You have a millionaire mind ! Let me continue sharing with you what I learned from the “Millionaire Mind Intensive Seminar”.
In the previous posts about my lessons from the Millionaire Mind Intensive Seminar, I shared with you how I developed my financial blueprint.
Religious brainwashing plays an important role in my life because both branches of my family tree were Christians. So my interpretation or misinterpretation of their religion-related behaviour is important.
What I write here is not meant to hurt anybody’s feelings towards religion. If your feelings get hurt easily, you’d better stop reading here.
However, if your feelings get hurt easily, I’ve got a question for you: WHY is that ? Chances are there is something you should have a closer look at.
Chances are it has something got to do with your blueprint as well, not only the financial blueprint.
Of course, it’s not up to me to decide that.
When my mother’s father passed away in 1989, shortly after the funeral, my Dad said about his father-in-law, that he had been “a true Christian”.
I remember that like yesterday. I still cringe when I recall that. A true Christian…why ? Because he disinherited my mother and threatened her and her sister with loss of love ? Because he was poor and honest ? In fact, he was neither (that’s what my anger says).
My mother’s family was protestant, and so my brother and I were baptised protestant.
My Dad’s family was catholic and his mother was catholic. She wouldn’t even enter a protestant church until my younger brother was born in 1974 (I was born in 1970 and my parents got married in 1969).
My mother had recognition problems with her mother-in-law because she was the child of a refugee family and – protestant.
Eventually they “had” to marry because I was on my way.
Both grandparents were all very pious, even bigoted. That’s what kids immediately sense, don’t they ?
Later on, I learned that even my catholic grandmother was pregnant before she got married.
That’s absolutely OK, but then they shouldn’t gauge other people, should they ?
In spite of their churchyness (or because of it, that’s the question) they were dealing with money in an incredibly crappy way when it came to their legacy.
It’s not very astonishing that I left the protestant church at the age of 20 and refrained from joining any organized, official church again later in life.
I run as fast as I can when someone wants to sell me their “belief” with things I don’t want to have in my life: Negative emotions and poverty, for example.
“Church” has no monopoly in dealing with God, no monopoly in having Faith, no monopoly in dealing with the Creation.
It’s only a perceived monopoly, it’s power that is handed over to them by their followers, carefully grained into their minds by the means of fear and guilt.
I cringe when I hear any Church official say that giving is more blessed than receiving. Chances are they say that because they’re at the receiving end of the equation, I don’t know.
I cringe when people or Church officials glorify poverty and prove it by quoting the Bible.
I can tell you: You can prove anything with the Bible. And that’s OK. It only reflects that we have choice, that we have free will and that it’s up to us to decide what we want to believe. It’s up to us which beliefs support us and which hinder us. Then we have to strengthen the supporting beliefs and weaken the non-supporting beliefs.
And the Bible is misquoted on purpose: Money the root of all evil ? Read very closely, the Bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil.
I don’t even believe that because it already discredits desire for money. I say, if anything is of evil about money, it’s people who deal with it and the over-attachment to it.
Let me be completely blunt here: I consider the subconscious (!) religious feelings of guilt, pain and fear as the most prominent reasons people don’t live the lives they want and they could live easily. I can’t stress enough the word subconscious. If you chose them voluntarily, whatever they may be, God bless you.
I consider subconscious religious feelings as the most prominent part of the brainwashing because the programming sets in earlier in life than our schooling – from day one when we leave our mother’s womb.
Last thoughts about religion: Religious beliefs and Faith are completely different.
In my post “Think and grow rich – Faith – Lessons from chapter 4” I wrote:
“According to the Oxford American Dictionaries, ‘faith’ means ‘complete trust or confidence in someone or something’. ‘Belief’ means ‘an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.’”
Aldous Huxley puts it best in his novel “Island”:
“Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.”
For me, it means: Have Faith in God or in any other Higher spiritual intelligence you want to have Faith in, but don’t believe anything what church people say if and when it doesn’t support your Faith in God and the life you desire and you deserve. Don’t consider it as true.
You have a millionaire mind !
In the next post, I am going to end this series with The Millionaire Mind Intensive Seminar – Undo The Brainwashing To Poverty Pt. 6.
I have question for you:What “incomplete communications” with people do you have in your life ? In other words, what religious beliefs do hold you back from the living the life you want ?
You have a MILLIONAIRE MIND !
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To a prosperous life
Oliver Tausend
