How to feel good even though you’re in debt and why it’s so crucial

I’m the first to say that if you’re in debt you need to be doing something practical to get yourself out of debt. There’s no point in just sitting around hoping — or even worse, continuing to rack up the debts, hoping that ‘all wil be well’, that ‘God will take care of me’, that ’ something will happen’. But why is feeling good while you’re in debt so important? Surely that goes against the grain? In this article, I’ll tell you why if you don’t feel good, you’ll be much more likely to stay in debt than if not.

Imagine you’ve got a headache. You take a pill. It goes away. You forget about it and all is well. The next day the same thing happens again. You do the same thing. This repeats itself for a week, and eventually you begin to wonder about your headaches. Some of you will make an appointment with the doctor who’ll likely say it’s nothing. Others will worry that it’s a tumour. Others will just continue to pop the pills. But some might just begin to wonder why the headache keeps recurring and how they can trace the cause and eliminate it, the only real way to adress the headaches.

It’s the same with debt. You’re in debt. You’re worried. You keep worrying. Worrying doesn’t fix it. You try to get more work; you get a bit and you worry a bit less (maybe). But another expense occurs and you find yourself back with the original worries. You now know you have to look at the real cause of the debt, but you find you can’t do it because you’re so worried all you can do is go around with a face like a long Monday.

The first thing to be done to free yourself from debt is to start to think differently. This doesn’t mean just practical thinking differently about how to bring in more money or reduce your expenses, although that is also crucial. It means that even though you’re in debt, you have to start training your mind to think as if you were abundant, rich and wealthy in the moment, right now.

What! Yes, I know it’s not easy. But everything begins to change when a small step in a dfiferent direction is made. For instance, maybe you tend to worry on your way to work in the morning. Your mind goes off down the path of lack and what you haven’t got, worrying about how you’re going to meet the various bills that month. Usually this continues until you get distracted in some way or distract yourself.

But you can take definitive action when you catch yourself worrying like this. No need to wait for a distraction, or buy a paper to read (that’ll only fuel your worries anyway). You need to take a hold of your mind and direct it in a different direction. Point it away from the worries, to what you have got. Point it down the road of opportunity, and this road starts with seeing what you have got and being grateful for it. Keep thinking of things or experiences you’ve got already, focusing on them until you’ve reached at lleast 50 things. Then notice your mood. I guarantee it will have changed. Why? Because you’ve simply chosen to switch your mind’s attention to things that make you feel good.

Wonderfully, this kind of energy you’re now experiencing also attracts other opportunities, possibilities, new ways of thinking, ideas and before you know it, you’re enjoying your life again in the moment, even though you’re in debt.

Now couple this alongside the outer tools you’re doing to bring down your debt and you’ll be addressing the issue on all fronts, which can only have one effect — you’ll get out of debt in real life quicker and easier than if you only focused on the practicalities.

Warning! Just focusing on either the inner or the outer means it will take longer, much longer, to break free of debt. Focusing on both gets you your end result the quickest.