Clearing Out Your Money Karma
Let's talk about clearing out your money karma, why you should do it, and the first step you can take to see a difference in your financial life.
First off, let's talk about karma. What's karma anyway?
Two of my favorite definitions come from some great books.
The first definition comes from Michael Roach in his book, The Diamond Cutter.
He speaks about karma as the functioning of our mental imprints. He uses a great metaphor. He says that each action we take plants a mental seed in our subconscious minds. Each of these seeds will grow into a positive or negative perception of the world.
In other words, each action becomes a seed that gets planted in our minds, and eventually, it always flowers into something. That something may be a difficult experience for us, or a really beneficial experience for us.
The second definition comes from The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep, by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.
Here, the idea is that karma is a process of cause and effect. Karma is created by the choices we make when we respond to a situation — whether that situation is internal or external.
These consequences are called karmic traces, and they don’t leave us until they’ve been cleared up.
So what does this have to do with money? And what is money karma?
Well, money karma is made up of all of the actions we've ever taken with money.
Yes, all of the things we've ever done in relationship to money over the scope of our lives — including those things we're not proud of, or those things we don't remember.
You may remember occasions when you took a financial action from a place of truth, clarity, and alignment.
And there may have been those times when you took an action with money from a place of reaction, or greed, or from a place of not being fully honest with yourself.
Maybe something comes to mind for you right now. An action you took with money that didn't feel good to you, but you may have taken the action anyway because it seemed like the best way to go based on where you were in your journey.
But guess what? These things are going to live inside of us, and like seeds, eventually, come into fruition.
Money karma is this invisible but weighty bag we're carrying around within our psyches.
If we don’t clean up these past actions, then they will keep affecting our internal and external experience of money, even if we're not aware of it.
So, for example, an instance of money karma that can still affect us in the present is stealing or lying about money.
As young people, we may have stolen from others or from a store, or simply take things that weren't ours, because we didn't know how to get these things for ourselves. Or because we were responding from a fear-based place, believing we weren't going to have our needs met.
Cleaning up the negative money karma we're still carrying with us, and those past actions that are still affecting us on a deep level, is a really powerful thing to do.
And it can completely shift things with our financial life in the present — including our income generation, our level of abundance, and our capacity for manifestation.
On the other hand, positive money karma can include generous acts like giving philanthropically, buying a gift for someone in need, or offering a gift simply because we're in a place of gratitude and generosity in life. Actions that come from gratitude and generosity can have a powerful positive effect on our financial lives
When we give (but aren't coming from an inner shadow of overgiving), and take action from a space of generosity, the result often is that we feel good about ourselves. We feel more confident, more open, more connected.
That's positive money karma.
So how can we clean up the negative money karma we're carrying with us?
The first thing you can do if you're ready to get serious about cleaning up your financial past, is to write down those things you've done that you still feel a lingering sense of shame or guilt about when it comes to money.
You're the only one who can truly do this for yourself.
Ask yourself: What incompletes with money still linger in my psyche and emotions?
Write it all out. Leave nothing out. Trust your own emotions with those past actions that feel most important.
Once you're done, review the list, and ask yourself: What can you do to clean this up now?
It may look like apologizing to someone we lied about money to, or stole from. Or an inspired action to restore the balance.
For example, when I was young, I stole some money from my father. He's no longer alive, and I chose to donate to a nonprofit organization that I believe would have given me what I needed at that stage of my life — an organization that helps kids grow their confidence and self-esteem by bringing them out into the great outdoors.
In summary, we have to look at this area! This is a key part of what I call Money Shadow work.
When we address the seeds planted in our subconscious by our actions with money, we don't have to wait for the money karma to flower in our lives, and have consequences that are less than favorable.
Even if the consequence of the money karma is shame, it still requires some cleaning up. Shame has a profound impact on us when we subconsciously carry it around, especially when we are the ones shaming ourselves.
By cleaning up the past, we pave the way for a brighter, more abundant financial future.
I work with clients to transform their relationship with money and create greater levels of financial liberation and prosperity.
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