Recently Lucid asked in a comment on another post here:

One thing I often hear people saying is, “But how do you feel wealthy or abundant when you’re not?”…………..

I, like sooo many others, am having the hardest time with this one. I have read The Secret and have grasped the concepts. I will know that the universe is abundant and that I am ready to receive. I have focused directly on seeing myself in a better financial setting in life and then BAMMMMM…. something happens. This time around it was my husbands car, my daughters car, and then my daughter broke one of her adult molars….. Total =$1600 out not in… What gives… Do you have any helpful hints?

Feeling good, knowing that the Universe is abundant and visualizing yourself where you want to be financially are all good techniques for helping you create abundance. They work because they help you to allow abundance into your life.

But your core beliefs around abundance are also important. They are the other side of the equation, because it is through your core beliefs that you create your reality. When you hold core beliefs that do not conflict with your desires, and you are in a state of allowing, you will begin to see your physical world change to conform with your core beliefs.

Examine Your Core Beliefs

So you’ve been feeling good, doing a lot of visualizing and feel ready to allow abundance into your life, but nothing’s happening.

What you need to ask yourself is, What are my core beliefs about abundance?

Sit down with a piece of paper, and start listing all of your beliefs about wealth and abundance. Include both “positive” and “negative” beliefs. Let each belief lead you to more beliefs that you hold.

When you’re done, take a look at what you’ve written down. Most likely you will see certain beliefs that you hold about financial prosperity that are at odds with the financial wellbeing that you desire.

For example, you may believe that you’re not really worthy of financial abundance. Or that wealth corrupts people. Or there’s not really enough to go around. Or abundance is something that happens to other people, but you just don’t have what it takes to be wealthy.

These are beliefs that you will need to change. They conflict with your desire for abundance, and it is through our core beliefs that we create our reality.

Knowing that you hold these beliefs is a good start towards manifesting abundance. Often, until we sit down to examine what we truly believe, core beliefs can remain invisible - we just assume that they are true, and through these beliefs we experience situations and events that serve to strengthen our conviction and assumption that these beliefs are “real”, that they are beliefs that run our world.

How do you go about changing these core beliefs? I’ll examine different processes in future posts, but for now, see, truly see, the beliefs that you hold about abundance, understand that YOU created these beliefs and so you can create different beliefs, and know that it is through these core beliefs that you create your reality.

Take a look also at your positive beliefs about abundance and see how these, too, have had an impact on your reality.

Examining your core beliefs will help bring you to a new place of understanding where you will be able to begin truly knowing that you do create your reality.

One book that I’ve found very helpful for understanding how we create our reality is The Nature of Personal Reality, a Seth book by Jane Roberts. You’ll find an indepth explanation of how our core beliefs work, and the role our conscious mind plays in creating our reality.