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Sanando mi relación con el dinero:
No son números, es energía de vida
Hace nada les contaba por aquí cómo salir de esas “cajas de concreto” y volver a la naturaleza fue mi medicina contra la ansiedad. Les hablé de cómo, después de pasarme 53 años entre edificios y ahora llevar 16 aquí, en la zona rural de Ontario, sentí que mis pulmones y mi cabeza por fin respiran de verdad.
Pero, siendo honesto, hay otra “caja” de la que cuesta un mundo salir, así vivas en el bosque más tranquilo: la caja de las preocupaciones económicas.
Hoy quiero traer a la mesa un tema que a veces, en comunidades de crecimiento como Holos&Lotus, nos da como cosita tocar, como si el dinero estuviera peleado con la espiritualidad. En Hive nos la pasamos viendo gráficos, analizando criptos y hablando de trading, pero casi nunca hablamos de la emoción que hay detrás de esa velita roja o verde. ¿Qué pasa cuando el mercado cae (como ahorita) y encima tienes la Navidad respirándote en la nuca?
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Quiero invitarlos a cambiar el lente: dejar de ver las finanzas desde el miedo y empezar a verlas desde la energía.
Esa maleta pesada que traemos de Venezuela
Vivir más de medio siglo en Venezuela no es cualquier cosa; eso deja marca. Más allá de extrañar la tierra, muchos cargamos con eso que yo llamo el “trauma de la supervivencia”. Por años, mi relación con la plata fue puro miedo: miedo a que no alcance, miedo a que el dinero se vuelva sal y agua en las manos, miedo a no conseguir lo básico.
Ese estado de alerta constante te bloquea el Chakra Raíz, ese que nos da seguridad. Y fíjense qué curioso: aunque ahora vivo en Canadá, en un lugar súper pacífico, a veces me pillo con el mismo nudo en el estómago viendo las noticias o cuando nuestras recompensas en Hive bajan un poco. Ahí es cuando me doy cuenta de que la pobreza o la riqueza no son solo números en el banco, son estados de consciencia.
Me acuerdo mucho de lo que dice Deepak Chopra en las “Siete leyes espirituales del éxito”. Él explica que la abundancia material es solo una partecita de la abundancia del universo; que la verdadera riqueza viene de la conciencia y la creatividad. Entender eso fue clave para dejar de ver al dinero como un enemigo que se me escapaba y empezar a verlo como lo que es: energía que va y viene.
"La abundancia material es solo una de las representaciones de la abundancia del universo; la verdadera fuente de la riqueza es la conciencia, la capacidad de crear." — Deepak Chopra.
Lecciones que me dio el bosque (y que Wall Street no sabe)
Estando aquí en Ontario, viendo cómo funciona el monte, entendí de economía más que leyendo noticias. La naturaleza no acapara por miedo. Un manzano no se guarda las manzanas “por si acaso” el año que viene no sale el sol. El árbol confía. Suelta sus frutos y sabe que la tierra lo va a nutrir otra vez.
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Con el dinero pasa igual. Es flujo. Hay un autor japonés, Ken Honda, que habla del “Dinero Feliz”. Él dice algo que me voló la cabeza: “El dinero es energía. Puede ser feliz o infeliz dependiendo de cómo lo recibes y cómo lo sueltas… Dile Arigato (gracias) a tu dinero cuando entra, y Arigato cuando sale”.
¿Cuántas veces pagamos un servicio con rabia? ¿O compramos los regalos de Navidad con culpa? Al hacer eso, estamos ensuciando esa energía. He aprendido, poco a poco, a pagar la factura de la luz agradeciendo que tengo calefacción para no congelarme en este invierno canadiense, en lugar de quejarme por lo caro que está todo. Ese cambiecito de chip, de pagar con dolor a pagar con gratitud, lo cambia todo.
El “Cripto-invierno” y la prueba de la Navidad
Escribo esto justo ahora, con la Navidad encima, esa época que nos han vendido como una carrera de gastos. Y para colmo, para los que hacemos vida en Hive, vemos el mercado bajito. Justo ayer hablaba con mi amiga @sacra97 y me comentaba cómo sentía que su poder de voto se le iba volando estas semanas; y claro, eso se nota en la billetera.
