Albert Einstein said, ‘You cannot solve a problem with the same consciousness that created it.” There is no better insight to have in relationship to debt. Debt results from a consciousness of lack – from the fear of not ‘being enough’ and not ‘having enough’. Money – and the conversation about money and what people earn or what debt they carry – is still the great taboo. Like in any situation of dis-ease – and debt certainly falls in this category – we can be stuck in a trance of self-criticism and self-punishing behaviors that keep us from making prosperous choices. Debt is always a request for greater self-love. We have created debt from a place of believing we are victims. But we are only victims of our thoughts. Once we acknowledge our limiting beliefs and take steps to change, our debt can become a catalyst for important personal and spiritual growth. It can cause us to reinvent ourselves, choose new directions, make new choices, heal relationships, and generate new ideas, new enterprises.
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