When I first read this book I thought -- it cannot fail anyone. If it appears to not work, then people were either doing it wrong, or they didn't do it long enough.
But it nearly destroyed me, and it still might.
I did this process now for close to two and a half years. I read the book multiple times and contacted the author twice, I know I was meticulously doing it correctly every day. I've done affirmations with non monetary issues before and they worked well with me.
When I started, my money was already holding steady with a good monthly income and 5-digit savings. I could easily pay my mortgage, take care of pets in my care, help my extended family, get the out of pocket health care I needed that my insurance wouldn't pay. Yet there was still so much more I could do for myself and others with more money inflow. So I started this program.
Nothing changed for the 1st 9 months -- no complaint there.
But then, money got far worse than ever in my life and remains so without ever returning even to my previous state. I couldn't afford the out of pocket health care, could not travel to my dying father (he's now gone), couldn't get remedies one of my pets needed, and the day to day exhaustion of never knowing how I'd pay my mortgage and mounting debt (which I previously had none of except a mortgage with a perfect credit rating) was a hell like no other.
I was eating from an old sack of brown rice and an old dried out bottle of blackstrap molasses for a few more calories and minerals. I went 20 pounds underweight. I never stopped doing the 2-prong approach. I had multiple ways money could come into my life with my skills and past businesses. Everything from every source known and unknown stopped. I was willing to sell any furniture or family heirlooms, go back to physical labor, whatever I needed to do to get through whatever was happening.
All doors to that remained shut, also. No one responded to any of what I offered. "Unexpected" breakages started happening around my home to where I couldn't even sell my home at a loss or a wash with no equity without first repairing certain items our city requires before selling. And the repairs were expensive.
If this book had warned the readers that on occasion, some people will get worse, and here's what to do about that, then I would not have put my family, my own, my mortgage, and my pet's well-being in danger by taking the chance, and would have at least paid off my mortgage in a conventional way first, waited 'til my dad passed, or in some way tried this money experiment in a way that it wouldn't harm other innocents in my life who depended on me. But since I had come from a place with a mortgage already and vulnerable pets/elder family members, it wasn't just me who was hurt by this problem.
But this book not only does not work for everyone who uses it correctly, it can take them backwards. Taking a longer than normal time is one thing. Setbacks balanced by steps forward are also to be expected. But reversing and remaining so month after month after month after month -- going into multiple years -- while people and innocent animals' lives are destroyed is yet another.
A short "chemicalization" is also yet another thing, where for a short amount of time, things get worse, but what was once lost is restored even better than before. I cannot get my deceased pet's health back, my father's last moments, etc. etc.
Even for me, it could be this book is one vital step among other steps that would have worked. But no one was there to show what the other steps were that needed to accompany it to stop the destruction it caused. Kind of like a knife is a necessary tool for a surgeon, but without the anesthesia and disinfecting solution, it can cause destruction.
The 'other steps' I knew on my own, which I applied, included EFT, hours of pleasant visualization, singing one of the affirmations regularly which in the past, worked to even change the shape of my body, and treasure maps. Treasure maps alone have brought me what I desired as soon as the next day in the past. They were for items or circumstances vs. money. Also, as far as integrating feelings as the author suggested, I already practiced Integrated Restorative Yoga Nidra, a process that frees and reintegrates stuck emotions, as well as Centering Prayer and Welcoming Prayer, which also release, allow and shed light on emotions stuck deep in the subconscious.
There is a collective subconsciousness that carries the story of negative money inflow. It's in our shared subconscious and we don't know in what form, or how deep it is in each individual. For those who are somewhat less complex in it, no matter how bad their outside circumstances are, this book is all they need to come bounding back to wealth.
For others who are stuck with more complex and deeper aspects of the negative money story, we need far more than this book. Because the ego-operating system that doesn't want riches to appear in humanity's story will come at those of us with a vengeance. And it has a hayday with us because we remain alone with it, there is no social support for this -- in fact we can even be hated and scorned for responding to the 2-prong approach in the way that we did because others fear if it could happen to one, it could also happen to them.
No one wants to believe what's happening to us is really happening. No one helps, instead they almost nervously point the finger away from themselves and onto us and say, "stop bellyaching" or they give us a list of more flaws that we must have which are creating the reality of money lack -- which the ego loves for us to hear, because then the story of lack digs deeper into us (yet also into the collective subconsciousness which we share with them).
The book describes the quality of having a money repellent as actually having a money addiction. A craving or a neediness so desperate that it repels the money. It also does a good job of describing the arguments the subconscious will offer once the affirmations begin in earnest -- such as, "That much money is impossible for you!"
But it misses something beyond an addiction and beyond typical disbelief arguments that come from affirmations. Sometimes there's something else within the person that's not saying simply, "That much money is impossible for you," but rather, "That much money will kill you." Thinking abundant money would be nice but impossible is one thing... thinking abundant money is very possible but will be the death of you is quite another. In that case, it isn't just the craving for money that's repelling it, it's something from within that's not craving it at all -- that's trying to protect the person from receiving that which would kill him or her.
As just one of many ways our subconscious can see money as a death sentence: Our primal source of survival is tribal. Tribal predates money as a source of security. If the tribe does not approve of us, if we are deserted, that means death, and possibly a lot of suffering before the death. If a person is subconsciously wired that money will bring tribal disapproval -- it will protect the person from that at all costs. When some people see movies about "bad rich people," they go away entertained and unaffected. When others see such movies, they may be unknowingly feeding a wiring they came to earth with that money means disapproval, then punishment, then death. If we could change the subconscious merely by scolding its silliness about such things as old tribal beliefs, no one would have any money problems. So dismissive comments such as "Don't worry if your neighbors are jealous of your money" only serve to push that subconscious belief which is trying to escape back down into disguised expressions again.