Money Emotions Don’t Have to Hold You Back

Many of us fail to realize how money emotions hold us back in our financial life.  Whether it’s getting rid of debt, making more money or sticking to a budget money affects our emotions.  We identify  our financial goals and then we go about taking action to achieve our those goals.  Meanwhile there is this sense of internal pressure and frantic inside us.  Sometimes our bodies react by causing us to break out in hives or rashes.  Or sometimes we wake up in the middle of the night with tightness in our chest.

I’ve had clients who had never experienced stress before in their lives say that after going through a financial crisis that they now instantly register stress in their bodies.  I know for me, my stress usually registers as tightness in my neck or throat area. When we get these sensations we think that our circumstances are causing our stressful feelings.

One of my clients thought that looking at her numbers and spending plan was causing her stress.  Or that the need to please me (her coach) and “do her financial work in the right way.”  Was causing her stress.

I had another client who had over $75,000 in debt at one point (I’m happy to report that he and his wife have completed gotten rid of their debt through our work together!).  He thought that the debt was causing his stress.  Yes, financial circumstances TRIGGER our emotions – but we are constantly called to remember that they are not the CAUSE of our feelings and emotions.

We are actually the source or cause our feelings and emotions based on our interpretations of our life situations.  Ironically though we often believe our interpretations to be “the truth.”  We think our interpretations are merely describing or reflecting our reality.  But this is practically never the case.  We interpret things a certain way because of our past experiences.

My client experienced a huge breakthrough when she realized that the source of her pressure was not me (her coach), or her spending plan, or the desire to increase her income, but that the she was the source of the pressure.  She realized that she frequently experienced pressure and the desire to do things right in many areas of her life beyond finances (which is frequently the case).  All of a sudden when she saw that she was the source she became aware that she also had the power to change it.  When she believed it “was out there” she had no power to change it.  By realizing that she was the cause of her emotional response, she was able to take responsibility, alter the way she interpreted her situation and move from overwhelm into appropriate financial action.

If you want to learn more about how you can move past the money emotions that hold you back from taking the financial action you know you need to take click here to sign up for my FREE webinar onWednesday  March 31st, “Personal Transformation Through Money: How to Consciously Achieve Your Money Goals And Create Financial Success in Your Life.”