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Psychology of Money
The Three Bodhisattvas of Finance
Your relationship with money is your relationship with yourself
You were born unselfconscious, delighted at being alive, as sure of your purpose on this planet as the sun, an oak tree, or a manatee. Your very existence made you worthy. You needed no other justification, and every breath you took connected you to the living fabric of the universe.
Then life happened to you. You forgot this simple truth.
You’ve been marinating your whole life in a toxic brew of consumerism and feral capitalism that equates worth with money, measures success relative to bank balance, and weaponizes finance to extract every last bit of humanity from business.
Some days we feel like we live in a hellscape full of hungry ghosts telling us we are not enough and can never have enough. No surprise that we develop anxiety, fear, or trauma around our riches, inner and outer.
Family history and dynamics, societal structures, ancestral inheritances (you name it, it’s a long list) create blocks to that light — energy — Qi — whatever you want to call…