Money exists as more than physical currency or digital numbers in your bank account, it represents energy in action. This carries an exchange of energy flow through your life. We use it in exchange for connecting services, ideas, people and creative output.
Money used consciously can benefit you more than just serving as a survival necessity; it’s a valued energetic tool for success and freedom. It can help us to identify equal energetic exchanges, or if we are being exploited or taken advantage of.
The Flow of Money as Energy
All things exist as forms of energy according to spiritual knowledge. Just as the breath flows in and out, or rivers circulate across the earth, money too, is meant to move.
The stream provides essential nutrient water when it flows. The weight of water forms when water becomes unbalanced and stagnant.
Our perception of money as energy allows us to experience financial interactions at a deeper level. The process of paying for food creates a cycle of gratitude between the farmer, and the land that produces our nutritional sustenance. The work earns payment, which represents the value of the time, along with your creative efforts and your life energy to produce the outcome.
Practical Advice for Conscious Money Flow
1. Bless Money as it Moves
Take a brief silence to bless the transaction before making any exchange. You could say within: “May this exchange serve to help others and return in abundance.” This practice maintains lightness and clarity of the energy exchange.
2. Give with Joy, Not Fear
Observe your energy levels when you make purchases.
- Are you resentful, fearful, or stressed?
- Are you miserly and feeling in constant lack?
- Are you grateful, open and free to share it? Knowing what goes around comes back around.
The process of genuinely smiling while giving a tip, creates a sense of gratitude and fairness, which becomes a powerful circle of energetic exchange of giving and receiving. The act of giving with joy maintains your state of energy and flow.
3. Detach from Control
The moment you stop clinging to money, the burden of it dominating your thoughts and feelings dissipates.
Use it, circulate it, enjoy it and respect it, but remember your worth doesn’t only come from money.
The process of detachment creates distance and freedom, which results in increased flow of energy in all areas of life.
4. Create a “Freedom Fund”
Set aside a small amount of money that you can use for spontaneous acts of kindness or generosity. The money could be used for any purpose, such as getting coffee with a friend or helping someone in need or purchasing something that brings you joy.
The practice develops a light-hearted flow between you and your money, which results in more financial possibilities.
5. Align Spending with Values
Your financial expenditure confirms your choice of what’s important to you and what you want to value in the world based on your purchases.
Ask yourself, does this purchase align with my desired vision for myself or the future? Does it support the future progression, joy and authenticity?
People achieve better spending results when they use intention as their decision-making guide.
6. Journal Your Money Beliefs
Much of our relationship with money is subconscious. Note down your first experiences with money through what you viewed or through the words you heard from adults eg ‘money doesn’t grow on trees’ or “we have no money,’ how did this make you feel? Determine which of your beliefs serve or benefit you. Or are you ready to rewrite them? The process of becoming aware of your childhood programming helps to eliminate previous mental barriers.
7. Practice Gratitude for What You Have
The existing flow of positives in your life should be recognised and acknowledged, instead of concentrating or focusing on what’s lacking. Expressing gratitude for electricity, water, food and data access whenever you make a payment for your bills. The practice of gratitude makes room for new abundance to appear and circulate.
8. Contract or Expand.
Observe the energy within your body when you make a purchase. Is there a feeling of lightness and expansiveness, or a sinking feeling of contraction?
Become aware if the energy feels light, active and in line with your values and intention, leading to happiness, growth, and development. If you feel depleted, it wasn’t a fair exchange.
9. Money as a Teacher
Money can reveal a profound level of understanding about how it impacts our energy and flow. The above questions reveal our attachment points, where we cling to money, together with our release points. The mirror reflects to us our inner beliefs about our value, our sense of security and abundance.
The way we see and view money transforms it into a tool that serves us instead of controlling us, when we understand it as a continuous currency stream that flows, this mindset produces true balance and abundance.