I’ve been on the path of spirituality for many years, but it wasn’t until recently that I actually began learning about manifesting money. The topic of money inevitably involves the healing of a lack mentality, and it was from this angle that I discovered many spiritual blind spots in my journey of self-awareness and inner exploration. Therefore, I realized healing my financial mentality was a lesson that I didn’t graduate from—only ignored.
Abundance and lack: “A” vs. “B”
A while ago, my friend, “A,” had a little incident with his roommate, “B,” about the knife that he used. A needed to borrow a knife to cut open the tape that was sealing a cardboard box. He grabbed B’s knife, but B immediately snapped at him, “This knife cost 1,000 dollars. It’s not for cutting tape.”
A had an emotional reaction to B’s comment. I couldn’t get him to go into his emotions, but what he told me was that if he was the one who owned the knife, he wouldn’t have mentioned the price at all. Instead, he would’ve said, “This knife isn’t designed for cutting tape. The blade will get damaged from doing so.”
After hearing that emotionally neutral response, I realized I’d never thought of the situation from that angle, nor did that neurological pathway exist in me. His refreshing angle intrigued me. But, more importantly, it was his underlying relationship with wealth that fascinated me, because that was ultimately what caused him to see and interact with his external world differently.
Then I came back to myself: to explore my mental landscape, to further digest this story, to understand my own lack mentality, and to see the blindspots I needed to see in order to evolve and to manifest greater wealth. First of all, I didn’t hear anything wrong with what B said, which means that I have a similar thought process when it comes to owning and relating to an expensive object. So from this psychological standpoint, I tried to understand A. But because he didn’t go into his emotions, I tried to fill in the blank for him later when he recounted the story to me, by asking, “Were you angry? Were you disgusted by her (B’s) attitude?”
A said no. He added, “Someone who is truly wealthy won’t even mention money (or price), because they wouldn’t even think about it.” I totally agree, and on this point, I see that I have a lot of healing and adjusting to do.
A doesn’t talk much, if at all, about his family background. From the first time I met him, though, I already could see that he came from a well-to-do family, but chose to build his life with his own hands. So, in his psychology, I noticed there isn’t the typical lack mentality that both myself and his roommate B have; the way energy flows out of his hands is relatively unrestricted, and he doesn’t have a strong sense of waste or leakage, as if there is truly an unlimited supply of energy available for him. But what I’ve also noticed is that the signs of lack are pervasively sprinkled throughout many aspects of his current living situation.
Shifting your financial mentality
For me to shift from a lack mentality to an abundance mentality, I must compare my own thought patterns with his, and my own relationship with money with his.
To put things simply, from what I can observe, his focus is primarily on quality. In comparison, my focus is on the ratio of quantity to quality. For example, in my head, I’d calculate the utilization rate of an object to its price, to determine whether I should purchase it or not.
Of course, this isn’t my only consideration, but in my mental landscape, there are many calculations and strategies being activated during an acquisition process. Though not all considerations are related to money—some are related to practicality or convenience, for instance—they’re all compared against an object’s price so I can come up with a ratio on which I base my decision about whether to buy it.
These mental processes mark how my energy flows when it comes to purchasing something, and the starting point of this energy circuitry is at the energy origination point, the point of conception, the moment at which the strongest energies of our parents come together to form our physical body.
We inherit the lack mentality, and then when it became strong enough, it energetically creates insecurities and fear that propels us to do things. If that excessive doing isn’t enough to counterbalance the force of lack, that energy then moves on further to influence how we think. Hence, my elaborate mental calculations.
Sometimes it’s hard to look at ourselves from another angle, especially a neutral and balanced angle, because we’ve been molding our energy circuitry and neurological circuitry since birth to become our modus operandi, which typically runs unconsciously. I’m grateful that the universe has brought me this little story above to help me open up this part of my mental landscape for closer conscious introspection and healing.
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