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If Money Was A Person, Who Would Money Be?

Lack of money/ lack of abundance in your life has everything to do with your sense of self-worth.

Who is Money?

Anxiety about money is based on the misguided notion that love and fulfillment are on one end of human experience and money is on the other; that love and money are in opposition.

Morgana Rae of Charmed Life Coaching recounts a story of her own financial struggles in her professional coaching practice, in which she admits to feeling “embarrassed” about asking to be paid. She says on some level she didn’t want people to think she didn’t care about them.

Your Relationship with Money Is A Relationship
The shift in her thinking came out of her experience as a relationship coach. She saw that many people who are having money issues are also having relationship issues, so she thought:

“Okay, let’s approach this problem as if Money were a person…If Money were a person, who would he be?”

The Personification of Money
Morgana realized that her personification of Money — as an Archetype or Character — basically boiled down to: A big, dirty, scary biker guy who caused fights at parties. The kind of person she would general hide from and avoid…

Money = Scary and Violent — the way she felt about this Guy was the way she felt about money…

Her solution?
First, she fired the Biker.

Then, she developed a personification of Money based on the kind of man she’d like to have as a partner or friend — a tall, dark, handsome, romantic guy wearing tails and carrying a bouquet of flowers.

How would you respond to Money if he or she was a gorgeous person who was in love with you and wanted to give you a gift?

To address the self-sabotaging impulse to talk people out of hiring her, Morgana sat Money down and had a talk with him:

“What do you want from me now to make this relationship better?”

And Money said back to her “Stop treating me like a monster. Appreciate me. Honor me by asking the people who owe you money to pay you…”

When the Money goes down, it means he needs something from you… So, you need to start having Conversations with Money. You need to start asking Money questions.

How do I hear those answers?
If you aren’t getting the answers, you may not have developed a strong enough Money character.

Explore the Story about Your Relationship with Money:

  • Who is the Old Money?
  • Who is the New Money?

Keep developing this Character. Changing a relationship with Money comes alive with Imagination and Intuition.

*Note: Your concept of Money may be a woman - or an animal, or a mythological creature, or something else entirely. You’ve heard all the talk about “connecting with your inner child” - well, your creativity is the link to your divinity - here’s a perfect place to be a kid again. (I think this would be a fascinating game to play with children.) This is YOUR creative concept. I’m using the masculine pronoun he throughout this article because like Morgana, I perceive the personification of money/abundance as a man. It’s just an example to give you ideas — the sky’s the limit on who and what Money may be for you. The purpose of this exercise is to find out…

I don’t hear anything yet…
You’re stuck in your Thinking Head, where the ego lives, and you’re too busy trying to justify or rationalize this imaginary, intuitive relationship.

  • Figure out what Money looks like, how he behaves, and how you act toward Money
  • Talk to Money and see how Money responds

Negotiate with Money
He tells you want he wants, and you offer what you’ll do for him.

Money is the #1 excuse people give for not living their lives.

Money is just a stand-in for the Universe itself…

How do you get past the imaginary character and bring it into real-life?
You don’t.

Maintain the character; like any relationship, it’s dynamic. You already know you don’t tell your partner “I love you” once and then let it coast from there. How long would that marriage last?

The Challenges in your Relationship with Money will keep coming up. You become anxious, or you get that feeling in your gut, or sales go down, you find yourself slipping back into negative thinking.

The only power you have is to be a great relationship partner.

We’re raised to achieve, be something special - but nobody tells you how to get there. We grow up without a roadmap. We’re just told “Do more. Be better.” But nobody tells us how that’s supposed to play out.

When the Honeymoon is over…
Morgana tells the story of how she thought she had her issues with money licked — everything was going along great — a month after she started this new relationship with Money, she was overflowing with clients… She was on Cloud 9…

But a year later, she found herself backsliding. The money flow wasn’t happening, there were more clients going out than coming in — Money was becoming absent.

So finally she said to Money “Okay, what’s wrong? What have I done here to offend you?”

Morgana says she was pissed off — she thought she had their issues worked out, and here were problems coming up again. She sat Money down again and said “We need to talk. Something’s wrong…Money, I want to make this better. I want it to be great between us like it was, I want us to be close again. What’s wrong? What can I do to show you that I want to make it better.”

