This week, I had someone unsubscribe from my newsletter list and leave me a note of disapproval. They said that my "spiritual" marketing made them uncomfortable and the quote I shared in one of my Diwali newsletters that said, "I love money", turned them off. I want to thank this person for sharing their discomfort with me. It proved to be a very valuable resource for my own process and helped me to deepen my love of money. Yes, I do love money! There are many reasons actually, but this is why I love money and think it is a fabulous resource for our spirituality. Perhaps the best! Money is a resource. It is energy. The energy of money brings us what we need and helps us get the nourishment that we need in this life. We are here to manifest, to create our lives. Money is one such resource that we need to create the life we want for ourselves. I love getting my needs met and feeling nourished. I love that money can do this for me. But this isn't the only reason I love money. I love that money gives a reflection. It amplifies, it mirrors, it helps us identify. It's an energy after all. I see so often in the spiritual communities (and in those who are trying to live spiritual lives) that there is a disconnect between money and spirituality. This is really unfortunate! There is often so much discomfort and negativity placed onto money amongst spiritual beings. I am passionate about helping people shift this! It's actually not the money that is bad at all. It's our reflection of what money is. But this is why I love it so much! Money shows us where we are resisting, refusing, pushing away or avoiding our shadow! If money makes you uncomfortable, that is a place within you that needs to be transformed and awakened. If it weren't for money, you would miss that spot of challenge, obstacle or suffering within your being! Unfortunately, rather than understanding that challenges and obstacles are something to lean into, most people turn away and then blame others, blame money, blame something or someone else. It seems easier. But the reality is that running from our discomfort does not help us awaken, transform and heal the shadow parts of ourselves. Challenges and discomfort around money are actually opportunities for growth! The confusion and obstacles that many people have about spirituality and money are also opportunities for deepening your connection to spirit, as well as this human existence we call life. We can not deny our humanness, nor push past our challenging human experiences while always running to the good stuff. This is spiritual by-passing at its core. If you are a light chaser, you better be in honest relationship with your shadow simultaneously. Otherwise you will not be a balanced, well-rounded human being. You will also be stunting your spiritual growth. There are many reasons to keep a balanced relationship with our light and dark parts, but in terms of manifestation this is vital. Honestly working with our discomfort, fears, anger, and the range of emotions that surface when we meet a challenge, are in fact resources for self-discovery and awakening. These are parts that require our diligence and effort in order to awaken and transform shadow into light. If you just push it away, it will in fact intensify and re-emerge with more strength and tenacity. When we refuse to address the challenging parts of ourselves, we are missing opportunities for growth and spiritual awakening. Essentially, obstacles and challenges are resources for change. For identifying parts of ourselves that need more attention, awareness and more light. If we feel challenged or have emotions that trigger us, that is a great place to look! Why are you challenged? What is the story under this emotion? What do you really need? Where are there safety and support issues emerging? It's also vital that we stay as close to the body as possible. If we disconnect from our physical body and are not embodied, we lose our ability to manifest and create desires and ideas into form. Remember that we do not manifest from thoughts, but from feelings. Feelings are inherent to the first and second chakras, the manifesting chakras. If we aren't in the body, we aren't able to feel deeply and therefore we are not able to manifest. This is why I am so adamant about embodiment resources as well as art therapy tools. They are the ultimate manifestation resources! In order to help you create a deeper relationship with money and move past any spiritual blockages that may be keeping you from manifesting money, I've made a special podcast to help you tap through the mental and emotional obstacles that may be blocking you. In the podcast below, I share a tapping (EFT) sequence with you that will guide you through transforming and releasing the old stories around money, while helping you awaken and receive new forms of nourishment. (I recorded this while hiking up a mountain, with snow crunching under my feet. Excuse the rough quality, but enjoy the information nonetheless!) Use this podcast as you tap through these points: Karate chop point (side of the hand). Crown of the head. Eyebrow point (above the eye). Side of the eye. Under the eye. Under the nose. Chin point (crease of the chin). Throat point (collar bone/throat chakra). Heart point (center of chest). Stomach point (above the navel). Side body (nipple line at side of chest). Tap six to ten times on each point and just keep cycling through the points. Repeat the phrases I use aloud or use words that best align with your own needs. Share your experiences below! What emerged for you in this process? Excited to hear from you! Want more support building your wealth now? Please join me for my special June workshop! From Scarcity to Abundance Use resistance and challenges with money as your biggest resources for change and deepen your relationship with money through an embodied, holistic approach to wealth, money making and thriving. Get the Details!
