Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss

Author:Caroline Myss [Myss, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780804150842
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2013-08-07T04:00:00+00:00

The Energy of Money

Within each of our psyches lives an element of the prostitute—a part of ourselves that could possibly be commanded by the right financial figure. Whether our inner prostitute emerges in business dealings or in personal relationships, we will inevitably meet up with it.

Money, like energy, is a neutral substance that takes its direction from the intention of the individual. A more fascinating aspect of money, however, is the fact that it can weave itself into the human psyche as a substitute for the life-force. When people equate money with their life energy—an often unconscious substitution—the consequences are usually negative, for every dollar a person spends is also an unconscious expenditure of energy. A scarcity of money translates into a scarcity of energy in the body itself—again, unconsciously.

The misperception of money as the life-force, coupled with a sudden loss of money, can activate any of several health crises: prostate cancer, impotence, endometriosis, ovarian problems, and lower back and sciatic pain. The fact that so many of the physical problems created by financial stress manifest in the sexual organs is a symbolic expression of the energy of the phallus, represented by the sefirah of Yesod: money has been equated to a sexual force.

To some degree we all unite money and the life-force within our psyches. Our challenge is to achieve, if we can, a relationship with money in which it is separate from our life-force yet attracted to our energy easily and naturally. The more impersonal our relationship to money is, the more likely we are to command its energy into our lives as we need it.

There is no denying that money does have clout in the symbolic or energy world. Expressions such as “Put your money where your mouth is” and “Talk is cheap; money speaks” refer to the cultural view that what people do with their money says more about their motives than any spoken intention.

Money is the means through which we make our private beliefs and goals public. Energy precedes action, and the quality of our intentions contributes substantially to the results.

Beliefs about money affect spiritual attitudes and practices as well. The belief that God blesses those who strive to do good by giving them financial rewards is extremely prevalent, as is the belief that helping others out financially through charity serves to ensure that we ourselves will be protected from poverty. These and many other beliefs of the same genre reflect the grander notion that God communicates with us through our finances and, conversely, that we communicate with God by our financial actions.

Whether these attitudes are based on mythology or truth is irrelevant. We believe in these social adages far more than we disbelieve in them, and from that fact alone, we should understand that we have linked money and faith. The wisest relationship we can have with money is to see it as a substance that faith can attract into our lives.

Putting faith before money reduces money from its status as leader to that of servant, its more appropriate position.

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