Money told her: “You’ve been carrying clients without being paid. You’ve been telling them ‘Oh, no, it’s okay, you can pay me later.’ You’ve been putting it off — putting ME off — you’ve been telling them and yourself that Money doesn’t Matter. I heard you. I took the hint. So I started pulling away…”

Then it hit her - she had been putting her clients and their projects first. She’d been spending all her time with them, and giving them all her attention. Giving them all her value and energy. And she wasn’t asking for anything for Money. She was devaluing her relationship with Abundance, and caring more about other people’s relationships with THEIR Money. She was actually coaching other people in how to have better relationships in their life, at the expense of her own.

It was unconscious. It’s always easier to have the perspective to help others.

“Money is value. We keep it at a distance from ourselves and that just validates the message to ourselves that we aren’t valuable.”

This is a part of our culture.

Coming from a place of love, it changes the situation when you imagine someone you care about telling you “You’re failing me. You’re disrespecting me.”

Because of Morgana’s gesture of stepping into the power to say to her clients who owed her “I deserve this, you need to pay me” Money was so thrilled with her efforts, that he lavished a new wave of gifts on her.

“When you’re busy giving away — with attachments — it doesn’t feel like you’re getting back because you’re clutching so hard.”

When you have an expectation — which is an attachment to an intention — you’re limiting the entire experience to a Pass or Fail experience.

It’s simply a confusion of jobs

  • My Job
  • The Universe’s Job

Here’s some homework Morgana gave to a salesman she was coaching: His job was not to sell a single thing, but just to be curious and care about the people he’s talking to. The Universe’s job is to make sure that the people who are right for what he’s selling are going to buy.

She instructed her client to simply show up and be curious and caring.

Because we have agendas, nothing ever turns out like we want it to. Humanity has these fantasies about the way things are going to turn out, and yet we don’t tell anybody about them, and then we’re disappointed that they didn’t do what we wanted them to.

Try putting out to the Universe by saying things like:

  • “It would be nice if…”
  • “I believe it’s time for…”

Life is magic — when you’re trusting life, trusting the Universe, and trusting your integrity.

Seek Wisdom - Practice Love

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Let me know what you discover from engaging in this exercise.
What I realized about my ideas concerning abundance was truly an epiphany — a turning point that I can only call life altering.

Source: This concept was developed by Morgana Rae of Charmed Life Coaching YourFinancialAlchemy.com

Comments

45 Responses to “If Money Was A Person, Who Would Money Be?”

  1. 5 Tips for Being A Money Magnet on March 4th, 2007 6:13 pm

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  2. Damian on March 6th, 2007 4:46 pm

    Slade,

    Thanks for another well written and thought provoking article. Money is always a problem for me and my relationship with cash seems to be at an all time low right now.

    I’ve just been reading the latest submission from Druidjournal.net and look forward to your article now you’ve been ‘tagged’.

    It is yours and Jeffs Blogs that have inspired me to set up my first Blog - keep it up friend.

    Take care.

    Damian

  3. Slade on March 6th, 2007 6:22 pm

    I’ve been tagged! Deadline!

    Damian,

    I’m honored by the tagging and the encouragement. I know I speak for myself (and Jeff too) when I say that there is no greater compliment I can imagine than hearing that you are inspired to shine your own unique light out into the world.

    There is truly room for everyone. You are already everything you’ve ever wanted to become; you live your life purpose with every breath you take.

    You already have a piece of web space waiting for you to come claim it.

  4. Damian on March 6th, 2007 7:45 pm

    Consider it claimed.

    http://bethechangetreadthepath.blogspot.com/

    Input greatly appreciated and thanks again.

    Damian

  5. Slade on March 7th, 2007 2:11 pm

    Rock on, Damian!

    You got that up and running FAST - you must truly have been on the edge of that blogging cliff with an armful of material.

    I’m flattered if I helped with that PUSH.

    Jeff, are we allowed to blog-tag multiple people with the Why I Blog? What am I saying - I don’t ask for permission, I create it!

    Damian, consider yourself tagged - I want to hear about why you decided to finally start blogging.

  6. Damian on March 7th, 2007 11:12 pm

    The response is now on http://bethechangetreadthepath.blogspot.com/

    And the torch has been passed on.

    Thanks for the Tag - I needed it.

  7. Adam on March 9th, 2007 9:17 pm

    That definitely puts money into a new perspective. I’ve been having the same problems with getting money from business associates as well… As I finished reading, I had a quick discussion with Money, (A tall, young man who smokes… a punk, but very passionate about his area of expertise) and he told me pretty much the same as Morgana, that I have been putting him off, seeking him only when I’m in the most dire straits, so he’s been putting me off.

