Money is an area where we tend to make excuses about why we can’t have what we want. There are things that we may consider to be “too expensive” “too extravagant” “beyond our reach” or conversely “not good enough” “poor quality” “not extravagant enough or befitting our standard” or whatever meaning we ascribe to a product, service or thing we are seeking to purchase. We even use money in an attempt to buy love, health, happiness, favor, power, security, prestige, status and more.
However, will buying everything we want truly fulfill us and are we really able to purchase these non tangible things or are we simply being driven by our egoic agenda, forever compensating and fixing that which we perceive to be incomplete about ourselves.
Have you ever gone shopping either in person or online for “retail therapy” to make yourself feel better, only to discover that whatever you bought didn’t give you what you were ultimately seeking? Have you ever bought something impulsively this way that you’ve never even used, perhaps an online course, clothing, a gadget or something for the house?
Yes. We’ve all done it!
What is money really and why do we put power into what we believe money can bring us as opposed to fulfilling our true heart’s desire and have money automatically flow and rain as a direct result of that?
Money is simply a form of energy, like everything else in our material world. We simply have applied definitions to money, including definitions of good and bad. When we define something as being bad, this actually brings up our ego’s notion about our very survival and the ability to exist. Money is an expression of our identity. It is what we identify ourselves with.
Let’s take a closer look at our definitions of money from our early upbringing to how we classify it and the qualities and lifestyle we believe it will bring us.
Here are a series of questions to assist you in digging a little deeper into what’s going on at the unconscious level that you may not be aware of:
Growing up what did you learn about money from when you were a child? I.e. from your parents, your friends and peers, the phrases you learned e.g. money doesn’t grow on trees, we’re not made of money, one should keep up appearances, keep up with the Jones’, cheap is dear, money should be invested and not spent etc.
How was money bad?
How was money good?
What meaning do you give money? How do you define it? Classify it? What’s your relationship to it? Is it something special, a commodity that’s important to have? What makes it important to you? Is it something you keep secret, or do you lavishly throw it around for others to see? Do you share it with others or do you keep a tight grip on it because you’re afraid you’ll lose it or it will get taken away? Or is it something that’s just like everything else and therefore has little importance, no real value, is insignificant and immaterial to who you were and who you are now?
What’s it like when you had or have money? What do you think? How did you feel?
What’s it like when you don’t or didn’t have money? What do you think? How does that make you feel?
What’s the “pain” of not having money?
What’s the reward of having money? What’s the secondary gain of having money? (A secondary gain is where you seek to gain a benefit by running away from what you don’t want. E.g. I don’t want to be poor, I don’t want to be an outsider and not belong to a group, or clique, I don’t want to be unworthy, worthless, I don’t want to be invisible, don’t want to stand out, be impotent, powerless, too powerful, unsafe, unlovable, incapable etc.)
What’s your definition of yourself, others and the world when it comes to money?
How are you behaving, how are you showing up when it comes to money? What are you avoiding, denying, procrastinating about, splurging, overspending on, addicted to? What are you afraid of?
Your beliefs tell you that you are separate from your life’s needs and in this case that you are separate from money including separate from the things you believe money can bring you i.e. worth, power, safety, belonging, love, fame, status etc.
Here are the key points that will keep you on track in that sweet spot if you want to get money, abundance and true wealth:
1. Focus on your heart’s true desire, what you truly love, that’s your true nature and purpose and let go of everything else, just let go! It’s not serving you.
2. Remember that there’s something greater than you a Creative force that underlies who you are.
It has infinite capacity to create what is highest and best for you and for all of us.
It communicates with us via our intuition, our insights and imagination. Our Superconscious is connected to this higher Creative Force and communicates to us through our Superconscious Intuition. When we make choices based upon our heart’s desire, it pushes up wisdom for us to follow and changes the neural pathways in both the heart and the brain. If we’re focused instead on our identity and all the things we think we need to fix and complete ourselves, we miss these finer impulses that come to us and guide us along the pathway to success.
3. It’s not about you. Inside of you is your true nature and purpose. There’s a “Greatness” that’s within you that’s about being of service for others. When you do that everything automatically starts flowing to you money, wealth, abundance, relationships etc.
You get to step up and be a leader. If you’re a parent you’re a leader of your family, if you have your own business, you’re a leader of a business, you may be a leader in your community, society a leader in the world. Instead of just relying on yourself and the limited capacity you have as an individual, you rise up with that infinite Creative force that propels you into who you’re meant to become.
4. Be open to receive, allow yourself to receive, own it, claim it, allow yourself to have what you love, your true heart’s desire.
5. Get out of your own way – be vulnerable, acknowledge that you may fall down or fail in your endeavors, yes failure to achieve your end result can happen and choose to do it anyway.
Follow through on your heart’s desire, follow through on your choices regardless of whether you attain the end result or not. If you don’t achieve your end result it doesn’t mean anything. You simply haven’t gotten it yet.
6. Take action – what are your obvious next steps and do them, execute them until you have accomplished your end result.
And that’s how you get the Money, Honey!
