What are the causes of poverty? Is it just the lack of money that's to blame? We are actually poor in most cases – not the material state of a person, but psychological. Lifestyle, actions and thoughts – those factors that cause "freeze" in a state of poverty for many years. Popular lecturer and business coach Natalia Grace in one of her books tried to explain what genetic poverty is. As it turned out, there are 4 factors that program people into poverty.
Based on N. Grace's Laws of Grace
Factors programming for poverty. Causes of Genetic Poverty
Genetic poverty #1 cause. Mentality
When we were children at a classmate's house we often jumped on the sofa until adults saw. We were very pleased with the springs, in some places very close to the surface; I was delighted with the dust that flew in clubs from the sofa from our jumps. When, twenty years later, I went to my childhood friend saw
He hadn't changed much, as far as as I could remember, but now I was appalled by the poverty and squalor of the surroundings. I mentally calculated how much it could cost to buy a new sofa, replace greasy chairs, a mirror, broken and sealed with a chocolate wrapper. While we talked in my imagination I whitewashed the ceiling and changed the wallpaper. I wanted to clean the windows that were covered with flies, throw out sticks and cardboard sticking out from under the sofa, a broken flower pot tied with a stocking. "And what if money is bad?" — I thought ... But the brain resisted and offered me to buy at least an inexpensive adhesive film in the color of wood and paste over the table with it. Wherever I look, my eyes stumble upon some breakage, dirt, stains and garbage.The brain suddenly said to me: "What do you think, why next to" poverty is always dirt? I'm asking you the same question now.
Even if we replace the word "always" with to "almost always" or "often", it is better done. Dirt — this is a manifestation of not & nbsp; lack of money, but & nbsp; mentality. Think about it: dirt — this is a manifestation of the corresponding mentality. And since dirt and poverty — neighbors, then and poverty — it's a kind of mentality.
Poverty is in an unwashed head.
Genetic Poverty Cause #2. Philistinism
In school I had an amazing teacher in literature — Tamara Grigorievna, an outstanding mind, a very insightful woman. She somehow dropped a phrase that I remembered for all my life. Someone asked her what philistinism means, and she replied: "philistinism means drinking from an old shabby mug when a new one is in a sideboard».
This is the custom in many Russian homes: money is set aside for on a rainy day, on a white day a new cup is in sideboard, only a white day rarely comes, and all life is filled with black. Who lives in anticipation of the future, for that it never comes. And then I understood this: it's a shame to be a beggar; ashamed to be dirty. It is a shame to have devastation in your head, which inevitably affects both your home and the mentality of children.
Living in anticipation of the future leads to devastation.
Genetic Poverty Cause #3. Cinderella complex
I know a woman who has been saving money for more than twenty years to buy a dacha. She raised two daughters alone. The girls lived from hand to mouth, on only cereals, and the eldest of them told me how she was ashamed to go out into the yard in old corduroy trousers with patched knees. The girl grew, and every year, her pants magically grew. Centimeter by centimeter, the fabric tucked up from below unfolded. It wasn't as faded as the rest of the trouser leg, and it betrayed beggarly tricks. Apparently, this is where the expression came from: "Need for invention is cunning."
It shouldn't tell you that the system in the state doesn allow you to earn enough money.
I not scold the system, but rot in brains. On the same same money you can look dignified or beggarly. When the mother finally bought the dacha, both grown-up daughters did not have the slightest interest in this dacha, but endlessly reproached the mother for not teaching them what it means to be a woman. The girls developed a Cinderella complex. They, accustomed to seeing scuffed chairs and old dishes, shabby towels and coats of seven years ago, later, becoming adults, were afraid to spend money on themselves.
Whenever they bought something, they were in a bad mood: they seemed to feel unworthy of new good things. This, my friends, is called in two words: genetic poverty. She is already in consciousness, in cells, in blood, in bones.
The fear of spending money on yourself makes you a beggar.
Genetic Poverty Cause #4. Subconscious Programming
Children who see shabby corners are unconsciously programmed into poverty. Already in adolescence, they begin to realize its severity. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov also noted that shabby walls and dirty corridors have a bad effect on a student's ability to learn.
Dirt and poverty overwhelms a person, the habitual appearance of a miserable environment programs to be a loser.
You could reply to me that hating poverty encourages some people to develop and make money, but I will answer you that many more people break down under the unbearable burden of poverty. The words "trouble" and "poverty" one root. Drive away trouble from yourself. Drive away poverty. How I like the phrase: "Wealth — it is a state of mind. So, poverty — it is also a state of mind.
Wealth and poverty — it is the state of your mind and your thoughts.
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