Written by Eric Johnson

Who sets the standards for how you should feel? If someone is rude to you and cuts you off in traffic, are you allowed to still have a great day? If your significant other is unexpectedly laid off, can you continue to believe in the stability of your future finances? Or must you succumb to doubt and worry and allow a growing panic of impending doom to linger in your belly? The truth is you set the standard for how you should feel, and you choose the feelings that you have.

Now you may find that some of your reactions seem almost pre-programmed, beyond your control, and without a doubt you’re right. For our entire lives we’ve been told what to do and how to live, what’s more important and what to avoid, from family, caregivers, teachers, television, the list goes on and on. It is easy to mistake all these incoming signals as rules and guidelines for how to live. They are not. The moment you allow yourself to break free from outside dictates and embrace your own standards for happiness, you are free.

It is the accumulation of all these incoming instructive messages that we call programming, much like each channel on your television carries specific programming. Over the many years you’ve been alive these various messages have been imprinted into your subconscious mind, and this programming controls the wheel and drives you through much of your day. Your subconscious mind initially held onto each of these signals as a means to protect you, but these beliefs will not serve you as you seek prosperity. They will only hold you back.

On your quest for abundance you will run into each and every one of your limiting beliefs in turn, and your job is to dismiss them all. No one but you has any say or a claim to your happiness, and you must tell your inner mind to let these limiting ideas go. How will you ever manifest your desires if you will not let go of your limiting beliefs? The answer is you won’t.

Thankfully letting go of these beliefs can be accomplished through many easy techniques, including affirmations, visualizations, gratitude lists and the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).

Gratitude List

An easy and fun way to shift your energy out of limiting beliefs and into powerful positive manifestations is by writing gratitude lists. Remember, what you think about you bring about, and if you’re focused on the problems or potential pitfalls of a situation that’s all you’ll find. So instead of spending another moment bemoaning the deficiencies in your relationship (with a person, a great job, money, etc.) instead make a list of all the things that are going right, things that you are thankful for. Look around. Did your spouse take out the garbage last night? Be grateful and put it on the list. Did your teenager call when they said they would and come home on time? Put it on your list. By listing all the things in your life that are going right you automatically shift your energy to the positive. You’ll start to feel better and have a brighter outlook.

Emotional Freedom Technique

Another quick way to refocus your energy is by practicing the Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT. EFT is a method of energy healing that combines light tapping on traditional acupuncture energy points with verbal affirmations of self love and acceptance. The tapping stimulates our meridians, allowing energy that may be blocked to move freely throughout our system. Blocked energy can cause all types of unease, from doubt and worry all the way to illness. Our natural balanced state of ease occurs when our energy is allowed to flow freely with no restrictions, and EFT helps us restore this natural balance.

When you combine the tapping of EFT with vocal affirmations you can begin to disengage from old limiting beliefs and start imprinting new programs of abundance and prosperity onto your subconscious mind. This is a dramatic step in the direction of manifesting your desires.

Gratitude lists and EFT are two simple ways of changing your energy to manifest abundance in your own life.

Eric teaches people how to have more abundance and prosperity and remove limiting beliefs through emotional freedom technique.