Es facilito caer en pánico. Es fácil que aparezca ese viejo fantasma de la escasez. Pero ahí es donde toca aplicarnos el cuento del crecimiento personal y observarnos.
En vez de estresarme por el precio de la moneda, elijo enfocarme en el valor de la gente, en comunidades como esta. En lugar de angustiarme por no poner regalos carísimos bajo el árbol, recuerdo mis navidades en Venezuela. Lo que más extraño hoy no son los juguetes, son las hallacas en familia, la gaita, el bochinche.
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Aquí en Canadá la Navidad es súper comercial, pero en mi casa, trato de rescatar lo real. El verdadero bienestar financiero no es tener millones para derrochar, es tener la paz mental de saber que tienes suficiente y que mereces estar bien, suba o baje el mercado.
Un ejercicio chiquito de Merecimiento
Para cerrar, les dejo algo que hago cuando siento que el estrés por dinero me desconecta de mí misma. Es algo inspirado en Louise Hay:
- Respira profundo (esa respiración de bosque de la que hablamos la otra vez).
- Repítete mentalmente: “Lo que valgo como persona no tiene nada que ver con el saldo de mi cuenta ni con el precio de una cripto. Soy una fuente de creatividad y merezco prosperidad, venga de donde venga”.
Sanar la relación con el dinero es sanar el alma. Es dejar de actuar desde el miedo a que falte (tan típico de nosotros los inmigrantes) y empezar a confiar en la vida.
Desde mi rincón nevado en Ontario, les deseo una Navidad donde la abundancia se mida en abrazos, en salud y en tranquilidad, más que en cosas materiales.
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Cuéntenme ustedes, ¿Sienten que sus emociones son una montaña rusa junto con el mercado? ¿Cómo hacen para que el tema económico no les robe la paz? Los leo con cariño.
Creciendo como persona, busca y encuentra lo que necesitas para ser un mejor humano en la Comunidad Holos&Lotus. De seguro, hay un tema que te llamará la atención.
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Healing my relationship with money:
It's not numbers, it's life energy.
Not long ago, I told you here how getting out of those “concrete boxes” and returning to nature was my cure for anxiety. I told you how, after spending 53 years among buildings and now 16 here in rural Ontario, I felt like my lungs and my head were finally breathing properly.
But, to be honest, there's another “box” that's really hard to get out of, even if you live in the quietest forest: the box of financial worries.
Today I want to bring up a topic that sometimes, in growth communities like Holos&Lotus, we find difficult to discuss, as if money were at odds with spirituality. At Hive, we spend our time looking at charts, analyzing cryptos, and talking about trading, but we almost never talk about the emotion behind that little red or green candle. What happens when the market crashes (like right now) and Christmas is breathing down your neck?
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I want to invite you to change your perspective: stop looking at finances from a place of fear and start looking at them from a place of energy.
That heavy suitcase we carry from Venezuela
Living in Venezuela for more than half a century is no small feat; it leaves its mark. Beyond missing our homeland, many of us carry what I call “survival trauma”. For years, my relationship with money was pure fear: fear of not having enough, fear of money slipping through my fingers, fear of not being able to afford the basics.
That state of constant alertness blocks your root chakra, the one that gives you security. And here's something curious: even though I now live in Canada, in a very peaceful place, I sometimes find myself with the same knot in my stomach when I watch the news or when our rewards on Hive drop a little. That's when I realize that poverty or wealth are not just numbers in the bank, they are states of consciousness.
I remember very well what Deepak Chopra says in The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. He explains that material abundance is only a small part of the abundance of the universe; that true wealth comes from consciousness and creativity. Understanding this was key to stopping seeing money as an enemy that was slipping away from me and starting to see it for what it is: energy that comes and goes.
“Material abundance is only one representation of the abundance of the universe; the true source of wealth is consciousness, the ability to create.” — Deepak Chopra.
Lessons I learned from the forest (and Wall Street doesn't know)
Being here in Ontario, seeing how the forest works, I understood more about economics than I did from reading the news. Nature does not hoard out of fear. An apple tree does not save its apples “just in case” the sun does not shine next year. The tree trusts. It releases its fruit and knows that the earth will nourish it again.
Image generated and edited with our own elements and the help of Canva Pro's Magic Studio and Magic Capture tools.