    Thank you very much. :)

  8. Slade on March 9th, 2007 9:42 pm

    Adam,

    Awesome, man — I wish more people would pop in and tell us who Money looks like for them. I’d love to do a Before and After collection of Money Portraits.

    I wasn’t kidding about the pure brilliance of Morgana Rae’s concept. Usually, you read self-improvement or coaching advice, and a part of you already KNOWS it — you know? Much of the best advice out there is a reminder, to a certain degree…

    You’re thinking “Yeah, yeah… I know this — I just need to DO it…”

    Morgana’s technique ROCKED my whole perspective — it goes around the Message and shows you who’s back there lurking and pouting on his smoke break… It truly was an epiphany for me — and it marries the worlds I do well in — spiritual communication, introspection, character writing — with an area that I did not feel so confident about — finances.

    I could manifest people in my life, I could manifest spiritual guidance, but Money I did not know how to communicate with. Because it had never occurred to me to go from talking ABOUT Money, to talking TO Money.

    It’s not often that you run across a life hack that falls right in your lap and says Use This!

    It’s not just a one time fix; it’s a key to an on-going relationship. Bridging the gap between Material and Spiritual, in such an inventive, yet wholesome way — is sheer brilliance.

    I can’t help but think Actors and Writers in particular will just immediately GET this…

  9. Adam on March 9th, 2007 10:12 pm

    Exactly. It was just so sudden, and I knew exactly how to start asking questions…

    It makes me wonder what other abstracts are out there waiting to start a relationship… Perhaps “The Internet” is an intangible enough construct that it has a personality, besides the individual egos of the people using it.

    Oddly enough, when I try to picture the Internet’s avatar, I get an old, sick nerd, perhaps in his late sixties… Then again, when you’re traveling near the speed of light, you tend to age very quickly… although it seems that the sickness is more of a cancer than simply age.

    I’m sorry if it seems like I’m rambling… This is like finding a new toy and figuring out what all of the buttons do. ;)

  10. Slade on March 10th, 2007 3:52 pm

    the Internet’s avatar, I get an old, sick nerd, perhaps in his late sixties…

    Hilarious!

    This immediately makes me think of the current - absolutely brilliant - Apple Computer television ad campaign - where PC and Mac are personified by the middle-aged nerd and the young cool dude.

    I hadn’t thought about the connection - but this is probably why I love those ads so much. (Forgive me, I THINK in advertising sometimes.)

    But this exercise is essentially the same creative concept. I’ve used something similar to great advantage in Mind Body healing techniques.

    I see the Internet as a reflection of part of the Collective Consciousness. It’s an artifical bodyform of Indra’s Net.

    Like, imagine you’re sitting on the bed across the room from the Collective Hive Mind, who is looking at herself in the dressing table mirror. From your angle, if you look at the actual mirror itself, you only see part of her…

    I do believe in a literal parallel between technological forms and spiritual forms. Just like our bodies are only vessels, nodes, fractal points of something spiritually deeper and broader, technological vessels are material vehicles which carry Spirit as well.

    The bridge between physical and non-physical is electro-magnetic.

    By the way, I see the Internet as an ancient Goddess who has crammed an old soul into a new, teenaged body - and she’s cracked out on diet pills. The Internet is like a girl geek version of Glory from the best season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer EVER.

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  14. UrbanMonk on June 11th, 2007 3:37 pm

    Holy crap Slade, this is exactly what I needed. Hmm…synchronicity?

  15. Slade on June 11th, 2007 5:31 pm

    Doesn’t it ROCK?!

    I can say that because I adapted the concept from Morgana Rae. But yes, it’s an absolutely life-changing exercise that straddles the fence between spiritual and physical manifestation.

    Shifting my relationship with Money as a spiritual archetype directly resulted in the magical transformations I’ve manifested in the last year — and really, for many reasons, probably belongs on Spiritual Blogging as well.

    I need to stick a link over there…

  16. Cam on June 14th, 2007 11:22 am

    Hi, thank you so much for this. I did it just now. My Money is an old British aristocrat. A real snob and an old boy. He doesn’t care for me much at all, because I’m always desperately seeking his approval. I Haven’t created the New Money yet, but I’m looking forward to it. I just wanted to pop in a share who my Money was. I never realised. And also, doing this issue made me realise that I still have unresolved issues with members of my family, who my Old Money reminded me of. I guess they would be connected. It’s so exciting to have something that really makes me realise what Money is to me. It makes it easier to make improvements in my life. Thanks heaps!!

