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Poverty consiousness denotes a fundamental attitude towards one's means of livelihood. Poverty consiousness stands in direct opposition to prosperity consciousness, and was developed as an antidote thereto.

==Prosperity consciousness==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_consciousness Prosperity consciousness] is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age new age] philosophy that holds that if one opens one's mind to the financial opportunities in the world, one will bring financial wealth into one's life. It is based on the idea that our "thoughts create the reality we see" and that to become wealthy one must first "think wealthy." Such promised "wealth" may be in terms of love, self-esteem and so on, as well as in purely material terms. Prosperity consciousness is to be developed by the  practice of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmations_%28New_Age%29 affirmations], a method of repeating formatted statements (such as "I am becoming richer every day") in order to promote positive thinking and produce results by a supposed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Attraction Law of Attraction.]

==Poverty consciousness==
Prosperity consciousness is a striving to be someone else than one is now, with a different amount of wealth, however such wealth may be defined. It is a cultivated dissatisfaction with and refusal to accept one's current status. It is moreover an unrealistic and ultimately futile practice. There are steps one can take to improve one's lot in life, but simply trying to "change one's thoughts" or repeating "I am getting rich" are particularly ineffective ways to achieve anything.

==Links==
*Wikipedia article on Prosperity Consciousness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_consciousness
*Prosperity consciousness on the richbits website: http://www.richbits.com/Money/Acqprospcon.pdf#search=%27prosperity%20consciousness%27
*Prosperity consciousness on the wikihow website: http://www.wikihow.com/Develop-Prosperity-Consciousness

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