How To Feel Worthy and Deserving of the Success and Wealth You Have
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This is your Friday 💵🌿 Money Medicine email. This weekly email is intended to empower others with security + stability wounds to move forward with the grace, confidence, and clarity needed to lead and light the way. Spirituality, mindset hacking, healing, wealth building all in one. Emalani is an online publication by author, teacher, and transpersonal development coach Emma Emalani Bennett intended to guide maverick entrepreneurs, creators, healers, and innovators like you towards a state of holistic prosperity, emphasizing the importance of self-love + leadership, success, and wealth defined on your terms. Transpersonal means beyond self, the Atman becoming the Brahman, 🐛→🦋→🕉️ moving from the I, to the We, to the ALL. Emma’s writing blends psychobiology, transpersonal and depth psychology, cultural anthropology, general behavioral and evolutionary sciences, and spiritual perspectives.
As a child, my biological father was a failed entrepreneur with substance abuse issues who ruined his businesses to the ground, bankrupted, and then I was living in a car, absolutely terrified — then he died and his funeral was on my 11th birthday. My biological mother was a North Korean war refugee with severe mental illness, she moved to South Korea. Becoming an orphan, having had to grow up too fast, too soon, enduring tremendous trauma and assuming way more responsibility than a child should take on, and living with the orphan abandonment wound all became the crucible of leadership, entrepreneurship, creativity, and money medicine for me. I won’t tell you that you can achieve xyz because I did, but rather, that you will achieve more than you could fathom when you trust the power and guidance of your SOUL.
Hello Darlings,
This email is a repeating weekly Friday send. Friday is ruled by Venus, the planet that influences beauty, values, prosperity, pleasure, romance, harmony, and love. Venus represents two main areas of our life: love and money. On this day, we will be focusing on just this. Not just in theory — we are not here to stick to rules set by others or do things as they’ve always been done. Rather, we will focus how you can work being of service to love into how you make and manage your money.
Today, we are talking about a pretty big whopper of a subject — how to feel worthy and deserving of the success and wealth you have, beginning with a subtle yet profound phenomenon known as lifestyle creep or inflation, a silent intruder that gradually seeps into our finances and then every nook and cranny of our lives, reshaping our aspirations and values, sneakily altering our perceptions, desires, and behaviors. Lifestyle creep slowly but surely inflates your desires and expectations, and even erodes your sense of self-worth, without you even realizing it. It becomes a craving, an addiction that leaves you jonesing and chronically dissatisfied and uneasy even though, objectively, you’ve got it pretty good.
At first, it is barely noticeable, but as time unfurls, this invasive weed begins to grow, subtly pulling you into excess and mindless materialism. Lifestyle creep manifests as an insatiable hunger for more, a thirst that can never be quenched by mere possessions or fleeting pleasures. It whispers seductively in our ears, urging us to seek validation and worth in external trinkets and accolades. Before you know it, you’re caught up in this cycle of always wanting more, whether it’s a bigger house, a fancier car, the latest gadgets, or the next level of income at all costs.
Suddenly, you find yourself measuring your success and happiness by external standards, instead of what truly matters to you, despite your best intentions. And the siren song of, “Never enough” lures you into the waves that send you crashing into the jagged coral. Yet, beneath the façade of all that glitters lies a cavernous void, a profound yearning for true fulfillment and purpose. And perhaps snakes lying in wait in the dark — fears of the other shoes dropping, of not being worthy and deserving of the success and wealth you have, or hauntings of the poverty traumas of the past.
Enjoy this excerpt from a book I’ve been writing on holistic wealth:
“Aligning with abundance is a holistic process involving not just our mindset but the intricate workings of neurotransmitters and neural connections within our brain and nervous system. Abundance is not only a concept that seems to make sense but a distinctly noticeable experience in our daily lives. It’s a state of mind cultivated through intentional practice, a reflection of our ability to attune ourselves to the life-affirming energies that surround us. As we continue this intentional alignment with the essence of life, we open up to and resonate with the abundant gifts that the present moment generously provides. The bravest and most human thing you can do is to fully open to receive love and life, embracing the entirety of the human experience, regardless of the uncertainties and challenges that may arise. This is an act of healing, courage, and wholehearted living. It is through this vulnerability that the most profound and meaningful experiences of life become most readily accessible and available to you.”
So, how do you rise victorious over lifestyle creep with grace and integrity, without losing yourself in the process? How do we reclaim our sovereignty, defying stubborn as heck societal expectations and cultural conditioning?
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