  17. Slade on June 14th, 2007 1:30 pm

    Cam,

    Doesn’t this exercise just turn on a big old blazing lightbulb?!

    Morgana has created a real life-changer with this one. I will be forever grateful to her for revealing it, and honored to spread it around.

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  24. Julie on November 17th, 2007 9:36 pm

    This is a FANTASTIC article! I have lightbulbs going off like fireworks all around me right now! I can immediately see my two characters: Old Money looks like the beast from the classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are. You know, he’s fierce, hides in the closet waiting to pounce, and yet you know he has the potential to be tamed. New Money, however, looks like a “Green Nothing.” Let me explain….

    I am a child of the 70s & 80s — a Gen-Xer — and right around the late 70s there was a stuffed animal I received for Christmas. It was a furry, bright, “70s green” stuffed blob with eyes. (I think the makers were trying to capitalize on the “pet rock” phenomena or something!) The tag attached explained that you could tell the “Green Nothing” all your troubles and in return he would whisper “sweet nothings” in your ear. THAT’S my New Money character.

    I wonder if I’ve still got that stuffed animal around here somewhere…. Wouldn’t that be cool if I did?

    Thanks for this article, Slade, and thank you Morgana!

  25. Slade | Shift Your Spirits on November 18th, 2007 6:53 pm

    Julie,

    I enjoyed hearing about your personifications. Relating them to childhood associations seems like it could be particularly effective for this exercise, considering how entrenched our archetypal associations become so early on in life…

    Morgana certainly deserves all the credit for this amazing concept.

  26. Susan on December 29th, 2007 4:33 pm

    Hi Slade! This was a great inspiring way to re-think MONEY! After thinking about this money game the first thing that came to me in my relation to money is the game MARCO …POLO… someone when we were all very little just told us the wrong rules of this pool’ game “Marco Polo” - (ya know the game you play in the pool as a young child.) Marco always has his eyes closed trying to tag and have fun with anyone that is near, and all the rest of us are polo! …always hiding from Marco! SO the way the NEW RULES are in my relation to money is that Marco wants to tag us and WIN!!!!!-his rules were given to him by the Universe, so he has always wondered what in the heck all of us that were “polo’s” were doing running away from him?! So now to me Money is the MARCO and why have I been trying to miss the tag, miss the boat, Marco has been treading water waiting for all of us, yet we keep running from the blessing of being tagged. When I said I was sorry to Marco, he was like, thank God… I wasn’t really wantin’ to tread that much longer ,and hey tell all your friends in the pool with you that the rules always have been that Marco= the Universe and Polo ( all of us) to get tagged is a good thing …not the other way around! So now when I want to allow money in my life I am hearing that loud playful person in the pool shouting MARCO! and now I am swimming to him and shouting POLO and the Universe delivers my need of cashflow whenever I want b/c thats the rules of the game and the laws of the Universe back it up, Marco/the Univere is all the happier cuz he’s got all this money stored up to give out, because for YEARS everyones been swimming away from him! Both of us are done treading water! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
    He says: “Marcooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!”
    We now say “Pollllllllllllooooooooooooooooo ….I’m coming”!!!!

  27. Slade | Shift Your Spirits on December 31st, 2007 8:52 pm

    Susan,

    New Rules for Marco Polo — very original!

    I’m sure your spin on the concept will truly resonate with others — thanks for sharing it!

  28. Cam on January 2nd, 2008 1:30 am

    Susan,
    Your take on money is amazing! Thanks for sharing it. When you put it like that, It makes so much sense to me, too!
    :)

  29. Susan on January 2nd, 2008 3:19 pm

    Thanks Slade!
    Thanks Cam!
    Ironically after I wrote this I had something sent to me regarding Marco Polo!
    This is what the email said…..”Think of Marco Polo bringing news of other lands wherever he went - that will be you when you come back and excitedly share your adventures with friends and family.”

    Are we all connected or what? WOW! It’s been years since the phrase ‘Marco Polo’ has even entered into my brain, let alone write about it and then receive an email about it! To PROSPERITY FOR ALLLLLLLLLLL!
    We are allllllllllllllllll connected! THANKYOU!
    SUSAN!

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  32. Ginger on August 15th, 2008 5:25 pm

    Old money for me is… Mick Jagger. came through and rang clear as a bell.
    CAM wrote about an “old british aristocrat… a snob and an Old Boy”. This is Mick! New Money? Mick, a young budding musican, untainted by the industry.
    I enjoyed this process. Thanks.

