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ART OF ATTRACTION:
"WAYS TO MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR ART"

Question: "I am a single artist and have made a modest living at it for many years. The people who buy my work seem to have a deep emotional response to it and I have received significant awards and reviews. Yet I am barely making it and am feeling the physical and psychic toll of years of insecurity. I feel that I give a lot of love in what I do but need to support myself in a more sufficient manner. Do you have any suggestions?"

Psychic Advice:
The art of attraction is based on emotion. Whether we realize it or not, as humans, everything we experience is based on emotion. Our emotions are what attract our experiences to us, and our thoughts determine our emotions.

There is a lot of awareness right now around the Law of Attraction, and many people have seen or read "The Secret". The essence of the Law of Attraction is that what you focus your thoughts on most of the time is what you will attract and experience. It is not only that our thoughts and visualizations create our reality, but those thoughts and visualizations trigger emotions that resonate at a particular frequency or vibration that attracts everything that is on a similar wavelength.

Some people complain that they do all the right affirmations and visualizations, yet they don't see changes in their life. In order to create real change, one must change one's vibration and frequency to resonate on the same wavelength as what you desire to experience.

For instance, if you feel like a failure inside and believe you are a failure, it will take constant affirmation and visualization to override that program. Yet, if the emotions related to feeling like a failure continue to underlie the affirmations, then no matter what you visualize, you will still be emitting the frequency of feeling like a failure, and will draw experiences to you that are on that frequency. Affirmations and visualizations are not enough to create what you desire if the underlying emotions are not alligned with them.

In order to become a successful artist, or successful at anything in life, you must feel the energy of success, and own that as your identity. You must believe that you are worthy of success, and you must feel gratitude for every success you have ever attracted and experienced. Gratitude creates a powerful vibration that attracts more and more for you to feel grateful for.

Who you believe you are and what you believe is possible for you becomes your identity and creates your reality. In order to change one's experiences in life, one must also be willing to change one's belief system. For hundreds of years, people have held a mass belief that artists often starve within their lifetime, only to have their works sell for a fortune once they die. Many artists identify themselves with this belief, however, there are many artists who not only make a good living in their lifetime, but also prosper.

The beliefs you hold about yourself and your work either create limitlessness or limitation. You can only experience what you believe is possible, because your beliefs are what limit the infinite possibilities and present you with your options.

To illustrate this point, right now in many Western cities, you could have any type of food you want - the choices are infinite. Some of those choices become limited by your cultural identity and awareness - for instance, there are thousands of foods in Chinatown that you would not be aware of as possibilities if you were not somehow familiar with them. Once you identify what type of food you choose to have, say Italian, you then limit the infinite possibilities, but still have infinite options within that selection. You can choose to cook Italian food from infinite options of ingredients, or you can limit your options to various Italian restaurants, in which case your choices become limited by the options on the menu.

Life is exactly like that. We limit our options with each belief and choice we make, which narrows down the possibilities for our experiences in life. At any time, you can choose to embody a new identity and a new belief system that opens you to attract and experience a whole new world of opportunities.

Whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly emitting emotional vibrations that we put out into the world around us. Other people can feel these vibrations and respond accordingly. Those who are on similar frequencies are drawn to us, and those who resonate on another wavelength may not be drawn to us unless there is some harmonious vibration between us.

In order to attract wealthy and successful clients, you must vibrate on a similar frequency so you can become part of their reality and they can be aware of you in their world. In a sense, we are only aware of the things that are on our wavelength, and everything else becomes somewhat invisible or impossible to us.

We also pour our emotional vibration into our work, and others can feel and respond to that. You can feel the difference between someone who is passionate about their work versus someone for whom it is just a job. It does not matter what that work is, passion is attractive and inspiring.

You are aware that people experience an emotional response to your work, and you know that you pour a lot of love into it. However, you are also exhausting yourself in the process by giving out so much energy without fully receiving rewards in return. The Universe is infinitely abundant, and only asks that we be willing to receive that abundance. You can visualize the Universe constantly filling you full of love, inspiration and prosperity, so you can continue to pour that into your work.

You must raise your frequency from that of insecurity to a higher vibration of faith and gratitude. Your worth is not determined by external things - it dwells within you; all that is around you is a reflection of what you believe you are worth and worthy of, or else you would not have attracted it.

One of the ways for you to become a successful artist is to start to feel like a successful artist on a daily basis. Wake up each day with that feeling, and you will absolutely create and attract that reality, as long as you truly believe it is possible for you, and you believe you are worthy of that experience.

The movie "The Secret" talks about creating vision boards so you can see and focus on what you want to attract and experience. One way for you to become a successful artist is to create a work of art that is "You as a successful artist". No matter what medium you work in, you can paint or sculpt or somehow express the elements and feelings of you being a successful artist. You can create works of art that express the energies of prosperity, of success, of abundance, of being in the flow, and keep these works around you to inspire you at all times.

While you are at it, you can create art that represents you experiencing all that you choose, from the profound to the mundane. You can create works entitled, "Me enlightened", or "Me with my Soul Mate", or "Me in love", or even "Me in my dream house". These can be as real or as abstract as you choose, but the key is that they must represent and evoke those feelings and emotions that you would have in those realities. This is the art of creation and attraction, and anyone can do it, even it they are not "an artist".

One of the ways to make money with your art is to share this creative technique with others. Hold classes and workshops for others to express themselves and create the reality they want to experience. They can paint themselves being happy and healthy, or sculpt themselves as powerful, or create a pot overflowing with prosperity and abundance. It does not matter how it is expressed, as long as it holds the energy of how they desire to feel in their life.

When it comes to the art of attraction, what you feel about yourself and your work determines what you will allow yourself to experience. You can change your reality by changing your mind, and putting your heart into it.

You need to support yourself more mentally and emotionally. Perhaps you make a modest living simply because you are too modest - you have received "significant awards and reviews" but have you really owned them? You need to feel pride of ownership for your gifts and accolades, because that gives you the feeling of confidence and inspiration to continue to attract more recognition. Release any feelings of unworthiness (perhaps even paint how the insecurity feels, then destroy that painting to let it go), and claim your identity as a successful artist.



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