Paul Zelizer is passionate about helping you build the inner and outer skills you need to succeed in today’s economy. He was a counselor and social worker for almost 20 years before he met and fell in love with EFT. He is the author of Money Makeover 2.0: 5 Steps to Financial Well-being in Today’s Economy which you can get for free at www.moneymake2.com.

From a scarcity mindset, the first thing a friend would ask Chip about this article is, “Are you nuts?” You see, like Chip, I also specialize in using EFT for abundance issues. In the old worldview, people might think that we are “competitors” and would say that he was inviting trouble by having a competitor write an article for his newsletter.

Fortunately, Chip is much bigger than this. You see, he’s got this abundance stuff in his cells. He and I agree that by aligning our skills we can be helpful to more people and find ways that both he and I can experience more abundance in our own lives. How is this possible? To answer this, I’d like to share about what I call the two phases of abundance.

Phase I: Shift from fear to social engagement

Most people today are in a fear state around money. Scientists call this “the stress response”. What I tell my clients over and over is that it is very hard to earn more money when inside you are freaking out about money. Why is it so hard? There are two main reasons:

1. When your brain is in the stress response, you don’t think clearly, you make more mistakes and you are more likely to experience conflict in your relationships.
2. The nervous system is like a radar screen that is tuned to pick up stress. Have you ever heard the expression, “The tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife?” Humans are wired to notice stress and prefer to avoid someone who is in the stress response. If you are stressing, that means people will do what they can to avoid you.

So, the first step is to ask yourself if you are in the stress response when it comes to money. If you are, EFT is the best tool I know to clear this.

Clearing the money stress in your system will naturally allow you to shift into what scientists call “social engagement” mode. This way of being, also wired into your nervous system, is about connecting with people, looking for ways to be helpful, and caring about the well-being of others. This is how Chip and I view the world and it allows us to see more benefit in collaborating than competing.

Phase II: Bringing your socially engaged presence into the market.

Though tapping away your blocks and fears about abundance is important, it’s not enough. The second step is the “get off the couch” step. This is where you bring your relaxed, socially engaged presence into the market. There are many ways to do this.

My favorite way is via the Internet. Now, some of you might not know much about the Internet or maybe you already have a website and it hasn’t done much for you. Learning to have a successful presence on the Net is easy and fun once you’re in social engagement mode. And, since there are over 1.5 billion people who regularly use the net, the old scarcity mindsets don’t apply here.

In fact, once you’re in social engagement mode in cyberspace, old beliefs get turned on their heads. For instance, the more valuable information you give away and the more you cooperate with people in your field, the more money you make. Chip knows this. And, one of my passions is to show people how to do this. I call it Socially Engaged Marketing and I never knew that helping could be so fun.

Now, it’s quite possibly to achieve abundance using Socially Engaged Marketing without the Internet. In fact, I tripled my income using EFT and Socially Engaged Marketing before I ever got online in any effective way.

However, one thing that definitely won’t increase the abundance in your life is to stay on the couch. At one point in the healing process, progress requires finding a way to bring your integrity and your socially engaged presence into the market. If you know how to do this, go for it! If you don’t, get some help. Find a way to get inspired off the couch and into the marketplace. Because the abundance you’ve always dreamed of is waiting for you there. It really is that simple.

With much love,

Paul