Money Requires You To Face Being Physical
Our Bodies Are Alchemical Transformers of Energy into Substance
Everything I’ve explored, which is an enormous number of systems, religions, philosophies, therapy modalities, spiritual paths, etc., and everything just keeps returning to the physical body as the key to everything we need to thrive.
When we start dealing with money, we talk about this a lot in Train Your Body to Welath, about how irritating it is. Money is powerfully triggering. It's so uncomfortable. At times, it’s unbearable, which is why group work - works.
Sometimes, we would rather stay poor and live half out of the body than deal with how much it can hurt to be aware of living in such an exquisitely sensitive animal body.
We would rather not have to do this work with our money wounds because it means we have to feel all the feels right down to the bone.
I’ve been wondering why my program works so well when so many courses I took were taught by good people and had good content but didn’t work. This line of contemplation led me to the question I and others have: How come it's the spiritual people?
How come it's the sensitive people?
Why are the empaths, the healers, and the people just trying to save animals and the planet and help others are almost always broke?
Why is it that segment of the population struggling so hard but can't figure out money, can't bring it in, can't hold it when it does come in, actively doesn't like it, and actively pushes against money? Some even hate it, and start labeling everything to do with money, marketing, and sales is horrifically evil.
What is it about this population that makes that happen?
I hypothesize it's the inability to tolerate the physicality of being here.
This population segment also spends much time over-meditating, getting hooked on spiritual retreats, escapism, and fantasy, and exploring other realms and past lives to the degree the body is forgotten.
All those activities keep us unconscious of how uncomfortable it is to be a free-floating Being crammed into a meat suit, right? It's very uncomfortable to be here when we shut down our awareness early in life. And yet, this physicalness is where the magic happens.
Your body is the most important factor in manifesting your reality.
Marrying the spiritual to the physical adds to the brilliance of your mind when the Mind is allowed to function within the parameters of where it's supposed to function. Mind is brilliant, creative, and amazing, but it requires us to be physical. One of the biggest shadow sides of the love and light community - not criticizing, just wanting to label for the sake of discussion - is that avoiding awareness of this present moment is a theme in our population.
I certainly struggle with being physical. If you're into Human Design, I’m a Mental Projector. My only defined centers are Head, Ajna, and Throat. Everything else is open. It's much easier for me to live in my headspace. I'm super comfortable there. I can think about stuff for days. I've gone out in the wilderness alone for a week, not talked to anybody, and been perfectly happy because I'm at home right here in my mind.
But home isn't in the Mind. Home is deep down in the body, our hips, feet, and grounding cord.
It's required that we be connected to this reality when we're incarnate. And again, it's really, really, realllllyyyyy uncomfortable.
So, when we think about it, the same population of psychics, mediums, empaths, healers, service-oriented types also have sensitive nervous systems. We're born with a biological predisposition toward being impacted by the world much more strongly. And so the key, or one of the biggest keys to healing money wounds, requires us to make peace with being physical.
Money work means choosing to go ahead and get connected to the body and learn to tolerate the sensations of being physical, which in the beginning are just awful. Money starts to roll in when we make a 10% change, maybe even a 5% change toward merging with the physicality.
When it does, we have a whole other set of problems. Now, we do our mindset work. We have to reevaluate everything we’ve been told to believe about the world of finance.
Merging with the physical body and handling money coming in means we have to change our identity, which is huge as an adult. It's not an extreme undertaking to change your identity as a kid. You're just doing it. You don't have a choice when you're three, becoming a pre-schooler and then a kindergartner. Your identity naturally changes.
Our identity would still naturally change at every developmental stage if we weren't afraid now and locked into trying to hang on to the 30 or 40-year-old identity, etc. At every stage of the game, about every ten years, we become a new person, and then we can get stuck because it means we feel different emotionally, and our bodies respond to life differently.
I don't know about y’all, but my body has changed a lot since menopause wrapped up. Often I'm asking, what is this thing? Where did that come from? How come that just fell down like that? Developmental change as an adult is a whole grieving process as we move into the next stage of aging.
