Money is energy and we dance with it daily, by the behaviors we bring to it and the relationship we create with it. We are conduits for money. It circulates in and out of our lives, with a pulse and a rhythm. There are behaviors we can bring to our money life that create effortless flow, and other behaviors that create constriction and blocks.

Have fun exploring how you can create more flow in your financial life. That’s what we all want and you have control over it. If you want to learn detailed dance steps, read The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment by Marie Nemeth or The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Pocketbook Guide to Fulfilling Your Dreams by Deepak Chopra. Here’s a synopsis of those dance steps in an abbreviated version just for you!

Keeping Financial Agreements

Money is a medium we use to signal completion of an energy exchange. Daily, we make financial transactions where we complete a circle of exchange, whether it’s buying food at the grocery store, filling up our gas tanks with fuel or buying a morning cup of coffee. We engage in a process of openly receiving goods and services and in return giving payment and thanks for what we’ve received.

Paying the monthly mortgage, utility and auto bills keeps us in financial integrity. Have you ever noticed the feeling that swells up inside of you after you’ve finished paying that pile of bills? Paying bills brings a sense of relief and accomplishment resulting from completing energetic agreements. If you can, open and pay your bills as soon as you receive them in the mail. Send them out with love, gratitude and blessings. You will be giving yourself little doses of financial endorphins all through the month.

Marie Nemeth, author of The Energy of Money, tells us when we don’t keep our financial promises, we are left with the “tension of incompletion.” For example, if we let our bills become debts or default on a loan, those incomplete agreements deplete life energy because we have to spend more energy to keep that agreement in an unfinished state. Carrying unresolved financial agreements affects our psyches, bodies and spirits. The energy of worry, fear, or heaviness blocks joy and prosperity from coming in.

Structure, Order and Organization

Structure, order and organization will bring a feeling of calm, serenity and flow to your money life. Imagine all your financial documents neatly located in a file drawer with tabs all lined up and custom labeled just for you. Imagine locating any of your documents within minutes of needing them.

Keep a clean wallet and purse. Remove old scraps of paper and Kleenex. Create a home space inside your purse for your cell phone, lip gloss and car keys. Feng Shui experts say that selecting a red wallet will help energize your finances. If your wallet is worn, invest in a new one. Don’t wad your money up in your wallet. Keep your dollar bills all lined up in the same direction with the face of the bill facing toward you in your wallet. Ancient Chinese folklore believes the dollar bill facing toward you will be reminded to come back to you when it’s given away.

Open your mail every day and sort it. Most of it will probably be dumped in the garbage because so much is junk mail. Take your bills and place them in a special folder where you can easily reach to pay them when they are due. Unopened stacked high mail is an energy drain.

Close out credit card accounts that you never use and cut up the cards. Besides protecting yourself from identity fraud, it’s another way to simplify your life. When you have several accounts open you don’t use, you get statements every month you don’t need. Save the trees. Save the moments of energy it takes you to open the account statements, look at them and file them. Take this energy and use it elsewhere.

Every year clean out your financial files. Old energy keeps new energy from coming into your life. Keep only what documents are necessary and release the rest. Keep all federal and state tax returns and consult your tax accountant when to release other statements.

Keep A Check On Negative Emotional States

Just like keeping old papers around can clutter up our physical environment, keeping emotions inside can clutter up our internal environment and affect our money life. When people feel angry, sad, frustrated or lonely, there is more of a tendency to want to go shopping and buy things you don’t need or want. Emotional shopping is a short-term mood elevator and a band-aid to what’s really ailing you.

Negative emotions can also make you want to avoid looking at your financial situation or distort what is really happening. Often, negative emotions can make a situation seem worse than what really is. Suze Orman says, when we feel “less than” we go out and spend “more than.” So, in these ways negative emotions can repel money and create a block.

The remedy here is to let your feeling states flow through you rather than keep them stuck in you. Using our “voice,” setting boundaries and exercising are ways to keep both our emotional and financial lives healthy.

Address Your Money Mind

Your financial mindset can create flow or create blocks. Energetically speaking, we vibrate from a higher consciousness when our thoughts and feeling states are in alignment with abundance. We vibrate from a lower frequency when we are hooked into poverty consciousness. Transforming your inner blocks liberates money energy!

Notice the words you speak, because they have energy. Create a vocabulary for abundant words such as umpteen, plentiful, bountiful, luscious, heaps and prolific. Begin using these words in your sentences daily and see what happens!

Create a circle of friends who desire to develop an abundance mentality and exchange ample doses of “possibility” energy.

All of us deserve the energy of support. Imagine yourself in a loving supportive circle of friends who have your highest good in mind. Imagine this circle helping you with your financial intentions, dreams and goals! The more people holding space for your intentions, the more energy generated and directed toward your desires. Sustained focus of energy creates manifestation! Be selective with the energy you allow into your life.