Do you know that studies have shown, the amount of your wealth is the average of the top five people whom you spend the most time with? Just as Napoleon Hill once said, "Think and Grow Rich". Our money beliefs, attitudes and thoughts about money and wealth are known as financial conditioning.

Look at your network of friends and family, for more likely than not, they are the ones who will affect your beliefs on wealth.

At a very early age, our environment (i.e. our family, friends and social network) conditioned our wealth psychology. Why do I say that? This is because I was one of these by-products so to speak. I was one of those who were faced with parents who placed their money is "safe" assets such as FIXED DEPOSITS. All they knew was to save money, which is not too bad for starters to build capital. However, they did not progress to the next stage and did not know how to grow their wealth.

Thus, our money belief is crucial to our growth of wealth.

For starters, let's re- look at our money belief. We have to be very aware that as we grow up, any negative or limiting beliefs which we carried about money or wealth will directly affect our ability to get and keep wealth. These beliefs form the core of your success or failure. As at March 2008, we are experiencing a commodity boom and gold is hitting new highs daily. However, my mum, having been burnt by the 1980s gold boom and bust, is petrified of entering the gold market again as she does not believe in gold anymore. She has total disregard the conditions of the new economy and fear has paralyzed her. Thus, rising your financial consciousness is imperative if you want to build your wealth cycles.

Raising your financial consciousness and eliminating limiting conditioning about wealth involves identifying and changing the paradigms that rule your financial life. A shift in your wealth paradigm requires you to shift from your old pattern to something new. It is like an automatic program installed early in your life that continues to keep you out of a wealth cycle. Identify your operating paradigms by exploring your past.

Changing your conditioning is a life-long process. As you uncover and resolve one limiting belief, such as "wealthy people are greedy and self-serving", another will likely take its place. Resolve to identify your beliefs and raise your financial consciousness by taking actions that are in alignment with the results you want, rather than with your old beliefs.

Start internalizing positive money beliefs and it will come to you without thinking. Start networking with people who have amass great wealth. With such positive conditioning, you will start making money with little or no effort with the Law of Attraction.