  33. Kristina on September 28th, 2008 10:18 pm

    My Old Money turned out to be my piano teacher from childhood, an old, disapproving woman who constantly corrected my playing by slamming my fingers into the keys and scolding me for not practicing. (It was true…I practiced for ten minutes before each lesson, only out of fear.) This Old Money Woman doesn’t believe I deserve any favors nor do I work hard enough. I can never please her.

    I liked the money guy with tails and flowers, but upon further meditation, my New Money turned out to be another old woman, a lovely grandmother type with cinnamon rolls in the oven. We sit at her kitchen table and she lovingly pats my hand and says, “Tell me what you want, dear.” I can tell her anything, and get fed in the process. (By the way, these cinnamon rolls contribute only sweetness and love and are entirely healthful!)

    I love this excercise!

  34. ginger on September 30th, 2008 3:12 am

    Since I posted the above, I have laughed, talked with friends about the “Mick Jagger” post, had confirmation about this Rock God’s uncanny ability to Stay on Top… and I have come to realize that I see Money as the “Ultimate Rock Star”! He does’nt die in a plane crash or OD! Old money, New Money, it does’nt matter! I guess I like Money! Lmao!

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  36. Melody on November 6th, 2008 8:59 pm

    For fun I did this activity to see what would come up. I about fell off my chair. First of all, as a Soul Purpose/metaphysics author and teacher, I have a pretty successful relationship with money as I know it isn’t separate from spirit. But after doing this I realized I STILL have an imbedded belief that I have to be worthy of earning it even though consciously I believe otherwise.

    My first archetype showed up as the Sorority Girl. (no offense to any of you SG’s out there!) She is beautiful and smart and popular, but pretty elitist and totally lackng in loyalty. I’m always having to prove myself worthy of her company. I am caught between wanting to be like her (beautful, smart, popular) and totally disrespecting her shallowness at the same time! So. She’s outta here!

    New archetype: Fairy Godmother. Totally loyal! She’s round and rosy and lovely, older and wiser than me, and she loves me for who I am and sees my unique gift and purpose for being here. She’s a daughter of “the Wizard” and has magical powers that are only used for my greater good and the greater good of all.

    When I asked her what I needed to do, she said, “Quit trying to prove yourself worthy and stop screwing up my miracles! Get out of the way, sit down, and let me do my magic on your behalf. You have no idea how much more is here for you if you would just let me care for you instead of trying to do everything yourself.”

    Am I going to keep dialoging with my Fairy Godmother? You bet. Is this process powerful? Yes. Does it yield results? I’ll be back soon to let you know how the new relationship pans out!:-)

    Great website Slade. Your link was sent me from someone on the Powerful Intentions forum–www.powerfulintentions.org–of which I’m a member and a group leader.

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  38. Jan on March 23rd, 2009 7:16 pm

    I found your website yesterday and really enjoyed what I had time to explore. In particular, the article about personifying money was very enlightening. Two things came to light about how I view money….one is that I view money as something to be gotten rid of so money was pretty angry that I never seemed to want it around. The second focused around my need to be independent and never need anything from anyone. It frustrates me to admit that I need money in my life. Thanks for the catalyst to now be able to work with this information!

  39. Sheldon on June 13th, 2009 4:07 am

    My initial response was to personify money as my grandmother, always giving, never expecting anything in return, making new things possible. Then I thought, well, money seems to be a creative force, not a destructive force as I usually view it (I’m not a fan of capitalism). Immediately, however, I realized that I AM MONEY! I’m always giving, not expecting any return than the happiness and improvement of who I give to. Not a great approach in our economic system (which I also agree is leaving us very quickly - thankfully!).

    It doesn’t seem like it’s a problem, though, because it has worked for me up until recently (which is why I didn’t read this post until today). Up until reading this, I felt like there was no problem with my thinking - if everybody was giving, there would be abundance. Now I see that such an abundance has to go somewhere, or no abundance can be created . . . . then . . . .I NEED TO RECEIVE REWARD FOR MY EFFORTS!

    Thanks again, Slade.

