4 Key Points From The Energy of Money
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A review of a spiritual book discussing money which brings financial behaviors into light, creating an energetic understanding of money management -
Money choices are often soul-driven, so understanding how money may work as an energetic symbol can provide insight into our decisions.
When we better understand why we make choices about money, we can direct how it flows from us and to us, creating money mastery on an energetic level. Once mastered here, you then see results in the physical.
Written as a book version of a course, You and Money, The Energy of Money takes you on a money empowerment journey. This book is rich with self-reflective activities - both empowering and eye-opening.
Thinking of reading this book? I'd say it's definitely a win, especially if you are interested in a spiritual guide for money.
Below are a few of the stand out points in The Energy of Money -
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1 - Separating goals from tasks is an important step in the money journey
Most of us have things that we want to achieve, and we will feel relieved when done. These are life tasks.
The other half of our aspirations are life goals. These are things we will feel elated and happy when it has finally happened. A sense of excitement builds at the thoughts of their possibility.
The latter gives you joy and hope in life, and usually, reaching goals takes money - also, everyone's goals are different.
Identify your goals, something that you will feel happy about when it has happened, listing out your top ten.
The author suggests choosing two goals to focus on and be willing to have them achieved this year. Goals are meant to be fun, and they give you a reason for living. Choose two that require money to accomplish this year. Everything else is your task.
Though we may have many life goals, the author makes it clear that you don't want to overwhelm yourself. Focus on max two is doable.
You don't want all the joy you can feel in your life in one year, and then the rest of the time, nothing. It's okay to space out goals.
2 - Identify Your Standards of Integrity
Having a set of standards that you align with is one of the keys to helping money flow.
It promotes positive feelings about how we act with money. Purchasing with standards also solidifies the purchases we make energetically, giving us more satisfaction when money is used - this creates confidence.
To identify a set of standards with which you operate, called Standards of Integrity, imagine you are on your deathbed. A small handful of everyone you loved in this life is there. These are your most influential people.
Everyone you love is alive and is about to speak words on your behalf in specific ways how you were an inspiration to them in life.
Think of the first five people. Visualize a sentence or two of what they would say about what they admired in you. It will have a descriptive or clarifier word. Write all this down.
Then, sit back. What are the strong descriptors that pop out at you? These are your Standards of Integrity. These are ideal characteristics you aspire to reflect in this lifetime.
Write these down. Before you engage in any commerce, ask, which Standard of Integrity does this purchase or payment reflect? Because you may refer to it often, consider keeping this list of characteristics in your wallet or desk drawer on an index card.
Moving into synchronization with financial choices that are aligned to standards will provide a sense of satisfaction and security in your money life - and a stronger connection to money's purpose in your life.
This creates a clearer, stronger energy flow. Once you have a strong energy flow going, you can usually build it.
3 - Commit To Keeping Promises
When you commit to someone that you will do something, it sets up an energy imbalance until the promise is fulfilled. Same when someone makes a promise to you.
Unfilled promises are a form of energy imbalance that most can sense. To align with money as an energy that flows, part of the process is becoming comfortable with completing energetic cycles - through the keeping of promises.
Money is technically a form of energy, and to feel good in your relationship with this energy, this energy must be balanced - or it will feel uncomfortable.
So practice balancing energy in small promises first, then later in more extensive money promises.
Anytime you make a promise from now forward, even a little one, commit to keeping it.
This flexes your ability to balance energy scales and creates more awareness of how it feels when energy is balanced. This balancing of energy comes in later when you are asked to balance your money world by fixing leaks and monitoring the flow.
Focusing on keeping even small promises is indeed a way to provide security, an energy currency similar to money. It will become easier to continue the balance of your commitment and maintain it in financial arrangements with practice.
4 - Know Where Your Energy Leaks Are
Know where money-wise, you tend to go off-kilter. Identify your past areas of crazy, name it, and avoid those places in the future. Even acknowledge it.
Embracing the shadow side of where you are crazy with money can help clear out the closet of old money issues and prevent falling into the same quicksands in the future.
Know the dragons - the first way you leak energy, the crazy way you lose money and resources.
You can drip out money. Did you know that one mindless purchase of just $13.69 a day and you've just lost $5,000 in a year?
Balancing your checkbook every month is another way to identify where your leaks are.
Once you identify your leaks, see if these leaks match a Standard of Integrity or a Goal you are focusing on this year. If they don't, see if you can simplify.
Before you buy in the future, to maintain a leak-free channel to money, identify the goal your spending or purchase fulfills or the standard of integrity with which it aligns. If you can't think of one, your purchase may be a whim, and, in the book, whims are an obstacle to a goal.
You want to avoid whim purchasing.
Do you have two main goals you want to achieve this year, both of which require money? Do you remember your death bed integrities?
Which of these categories will your purchase fulfill?
Asking these three questions before all future buys can help cut off energy leaks, strengthening money's energy flow as it comes to you, stay with you, or pass through you.
Using money on whims creates shame or guilt, or chaotic energy. These processes remove that.
Okay, you know your life goals, standards, you've committed to keeping promises, and know where you are crazy with money; what's the next step?
Now take authentic action to bring you closer to your goals. Pay a bill and think about how it supports an aspect of your integrity. Put a budget on an area where you are personally crazy with money. Make a goal-related purchase or start a vision board to get clear on those goals.
One of the best modern mystic books about finances you can find. Photo of the book, The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment with text overlay - 4 Key Points From The Energy of Money (Book Review)
To recap, the energy of money states that money is an energy currency.
By streamlining the flow, identifying our blocks or leaks, and aligning it with your life's integrities and intents, you can get it to flow in perfect order to stream just the right way for you.
Personally, I found this book really helpful in developing a new relationship with money. My favorite part of the book was identifying my Standards of Integrity.
Beyond that, one of my biggest takeaways after reading was realizing all interactions where we exchange energy, non-physical or physical, is a form of commerce.
With this in mind, going into all money related relationships with more exact intent, as the book helps you to hash out, is sure to change the flow of energy in any life.
To complete all the exercises in the book, expect to go through them in about two weeks. The Energy of Money was once a course. It is designed for you to take pauses and let things sink in.
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