Financial awareness leads to mental and emotional freedom.
Awareness and Money Thoughts
May times when we are dealing with our money and finances, we feel overwhelmed. We may wonder, why don’t have this figured out? Or, I am not good with money! Or, whatever other thought that comes up for you when it comes to managing your money and finances.
Over time in doing the work of becoming aware of my thoughts, and learning the key of awareness has been so beneficial.
With the awareness it helps me to take a pause….to think about what is going on in my mind at that moment, what thought or thoughts are driving my feelings and actions. In the moment of awareness, I not only have awareness around what I am thinking, but I also feel into my body and identify what emotion and I experiencing.
What To Do
When we take the pause and identify the thought and the feeling then we can release it. We don’t have to have shame, harshness or judgement around it, but we can be aware of it and breath through it. When we allow the emotion to be there and remind ourselves that it is just a vibration in the body, it loses its power. It dissipates or dissolves. I imagine in my mind it dissolving like a big bunch of cotton candy when you put it in your mouth. It just melts away.
We show ourselves this same grace and compassion when we handle our finances. Maybe your finances aren’t where you want them to be. Maybe you are feeling overwhelmed by the amount of debt, whether it be student loans, auto loans, credit card debt or other loans, expenses. That is very normal and very common.
I am here to help you and reassure you though, all of that can change. You first have to become aware of the thoughts you are having around your money, but also identify what drove you to this financial situation in the first place. Once you have the awareness around the why and how around where you are, then you can move forward with more grace, compassion and hope to change your future.
Get It Out – Brain Dump
You first need to identify what your current money or financial beliefs are. I find it helpful write it all down, just let the thoughts flow out of my head. Doing this helps you have awareness around what you think about money, your personal finances and where you really want to go. What you believe can stem all the way back to how you were raised and how money was viewed as you were growing up. Your beliefs can also be molded by society and the pressures to have the next new thing.
Take time to write down what comes up for you.
See Your Money
Can you see your money? Maybe you are saying, “Yes, I SEE it come in and then it seems to disappear.”
I hear you and I’ve got you. I used to say the same thing. I kept asking myself “where has all my money gone?” I didn’t have anything to show for it, per se.
You need to see your money in order to make financial decisions with confidence!
Take time to write out or use a spreadsheet or app to track your income and your expenses over a couple of months. See where all of your money is going. This can be very eye opening and a very telling task.
Then go back and review and Get It Out – Brain Dump again and see what thoughts come up for you around what the data is showing you. Doing this without judgement, be the scientist and review the data. From that place you then can decide what you want to do going forward.
Awareness and a Choice
The more you practice having awareness the more it will become more natural to pause and see your thoughts. There are many times when I have been having a conversation with my husband about something I have awareness. Over time and practice of having more awareness around my thoughts, I will even say out loud to him, “these are just my thoughts about it and I am totally ok with thinking this way.”
The pause is so brief, but it becomes so much more natural and easier to have that pause and have awareness around my thoughts. There are times when I think certain things about something, I acknowledge they are my thoughts and at times I don’t want to change them, I don’t want to think a different way about a situation or circumstance.
You can learn to have this same ease of awareness when about your finances as well. You can move to a place of grace and compassion. When we have awareness around our thoughts and realize that it impacts how we are feeling it is a game changer. We don’t have to fear our money situation, or feel overwhelmed, anxious or stressed. We can let all of that go and move into a compassionate place.
Work With a Coach
When working with a coach I feel like it helps me see my brain that much more than when I do it alone. It gives me a chance to talk it out and be heard by someone, not for validation, but in a safe, neutral place. My coach also helps me find the underlying thing going on in my brain, at times.
Also, something else that I love about working with a coach around what is going on in my brain is I get to hear myself too. I have had so many ah ha moments during coaching sessions. Something would, as it seems at the time, to literally just fall out of my mouth. Saying something I didn’t even realize I was thinking.
Ah ha…. It is like wow…. where did that come from. When I say something and I hear myself say it, it is like wow…I didn’t even realize I was having that thought or thoughts. When I hear it out loud or even when writing it down on paper, I can pause and be in total curiosity and have full awareness.
Do this same work with a financial coach and getting to the root of your beliefs around money and then moving to a place of compassion will feel so much better. You can truly move forward and achieve your financial goals from a place of clam and freedom instead of staying stuck or with grit and pressure.
I Am Here for You
That is what I help you with. I will help you discover and have awareness around your money beliefs. We will create a visual plan for your money. To see the data and see what money is coming in and to SEE exactly where it is going. I will help you make a plan for your money and help you learn to be in control of your money with confidence. You will experience and enjoy true financial freedom. Click HERE to schedule a FREE Consultation call.