Meditation For Mad Money

One of the reasons we feel so stressed by money problems is because we take the whole thing so seriously. While its true that chronic financial lack is a serious problem that can wreak havoc in your life, agonizing over the problems only contributes more energy to them!

This Mad Money meditation is designed to lighten your focus so you dont feel so weighed down by financial difficulty.

Before starting the meditation, first spend several minutes getting as calm and relaxed as you can. Ideally, you want to be feeling emotionally balanced before trying this meditation.

Once your emotions are balanced, close your eyes and choose an alternative symbol for money in your life. It MUST be something lighthearted or fun! Here are a few examples: butterflies, crickets, candy, colorful balloons, small toys, crayons, or anything else that has a fun quality. (For the purposes of demonstration we will use butterflies as our money symbol. If you choose another symbol, just substitute it mentally as you do the meditation.)

Once youve chosen your money symbol, begin the meditation:

Imagine stepping out of your home early one morning and seeing your yard covered with butterflies. Thousands of them are perched on the lawn, draped over your car, roosting in the trees and occupying every square inch of available space.

You are THRILLED to see this because youve been in desperate need of more butterflies for some time, so you eagerly run toward them with open arms.

Of course, this startles the butterflies and they take flight together; one huge cloud of whirling color in the air above you. You stretch and strain and jump, trying to grab at least a few butterflies but they only lift higher in the air, staying effectively out of your reach.

You run toward the house to get a ladder, but before you get to the door you see the cloud of butterflies beginning to drift away from your house and down the street. No time for a ladder! You give chase down the street, determined to follow and ambush the butterflies when they land.

You chase them through your town, up and down city streets, through parks and business parking lots, but no matter how hard you try to snag them they keep flitting out of your reach.

Frustrated and tired, you decide that youre just not meant to have any more butterflies than you do right now, so you let your shoulders droop in defeat and head back to your home.

When you get there, you collapse in your yard and lie on your back, watching the clouds drift by in the sky above. Your frustration gradually begins to wane as you let your body relax, and you begin thinking that maybe you dont need more butterflies after all. Maybe the butterflies you already have, combined with the other blessings in your life are enough for now. You send a silent message of thanks to the universe for all you have; knowing that more will arrive when the timing is right.

Suddenly in the air above you, a few butterflies appear in your field of vision. You laugh as they dance and twirl before you, but you feel no desire to grab at them again. Instead, you just watch and admire their grace and beauty. More and more of them join the first few, and before long you are lying beneath a cloud of brilliant color and movement that nearly takes your breath away.

Before you can say or do anything, the butterflies float down to land on you and the ground around you. Their tiny feet tickle your skin and their wings gently stir the air around you, as you feel your heart beginning to lift in joy.

Suddenly you hear a soft whisper in your ear: You dont have to pursue us; just allow us into your life. We want to be here, but not if you try to block our movement. As these words enter your consciousness, you receive a powerful rush of insight that your very urgency to obtain butterflies was causing them to dance out of your reach. By instead relaxing and allowing their presence, they will have the freedom to flow toward you effortlessly.

When youre ready, come back to conscious awareness and take a few moments to ponder the correlations between your money symbol and actual money in your life. In what ways are you pushing money away, and how might you entice it to flow more effortlessly and frequently?

Remember: just like you chose a symbol for money during this meditation, money itself is only a symbol of energy flowing through your life! If you lighten up about money, you give it the opportunity to flow much more easily – not to mention feeling lighter and freer yourself.

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