How do you feel about money? And how does money feel about you? These are two completely different questions, even though they look very similar.
For example, I very often see pictures on Facebook with phrases like: “I love money.”
I always want to jump into the conversation and say, folks, when you say “money loves me,” I’ll applaud.
And what do you think, is this opposition somehow tied to the topic we’re discussing today? The balance of spiritual and material.
What does it mean, I love them, but they don’t love me?
Why does the material oppose the spiritual in society
Much of what happens in our lives is tied to the memory of past lives.
We often bring old vows into this life. If you’ve incarnated many times as a monk or nun and renounced money, then in your current life you may have difficulties with finances.
And conversely, where you were successful but with a “minus” sign (for example, collecting taxes in Ancient Rus), you got so sick of money that the soul, when reincarnating, took note of the idea that money is evil, dirt.
In life, there is often a tilt one way or the other. This happens not only in past lives, but in the current one too.
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Why the balance of spiritual and material is important
Spirituality implies a connection, a harmony of two parts – the spiritual and the material.
The goal of the Keys of Mastery project is to show HOW to unite the spiritual and material in life.
There is a tendency among those engaged in spiritual development: people fly upward and lose connection with the earth. Money disappears from life, opportunities vanish, and it turns out that spirituality is only in words or in fantasies.
There are many practices, but they have no benefit in real life.
Our project changes the way you see things, showing that spirituality is an important part of life that helps you self-actualize, express yourself, and shows that this is the future.
Any materialist, any esotericist who flew away and didn’t come back, will eventually still come to balance and equilibrium in life.
See also The unified soul, or what the process of connecting the spiritual and material within yourself consists of
How materialists come to spirituality, and spiritual people to the material world
There are two different poles: on one is matter, on the other is spirituality. In life, you’ve probably observed a split, where the pendulum swings from one side to the other.
Basic human needs and the materialist’s path to spirituality
There is a theory, voiced by Tony Robbins, that a person has 6 basic needs.
The first four are personal needs:
- The need for certainty, more precisely for confidence in the future, that I can handle absolutely everything that comes my way.
- The need for variety. When everything is dull and the same, a person gets bored.
- The need for self-realization. Any person can achieve this if they show the desire.
- The need for love.
The other two stand ABOVE the personality and are found in big business:
- The need to develop. In this case, not only spiritually, but simply to self-develop.
- The need to help other people.
These two needs come into play when personal needs are satisfied and you want to move forward.
For example, when a business stalls. Everything a person wanted to achieve in life has already been achieved, they feel a block, both in their personal life and in their affairs. And after that, a call appears — a summons to move forward. The goal of making money is no longer there, the person embarks on the path of helping people.
A path of searching begins, reading books, the external world ceases to interest them. The person shifts their focus from the external world inward: “Who am I, how do I react to this, what are my motives?”
The manifestation of spirituality in the material world
Every person is spiritual, it’s just that some know it, and some don’t.
But those people who start their journey with spirituality and reject the material world often experience complete chaos in their lives.
Their material life is not in order, they live by the principle of serving others and don’t understand that they first need to help themselves.
In spiritual people, the lower energy centers are “blocked.” The first center is connected with money, relatives, particularly parents and their programs, the second center is feeling, and the third is will, the desire to live and act.
Energy from the lower centers is automatically directed upward. And then, when the moment of awakening occurs, the energy is again directed there by its habitual course.
In order to balance the spiritual and the material, you need to activate the lower centers.
When a person starts paying attention to themselves, puts themselves ahead of the flow — their interests, desires first, helping others by mutual desire and from a place of fullness.
Their life begins to change. How does this manifest?
You lead a comfortable life, you have money for absolutely all your needs and more, and at the same time you are constantly in joy, harmony, and pleasure.
Everything that comes to your mind is almost immediately realized. Everywhere “the light is green.”
At the same time, you have the financial means to manifest any of your thoughts into reality.
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How to achieve a balance of the spiritual and the material
In our audience, people of the second category prevail, so the emphasis will be on how a spiritual person can bring the material into their life.