It's the same with money. It's flow. There's a Japanese author, Ken Honda, who talks about “Happy Money.” He says something that blew my mind: “Money is energy. It can be happy or unhappy depending on how you receive it and how you let it go... Say Arigato (thank you) to your money when it comes in, and Arigato when it goes out.”
How often do we pay for a service with anger? Or buy Christmas gifts with guilt? By doing so, we are polluting that energy. I have learned, little by little, to pay my electricity bill with gratitude that I have heating so I don't freeze in this Canadian winter, instead of complaining about how expensive everything is. That little change in mindset, from paying with pain to paying with gratitude, changes everything.
The “Crypto Winter” and the Christmas Test
I am writing this right now, with Christmas upon us, that time of year that has been sold to us as a spending spree. And to top it all off, for those of us who live on Hive, we see the market going down. Just yesterday, I was talking to my friend @sacra97 and she told me how she felt her voting power was flying away these weeks; and of course, that shows in her wallet.
It's easy to panic. It's easy for that old ghost of scarcity to reappear. But that's when we need to apply the concept of personal growth and observe ourselves.
Instead of stressing about the price of currency, I choose to focus on the value of people, in communities like this one. Instead of worrying about not putting expensive gifts under the tree, I remember my Christmases in Venezuela. What I miss most today are not the toys, but the hallacas with my family, the gaita, the bochinche.
Image generated and edited with our own elements and the help of Canva Pro's Magic Studio and Magic Capture tools.
Here in Canada, Christmas is super commercial, but in my home, I try to rescue what is real. True financial well-being is not having millions to splurge, it is having the peace of mind of knowing that you have enough and that you deserve to be well, whether the market is up or down.
A little exercise in self-worth
To conclude, here's something I do when I feel that stress about money is disconnecting me from myself. It's inspired by Louise Hay:
- Take a deep breath (that forest breath we talked about last time).
- Repeat to yourself mentally: “My worth as a person has nothing to do with my bank balance or the price of cryptocurrency. I am a source of creativity and I deserve prosperity, wherever it comes from.”
Healing your relationship with money is healing your soul. It means stopping acting out of fear of not having enough (so typical of us immigrants) and starting to trust in life.
From my snowy corner in Ontario, I wish you a Christmas where abundance is measured in hugs, health, and peace of mind, rather than material things.
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Tell me, do you feel like your emotions are on a roller coaster ride along with the market? How do you keep financial issues from stealing your peace of mind? I look forward to reading your comments.
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Healing my relationship with money:
It's not numbers, it's life energy.
Not long ago, I told you here how getting out of those “concrete boxes” and returning to nature was my cure for anxiety. I told you how, after spending 53 years among buildings and now 16 here in rural Ontario, I felt like my lungs and my head were finally breathing properly.
But, to be honest, there's another “box” that's really hard to get out of, even if you live in the quietest forest: the box of financial worries.
Today I want to bring up a topic that sometimes, in growth communities like Holos&Lotus, we find difficult to discuss, as if money were at odds with spirituality. At Hive, we spend our time looking at charts, analyzing cryptos, and talking about trading, but we almost never talk about the emotion behind that little red or green candle. What happens when the market crashes (like right now) and Christmas is breathing down your neck?
Image generated and edited with our own elements and the help of Canva Pro's Magic Studio and Magic Capture tools.
I want to invite you to change your perspective: stop looking at finances from a place of fear and start looking at them from a place of energy.
That heavy suitcase we carry from Venezuela
Living in Venezuela for more than half a century is no small feat; it leaves its mark. Beyond missing our homeland, many of us carry what I call “survival trauma”. For years, my relationship with money was pure fear: fear of not having enough, fear of money slipping through my fingers, fear of not being able to afford the basics.
That state of constant alertness blocks your root chakra, the one that gives you security. And here's something curious: even though I now live in Canada, in a very peaceful place, I sometimes find myself with the same knot in my stomach when I watch the news or when our rewards on Hive drop a little. That's when I realize that poverty or wealth are not just numbers in the bank, they are states of consciousness.
I remember very well what Deepak Chopra says in The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. He explains that material abundance is only a small part of the abundance of the universe; that true wealth comes from consciousness and creativity. Understanding this was key to stopping seeing money as an enemy that was slipping away from me and starting to see it for what it is: energy that comes and goes.
