Money is energy and needs to flow to create balance
How to attract money is a big concern on the mind of anyone in business. A sad truth is that many of the wonderful people who offer a holistic healing modality, would just as easily give away their services. This is a noble ideal, but doesn’t truly serve those offering and those receiving. And it creates an energetic imbalance.
Money is an invention created by mankind eons ago as a way of simplifying the exchange of what we have for what we need. As human communities became more complex and larger, a system of barter, or exchanging one item for another, will only go so far.
As a creation of mankind, money is also energy. It needs to flow – in and out – to create balance and harmony.
Reciprocity is involved in creating this balance.
This in and out flow is deeply connected to the human psychological need for reciprocity. Wikipedia has an interesting entry on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(social_psychology)
“Reciprocity is considered as a strong determining factor of human behavior…With reciprocity, a small favor can produce a sense of obligation to a larger return favor. This feeling of obligation allows an action to be reciprocated with another action. Because there is a sense of future obligation with reciprocity it can help to develop and continue relationships with people. Reciprocity works because from a young age people are taught to return favors, and to disregard this teaching will lead to the social stigma of being an ingrate.”
Reciprocity shows up in many ways in our everyday life. Here are some examples of this from our cultural history:
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
As above – so below
Karma
What you give, you receive
Do a good deed for another person and it will be returned
One hand washes the other
Sound familiar?
All of these have to do with creating balance between giving and receiving. We all know this. But for many people, there is a problem in the receiving part.
Unblock Receiving to Attract Money
The flow of money can become blocked by what you believe about money. For example, “money doesn’t grow on trees,” “money is the root of all evil” or “money can’t buy happiness.” Many of these beliefs were planted in your subconscious mind at a very young age.
Your habits and patterns of behavior sit in your subconscious mind. This part of your mind is what helps you ride a bicycle or drive a car without having to think about it too much.
Dr. Bruce Lipton, explains the roles of the subconscious and conscious mind in his book, “Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness.”
“The function of the mind is to create coherence between our beliefs and the reality that we experience…We generally perceive that we are running our lives with our wishes and our desires. But neuroscience reveals a startling fact. We only run our lives with our creative, conscious mind about 5 percent of the time. Ninety-five percent of the time, our life is controlled by the beliefs and habits that are programmed in the subconscious mind.”
Well, it’s pretty sobering to hear that ninety-five percent of your behavior comes from programs planted in your subconscious mind when you were very young.
And that includes your relationship with money. What on earth can you do about THAT? The truth is – a lot!
Your conscious mind may only run your life 5 percent of the time – but it has a distinct advantage over the subconscious mind.
It is aware!
Change the programming
Your subconscious mind is programmed patterns of behavior that show up when the right stimulus appears. Your conscious mind has the power to step in with awareness to CHANGE THE PROGRAMMING.
Here are some tips on how to do that.
- Give your conscious mind the TASK of monitoring your thoughts. Most of your thoughts come from your subconscious mind. Your intention is to become more aware of the content of these thoughts.
- Ask your conscious mind to alert you whenever one of your unsupportive beliefs or thoughts about money shows up. When it comes to money, being able to recognize these patterns as they appear in your everyday life, especially the limiting ones, is hugely beneficial.
- When you become aware of one of these thoughts from the subconscious. Notice it. Also know that you are now at the point of CHOICE. Choose another thought that is more supportive.
- Please note that this is an ongoing process with understanding your subconscious mind, not just a one-time occurrence.
Balancing the scale of giving and receiving with attraction energy
Now that you are becoming more aware of these patterns of how you understand and manage your money, let’s strengthen the energy of attracting more money to you.
Remember, money is energy. One of the most powerful energies of attraction, is GRATITUDE.
One of my favorite ways of attracting more financial abundance into my life is to hold cash, or a check or a paid invoice to my heart and really feel gratitude for receiving this payment for my services. You can even print out your account balance and use that.
You can also AMPLIFY this gratitude by using your own voice.
Sound waves carry consciousness and thought and feelings as they travel. Sound also travels through you and the thought and feelings and conscious intent also travels through you on the waves of sound.
Sing a song of gratitude as you hold this money or abundance to your heart and you plant this vibration into every cell and atom of your being. If you can’t think of a song – just sing ahhhhh – the sound most associated with the heart.
That creates a beacon of energy and intensifies the magnetic attraction of your feeling of gratitude that will bring more abundance into your life.
About Sharon Carne:
Sharon Carne, BMus, M.F.A. is an author, speaker, musician, recording artist, sound healer, Reiki master and consultant. Sharon is the founder of Sound Wellness, whose programs are at the forefront of education in how sound and music can be easily applied to your everyday life – to reduce stress, help you concentrate, energize you, inspire you, support your health and so much more.