affect your life.

29. And they are just two examples where
that is greatly affected, those two clients
and their relationship with money.

30. When you work with the clients how
do you get them to uncover their
negative beliefs?

31. It involves a lot of
questioning and
unravelling the
bits of the onion
to get to the core
point.

32. So there’s a lot of discussion about
what’s happened with money.

33. And then
peeling away
the outer most
parts of the
onion to get to
the core.

34. So there’s a lot
of
questions, the
answers of
which will give
us a clue as to
where that will
lead us.

35. But the fascinating
thing about being a
Financial Healer is
that no two clients
are the same.

36. And therefore
there’s a blank
page, there’s a
number of
questions, but
where that leads
us we don’t always
know.

37. We usually use
special methods
which are very
friendly...

38. ...very nice but
will get into the
sub-conscious...

39. ...and the client’s
own sub-
conscious will
lead us to the
source of those
particular
negative beliefs.

40. For more information, visit
http://financialhealer.co.uk