Money is one of the most common issues people start seeking help for, along with love and health-related issues and struggles.

In theory, we all want to be rich and have enough money in both our current and savings accounts to not think about it too much. But in practice, many of us face challenges in that vital life domain, and here are, in my opinion, the main categories of money blocks and limiting beliefs that subconsciously influence our behaviour. The good news is that we can address these with hypnotherapy, Tasso, and Life Scripting.


1. Money Blocks Rooted in Upbringing

For example, in the Soviet Union, where yours truly was born, money was naturally considered evil, and one should not have stood out from the crowd by having a lot of it (a total BS, of course, given how well the politburo members lived compared to “peasants and labourers”). And even if you somehow managed to have more than others (still incredibly modest compared to middle-class people in the West), there was hardly anything of good quality to buy or experience.

Another manifestation of limiting beliefs that many of our parents and grandparents had around money was scarcity mentality, which, again, could be easily explained historically, sociologically, and psychologically: hoarding stuff you don’t need, mending broken things, or torn clothes until they are unfixable only to use them in some other capacity (e.g., an old piece of underwear being used as a cleaning cloth), passing clothing garments from one generation or sibling to another, constantly saving money for a “rainy day” without truly enjoying it right here and now (for example, people in the Soviet Union would be saving for something as banal as a fridge for years), to often lose it all years later due to yet another financial crisis.


2. Generational Trauma

Some of us have subconsciously inherited a generational trauma of losing wealth due to internal or external reasons: for example, gambling or bad business decisions, a family feud over assets with betrayals and even crime and cruelty; envious friends and neighbours, expropriation after the revolution, or during the Genocide or the Holocaust, and so on.


3. Past Life Experiences

Often, the challenges we face with money in our current lives are caused by karma generated in previous incarnations. For example, if you keep lending money to people without getting it back, eventually ruining relationships with them, there is a pretty profound possibility that in your previous life or even lives, you were a greedy person, mistreating others, and now you are on the correction path. Interestingly, getting this understanding can be quite liberating and help find peace.


Here are some of the scarcity beliefs that stop us from realizing our full potential.

If any of these statements hit too close to home, it is time to reprogram your mind to activate prosperity consciousness (as these are all signs of its lack)!
▫️Money only comes from hard work
▫️Save for a rainy day
▫️A penny saved is a penny earned
▫️I can’t charge that much
▫️Money doesn’t grow on trees
▫️Money is evil/dirty/filthy
▫️Good people cannot be rich/ all wealthy people are cheats
▫️I am not good enough/talented enough to make money
▫️I am not good enough/ I don’t deserve to drive this car/live in this flat/ travel with this airline/ stay at this hotel/ wear this brand, etc.
▫️I am poor, but I sleep peacefully at night
▫️I can’t enjoy money unless I save X amount
▫️I pay my bills unwillingly and with resentment
▫️I don’t like to tip
▫️I feel envious and resentful when someone has more money than me
▫️I criticize others for how they choose to spend their money
▫️If I won X amount of money, I have no idea what I would do with it
▫️I hoard everything - you never know what tomorrow holds


And to balance scarcity mentality with prosperity, here’s the recipe for the abundance mindset from one of my favourite energy coaches, Alexander Palienko:

💸 When money comes to us, it is important to spend it with pleasure, to buy something that, in our opinion, is of high quality, effective, and good for humanity
💸 You should not be stingy and greedy when you have money
💸 It is important for us to feel what, when, and how to buy, but these things must bring pleasure and joy
💸 We have no right to buy something only because it’s cheap, and we save money
💸 It is important that what we spend money on brings us pleasure
💸 Money will always come in abundance as long as we emanate love and do not associate ourselves with material things we spend it on.


🎧 Bonus: Life Scripting “Money Prayer” Meditation
And for those of you who’ve made it this far, here’s a Life Scripting “Money Prayer” meditation you can listen to as often as you want.


What are the limiting beliefs around money and wealth that get in the way of your aspirations?