If you believe money is bad (perhaps because a parent abandoned you to pursue it), you won’t let it into your life. If you believe money will save you, you’ll be needy about it—and neediness repels money the same way it repels people.
Joe felt a punch to his stomach reading about someone else’s financial success. Instead of labeling it as “jealousy about money,” he felt the sensation and traced it to its origin: the feeling of not being able to get his dad’s love. Money had become a proxy for unavailable love.
“It was this idea that I had that money couldn’t be gotten, that it was hard to get—like my dad’s love. And it was just an idea.”
When he saw and felt the belief, it fell away, and his material world changed rapidly. Every belief about money is worth investigating—not intellectually, but somatically.
Related Concepts
- External patterns mirror internal ones
- Craving versus wanting
- Money wounds trace back to parent wounds
- Money is a screen for projection
- Poverty mentality is about love, not money
- Money shame creates disconnection
- Money resistance often mirrors childhood wounds around love and worth