Anger, depression, and anxiety keeps you financially stagnant.
That’s a pretty bold statement right? Hear me out.
To get your money moving in a positive direction you’ve got to get your emotions moving in a positive direction. How many depressed rich people do you know?
How many of your angry, depressed, low vibration friends are making $100k or more? Notice the trend?
Happiness = Health and Wealth
Too many people are holding on to their depression diagnosis like a bone. It’s become their identity. News flash! You weren’t born depressed. Most of us were born healthy and satisfied. Our default setting is joy and we look for fun and interesting things to discover as a baby and child until the system manipulates it out of us.
Depression and other mental illnesses are learned or result from physical and hormonal imbalance. It is treatable and recovery is possible. When you decide you’d rather be happy, healthy, and wealthy you will do whatever it takes to treat and cure your depression.
The only reason the medical community or your therapist says depression is something you have to live with is because they want you dependent on drugs that treat the symptoms and not cure the problem.
But I digress. This is not a post about how to cure your depression but about how depression keeps you broke or financially stuck/ stagnant.
Financial Feelings, Vibration, and Frequency
When I was depressed I could never get above a certain financial level. My income was limited because my vision was limited to only seeing my problems, financial or otherwise. I was only motivated to pay the bills but not much else. Because homelessness was not an option.
On the financial feeling scale I was a 3/4 out of 10. To be a 1 is complete financial despair while a 10 is financial exhilaration! That’s the place where everything is possible 🙌.
We can also call it a financial vibration or financial frequency scale. The level you are vibrating at determines your financial success level. The happier you are determines how financially secure, capable, or free you are.
But Rich People Get Depressed Too!
Of course rich people get depressed but not at the same rate as poor people. However, statistically, only 15% of rich people have been diagnosed with depression compared to 31% of poor people saying they have been diagnosed.
Middle class people are diagnosed at a higher rate than those at the top and bottom according to Columbia School of Public Health. There are many factors that lead to depression from nature to nurture. It’s exacerbated by messages from toxic religious, family, media, government, and social media influences. All are focused on problems instead of solutions.
Happiness, the Unicorn of Emotions
Happiness is often ridiculed and viewed as an unattainable or a unicorn state of being. How can anyone be happy with the state of the world? This school of thought is what holds society down so they are drowning in depression. From the state of the economy, the state of your bank account, to the rising cost of… well everything. It looks impossible and feels improbable that anything will change. Ironically this cycle of thinking is what keeps the majority of people low in the financial vibration scale.
Is this is why the 1% retains the majority of wealth?
While the 99% is angry, worried, or depressed the rich are on vacation, giving to charitable causes, and/or enjoying life in general. They are happy. They are not listening to religious leaders, politicians, or the latest podcaster rant. They are making news, living life to the fullest, and making a difference.
Get Busy Being Happy
Despite what the media tells you, rich people are not thinking of ways to oppress you. In fact they are not thinking about you at all. They are not losing sleep over their haters. So why should you remain in that low vibration place for one more day?
If you encounter snobbish or classist people it’s probably their kids or the help aka employees of the wealthy. They don’t have the actual wealth but feel entitled because of proximity.
It simply takes too much energy to be rude, obnoxious, and obtuse. True custodians of wealth have more important things to do.
4 Ways to Raise Your Financial Frequency
If you decide you are tired of vibrating as a low financial frequency individual, you must learn how to think, behave, and feel differently. You literally have to get over yourself, release toxic beliefs, and look to your future instead of the past and present circumstances.
1. Read Financial Frequency Raising Books
A few books and audiobooks I recommend are:
Read them in the order I’ve listed to get maximum results. I also recommend the Financial Fresh Start Kit.
2. Change Your Circle of Influence
You have to release people who are content to complain and be depressed. If you want to stop hanging around low vibration and low financial frequency people you have to change your thoughts.
3. Adopt the Gratitude Habit
Gratitude is a great remedy that will raise your vibration at least two levels. The more grateful you are, the more gleeful or happy you become. Low vibration people resent grateful people so you may find they begin to disappear from your life. When you are no longer commiserating with them they move on. After all, misery loves company.
4. Commit to Raising Your Financial Frequency
Becoming a high financial frequency person takes time and commitment to your greater financial good. The amazing thing is you have the power to choose this path. You have all the resources at your fingertips. As you learn and grow happier, so does your bank account.