How To Process And Release Financial Fear

A lot of times when I was struggling financially, I'd give up my personal power in the present moment because I was so busy running away from my feelings about money in the present moment and denying my fear.

I was obsessed with being in a “high vibe” state and being constantly grateful that I denied my present state of being.

I bought into the belief that if I wanted to change my finances, I had to constantly monitor my thoughts and think of positive things, I couldn’t think or debt, as soon as I thought about my debt, I had to quickly change my thoughts and focus on income and making more money.

The crazy thing was that the thought of having money and making more money, freaked me out because of my deep money trauma.

When I did get tired of constantly having to be positive and having to visualize great success, I’d give myself permission to focus on my debt so I could develop a debt repayment plan.

But focusing on my debt would get me thinking about all the bad things that could happen in the future and would leave me frozen with fear.

I'd think – A month from now, I'm not going to be able to eat or pay rent because I don't have enough time to make this much money.

My anxiety about my future eventually led to my depression, which made it very difficult to take action in the present moment

What I've come to realize is that there is no such thing as the future. There's only the now.

In this moment, I’m powerful – I can change my thoughts, I can change the way I feel and I can change my behavior and in that way change my future.

That's when I started to realize that running away from my feelings about money, actually made things worse for me.

But how could I stop running from this fear of money when I couldn’t even look at money without feeling stressed?

Writing a budget was totally out of the question for me, unless I wanted to spend hours dealing with acid reflux.

If I wanted to change my finances, I needed to change the way I felt about money in the present moment.

It took me awhile to get to this point.

Meditation taught me that running away from my emotions simply made them stronger, because what you resist persists.

When I started meditating and doing yoga, I learned about the link between my thoughts, my emotions, my breath and my body

Meditation taught me that our breath changes with our thoughts and emotions, and that our breath speeds up and slows down based on the way we feel.

When we feel angry, our breathing speeds up and when we’re scared, we may hold my breath. I learned that to calm myself, I simply had to focus on my breath and I'd feel better.

Yoga taught me that my emotions are carried in my body, and even if I didn't know exactly what I was feeling, I could always rely on my body to tell me.

I also learned that I could rewire my brain by simply sitting with each emotion that came up, so instead of quickly affirming every emotion and running away from the anxiety by hanging out with friends or dancing to get into a “high vibe state”, I could close my eyes, explore where I felt the anxiety in my body and then simply focus my attention on that sensation in my body without freaking out.

With time the sensation and the emotion would change.

I learned the power of processing and sitting with my emotions instead of running away from them.

When I learned this I thought,” OMG I can use this to change the way I feel about money.”

I went a step further though and thought,

“What if I started asking my subconscious mind questions at the same time that I focus on these emotions so I can understand the thoughts and the memories to this fear?”

Sitting with our financial fears and being with them helps us process and release the fear from our bodies and our energy systems.

Going deeper into the sensations and conversing with them to understand the root trauma that’s causing the fear, can help us release the root of our financial fears.

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