Difference between revisions of "Poverty consciousness"
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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 is formulated as an antidote thereto. | + | Poverty consiousness denotes a fundamental attitude towards one's means of livelihood. Poverty consiousness stands in direct opposition to prosperity consciousness, and is formulated here as an antidote thereto. |
==Prosperity consciousness== | ==Prosperity consciousness== | ||
| − | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_consciousness Prosperity consciousness] is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age new age] philosophy | + | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_consciousness Prosperity consciousness] is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age new age] philosophy which holds that opening one's mind to the financial opportunities in the world 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== | ==Poverty consciousness== | ||
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