In the first part of the article on this topic, we talked about how the state of your finances is shaped by your inner beliefs, and the feeling of a constant lack of money or anything else is a point of failure for many people.
In this article, you will learn how the ego and money are interconnected, why money no longer comes to fulfill ego-personal motives, and what three stages will help you move from lack to abundance.
Which intentions are supported now
What is supported now is anything free from the taint of the ego-personality. Remember the intention from the ego versus from the heart? There are a lot of personal motives, personal advantages, in wanting to have something.
The more high-vibrational the space surrounding us becomes, the more the refocusing shifts from the outside to the inside, to the heart, the less support there is for anything ambitious, goal-oriented, or tied to the ego’s wants.
If you see personal gain in something, that’s the ego.
Therefore, it’s important to learn how to separate one from the other, so you don’t end up disappointed later, wondering why you wanted this for so many years, seemingly even doing something about it, and still can’t get it.
There must be value for someone other than yourself in this. Then it is supported, then it will get the green light.
To break free from the grip of the ego, everything that’s spinning in your head needs to be cleared out, or at least made so that these beliefs no longer drive you.
So, look at where you have stagnation in terms of energy, in terms of a lack of movement in your life, in certain areas, and pay close attention to your relationship with money.
See also: Desire or Inner Impulse. Which Intentions Are Supported in the New World
Three Stages of Transition from a State of Lack to Abundance
1. Understanding What Drives You
Money is just a tool. But to grow into this understanding, you need to start recognizing what drives you.
Use the “In Order To What” practice.
Write down: “I need money in order to what…” When you get an answer, repeat the same thing with that answer, and so on at least seven times. Sometimes you can go even deeper.
For example:
- 1. I need money in order to buy an apartment.
- 2. I need an apartment in order to move out from my parents’ place.
- 3. I want to move out from my parents’ place in order to…
In the end, you will hit 100% ego-personal things: “in order to feel good about myself,” “in order to prove that I’m good,” “in order to prove that I’m okay,” “in order to get approval from other people,” and so on.
Once you’ve written it down, set it aside for at least half an hour, go for a walk, move your body, do something physical to get your body involved. Read it again, and you will understand that money doesn’t come for this, no matter how much you want it.
So, what should it come for?
Money comes in response to a request. But this request must come from within, from the heart.
Surely everyone has a story where they really, really needed or wanted something, and the money literally showed up, either as a bonus, a gift, or someone just brought the item to you. Write in the comments if that’s the case.
Therefore, those who haven’t had any wants or desires for a long time have nothing much coming in, because it’s a stagnant swamp, energy isn’t moving.
You have something that motivates you, pushes you, then movement begins, something starts to happen, and plus you start to get your flippers moving — taking some actions.
But if the initial motive is to prove that I’m no worse than others, instead of healing that traumatized part of yourself that lives looking over its shoulder at how others are doing, no matter what effort you put in, there won’t be much of a result.
And this is just a tool. In good hands it will bring good results, in bad hands it can be used for harm.
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2. Reducing the importance placed on money
The second step is to loosen your grip, reduce the weight you place on money.
Money is a tool.
When an asthmatic has an attack, they experience a lack of air, and they can’t breathe without a special inhaler. Even though the air is still in the atmosphere, it hasn’t gone anywhere.
Similarly, most people in survival mode live with this feeling. If there’s money, there will be happiness, health, and everything else. Hence the very high importance and weight.
Until you let go of this importance, you won’t be able to treat money as a tool.
There’s a Jewish joke: “If a problem can be solved with money, it’s not a problem, it’s an expense.”
A person who lives in a state of scarcity and survival, who places a very high weight on money and everything material and status-related, is always under threat. Take away their money and things, and they become vulnerable.
A large portion of divorces these days happen because of money. In the past, the mindset “love in a cottage is paradise” ruled, but the current generation doesn’t want paradise in a cottage.
Young people only want to work where there’s lots and lots of money. So the importance of money there is off the charts.
See also Collection of Meditations 8:8
Thirteen meditations dedicated to abundance and freeing yourself from the limitations of a poverty and lack mindset. Go through any of them.
3. Expansion
When there is enough of everything, the next stage begins — expansion.
But the stage of ego expansion is consumerism: more expensive things and more of everything. “Give me pills for greed, more, more, more.”
When you expand not through the ego, you proceed from the question, how much more benefit can you give to people when you have more resources?
But here it’s not just about money, but resources. Money is one such resource, time is one such resource, as is love.
What is supported is what brings benefit and serves the good of a greater number of people, not just one or two, meaning not just you and your family, but a larger number. We won’t even talk about honesty and deception here.
Money is evil in the hands of a bad person, in the hands of an egoist. But there are also a huge number of people who build homes, schools, and merchants once built churches.
It is a tool; what you apply it to and how you use it depends on the level of consciousness you are currently at. It will benefit a few people, it will benefit a larger number of people, or perhaps your scale is such that it benefits the entire planet.
See also The Five Laws of Abundance
Make these five simple truths your habit, and you will learn the law of abundance.
What beliefs about money are preventing you from moving from lack to abundance? Try doing the “To What End” exercise and share what realization you came to!
For those who have already gone through these stages, write about what is happening in your life right now? What is your relationship with money like?
The article is based on a broadcast for clients of the “Keys of Mastery” Training Center, “About Money and Abundance,” July 2024