Money often serves as a "canvas" for transferences and projections of our internal conflicts, trauma and scarcity. We “compensate” for a number of conflicts by creating financial problems for ourselves and holding onto subjective beliefs that hinder the growth of our well-being. These beliefs are usually associated with fears, negative associations, self-esteem problems, excessive loyalty to a social group, and laziness.
MOST FREQUENTLY ENCOUNTERED NEGATIVE INSTALLATIONS
Which of them respond, "catch" you?
- I can not afford it.
- Money is the root of all evil.
- Modesty beautifies.
- Better not to stick out.
- Big money is not about me.
- If I make more money, I will take money away from someone else.
- If I earn more, I will cease to be one of my family and friends.
- To accumulate, you need to save hard.
- To earn more, you have to do what I don't like.
- It is better to ask (take) less in order to appease / not upset / not anger someone (for example, a boss).
- If I ask (take) more, people will think I'm a fraud.
- I am not able to earn more.
- I don't deserve more money.
- To be rich, you had to be born into a wealthy family.
- Money ruins relationships.
If some belief that is clearly not useful for us “stuck” in the head, it means that it is necessary for something and performs some important function, often not real, but symbolic.
What symbolic meaning are we projecting onto money?
Clinical psychologists have identified the following main factors:
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1. Safety (for people seeking money for the sake of safety, the fear of being offended or rejected can develop into a paranoid fear of being robbed);
2. power (for some people, money is a power that they were deprived of in childhood, a consequence of overcoming the barrier between themselves and the threatening world);
3. love (for people who regard money as a symbol of love, the processes of social exchange are disrupted: they consider it necessary to buy or sell love and friendship, use money and gifts as signs of love);
4. freedom (money can act as a source of freedom from others and power over them).