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For so many of us, money has not been a resource of support and stability, safety or security. In fact, it has been quite the opposite. Does money bring up fear, terror, anger, frustrations, sadness or even trauma for you? Almost everyone has a strong story (or many stories) connected to their money. The support and stability piece connected to money is important. Money is an energetic resource that can provide a sense of support in our life, as well as security, stability, and safety. It is a resource of nourishment. Our ability to be well nourished in life determines our resiliency and our sense of thriving. If there are blockages connected to receiving money, there are blockages connected to receiving nourishment. It's that simple. Do you feel rich right now? Yes or no? These feelings are creating your life. They are either helping you create more of what you do want or more of what you don’t want. It's essential to know that we do not manifest from thinking, but from our feelings. The truth is, if we aren’t receiving money, it’s a resistance to being nourished and supported on some level of our life. A resistance to getting our needs met. I guarantee this is showing up in your life on other levels for you and even causing malnutrition on multiple levels of your life. The reality is, money is just an energy that shows us where we are resisting the flow of life force energy, creativity, vitality, abundance and nourishment. These blockages can be seen in your jyotish chart as well. If we are having issues creating life, manifesting our desires into form, there must be a blockage or an obstacle that is standing in our way. The only thing stopping us is our own shadow, the illusions that we are unable to create and be powerful creators. Remember that we are only able to manifest from our feelings and therefore it is vital that we have a deep relationship with our emotional body. Sadly, this is where most people are stuck, blocked, and quite frankly emotionally illiterate. A deep relationship with your emotions is vital for manifestation. We don’t manifest with the mind, the mental body, thinking or even visualizing. This is the mistake of the entire Law of Attraction movement and the affirmations people say. The only way affirmations work is if you create a deeper relationship with the feeling of the desire. The feeling of being wealthy. The feeling of being safe in your relationships. The feeling of driving your new car. The feeling of doing joyful work in the world. But there’s a catch. Often we have hidden agendas that sabotage our ability to receive. This is often connected to feelings of safety and security. If it doesn’t feel safe to receive your desire, you won’t be able to receive it. It doesn’t matter how hard you wish, plan, set goals, etc. You won’t be nourished by your relationships, if it doesn’t feel safe on some level of your being. You won’t be wealthy if on some level you don’t feel safe having a lot of money. This is where the work begins. Tracking your emotions and noticing the physical body sensations that emerge around money will help you identify where you are stuck, resistant, avoiding, fearful, etc. It's imperative to be tracking your stories connected to money as well. The stories that are stuck in your mental body, looping on auto pilot and keeping you in old patterns of lack and malnourishment. These are very old stories! Stories that began as early as childhood and were reinforced through life experiences. Stories that may in fact be older than that! Ancestral and lineage stories that you adopted as your own. Some of these stories in fact are just very old karma that can be shifted, changed and healed. In the podcast below, I share a tapping (EFT) sequence with you that will guide you through transforming and releasing the old stories around money, while helping you awaken and receive new forms of nourishment. (I recorded this while hiking up a mountain so it's a bit rough, but truly authentic!) Use this podcast as you tap through these points: Karate chop point (side of the hand). Crown of the head. Eyebrow point (above the eye). Side of the eye. Under the eye. Under the nose. Chin point (crease of the chin). Throat point (collar bone/throat chakra). Heart point (center of chest). Stomach point (above the navel). Side body (nipple line at side of chest). Tap six to ten times on each point and just keep cycling through the points. Repeat the phrases I use aloud. Share your experiences below! What emerged for you in this process? Excited to hear from you! Want more support building your wealth now?