1. Find limiting programs related to money
For the most part, destructive programs are laid down in childhood.
A small child absorbs everything like a sponge. We absorbed everything our parents said about money.
Write down every phrase from childhood about money, wealth, and poverty. Remember everything. Look at childhood photos, talk to a relative to get back into that childhood state, and write down everything you recall.
“Money is evil,” “bought it, dulled it,” “do we have money growing on trees?” — all these sayings from loved ones. Each saying is a program.
Once you find all of this, weigh it: “Do I believe that matter, money, and spirituality are incompatible? Does this help me be happy, feel harmonious and comfortable, does it give me the motivation to wake up in the morning instead of thinking, oh god, morning again, work again?”
If yes, keep it; if no, replace it with the opposite that works for you.
Declare that you are giving up this program.
See also: How to switch from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset
2. Replace limiting programs with their opposites
The desire to use freebies is a sign of a poverty mindset and a signal that there are financial needs in your life.
There are people who have the means to buy but deliberately only attend free seminars and trainings, download books and movies from the internet, buy clothes only on sale, and so on.
The belief “there isn’t enough for everyone” also comes from a poverty mindset.
To start earning, stop spending. Not in the sense of not paying for anything. Reframe the idea that a purchase is not an expense, as if you’re ripping out your last money and giving it to someone, but rather an investment in your beloved self (in your appearance, comfort, education).
How to rewrite them:
- Realize that you have such a program.
- Rewrite it into another one, like any reflex, and practice the skill. For at least 21 days in a row, do the same action. If for 21 days straight you do this: “I invest in myself, I invest in health, I invest in growth, in myself, in myself, in myself” — the program will be rewritten.
As a result, the fear of being left without money disappears, which everything else clings to. When your attitude changes, the fear goes away.
And then comes the realization that there really is enough of everything for everyone.
Shift your focus from what you don’t have to what you do have. If you lend money, lend only as much as you wouldn’t mind losing if it’s not returned.
What do we replace these programs with?
A person who loves, values, and respects themselves is a priori worthy of money, prosperity, a comfortable life, and the best conditions.
If you consider yourself that kind of person, why don’t you have this?
Everything you have at this moment is everything you allow yourself to have. Whatever someone has, that’s how much they’ve allowed themselves.
Want more? Allow yourself more, and to start, learn to invest in yourself.
3. Learn not to borrow, not to take credit
To do this, learn to clearly weigh how much you really need it. Usually, people who borrow a lot either don’t assess their capabilities or don’t understand their true desires.
If you keep borrowing, you won’t break out of this race. It’s like a dog chasing its tail in circles.
The only option is to break this vicious circle. In a worst-case scenario, sit on nothing but buckwheat for a month.
Read about how to transition to a comfortable money level. From the article, you’ll learn what levels of money mastery exist.
4. Balance the spiritual and material through practice
Metaphorically, the union of the spiritual and material looks like this.
You stand on a mountain peak, above you is an endless sky, you feel you are on top, below you are mountains and a city.
You look down on everything from above, your roots are strong, like a tree’s, going deep into the mountain.
Hold this image in your mind every morning, and it will help open channels upward (intuition sharpens, new ideas and projects come), ground you, and root you so your intentions can sprout in the material world.
Another way to connect the spiritual and material is to balance your energy system.
In the course 7 Keys of Awareness 2.0, you’ll get the best practical materials for harmonizing all seven chakras, including boosting your material well-being.
The spiritual and material do not oppose, but complement each other. This is the most important thought I wanted to convey in this article.
Now you know what you need to balance the spiritual and material.
Write, which limiting programs have you already rewritten into their opposites? Where did difficulties arise, and what is easy to change?
I don’t know if there are those in our audience who, on the contrary, go from the material to the spiritual. It will be interesting to learn what your path is.
This material is a brief summary of the training seminar “Material and Spiritual. Opposition or?” (presentation at the Generation 3.0 conference). The full version in text format can be downloaded via the link below.
Material and Spiritual. Opposition or?