“Material abundance is only one representation of the abundance of the universe; the true source of wealth is consciousness, the ability to create.” — Deepak Chopra.
Lessons I learned from the forest (and Wall Street doesn't know)
Being here in Ontario, seeing how the forest works, I understood more about economics than I did from reading the news. Nature does not hoard out of fear. An apple tree does not save its apples “just in case” the sun does not shine next year. The tree trusts. It releases its fruit and knows that the earth will nourish it again.
Image generated and edited with our own elements and the help of Canva Pro's Magic Studio and Magic Capture tools.
It's the same with money. It's flow. There's a Japanese author, Ken Honda, who talks about “Happy Money.” He says something that blew my mind: “Money is energy. It can be happy or unhappy depending on how you receive it and how you let it go... Say Arigato (thank you) to your money when it comes in, and Arigato when it goes out.”
How often do we pay for a service with anger? Or buy Christmas gifts with guilt? By doing so, we are polluting that energy. I have learned, little by little, to pay my electricity bill with gratitude that I have heating so I don't freeze in this Canadian winter, instead of complaining about how expensive everything is. That little change in mindset, from paying with pain to paying with gratitude, changes everything.
The “Crypto Winter” and the Christmas Test
I am writing this right now, with Christmas upon us, that time of year that has been sold to us as a spending spree. And to top it all off, for those of us who live on Hive, we see the market going down. Just yesterday, I was talking to my friend @sacra97 and she told me how she felt her voting power was flying away these weeks; and of course, that shows in her wallet.
It's easy to panic. It's easy for that old ghost of scarcity to reappear. But that's when we need to apply the concept of personal growth and observe ourselves.
Instead of stressing about the price of currency, I choose to focus on the value of people, in communities like this one. Instead of worrying about not putting expensive gifts under the tree, I remember my Christmases in Venezuela. What I miss most today are not the toys, but the hallacas with my family, the gaita, the bochinche.
Image generated and edited with our own elements and the help of Canva Pro's Magic Studio and Magic Capture tools.
Here in Canada, Christmas is super commercial, but in my home, I try to rescue what is real. True financial well-being is not having millions to splurge, it is having the peace of mind of knowing that you have enough and that you deserve to be well, whether the market is up or down.
A little exercise in self-worth
To conclude, here's something I do when I feel that stress about money is disconnecting me from myself. It's inspired by Louise Hay:
- Take a deep breath (that forest breath we talked about last time).
- Repeat to yourself mentally: “My worth as a person has nothing to do with my bank balance or the price of cryptocurrency. I am a source of creativity and I deserve prosperity, wherever it comes from.”
Healing your relationship with money is healing your soul. It means stopping acting out of fear of not having enough (so typical of us immigrants) and starting to trust in life.
From my snowy corner in Ontario, I wish you a Christmas where abundance is measured in hugs, health, and peace of mind, rather than material things.
Media Amazon
Tell me, do you feel like your emotions are on a roller coaster ride along with the market? How do you keep financial issues from stealing your peace of mind? I look forward to reading your comments.
Not long ago, I told you here how getting out of those “concrete boxes” and returning to nature was my cure for anxiety. I told you how, after spending 53 years among buildings and now 16 here in rural Ontario, I felt like my lungs and my head were finally breathing properly.
But, to be honest, there's another “box” that's really hard to get out of, even if you live in the quietest forest: the box of financial worries.
Today I want to bring up a topic that sometimes, in growth communities like Holos&Lotus, we find difficult to discuss, as if money were at odds with spirituality. At Hive, we spend our time looking at charts, analyzing cryptos, and talking about trading, but we almost never talk about the emotion behind that little red or green candle. What happens when the market crashes (like right now) and Christmas is breathing down your neck?
Image generated and edited with our own elements and the help of Canva Pro's Magic Studio and Magic Capture tools.
I want to invite you to change your perspective: stop looking at finances from a place of fear and start looking at them from a place of energy.
That heavy suitcase we carry from Venezuela
Living in Venezuela for more than half a century is no small feat; it leaves its mark. Beyond missing our homeland, many of us carry what I call “survival trauma”. For years, my relationship with money was pure fear: fear of not having enough, fear of money slipping through my fingers, fear of not being able to afford the basics.
