Our Relationship with Money

OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY

By Kamila Harkavy

Why explore our relationship with money?

1. It's an area of pain, anxiety and shame, yet it needn’t remain so. If you don't like your finances, you can address the cause and affect future outcome. Even a small change in your relationship with money can have huge impacts not only in your material life, but in other parts of your life as well. It ripples through your whole self, thus thtough yourr entire life as well.

2. Our relationship with money is the #1 obstacle to not pursuing or realizing one’s dreams. Our relationship with money can help us fulfill our greatest dreams or cause us to be defeated by our worst nightmares.

3. Our relationship with money is one of the main obstacles to fulfilling one’s purpose and having a fulfilling life. Interestingly, the other obstacles often have root causes related to those around money.

4. People who know and act from their purpose experience more ease, more passion, more results, deeper lasting satisfaction and fulfillment. Purposeful individuals get ahead faster and create more results with less effort. They make key decisions quickly and accurately, stay focused, and achieve their goals.

5. To find your own path to a new conscious relationship with money: a journey of truth, self-discovery, and enlightenment wherein you examine your belief system and patterns around money and build a bridge between the past and the present so that you can master your future.

6. The real journey is not just about money; it’s about YOU, who you really are, what your path and purpose are, and how to fulfill that purpose and live a life of ease, delight, flow, success, and abundance in accordance with your own definitions and values.

What are you seeking in your relationship with money? In life? What do you wish were different? Let these questions spark you.

Money can be a tool to transform your life in more meaningful ways. As a tool, it may facilitate the path of true fulfillment that comes from living your life intentionally and with purpose. The source of money, and of all things, exists within each of us. You hold the keys to manifesting the reality you choose- including money. You can harness this power along with creativity and knowledge and live your best life, re-invent yourself and your destiny.

In ancient Greece, money gave rise to intellectual, artistic, and spiritual growth and discovery. The same is possible today.

The ability to change and manifest your reality moves in direct relationship with your level of consciousness. If you desire your relationship with money to change, you need to be willing to look at your present beliefs and how you acquired them. As your awareness grows, you’ll have choice about what you believe and what you will do; this will allow you to realize your own power to manifest whatever you desire.

Money possesses an energy and life of its own. It contains a duality similar to that found in our own nature. It is both spiritual and material, creative and destructive, loving and cruel. It can help us fulfill our greatest dreams or cause us to be defeated by our worst nightmares. There are two sides to every coin or bill. One side represents our individual and collective ability to master the material world. The other side represents our ability to master the spiritual dimension or inner world. It is this inner resource that we want to tap.

We cannot control money, but by understanding it, we can obtain what we need. Money’s value changes not only in relation to the economy but in relation to our consciousness. Money remains a subject that is neither taught nor widely understood. Wealth doesn’t make personal or psychological problems disappear; in fact, it often magnifies them. Having all the freedom and options in the world can be a terrible burden to even the most well-adjusted person, and this is even more true if you do not understand your relationship with money. This is why most people who win the lottery or receive some other large windfall experience extreme stress over the money and no longer have much, if any, of it left after 5 years.

Only one thing is real: your connection to Spirit, whatever you call it and however you define it, and your faith in Spirit. There is no other security. Money, as much as we wish for it to, does not provide security and we can’t control it. Without our connection to Spirit, we will never feel that we are loved enough, that we have enough, that we are enough. Without faith in Spirit, we won’t pursue true fulfillment, regardless of how much money we have or what we try to fill our lives with. Wealth without consciousness is another state of poverty. The real journey is not about money; it’s about YOU, who you really are, what your path and purpose are, and how to fulfill that purpose and live a life of ease, delight, flow, success, and abundance in accordance with your own definitions and values. Money may act as an obstacle to this journey or it may pave the way. It’s very challenging to fulfill your purpose in life if money is not flowing optimally. If money isn’t flowing optimally, Money Coaching can be invaluable.

Kamila Harkavy is a Money Coach, Results Coach and Fulfillment Mentor. She coaches and mentors individuals to an easier, more successful and more fulfilling life.

For more information about Money Coaching or how it may benefit you, contact Kamila Harkavy at (415) 454-3416 and see her blog at www.thrivelocity.com.