How You Can Tap into the Wisdom of Your Body for Healing Money Wounds
Learn the steps for tapping into your body’s inner experiences, so that you can find out what your money wounds are and heal them.
Tapping into the wisdom of our bodies is the art of paying attention to the information offered by our physical bodies and releasing stuck energies that are trapped. We learn to be mindful about the physical sensations that come up in and to decipher the emotional messages that our body has stored. The great news is that these impulses offer us an opportunity to heal from the inside-out. And, one area where we can benefit from healing is in money and finance.
Let’s recognise that money is an area that can conjure a lot of emotional reactions. For instance, many of us carry money shame about not being, not doing or not having more. We believe that we are “not good enough” and we beat ourselves up. It could also be that we feel angry with ourselves for not meeting expectations or we fret over not having sufficient funds for retirement. Thus, shame, anger and fear are manifestations from money wounds.
What I’ve discovered is this: there are NO positive benefits to holding on to any negative disruptions over money for ages. In fact, the earlier we clear them, the more freedom, wellness and empowerment we can potentially create for ourselves.
“If you don’t know how to say no, your body will say it for you through physical illness.” Dr Gabor Maté
We can choose to live today, instead of waiting till tomorrow. Indeed, building a better relationship with money starts with building a better relationship with ourselves or more specifically, our bodies.
Tap into Your Body Wisdom
Here are some steps on how you can listen in to your body.
1. Make the intention of noticing your physical sensations whenever you are facing stress. Physical sensations such as…
- nervous tension in the form of butterflies in our stomach when we are just about to make a big payment
- rise in heartbeat when we are about to enter into a money discussion with our partners
- dizziness when we have to go through our bank accounts
- tension headache when filing income tax
- constriction in the heart whenever we recall about the costly financial mistake we have made in the past,
- and so on.
2. As soon as you notice that you are experiencing any physical sensations, take a pause. Stop what you are doing, so that you can give yourself the space to find out some answers.
3. Adopt an attitude of curiosity and openness as you bring attention to what is going on internally. Simply observe without judgment or the need to control or fix anything.
4. Close your eyes if it helps you to concentrate better.
5. If you are particularly anxious, do some breathing exercises and calm yourself down sufficiently before proceeding.
6. Bring awareness to the physical disruptive sensations. Which part of the body is experiencing these? Are you experiencing tightness in the jaw, tension in the shoulders, heaviness in the heart, and so on? Make a note of what the sensations are like and the level of intensity.
7. Gently observe the emotions that are behind the physical symptoms. Are you feeling shame, anger and/or fear? Also notice any thoughts, self-talk, images or memories that is going on. What is the money story that you are telling? What are the limiting beliefs you are holding on to about money and abundance? There is no need to push them away, you are simply acknowledging them.
8. Next, open your eyes and jot down or make a note of your observations.
Physical disruptions can also happen anytime even while you are paying for groceries or having to pay toll on the highway. Obviously do this exercise when you are out of harm’s way and where it is safe for you to do so.
Integrating Body Wisdom for New Behaviour
A shift usually happens when we learn to reconnect with our body, create grounding and gain wise insights about ourself.
Becoming aware is a crucial step for money healing to happen. It unravels layers and layers of emotional and mental debris. Mostly, they come from the past, some of which you could have inherited from your parents and grandparents. You become aware of your money story patterns that have constantly kept you stuck. Wounds only start to heal when you tend to them.
As I’ve discovered, using a somatic-based approach like Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for healing of money wounds, can be extremely helpful. When a shift happens, the insights that you gained are integrated at the physical level. With a restored energy system, you are now better able to choose differently and to undertake new behaviour that supports you in creating an empowered financial life going forward.
Healing Begins with You and That Benefits All Levels of Consciousness
Just imagine, if you hold on to a negative money story, refusing to let go and willing yourself through. Your beliefs and unconscious patterns get coded in your energy system. It’s a set of poverty codes. The codes pass down your generational time lines until someone is brave enough to work on healing and to undo them. Only then, can freedom be established and wholeness be restored.
So why wait when it can be now?
Why not take up the responsibility for doing the healing?
You do it not just for yourself, but for all those down your family line.
Money is just a mirror to our emotional reactions. Change is made through a systematic process that starts from a somatic-based approach and that involves healing across time, space and dimension. In the meantime, your courage to heal creates a ripple effect that also benefits humanity. Essentially, you are answering the call of your soul to awaken and transform at all levels of consciousness.
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