How to Manifest Money When the Fear Feels Real

When money fears crop up about your business, your nervous system will convince you that this is a serious matter and you should react with urgency or pull back and stop what you’re doing. Actually, neither of those options is the way to get back into a manifesting vibe.

Instead, you’ll want to recognize that there are a lot of false signals happening in your body and mind, and it requires a check-in process to find out the truth.

For example, I’ve had clients who were facing money fears in their business and looming personal bills, so they started taking action everywhere. Picking up new courses around how to grow their reach on social media. Outlining different opt-ins they could run. Offering 1-1 sessions to their social media following for a reduced rate.

You name it, they were working on it.

Except, often they found they couldn’t make themselves finish that new social media course or get that new opt-in created. They couldn’t get someone to bite on those discounted 1-1 packages.

I’ve certainly been in that mode myself many times over the last fourteen years.

There’s nothing like money fear to send you zipping into action or hiding under a blanket, snarfing chocolate.

When my clients are facing this urgency or freeze in their mind and body, I ask them to take a moment to stop and reconnect to their body and breath. I have them notice their feet for a moment, pay attention to their breath (not trying to change it), and feel present in this moment, right here.

Whatever works best for each individual might be different, but the key is to find a way to stop taking all the action steps or come out from under the blanket. The key is to be here, right now, in this moment, without focusing on the scary story about the future, penniless and in despair, or the multitude of action steps you should be taking.

Our nervous systems, when they are in fight, flight, or freeze, will tell us that we have to either take a million action steps or hide under a blanket. Our nervous systems are trying to protect us, but they don’t have access to the conscious, creative thinking mind that is waiting to help us find the true path back to making income.

When you’re hijacked by your nervous system, you’re not using your conscious, smart, creative thinking mind. None of us do when we’re activated!

You don’t want to be taking any action steps in your business when you’re not in your conscious creative mind, because this is when you spin on the hamster wheel and expend a lot of energy - and sometimes even money - without a lot of return on investment.

Think of your business a bit like a romantic partner. You know those moments when you’re activated in your nervous system and find yourself saying things from an emotional place toward your partner that maybe aren’t that constructive? And then you have to apologize later? ;-)

Yeah, I know those moments well.

We all know that when we take a moment to breathe and center before we start talking (or even walk away for fifteen minutes), we have a far better chance of having a constructive conversation.

When your business has upset you with a money issue, treat it just like you would a romantic partner who you don’t want to hurt.

Walk away. Check in with yourself. Use your favorite centering practice.

It might take time to find your center. While you’re working on it, you can still complete tasks. Just don’t start a new project, pressure yourself to think creatively, or try to problem solve until you really have settled into a regulated place within your nervous system.

Then, you can truly access your creative thinking mind and its intuitive awareness to see what the appropriate, calm, inspired actions are for your business that will set you back onto the manifesting path.

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