If your life is spent exploring past lives, other dimensions, going too far with plant medicine, creating the identity of a Starseed or Indigo Child or some kind of - don’t belong to this planet and don’t want to be here on this planet identity, we miss completing those developmental processes. In this light, it makes sense that money remains challenging for so many of us, even without considering lineage and cultural factors.
We have created these containers, these energetic islands where we hang on to the Cosmos and avoid this whole icky and painful physicality thing.
Being a Human, wearing a Body, is the journey, though.
It's not wrong to be here in a body. It's a much more difficult path when we resist being here. Until we find the willingness to consider that this uncomfortable suit we're wearing is the exact suit we're supposed to be wearing, we suffer.
This collection of factors explains to me why money is such a portal for healing and transformation. Until we're willing to train our nervous systems to tolerate being uncomfortable, we don’t understand that these periods of intense discomfort are temporary. Turns out that when we really dive into discomfort, we can come out the other side perceiving a whole new world we never knew existed and manifesting more easily than ever before.
When we train our body to handle intense physical sensations, life gets really hard and then very satisfying. We just have to fumble our way through in the beginning. There's no one right way to do it. There are, thankfully, a lot of embodiment practices. But with practice, you notice the discomfort and choose to do something with it, then you notice more, and do something with it. It's an awful, awful experience at times.
So we ask, why am I doing this to myself? This is ridiculous, I should probably meditate or medicate again. However, on the other side of this training, life gets easier.
Problems don't go away. Discomfort doesn't go away, but you get very skilled at noticing a disturbance in your energy field quickly while it's small and easy to shift. You get very skilled at choosing to challenge your thoughts. You get very skilled at stripping away the labels of good and bad and start simply experiencing energy as energy - sensation as sensation - without resistance or angst.
These days, I can feel the fear, stay with it, and let it run through my body, a process that I do not love but implicitly trust. Fear, when I stand witness to it, quickly dissipates all on its own, and I continue moving further into expansion. Usually, some insight comes in after that, some shift, even some surprise cash.
You may find a pattern that as you sweat your way through it, being really present with it, NOT with the agenda of, okay, if I sweat through this, then I'll make some money, but rather I'll sweat through this because I'm in a body and this is what’s needed for me to thrive - that your intuition grows and your awareness of the both/and of Sky and Earth can be held in your Heart with ease.
You don’t go visit the Oneness. You wake up to the fact that you ARE the Oneness.
If we wanna say everything happens for a reason, then isn’t being here in a body right now for a reason? I don't personally believe everything has a plan behind it, but a lot of people do. If we’re here for a reason, our discomfort with our bodies has a reason; there's meaning to it, and we can learn and grow and thrive through the practice of merging with it.
What if the thing we've been avoiding our entire lives, intense physical sensations, is the one key we’ve been searching for?
What if that is the thing we've been running from for 20, 30, 40, 60 years, and it is the one thing we need to turn around and go toward instead of continuing to run away from?
What if the Holy Grail is held in our flesh, blood, and bone?
After running my money program since 2019, here's what I know: this process works because we face reality and transform through the discomfort of being physical, which magnetizes to us the raw materials from which our bodies alchemize energy into substance.
Marrying all the parts of you - body, mind, and soul - brings money in faster than anything else I’ve ever tried.
Having and managing money requires you to be physically rooted in your body and in the present moment, which is why Train Your Body to Wealth works so well.
This is why so many sensitive spiritual healers, psychics, mediums, and empath types struggle to draw money in and keep any of it.
Being physical is hard AF. It's easier to drift in the energy of stars, past lives, and other dimensions, but honey bunnies - your home is in your Head, Heart, and Hips.
You came here to be physical, and resisting anything that takes your attention there is robbing you of what you wanted to do here, who you wanted to BE here, and depriving you of a rich and layered complexity of sensation that you can't get unless you're in a body.
Spend time investigating this resistance and see what happens...there is time enough for swimming in starlight when this body fades back to the Earth it came from.
XO,
LMW
P.S. if you’d like to work your money issues in a supportive group, Train Your Body to Wealth starts again in November for the last time this year.