Good afternoon,
Living in New York City is an amazing experience. After eight and a half years I am still discovering many parts of the city and meeting new and fascinating people all the time.
As a global financial centre, NYC residents include people who, as one of my friends likes to say, "have more money than God!"
When it comes to the world's population as a whole, I know I am better off than 99.9% of my fellow humans. And then there are the super wealthy…
I recently attended a dinner party with a group of people who are part of the financial elite.
Knowing where they live in the city (as in buildings that are featured prominently in tourist postcards of the NYC skyline) I strongly suspect that most of them pay more in monthly rent than I pay in an entire calendar year.
There were amazing stories about week-long birthday parties in some of the most beautiful places in the world, bottles of wine that cost more than some of my bespoke suits, and paintings in their homes by artists I'd normally see in museums.
In that kind of scenario, it's easy to feel like an outsider and worry that others are looking down on you, and for that to undermine your self-esteem.
To be fair to my dinner guests, I know they weren't thinking any of these things about me, but there were fleeting moments where I was distracted by negative thoughts.
We don't have to be around the super rich to feel out of place. We might feel out of place because of our age, gender, religion, where we were born, the work that we do, our level of education, marital or financial status.
When we are troubled by feeling that we don't belong, we might even beat ourselves up for not being good enough or less than.
This week's podcast contains a simple teaching on how you can respond in these situations AND a tap-along audio to help you to know you belong and boost your self-esteem.
Learn and tap along here: http://tappingqanda.com/522
I would love to hear how the tapping works for you,
Gene