That state of constant alertness blocks your root chakra, the one that gives you security. And here's something curious: even though I now live in Canada, in a very peaceful place, I sometimes find myself with the same knot in my stomach when I watch the news or when our rewards on Hive drop a little. That's when I realize that poverty or wealth are not just numbers in the bank, they are states of consciousness.
I remember very well what Deepak Chopra says in The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. He explains that material abundance is only a small part of the abundance of the universe; that true wealth comes from consciousness and creativity. Understanding this was key to stopping seeing money as an enemy that was slipping away from me and starting to see it for what it is: energy that comes and goes.
“Material abundance is only one representation of the abundance of the universe; the true source of wealth is consciousness, the ability to create.” — Deepak Chopra.
Lessons I learned from the forest (and Wall Street doesn't know)
Being here in Ontario, seeing how the forest works, I understood more about economics than I did from reading the news. Nature does not hoard out of fear. An apple tree does not save its apples “just in case” the sun does not shine next year. The tree trusts. It releases its fruit and knows that the earth will nourish it again.
Image generated and edited with our own elements and the help of Canva Pro's Magic Studio and Magic Capture tools.
It's the same with money. It's flow. There's a Japanese author, Ken Honda, who talks about “Happy Money.” He says something that blew my mind: “Money is energy. It can be happy or unhappy depending on how you receive it and how you let it go... Say Arigato (thank you) to your money when it comes in, and Arigato when it goes out.”
How often do we pay for a service with anger? Or buy Christmas gifts with guilt? By doing so, we are polluting that energy. I have learned, little by little, to pay my electricity bill with gratitude that I have heating so I don't freeze in this Canadian winter, instead of complaining about how expensive everything is. That little change in mindset, from paying with pain to paying with gratitude, changes everything.
The “Crypto Winter” and the Christmas Test
I am writing this right now, with Christmas upon us, that time of year that has been sold to us as a spending spree. And to top it all off, for those of us who live on Hive, we see the market going down. Just yesterday, I was talking to my friend @sacra97 and she told me how she felt her voting power was flying away these weeks; and of course, that shows in her wallet.
It's easy to panic. It's easy for that old ghost of scarcity to reappear. But that's when we need to apply the concept of personal growth and observe ourselves.
Instead of stressing about the price of currency, I choose to focus on the value of people, in communities like this one. Instead of worrying about not putting expensive gifts under the tree, I remember my Christmases in Venezuela. What I miss most today are not the toys, but the hallacas with my family, the gaita, the bochinche.
Image generated and edited with our own elements and the help of Canva Pro's Magic Studio and Magic Capture tools.
Here in Canada, Christmas is super commercial, but in my home, I try to rescue what is real. True financial well-being is not having millions to splurge, it is having the peace of mind of knowing that you have enough and that you deserve to be well, whether the market is up or down.
A little exercise in self-worth
To conclude, here's something I do when I feel that stress about money is disconnecting me from myself. It's inspired by Louise Hay:
- Take a deep breath (that forest breath we talked about last time).
- Repeat to yourself mentally: “My worth as a person has nothing to do with my bank balance or the price of cryptocurrency. I am a source of creativity and I deserve prosperity, wherever it comes from.”
Healing your relationship with money is healing your soul. It means stopping acting out of fear of not having enough (so typical of us immigrants) and starting to trust in life.
From my snowy corner in Ontario, I wish you a Christmas where abundance is measured in hugs, health, and peace of mind, rather than material things.
Media Amazon
Tell me, do you feel like your emotions are on a roller coaster ride along with the market? How do you keep financial issues from stealing your peace of mind? I look forward to reading your comments.
Growing as a person, seek and find what you need to be a better person in the Holos&Lotus Community. Surely, there's a topic that will catch your attention.
Community's own infographic Holos&Lotus
Dedicated to all those who, day after day, make the world a better place.
Dedicated to all those who, day after day, make the world a better place.
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¡Qué buena conexión has hecho! Me parece brillante que le hayas dado continuidad a tu historia. Es muy coherente que, una vez que hemos "sanado" nuestra relación con el entorno físico (saliendo de las cajas de concreto), pasemos a sanar el entorno mental que más nos agobia: la supervivencia y el dinero.