First of all, seeing as you have access to the internet, there are a couple of cool interviews that came out this week online.

“The Magic of Wealth Creation” is the cover story for the new, Fall 2008 issue of WE Magazine. You can read it online, page 9 of the magazine. Loral Langemeier’s picture is on the cover.

The next story, “Are You and Money on the Rocks?” appeared on Friday’s Carrie and Danielle blog.

Then I go live with these interviews:

This Wednesday I’ll be interviewed on “The Coaching Show” with Christopher McCauliffe. This is internet talk radio, so you can catch it any where in the world.

On Friday I’m being interviewed by The Law of Attraction Network for Women. I just had to laugh when I saw the site. Who have they interviewed before me? Billionaire Bill Bartman, bestseller Byron Katie, the cast of The Secret, and on and on. Loral Langemeier (the “Millionaire Maker” and The Secret) and I seem to be showing up together everywhere!

Financial Alchemy Coach
Sarah Hoskin Clymer

The biggest, most troubling issue of my life has been with money. I have read books, gone to workshops, done “prosperity work”, said affirmations, and worked on my issues with money for years. Nothing changed, and I felt like I never got even close to the crux of what was going on.

And then I came across an email that shared about Financial Alchemy™. Before I knew it, I was impulsively going to the website and signing up to receive some materials and a session. What was I doing?! I mean, what was I doing spending money…spending more money to understand money?

Thank God I did. It was in listening to the Financial Alchemy CDs, doing the exercises in the workbook, and having a session with Morgana (or a Financial Alchemy coach) that I finally got it… I finally understood that I was in an abusive relationship with money, and that it was my relationship that was the issue. I was in relationship that was based on shame and pain. So no wonder everything I did to “improve” my relationship with money only ended up with my feeling even more pain and shame.

Through Financial Alchemy, I was able to create a whole new relationship with money. This relationship not only allows me to show up as a wealthy, empowered, successful woman, but gently demands it. And this has in turn rippled out into every area of my life so that I am now a wealthy woman in every sense of the word!

Thank you, Morgana and Financial Alchemy. I am so grateful.

Sarah Hoskin Clymer

I shouldn’t be writing this. Affirmations are such big business for my friends and colleagues and the people who hire me. And affirmations are stupid.

Why?

When you can’t get (or leave) a job, or pay your mortgage, or find a date… chanting to yourself, “I’m a millionaire,” isn’t going to solve your problems.

Don’t get me wrong. I LIKE affirmations. I think they’re useful. I have a few in my book. I’m the kind of girl who makes things happen by thinking, “I want that.” But I do a lot of inner work to make that possible.

Affirmations are like putting pretty make-up on a canker sore: it doesn’t cover the problem.

I’m a little edgier than my Law of Attraction coach friends. They say, “Change the way you feel. Be grateful. Visualize what you want.”

When I have my first session with a client, I say, “Go for the negative thoughts! Let’s really find out what’s there.” Not just the stuff you know you think about money/love/yourself (cause really, it all ends up affecting how you feel about yourself, doesn’t it?), but the stuff you had NO IDEA you thought or believed. That’s where the magick resides: that “Oh my god I never made that connection before!” stuff that you feel down to your toes and beyond.

This is Alchemy. We create a POLARITY that acts like a slingshot that propels you from one world to the next. THERE’S NO MAGICK IN NEUTRALITY.

When we bring all that to light and exorcise your Money Monster with Financial Alchemy, that’s when we can move into love, gratitude and vision and have them mean something.

If you have some cancerous inner dynamic that is feeding on your personal power, your self esteem, your relationships and your business—this is what a bad relationship with Money will do—the last thing you need is an aspirin. Don’t “feel better” without correcting the underlying cause. You may take a couple steps forward, then find yourself back in the ER. That’s where affirmations fall short: they don’t address the underlying cause.

It’s time to open you up and suck out the poison! When your relationship with Money (which ALWAYS affects your relationships with family, partners, self-worth and empowerment) transmutes to a deep, committed, deliriously happy marriage, then any affirmation dressing you put on top of it will be magical.

I like to use the snake venom metaphor: suck out the venom BEFORE you put on the band aid (the affirmation). Think of what happens when put the band aid on before you remove the poison… the poison can’t release, and it goes deeper and deeper into your blood stream. You can watch a black line of poisoned blood creeping from the site of the wound to your heart itself, where it will kill you.

Affirmations are great. They’re also useless, worthless, pathetic and worse if that’s as far as you go. It’s nice and safe (and lazy) to think that happy thoughts are all the universe wants of you to reach your goals. Frankly I don’t know how high you can “vibrate” if you’re carrying a lead weight of unacknowledged rage, shame, fear and hurt behind hind the velvet curtain of your conscious mind.

There’s a big difference between “I want to believe this” and “I DO believe this!” You have to do the real work. I don’t think a inner change has to take a long time. In fact if you haven’t experienced a PROFOUND shift in your very first session, you have the wrong coach! But you have to do the work and really want a change. That’s how you make an affirmation mean something: you are affirming the change that has already happened.

Copyright 2008 Morgana Rae… OBVIOUSLY. Wanna reprint it for your blog or e-zine? Just send me a request. Thanks!