Money

Financial Trauma

1. Family Shame
2. Upbringing Shame
3. Relationship Shame
4. Investment Shame
5. Character Shame
6. Career Shame
7. Skillset Shame
8. Competency Shame
9. Dependence Shame
10. Handouts Shame
11. Income Shame
12. Habit Shame
13. Ethics Shame
14. Decision Shame
15. Comparison Shame
16. Spending Shame
17. Debt Shame
18. Insolvency Shame

Lungs / Suffocation:

BREATHING ROOM Let’s talk about breathing room for a moment, since you’ll be hearing that term used frequently in this book. When we talk about money, many of us feel jammed up against life, as if our face is being pressed against a pane of glass. We feel pressured or blocked, and wish we could just get away from this particular subject. It is as if we had a weight on our chest that kept us from breathing easily.

Freedom / Breathing:

Breathing room occurs the moment you get into what I call the observational position. From this vantage point, you feel space between yourself and what you are experiencing. It happens when you tell the truth about something that’s been bothering you. If you pay attention the next time you do it, you may find yourself automatically taking a deep breath. You calm down. You are not so upset. In that moment, you might even see options for action where previously there seemed to be none. The program you’re about to follow in this book is specifically designed to give you this kind of freedom.

Rules/Breathing:

In the course, she told the truth about it and got some breathing room. She didn’t like telling the truth about it, but she did. She then took action and made the situation right. She put all her employees on the payroll officially. That gave her a clean slate to see what it really took to run her business, and the restaurant prospered and expanded. This simple shift to telling the truth was powerful for Jane. I am not the ethics police, and I don’t tell people what the rules are. The purpose of this work is for you to discover your own rules, the rules that you’ve always had, the rules that are reflections of your being. When you don’t operate in accordance with those rules, you don’t have any breathing room. Jane found that bringing her business practices into alignment with her own rules not only made her feel more whole but made her business prosper.

Promise

THE 12 PRINCIPLES The Energy of Money presents 12 Principles for personal fulfillment. Through them you will begin to develop mastery with the energy of money. You will uncover the hidden landscape of beliefs, behavior patterns, and habits that underlie and sometimes subvert how you use money and other forms of energy. You learn to unleash and focus the energy of money, how to express your Life’s Intentions through meaningful goals, how to handle the difficulties that inevitably arise as you approach the border between dreams and physical reality, and how to live in forgiveness, support, and abundance.