In my last post, I talked about the first (of five) category of money which is Income and today’s post is about the second category, which is Savings.
Savings is very different from Income in that you may earn a great income, yet feel like you’re living paycheck to paycheck if you don’t have savings. A healthy savings account helps you feel safe, secure and calm about your finances, in general. Thinking about your savings triggers its own set of emotions, limiting beliefs and past traumas around money that relate to whether or not you feel safe in the world.
When thinking about a lack of savings, you may find yourself experiencing anxiety or sadness or even a sense of loss. It often can bring up memories of a great loss in your life or your parents’ lives.
Having little or no savings may remind you of a time when you lost some thing or some one important. Perhaps you remember a loss of freedom or a time when you felt you lost yourself. These past losses may very well be responsible for your lack of financial security because a lack of savings can trigger the same feelings of loss, abandonment, or feeling unsupported. All that emotional content is wired into the savings account.
Now you might be thinking “well, why not just start a savings account and feel more secure?” Great idea, though it isn’t likely to work when you have old emotional stuff mixed up and running through you. Every time you think about your savings or lack thereof, these old emotions and triggers will keep you from wanting to deal with it. And so you won’t.
All of this emotional stuff is what’s mapped to your savings account. And it’s been like a stone wall working against any action you might take to change your savings. To change your savings account, the programming and limiting beliefs need to be identified and cleared first. Only then will you be able to take consistent action that will grow your savings.
To find out what might be going on with YOUR savings account (or any of the 5 types of money), take advantage of my complimentary money map session.
