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A Healthy Money Mindset
There’s a lot of talk out there today around having “a healthy money mindset.” Much of this is based in research on today’s top millionaires and billionaires revealing the major difference between them and the rest of society: they believe they deserve to be wealthy. A vast amount of reactionary theology, philosophy, lifestyles, etc. have emerged out of this revelation preaching the need for “a healthy money mindset.” This will usually show up on your feed or in your inbox in the form of one or many of the following:
- Affirmations to Inspire a Healthy Money Mindset
- e.g. I am a magnet of wealth, Money comes easily, frequently and abundantly to me, My positive attitude is attracting money, My actions create constant prosperity, etc.
- Manifest Your Financial Future
- E.g. Use the law of attraction to bring wealth into your life,
Now, we’re not here to debunk what other people believe. In fact, most of the aforementioned concepts are great tools that we use and believe produce great fruit. The fact that these techniques have worked in some capacity for those promoting them is evidence enough for that. But that’s simply all they are – tools. If you want to read more about the difference between a tool and a purpose check out our post on True Financial Wisdom.
Our question is – do you want tools or do you want a purpose? Do you want money or do you want true riches? Do you want a healthy money mindset or do you want the fullness of life in abundance? Or do you want it all?
The Environment Within
If you’ve been following us in our previous posts you know we’ve been journeying through Kris Vallotton’s book, Poverty, Riches & Wealth. And this week we’re focusing on what he refers to as “The Wealth Autoimmune Disease,” or in other words a fatally UNHEALTHY money mindset.
In Chapter 2, he explains his testimony of miraculously being forgiven of over $900,000 dollars worth of debt only to be blessed extravagantly (& monetarily) by people he didn’t even know soon after. In the process of then avoiding everyone who blessed him like the plague, he realized he had developed a mindset that “inoculated” him from wealth. Ultimately, he didn’t believe he deserved to be wealthy so he unintentionally wasted his money in the past on worthless ventures and avoided all who were blessing him in the present for fear they’d discover he was actually unworthy of their blessing.
A Whole Lot More Than Mindset
This brings up an issue a whole lot bigger than mindset – self-love. No matter what you affirm out loud or tell yourself you believe about money, your environment within you is determined by how you love yourself. And how you love yourself cannot magically change by declarations and positive thinking. True self-love that stands the test of time and circumstances comes first by receiving love from Papa God and then seeing ourselves as He sees us – in perfect love. From this place of having received a revelation of who we truly are as glorious sons and daughters of the creator of the universe, we can then walk in confidence, believing we are worthy of his blessing.
This revelation of our worthiness is what the apostle John refers to as prospering of the soul.
Per the footnotes in The Passion Translation, the Greek word here for prospering, eudōomai, means “to be brought along to a smooth and prosperous journey” or “to be continually prospered [unto success] in every way.” This means that as we spiritually, emotionally, mentally prosper (receive and walk in revelation of who God is and who we are as His sons and daughters), we are to then experience prosperity in every aspect of our lives (relationally, practically, financially). Kingdom prosperity — true, everlasting, heaven-to-earth prosperity, always begins from the inside out.
The Wealth Autoimmune Disease
“When we live in poverty of soul, our perceived unworthiness, rooted in our lack of self-love, is kind of like turning two magnets in the repelling direction. Although the repelling force is invisible, it is nonetheless a powerful and viable deterrent to any connection. Unworthiness and lack of self-love are an invisible force field, and like those magnets, they repel prosperity and hold us in poverty. In fact, the only way for this magnetic detraction to be neutralized is for a stronger outside influence to overcome its resistance.
For example, sometimes a person’s skill set is greater than the level of negative magnetic influence that lurks within, which will result in seasons of external prosperity. But that kind of prosperity is never sustainable, because it is impossible to overcome consistently with our talent what our negative identity or mindset is rejecting. This scenario inside us eventually becomes something like a wealth autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease occurs when the body’s white blood cells, which are assigned to fight off illness, somehow receive the wrong message. Then they rebel against their mission and attack the body itself. When we struggle with self-love, that wealth autoimmune disease kicks in and we feel guilty for our prosperity, so we try to soothe our souls with some kind of penance. At best, this is self-sabotaging; at worst, it is self-destructive.”
Kris Vallotton, Poverty, Riches & Wealth
Start & End With Your Creator
Like everything else we do here at HNV, everything should always start and end with your creator, God. He is the only one who can show you who you truly are, who you were created to be. And it is impossible NOT to love that person. Trying to create, or in reality, recreate yourself apart from God is foolish at best and inherently dangerous at worst. He is your ultimate source for who you are and what you were designed to become. Only He can release true self-love to you. And from that self-love you can then build your healthy money mindset.
As a resource for another blog we run, The Newlymoms, we created a 30-day journal & planner to help women learn to love themselves – The You. Are. Enough. Journal & Planner. It’s geared to combat the lie of being “not enough.”
In this printable journal & planner you will receive instant downloads of the following:
- 30 days of reflections on truth designed to set you free from conditional worthiness and the fear of never being enough
- Daily planner pages to schedule out your time, prioritize your tasks & jot down reminders
- Weekly planning pages including a meal tracker, grocery list & errands log
- Sample pages with personal examples of how to engage with the journal content
- Printable pages with several verses/quotes to serve as reminders of the truths you reflect on
Check out the You. Are. Enough. Journal & Planner here.
Where have you struggled with self-love? What are some revelations of who God is and who you are that have transformed you and built healthy mindsets in your life?