I cannot control my thoughts and emotions, especially my negative patterns around money. I meditate and say positive affirmations, yet my trauma is still with me. How can spirituality help me with this? -Gail
Dear Gail,
Once we graduate into adulthood, part of growing up is unlearning, learning and relearning. Parents do the best that they can with the knowledge that they had. It’s your job to gain and attain.
Spirituality is concerned with your quality of being. Specifically your human spirit, which is where your love and your creator abides.
Your soul has your mindset and emotions. How well you self control thoughts and emotions has a huge impact on your spirit. Your soul effects your spirit.
If you can believe that “not every thought is mine”, then you can allow yourself to acknowledge thoughts/feelings and let them pass if they are not serving you. Personally, if I’m feeling a forceful urge to believe a thought that is going to impact me negatively, I speak aloud to the energy as id it were a stray dog devising a plan to attack me, “GO!” and I expect them to obey. The more they resist the more I persist.
After that spiritual welfare, I realign all of my thoughts, speech and actions to focus on love, loving-kindness, patience, peace etc.
For instance, If you cannot control your thoughts, then you’re growing emotional, which impacts your love level. The possibility of experiencing joy is low and not prolonged.
Money example, If you believe that you’re broke and never have enough money, then you’ll say things that align with this thinking, the result will always be “I don’t have enough money.” A better plan, “I believe my negative money problem used to be unhealthy and dying off, but I’ve been nourishing my budget, so now I may not have money in my budget for that today, my budget is thriving and soon I will have abundance in money!”
One more thing, you will undoubtedly find that some of your beliefs are not serving you. Research and replace them as soon as you discover their betrayal. Let me repeat, “Don’t accept any negative beliefs.” Nurture positivity as you would watch over a young child.