Sam is a beautiful soul who works in healing modalities. Sam has been courageous in her life, overcoming addictions and healing an abusive childhood. Sam is gentle and kind, and loving. I think if you knew her for ten minutes you’d like her.
Sam offers a service that her clients find helpful, and she expects to be paid at the time of service. She doesn’t shy away from her fees and Sam has worked hard to know the value of her service and convey that value. But Sam’s money is always a struggle. She goes into debt, works her way out (mostly) only to go into debt again. Sam thinks her problem is cash flow, but the real problem is energy flow. Giving and receiving are part of the SAME energetic loop. One form of this loop is called ‘spending.’
A few years ago when Sam had the opportunity to create her dream ‘home’ she Feng Shui her entire house and bought all new furnishings and accessories. She didn’t create a budget to do the project, nothing to tether the principles of balance and flow with the spending.
“The universe will provide” and “I deserve this” were her two mainstay mantras. Before you decide to laugh at the mantras—I submit you do the same thing too—just in a different form. It might be with your latte, or that must have pair of shoes, or a car. Truth is, out of balance and flow invites more of the same.
The problem for Sam ‘appeared’ as wanting a certain ‘look’ and going to the big box stores to achieve ‘the look’. One item at a time, everything seemed so cheep, so affordable. Three hundred dollars for a chair, a little over one hundred dollars for a coffee table, Sam looked at each item in its microscopic price element. Sam put some of the purchase on a credit card, paid some from business funds and paid some from savings. You know how monkey mind thinks: if you hide the spending by dividing it up it’s not like you spent what you spent.
Of course today, three years later—Sam is still paying the credit card off, (the ‘beauty of minimum payments’) and the cheap is demonstrating itself in the broken and worn nature of the goods in her home. Wooden ‘carving’ of Buddha coming unglued, broken frame on sofa, and the pungent odor of cheap still lingers in the air.
Sam is understandably disappointed. The error in thinking continues with the victim thoughts, “I had to buy what I bought, it was all I could afford” and “I shopped around for the best prices.”
Remember the Spiritual Principle “giving and receiving are part of the same energetic loop?”
Sam expects to be compensated fairly for her services, for her labor and efforts. She didn’t however give in this regard as she wants to receive. Sam bought cheap, made in China goods, filled with poisonous chemicals, sprayed with poisonous chemicals (okay, news flash: that smell you smell when you walk into the big box stores? What do you think it is?) made by someone (perhaps a child) who was not paid a fair wage for the hours they spent working. Add a layer of complication with Feng Shui malpractice( Sam’s use of Fen Shui was tantamount to speeding all of the time and rubbing your lucky rabbit’s foot when the cop pulls you over) and you have constant struggles with balance and flow, also called debt.
Giving and receiving are part of the same energetic loop. Essential elements of this energetic loop are balance and flow. You VOTE with your dollars what you want to receive in your life. You create balance and flow with your dollars or you do not. There is no escaping this fact of Earth School.
Up for a test?
Pick an object in your living room/family room. See if you can name where it was made, and how much the person who made it was paid. Can you see their face? The face of their family, the conditions they toiled in to make it?
How many items in your home do you accurately have this information about? One, ten, none?
You voted for something when you made your purchases. Voting consciously or unconsciously it matters not to the Universe: the vote registers
The question is: do you like what you voted for? Do you move into the victim thinking about your energetic votes when attempting to answer the previous question?
Oh, yes this is hard work. We need to have compassion for ourselves, for our habituated minds and the hard work that goes into escaping the gravitational pull of our thinking.
Focus on the Spiritual Principle, and the energetic voting of money; the giving and receiving will correct the money. Focus on the money and chances are your habituation will pull you into the gravity of your problematic thinking. In Sam’s case, when we did the “I can’t afford cheap” exercise Sam could see if she put money aside for 6 months, she could have made a fair exchange with her energetic votes and achieved the look she wanted. It would still be blessing her environment today, sans broken sofa ( wasted energy) and she wouldn’t be paying off her credit card.
Sam can keep thinking all she needs is a few more clients, she’ll increase her cash flow, but now you know that isn’t the problem. There is no exception to the Universal Principles at work in life: giving and receiving are part of the same energetic loop.
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