Chapter 24 - Notice What Is Different, Not What Is The Same

As you start changing your perceptions about money on the inside, one of the biggest immediate changes you’ll start to observe is a feeling of lightness and nonchalance about money. While you may have been bogged down with that heavy, dreadful and worrying feeling previously, you start to feel uplifted.

Most people who are trying out these money manifestation principles look on the outside for physical evidence to confirm their inner changes. I have found that doing so is often counterproductive, and can set you back in your progress due to the discouragements you may feel about your progress. In the beginning, the physical changes will be subtle as your current reality is being replaced by something better. Therefore, one should not constantly look to outer circumstances and physical reality for “proof” that things have changed. Instead, one should look within and take a closer look at the way you truly feel about money. Have your feelings about money improved? Are you worrying less and more optimistic nowadays about money? If so, that is positive (and sufficient) proof that you are making good progress. Your manifestations are on their way!

The reason why I advise against looking to the outside for external validation is because in the beginning, you’ll often find evidence of your existing reality, rather than evidence of your new reality. In other words, your existing reality dominates when you just start out doing all this work, as it should. The great spiritual and prosperity teacher Catherine Ponder has often said that “when it seems like nothing is happening, that is when everything is happening”. Everything IS indeed happening at an energetic level, just below what we can perceive / observe on a physical level. Just as a seed newly planted into the soil is germinating, it looks as if nothing physical is happening until one day… the shoots and roots finally appear. Therefore, when you just start doing this work, you want to find a way to keep yourself on the path of encouragement and progress. One of the best ways to do so is to check within for your improved feelings about money. Your improved feelings signify that the physical money IS coming.

Don’t make the mistake that so many others have made along the same path. They look for external proof that things are improving, find none and then become discouraged. That sense of discouragement and failure then dominates their inner state, resulting in… you guessed it, more discouragement and negative feelings! At the beginning, the physical changes will be subtle but the inner changes will be profound. Focus on the inner changes and keep your focus on them.