Quips and Tips for Spiritual Seekers

When you discover empowering ways to improve your financial health you naturally heal your money relationship and become more abundant. No matter what wise financial advice you’ve received or how many financial planning courses you’ve taken, until you heal the underlying core issues surrounding money and finances, you’ll continue to create the same money problems.

In a recent article, How Your Financial Health is Determined by Your Relationship to Money, I described how each person’s money relationship reflects their views, perspectives and beliefs about money. In this article I offer empowering exercises for shifting limiting beliefs into positive ones, touching into the spiritual essence of abundance, and altering the dynamics of your relationship to money so you can experience financial abundance.

I love this quote by Ayn Rand, “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” Money is what we make of it and we can use it for whatever purpose we wish. So if you’re ready to move forward to create positive change in your life, read on. And to explore techniques that help you to connect to universal energy as a way to create financial abundance, read Wallace D. Wattles book (pictured above), Financial Success: Harnessing the Power of Creative Thought.

Heal Your Relationship to Money

Reflect on your money relationship. Do you play the pursuing/distancing game with money? Can you earn it, but not have it because unexpected expenses suddenly surface? Do you abuse it by spending it as a way to cover up uncomfortable feelings or to distract from problems? Do you believe you’d have to sell your soul to have it? Do you hoard it as a way to feel secure and in control? Or are you fortunate enough to view money from a neutral, healthy perspective and use it to create financial health and abundance in your life?

Money Relationship Exercise

Write a description of your relationship with money as though money were a person or character in your life. Be as specific, detailed or creative as you like. Perhaps you’ll write it as a dialogue or scene from a movie. Maybe it will flow out of you as a poem or song. What feelings are associated with your description – do you feel trapped, disempowered, small, controlling, or empowered by your relationship to money?

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being extremely healthy and abundant, how would you rate your relationship to money? What supports it to be as high as it is (even if it’s just at one – look for the positive). What number would you like it to be? What needs to change? If this were an important relationship with a person that you wanted to keep, what would you do to make it healthier?

What is one thing you can do to increase your money health by one point on the scale? Make a commitment to do it this week.

Change Your Money Beliefs

What beliefs and judgments do you have about money? If you believe money is evil, you will keep it as far away from you as you can. If you believe it’s hard to earn, you’ll either exhaust yourself earning it or you’ll unconsciously block it from coming in through easy, enjoyable work. Do you think money makes people turn into materialistic snobs? Do you view having money as un-spiritual?

Beliefs create the foundation of our lives. You can tell what a person believes by looking at their life. What does your relationship to money tell you about your money beliefs?

Money Beliefs Exercise

Make a list of all the beliefs, views and perspectives you have about money. Do it without analyzing it. Write at the top of a sheet of paper “Money is . . .” and finish the sentence over and over again and see what comes up. Notice if you have mostly limiting beliefs or supportive beliefs.

With each of the limiting beliefs, choose to let them go by crossing them out and replacing them with new, healthier, supportive beliefs. Write all of your supportive beliefs onto a sheet of paper and refer to them anytime you start to slip down the slope of negative money beliefs and need a reminder of your new reality.

Create Financial Abundance

If darkness is the absence of light, then scarcity is the absence of abundance. Abundance is reality; the lack of it is only a scarcity perspective. We are powerful spiritual beings inside these human bodies. When we tune into our divinity, we know we are a part of the essence that created all life – therefore we have the same ability to create and manifest our heart and soul’s desires.

Abundance Exercise

Close your eyes and turn inward. Take a few deep breaths and relax into your chair. Become aware of yourself as a spiritual being, bigger than your mind and body. If it helps, connect to the God of your heart and ask for support in touching into the essence of abundance.

Create an image of a rose a few feet in front of you that represents true abundance. See how open it is, notice the color, and then look past the appearance and into the energy of abundance within it. Notice how vibrant and alive it is with abundant energy. Once you have a sense of this, allow your body to match this energy. Feel the essence of abundance flow through your whole body and down into the cells. Let go of the image of the rose, open your eyes and carry this abundance with you.

With supportive beliefs and an energy set for abundance, you will naturally begin to create a healthy relationship to money. If you benefited from this article, you might also enjoy reading, Receive Money Easily by Transcending Limiting Money Beliefs.

You might also find Money Beyond Beliefs created by Brad Yates and Joe Vitale to be a powerful way to create new beliefs and improve your financial health. 

Did these empowering ways to improve financial health work for you? We’d love to hear from you in the comments section below.