Your Spiritual Relationship with Money
by Rev. Jennifer BaltzSeek ye first that which gives you everything and everything shall be given to you.
--The Bhagavad Gita
 Stop a moment and read that quote again. Just about every spiritual tradition has a version of it. I was reminded of it again not that long ago by one of my spiritual teachers. He noted that when spiritual masters say to do something first, he sits up and pays attention! So do I.
When we think of money, we usually don’t think about it as a spiritual issue. But money is really just a marker for the transfer of life energy. If you think about it, money isn’t really a tangible thing...it has no value in and of itself, only the value we assign to it.
And yet we spend a lot of time worrying about our money, bemoaning the lack of it, trying to acquire more. We sacrifice our health and time working in jobs we hate for it, lose people we love over it, go into tremendous fear about it, feel constrained by it, and sometimes even kill each other for it. All for an intangible that we think will make us happy, but seems to have the opposite effect many times. As a clairvoyant, I have read many people from all walks of life...and you’d be surprised how many wealthy people are still stuck in thinking that they don’t have enough.
Money itself is neutral...but we put tremendous emotional charge on it.
Take a moment and breathe and think about your money situation right now. How do you feel about it? Notice what you feel in your body when you think about it. If you’re like many people, you might notice that you are not fully comfortable thinking or talking about your money space. Notice if you have ever experienced fear or survival when thinking about your money. Or if you just don’t want to think about it at all.
Part of the emotional charge is because most folks see money as a tangible thing, coming from outside, rather than a flow of energy that comes from within. Our money comes from a job, a boss, a client, our family, from the bank. Because money seems like a thing that originates outside, with someone else, we give up our seniority to it...we let it be bigger than us. And then we come from a place of fear or contractedness rather than love and empowerment...
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Copyright Rev. Jennifer Baltz. This article was originally
published at our website, SoulfulLiving.com, in March 2002,
as part of Soulful Living's "Prosperity & Abundance" Issue.
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