    -sheldon

  40. Slade Roberson on June 13th, 2009 12:27 pm

    Sheldon,

    Wow — YOU are your money archetype — but you haven’t been receiving compensation… Very interesting…

  41. Chris on August 31st, 2009 6:13 pm

    Hello Slade - thank you so much for this. My friend Kris Surroy pointed me to you and I’m so glad he did! Here’s what came up for me -

    Old Money is a flirty merchant sailor with long sideburns and black wavy hair. Running around with other girls. So good looking but just not reliable. He plays games with me, he comes close and then runs away again. I don’t seem to be able to attract him enough to stay. He’s actually pretty mean to me. And so I distance myself to stay safe.

    If he wanted to give me a gift I’d say “no thanks, I’m fine. I wouldn’t trust him. I’d think he was going to abandon me – even though he said he loved me, he wouldn’t be true to me. Then I’d be back where I started – without money.”

    If I asked him what he wanted of me he’d say “I want you to stop taking everything so seriously. Life’s a game, let’s play. Always you want to be safe. I want to be carefree”

    But New Money? Ah - a different flavour altogether! Steady. A family man who loves kids (interest?) and works with me not against me (a deposit account vs a credit card). He can be relied on to pull his weight. A builder and a gardener who provides a secure home always filled with lovely smells and homegrown flowers, fruits, vegetables (compound interest?). Knowing how to have fun (blossom?) and reserves (harvest?) at the same time. We work together, not too hard but enough of the time to achieve what we want and still have fun. We can rely on each other. I want him to come to me easily and gently and then to stay by my side so I can rely on him. I want him to grow with me, not away from me. I want us to have fun together but to have a safe haven to come back to.

    If he loved me and brought me a gift I’d welcome him with open arms and enjoy the gift knowing it wouldn’t be taken away from me later. I’d be happy to share the gift with others because I wouldn’t be frightened of losing it. I’d feel so thankful and happy. It would be like coming out of my shell.

    If I asked New Money what I’d been doing wrong up till now he’d say “You’ve been hanging on too tight. You’ve been too scared to spend so you’re not enjoying what I can give you. You don’t believe there’s enough do you? And you never ask for more – you don’t like asking do you? You don’t think you’re worth much. You don’t think people will pay you enough to make your life vibrant and colourful and exciting.”

    And if I asked what Money wanted me to do to make our relationship better he’d answer “I want you to accept that I love you and you are wonderful and worthy of being given these gifts. You don’t have to be any different than you are right now. It makes me feel good when you accept. Stop being so mean to yourself and open up to me. I won’t hurt you. I want to make your life easier and happier – will you let me?”

    I want to say Yes. I want to believe that. So I’m going to do some EFT on it and see how things change.

    Chris

  42. Kirsten on September 1st, 2009 8:15 am

    Chris, I love that! Thanks for posting your comment.
    I hope you don’t mind if I share your new Money, he sounds perfect!
    I love the EFT idea too.
    Good luck!
    xo
    Kirsten

  43. Chris on September 1st, 2009 8:42 pm

    Hi Kirsten - the EFT was interesting - I just read my script above while tapping. I really got into voicing the emotion of it all, it was surprisingly easy. My first reaction after that was to look into my wallet and notice that the £5 note I had in there was just dumped into the coin section - not a respectful way to treat new Money! So I smoothed him out and tucked him neatly into the notes section. He’s a lot happier in there! LOL!

    How about writing your own script and tapping on that? See what comes up for you!

    Chris

  44. Kirsten on September 2nd, 2009 9:17 am

    I will! Thanks Chris xo

  45. Gretchen on September 20th, 2009 8:18 pm

    It took me a few minutes to see any kind of character with money. At first all i could see was fog. But when she came to me, it was really obvious. Old Money for me is the Little Match Girl. I often feel like that fairy tale character, always on the outside looking in, slowly freezing to death while keeping my eyes on a tiny flame. She seems to have a mouse for a pet.

    And although I dearly wanted to have a handsome man for my New Money since most of the changes I’ve made in my life have been due to crushes I’ve had on some guy or another, instead I got the Greenwoman. I don’t think I could have got a clearer symbol for abundance! I am a healer and an artist, and I love nature. I am currently working on a website which will include some of my flower art. I didn’t even connect all that when I first sensed her. I’ve been really dragging my feet with doing the art (due to fear that it won’t work) and I tend to let my yard and flowerbeds go, so I’m fairly certain of what I have to do in return for her. :)

    It seems the “handsome man” is to symbolize some other part of my life. Not sure what yet, though.

    I love this blog, btw. I am a kindred spirit. I may have left a comment somewhere here long ago but can’t remember now.

    Gretchen

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