When you ponder this question, what is your first response? Do you automatically start calculating the total of your savings, investments, properties and other equities? And if you do, does the end result number please you or discourage you?

Let's take a look at this question from a different point of view. What are you worth? --You as a human being, with a body, a mind and a spirit. Have you ever even considered calculating your wealth and abundance in this manner?

Many people struggle with this concept because they battle with feelings of being unworthy, not good enough, incapable, not smart enough and less then everyone else. Their minds are riddled with these negative and limiting beliefs that keep them from embracing their true worth. As a result, they don't take their true inner worth out into the world to acquire external wealth, happiness and abundance.

Everything you say, do, feel or think is based on your beliefs. These beliefs may be held consciously or subconsciously in your mind. If your beliefs are positive and unlimiting great! Use them to push you forward in life to achieve what you want and to be who you want.

If your beliefs are negative, limiting and perhaps outdated, you are most likely stuck in life, spinning your wheels, not getting what you want or to where you want to be. Patterns of jealously, envy, anger and anxiety that stem from these negative beliefs also keep you from moving forward.

We get our beliefs from many places. Most come from our family, friends, school, society, the media. Many of our beliefs we came up with on our own through life experiences. Have you ever caught yourself saying, "Well this happened to me once, so this is the way it is?"

Imagine for a moment what your life would be like if you transformed those negative, limiting beliefs that bombard your mind, into more positive beliefs. Beliefs such as: I'm worthy, I deserve all good things, I attract prosperity of all kind, I'm special, anything is possible, I'm smart, I can do anything I choose. Can you feel a shift happening inside of you just reading those words? Which beliefs do you prefer?

Now let's take a look at what you are really worth. If someone wanted to buy your eye balls or a kidney would you sell them for a million dollars? How much would it cost to buy your creativity, talents and abilities? If someone approached you about purchasing your intuition, some of your intellect, or bits and pieces of information stored in your brain, what is your asking price? What is the price tag on your ability to feel and experience joy, love and happiness? Think about yourself in this manner and add up your inner worth. How does it feel to see the numbers start adding up quickly? One million, ten million, a billion maybe even more.

Are you starting to get a sense of your wealth and worth? Are you getting a sense that it's time to start dealing with those negative beliefs swimming around your head? Just imagine your mind filled with the most positive life enhancing beliefs that help you create a strong state of inner wealth and which manifest into to a strong state of external wealth. What you believe is what you create in your life. Change your beliefs about your worth and you will change what you have on the inside and on the outside.

Esther Bartkiw is a Certified Associate Practitioner of Core Belief Engineering, a transformative, results oriented belief therapy. Visit her website at www.changefromwithin.ca or call her at 905-630-4471. Printed in the September 2006 edition of Snap, Burlington, Ontario.