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 What Money Memories Would The Ghost of Christmas Past Show You?

These are the experiences that shaped your present attitudes, feelings, and comfort level toward money. And, even more importantly, they offer clues about the ease with which you attract money and the size of your bank account.

If you could go into your past and take a guided tour of your limiting money memories, what would you see? And how would the sights, sounds, and feelings affect you?

That’s the tour Charles Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge took. The Ghost of Christmas Past transported Scrooge back to his past so he could review his life and learn new things about himself.

If your own version of the Ghost of Christmas Past visited you, what would he or she show you? What experiences shaped your present experience of money? And if your present experiences with money are limiting, how might you see the past differently so that you can enjoy a more expansive future?

Here’s a technique I adapted from many years of watching Scrooge every Christmas.

Let’s begin by reviewing your past experiences with money. And you will be surprised at how easy this is and how much you will learn from it.

Here’s how to do this.

Take a deep breath. Elevate your gaze as if looking at an imaginary point just above a distant horizon.

Call to mind an image of a dollar bill, the dollar sign, a stack of money, or any other image of physical money that occurs to you. Ask this image:

“What can you show _________ (insert your first name) about past events that still affect him/her in a limiting way?”

“What memories about you continue to echo and resonate for _________ (insert your first name) and stifle more expansive experience with you?”

“How do past experiences with you continue to touch _________ (insert your first name) in a way that might surprise him/her?”

Trust your mind and it will answer. And it may answer with memories that you haven’t recalled for a long time, perhaps even decades. However, the feelings we felt at that time still affect us.

And that’s why an imaginary trip to the past empowers you to build a better future with money. It offers new insights about our present values, beliefs, and attitudes money. And it helps us realize this essential idea for putting the past in the past and forming a present vision of a brighter future:

“That was then; this is now!”

When you say “That was then; this is now!” about a limiting money memory, that memory no longer has the same power to limit you.

A single flash of self-awareness dissipates thick clouds of self-limiting beliefs. So if your money memories lulled you into limiting beliefs about money that continue to impact your life, remember the Ghost of Christmas Past.