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Money by any other name is still…

I’ve been wanting to write this post since I got back home Oct. 31st, but I’ve been having problems getting adjusted to the time difference and have been sleeping most of the days away. I’ve been noticing a lot of “negative” thoughts creeping back in. I think it’s time to start writing again and getting back up to speed with the game and finishing the article I started on Squidoo with hints and tips for Chiang Mai, Thailand.

This post is about my experience with money in Thailand. I had less than $200 US dollars to take with me and yet when I converted $70 to Bahts…I felt super rich!!! I had a wad of bills in my hand and I truly felt invincible! For the first time in my life I really “felt” like I could have, or do, anything I wanted and I could feel energy surging through my body. [On Oct. 18th, $70 USD was worth 2,304.80 Thai Bahts.]

I really like(d) Thai Bahts…The bills are colorful and “cheerful”, they are also different lengths. The smallest “bill” is 20; One’s, Five’s and Ten’s are coins (I wish I would have taken a picture of them, I only thought about the bills at the time). One liter of water, at 7 eleven, could be bought for 14 baht (approx. 42 cents, USD). As long as I had something to compare “worth” (Baht <—> Dollars) I was able to stay in that abundant state. However, if I lived there, and had nothing to compare the money in my pocket to, 14 Baht is a lot of money…imagine going into 7 eleven and paying $14 USD for a liter of water…now you don’t feel so abundant anymore.

So I got to experience first hand how money really is just a game, and we get to decide how we feel about it. I also discovered that by changing the name of money, you can feel a whole new “vibe” and have a totally different experience.

I had such a good time feeling abundant the whole trip, until…the layover at Bangkok International Airport. I had 235.83 Bahts left and was still feeling abundant. When I went to convert back to USD…I got a “lousy” $7 and all my old feelings about money came flooding back to me as I felt “poor”. What I’m wishing I would have done was to have exchanged the (2) 100 Bahts into 20’s and just passed them out to 8 people…that would have felt good and I would have stayed in that abundant state of mind.

So now it’s time to get back into the game and work little by little on those thoughts about money again. I’m so glad that I have a new frame of reference, that I experienced first hand, as I will be remembering those feelings and focusing on feeling better/relief.