Living in Love with Money

While interacting with clients who held varying levels of wealth, I continuously found two types of people:

People who thought they had enough and people who always wanted more.

Interacting with people who felt they had enough was rare. These people always seemed to be happier than the ones on the search for more, and even if they were stressed about money, they still were able to bring in abundance for themselves and their family.

It was like they couldn’t be affected by the ups and downs!

 I was blown away by how these people lived and I realized if I could understand how they operated, then I’d be opening a door to a world that few understood. So I went on a mission to find out more.

What was it about these humans that made them have a loving relationship with money?

How were they able to attract wealth for themselves even when they only had a little?

And how did they stay happy with their money situation most of the time?

What I found was fascinating.

These people lived like money monks.

These “money monks” held a couple common characteristics:

They flowed through life with a love for what was around them.

They spent a majority of their time focusing on what they could control.

They didn’t regret the past and they didn’t wish for different outcomes.

They were at peace with what is and what was.

This captivated me. So I started to write down more characteristics.

One attribute that kept coming up: they were constantly reminding themselves of all the amazing gifts that were around them.

When I asked one woman to tell me what she did when she felt stress around money, i.e. when worried about paying bills because she didn’t have enough, she said when that happened, she had a mantra that she would say to herself.

It went like this:

 “Money lows happen on occasion and I’ve always gotten through them. No matter the time, no matter the place, no matter how much money stress I’ve had before, I’ve always moved through what has happened. It will always work out.

The tides rise and the tides fall, the sun sets and the sun rises, money goes and money comes. Like the world, I will ebb and flow.

I believe in my abilities and I trust that help is on the way. ”

At first I was skeptical. Could this actually help with stress? I reflected on this for a while and then I tried it.

What I found was remarkable.

 By saying these words to myself - and actually FEELING them - I began to open up to a mental world that had space. Rather than being neurotic and shaky about my financial situation, I felt at ease and open. I had time between my thoughts and actions and I didn’t act in fearful and unsteady manners when making decisions.

Instead, I moved with confidence and clarity.

When I started feeling this way more consistently, I realized that I could NEVER be in an abundant state when I felt stressed all the time. It became essential to practice how to find peace of mind.

It reminded me of a quote by the Zen monk Haemin Sunim:

 “If I had to summarize the entirety of most people's lives in a few words, it would be endless resistance to what is. As we resist, we are in constant motion trying to adjust, and yet we still remain unhappy about what is.

 If I had to summarize the entirety of an enlightened person’s life in a few words, it would be complete acceptance of what is. As we accept what is, our minds are relaxed and composed while the world changes rapidly around us.”

It finally started to make sense!

By accepting where I was at, I was able to move through the world with clarity, discipline, calmness, and most importantly, action steps that were not clouded by fear.

 Of course, it wasn’t that easy. To get to the place of abundance I was looking for, I had to dedicate time to learning more about the financial world and I also had to unlearn past behaviors.

I also had to implement new behaviors such as feeling and being in a state of gratitude. It was difficult sometimes.

But I started saying this everyday, and eventually I started feeling it:

 “I have everything I need and I am so grateful for it all. I am grateful for what’s in my fridge, I’m grateful for what I have in my living room, I’m grateful for my car, my bike, and I’m so grateful for all the money that I make.”

Furthermore, when money came to me I started saying “thank you”. And when I spent money I started saying: “thank you money for how you served me and what it is you are bringing to me now.”

 Like a monk with money, if I stayed present, expressed continual gratitude, dedicated time to learning more about the financial system, and began to change my language of how I responded to the money in flows and out flows, happiness and abundance came into my life.

Now, it took time to get there.

It took practice, education, and a deep urge to want to change my situation.

Years later, it is my mission to helping others learn what I did. I am here to teach people how to find Zen, peace, and abundance with their money.

I believe that if our world can be more loving and less destructive with money everything could change.

So that’s my goal here. To teach you how to:

Find peace with money

Create the abundance you desire

And to dive much deeper into understanding your unique money mind.

If you can find out what is means to have a loving relationship with money, what would that feel like?

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