The Reason I, Who Thought 'Money Is Dirty,' Was Able to Become Wealthy
Hello, this is Ken Honda.
To be honest, I was afraid of money for a long time.
When I was a child, I thought money was a scary thing.
It was like a ghost or a demon.
“It’s uncool to work for money.”
“It’s greedy to want to earn money.”
Those feelings were deep in my heart, and every time the topic of money came up, I felt restless.
As a child, I was intensely attracted to money, yet it was something I didn't want to touch.
But now, my relationship with money has completely changed.
The feeling of abundance gradually flowing in naturallyhas become something I can understand little by little.
Forty years have passed since then, and I am writing this while reminiscing.
There were four reasons for that change. Let’s talk about the past a little today.
1. I realized that money isn't 'dirty,' I was just 'taught that way'
I think many people have memories of their parents making a sour face when they talked about money as a child.
“Don’t just think about money.”
“Don’t be greedy.”
“Money is dirty.”
When you grow up hearing those words repeatedly, the image that money equals evil is engraved in your heart before you know it.
That was the case for me, too.
But one day, I suddenly thought:
Money itself is not to blame.
I began to think that perhaps it is humans who have bad feelings toward money, not money itself.
Money is just energy.
It is someone’s joy given form, the crystallization of someone’s time and affection.
What was dirty was not the money, but the assumption that 'money is dirty.'
With that realization alone, my heart felt much lighter.
2. I practiced 'receiving'
Something common among people who are bad with money is that they are bad at receiving.
They deny it when praised.
They brush it off shyly when thanked.
They feel too embarrassed when receiving a gift.
These are all signs of pushing away abundance.
I consciously began to practice receiving.
I say 'Thank you, I’m happy' honestly.
When receiving money, I accept it with gratitude instead of guilt.
Just that simple act opened the door to abundance little by little.
Abundance does not stay with people who cannot receive.
Every time I received something, I healed myself a little bit.
3. I redefined money not as something to 'earn' but as something to 'circulate'
I used to think of money as something to 'earn desperately and spend as little as possible.'
But that is like damming up the flow of a river.
When I look at wealthy people, they circulate money well.
I started spending without hesitation on things I find valuable, and happily letting go of money when it can be of use to someone else.
As the fear of spending faded, the obsession with earning also disappeared.
Money is not something to be hoarded, but something to be circulated with joy.
From the day that feeling truly resonated with me, the quality of my wealth began to change.
4. I gave myself permission to become wealthy
This may have been the deepest change of all.
There are people who hold an unconscious prohibition somewhere inside them, saying, 'I must not become wealthy.'
Because my parents struggled.
Because there was no one wealthy around me. Because I was afraid of standing out.
I was one of those people. Every time I imagined wealth, I could hear a voice somewhere saying, 'But it's impossible for me.'
One day, I told myself this:
'Becoming wealthy is not selfish.
It is precisely because I am wealthy that I can be of more service to others.'
When I gave myself permission from the bottom of my heart to become wealthy
—mysteriously, reality began to shift.
In closing
The belief that 'money is dirty' is something that has soaked into the heart over a long period of time. Therefore, it does not disappear overnight.
However, you can untangle your relationship with money little by little, with care.
Wealth does not come from the outside.
It is something that begins to flow in quietly from the moment your inner self decides that it is okay to receive it.
Ken Honda
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