Dr. Alia Crum

Or what is your assumption about the essence of that money?

Yeah, I think you do, Mel.

I mean, we have mindsets about money that it's either scarce, that it's not enough, that it's going away, that it's, I'll never have enough.

I'll never be good with money.

I've lost it all and I can't.

Or you have the belief that you have enough, that it's there for you, that it's abundant.

And when you put your mind to it, you can make whatever it is you need and give away the rest.

Right.

Those are just beliefs.

They're just settings of the mind.

Now, of course, the objective amount of money matters too.

Of course.

But you could start to see how if you were in this mindset of scarcity, that might lead you to think, feel, and behave in ways that actually made the money more scarce.

Yes.

And it made me less responsible with it too, in a very weird way.

Yeah.

Yeah, and in some cases, it's not about the money, right?

Like in all these exercises, you're showing one object and we're talking about the object, but usually it's a category of things that the settings about those, the core beliefs about those are the most poignant and powerful, right?

It's not just a head of lettuce, it's what's your belief about healthy eating in general, right?

It's not just, oh, can I lift up this weight or not?