Please join me for my special June workshop! From Scarcity to Abundance Use resistance and challenges with money as your biggest resources for change and deepen your relationship with money through an embodied, holistic approach to wealth, money making and thriving. Early Bird Pricing of $49 ends June 20th!! Get the Details! It's challenging to see how our problems can actually be the solution. It's impossible most of the time to turn our weaknesses into our strengths. Rarely do we harvest resources in our weakest moments. The reality is, these are the very experiences that can change and transform our lives. These are moments of power if we choose to use them. Our jyotish charts are a resource for finding our power, our gifts and our strengths. The purpose of our jyotish charts is to share with us why we are alive, why we have incarnated. It shows us our strengths and our weaknesses. Rarely do we use these areas of weakness to maximize ourselves though. Traditionally, jyotish has been used as a means of creating greater awareness, a tool of insight. Often though our challenges, our karmas, are shown to us as a hardship that may not be overcome in this lifetime. It's true, the jyotish chart is a map of our accumulated karmas thus far, but it is important to remember this energy is not stagnant- is is constantly changing- as are we. I use the jyotish chart to maximize the energy of change, the potential for transformation. In my classes and personal sessions, my intention is to always empower my clients to use resources that will keep them evolving, moving, changing and transforming towards their highest potential. But when we are stuck in darkness, it is often hard to see the light switch. Money problems, worries and anxieties, are part of this paradigm of "stuckness" that can keep us in a state of overwhelm, feeling powerless, as a result of not being able to see ourselves clearly. The number one complaint I hear from clients is that they have a lack of money. The roots of this money issue can be seen in the jyotish chart, but ultimately it is an inability to nourish ones self, to receive nourishment from life. The second house is vital to determine our relationship with money. It is the house of nourishment, how we are fed. Literally it is connected to the time immediately after birth, and how we were nourished directly after we were born as well as during our childhood. It is the house of food and the body parts connected to the second house are mouth and throat as well as speech. But the second house is also a wealth house. Money in fact is a source of nourishment, a way of being fed. What is your relationship with nourishment? We can look to the second house to determine our relationship with life nourishment, but really all of our relationships are determined by Venus, the karaka (indicator) of love and relating. Venus is the planet of love and allows the nourishment to flow, to be fluid, to move through us freely. If we have blockages that keep Venus's love from flowing, we will also have issues with the other indications of Venus as well: wealth, creativity, life force energy. Since Venus is connected to jala, water, it truly brings us life. This is why money is an important part of having a good relationship with life. Money brings life itself. Problems arrive when we are not in right relationship with this creative, fluid nourishment from Venus. You can look at your chart to see what obstructions might be affecting your flow. Any connections Saturn has with your Venus will be an indication their is loss, grief or sadness effecting your ability to be nourished. Rahu will bring misjudgments, mistrust, fears and illusions that make you feel unsafe or not seeing clearly. Mars may offer pains due to acting without thinking, thus there may have been issues where you have literally gotten "burned" by money. These are important discoveries because they show you where your resources are hidden! Yes, these challenges, these pains from the past, share important insights for making more income. These painful stories from past experiences are the keys to unlocking the blockages effecting your Venus, the flow of nourishment to you and through you. The time is now for more wealth! As I mentioned in my passion article, the time is truly ripe to work on our Venus issues right now. With the current conjunction of Mars and Ketu conjunct exalted Venus until March 12th, we have a very ripe opportunity to face our fears about wealth, money and nourishment. This theme will continue for the coming months as Ketu continues to transit Pisces, Venus's domain. Since many are feeling challenged by the current Venus/Mars/Ketu conjunction and feeling the obstructions of money directly at this time, it is actually a wonderful opportunity to work directly with the issues coming up for you. This is the brilliance of the transits and how to work with challenging situations that arrive while they are happening. See them as a way to crack open and receive more light. Ketu offers us awakenings if we choose to go into the pain, to heal it and transform it, rather than stay in our illusions and suffering. I use EFT (the emotional freedom technique) as a way to directly target the intense emotional (Moon) and mental (Mercury) responses we experience as a result of our painful experiences and life challenges. These mental/emotional issues effect the physical body (Saturn) and the body will share these messages with us diligently so listen up! EFT is a very efficient way to transform our challenges into awakening and awareness (Ketu). This tool can help us target what needs to be cleared in order to get the Venus life force energy moving through us more fluidly. The podcast below will take you through an EFT tapping sequence that will help you address and clear your money fears connected to debt. Our relationship with debt and our ability to save money represents our ability to hold onto nourishment in our lives, to absorb support and security. When we can't hold onto money there is usually an issue with some loss from the past. Notice in your jyotish chart if Saturn is connected to your Venus in any way. What losses are you still grieving? This will show up in your money and will often become a financial debt at some point. Use this podcast to address the emotions connected to your debts so you can release them and get money flowing to you. Want more support building your wealth now? Please join me for my special June workshop! From Scarcity to Abundance Use resistance and challenges with money as your biggest resources for change and deepen your relationship with money through an embodied, holistic approach to wealth, money making and thriving. Get the Details! |
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