There is a large gap between what you consider your values, the principles by which you live, and how you react and behave in certain situations.
Something inside you operates completely independently, autonomously, regardless of how you want to live and what you believe.
On one hand, you agree with this and understand that you should live that way, but something inside you is working, and until you have written it down in great detail, you pay no attention to it.
This applies to any area of life, including finances, money, and the topic of abundance.
This article will help you see how deep-seated beliefs about money subtly control your decisions and behavior — and what can be done about it.
A Flat Understanding of Abundance
What is abundance?
In our brain, there is a fusion that abundance is about money. It is a 3D picture.
We take some cool things, they pass through our 3D perception, the prism through which we view the world, and as a result, what is voluminous and beautiful turns into something flat and limited.
Many things have been unintentionally distorted, turning from voluminous into flat. Any breadth is castrated, narrowed down to something more understandable.
When we do not engage with a topic for a long time — for example, clarity has arrived or the need for it has disappeared — then what remains is this flat, insignificant thing, stripped of the volume that was originally present.
Now such flat places are being highlighted. Flat does not mean bad; it simply means there is a lack of another perspective, there is no completeness, only some one-sided view, one-sided movement, one-sided observation.
This also works with the topic of abundance. Many continue to believe that abundance is only about money, abundance = money. But this is not the case, or not entirely the case.
Abundance can be both positive (such as money, time, love) and negative (tears, complaints, etc.).
Go through the “Rock Garden” meditation, where you will see the limitations standing in the way of prosperity and be able to clear your inner space so that the flow of abundance, money, and well-being manifests in your life to its fullest!
Money and what you think about it as a point of failure
Pay attention to the sayings and phrases related to money that you utter yourself, hear from others, and that catch your attention.
For many, including our students, the connection money = self-esteem or “my worth” becomes tied to money.
This is a constant, endless point of failure, because few people always have enough of everything, in abundance, regardless of what is happening externally. These points need to be seen and weighed.
So many different attitudes are embedded within us on the topic of money. Meanwhile, externally, consciously, you may believe that you are worthy of finances, abundance, prosperity, grace, harmony, and so on.
This is what I call empty slogans, because there is nothing behind them, as I would have said before, or sometimes there is something behind them, but only as long as you are in a harmonious, resourceful state.
Pay attention to the disconnect when, from the perspective of spiritual development, you think you are living that way, but life repeatedly shows you facts that this is not the case. Because inside there are certain attitudes and beliefs that cause you to sink lower and lower. And money, unfortunately, is one of those factors.
The phrases “money is love” and “money is a tool” mean nothing until you have lived through it, and most importantly, until you have cleared out your blockages related to limitations.
Common beliefs about money and money-related paradigms
Here are a few common limiting beliefs about money and finances:
- the rich also cry,
- you are greeted by your clothes, seen off by your mind,
- money is evil,
- if you haven’t been rich, it’s not worth starting,
- money can’t buy happiness,
- money isn’t the main thing,
- happiness is not in money,
- a penny saved is a penny earned.
You can add your own in the comments.
Money is one of the most painful topics.
Previously, the paradigm “money comes through hard work” was in effect. A hundred years ago, this was justified. The working class was just emerging, there were a huge number of peasants, and in the end, one had to earn a living through hard work.
Later, during the Soviet Union, a multitude of intellectual, mental professions appeared, and another paradigm for earning money emerged — “work with your mind.”
The 21st century brought a new paradigm — work for pleasure.
But depending on which of these three paradigms you match, or, on the contrary, resist and do not match, it is very draining and destructive.
See also What money is paid for now. Paradigms of monetary relations
From survival to comfortable possession of money
There was once a speaker named Anton Monin. I listened to his podcast where he talked about the levels of possessing money.
The first level — is survival mode, when you live from paycheck to paycheck, expenses equal or exceed income.
He called the next level the comfortable money level, this is when you treat money as a tool. If you have it, it’s good; if you don’t, that’s also good, you know how to earn it.
This is a very deep shift in many directions. Because this “I know how” is based on an inner confidence that you are capable of handling anything.
You don’t cling to the old, the familiar, you are not afraid of collapses or failures. At this level, the ego-personality is already balanced enough to let go of the grip it was holding onto with all its might.
See also How to transition to the comfortable money level, or Levels of money management and associated emotions
Compensating for the feeling of scarcity through squandering
When a person lives hand-to-mouth, in survival mode, the first thing they do when a large sum of money appears, or simply an amount exceeding their usual income, is not know what to do with it.
There are statistics on people who won large prizes in lotteries or casinos. More than 90% were left without a penny within a few years, spending it all. Because they tried to compensate for the scarcity.
A person who has been in a state of scarcity for a long time first tries to compensate for it by buying something from long-held desires, thereby fueling the feeling of scarcity.
We are familiar with this story regarding parents and children. You didn’t have a bicycle as a child, so you give your child a bicycle. You wanted to play an instrument or go to music school, but it didn’t work out; now you try to “make up for it” through your children, fulfilling your own desires through them.
There are many such stories, when people try to compensate for a feeling of lack. But by showering yourself with all kinds of benefits, you do not compensate for it.
Psychologists say, if you didn’t have a bicycle as a child, then as an adult, you remember that you didn’t have a bicycle as a child. Period. You still didn’t have it, no matter how many bicycles you own in adulthood, no matter how many you give to your children. This is called psychologists’ humor.
All of this sits inside.
What does abundance mean to you? What phrases, judgments, beliefs about money did you most often hear in childhood — and how do they affect you now?
In the next part of the article on this topic, we will tell you which intentions are currently supported, what money comes for, and what three stages will help you move from a level of lack to abundance.
The article is written based on a broadcast for clients of the Keys of Mastery Training Center “About Money and Abundance”, July 2024