MONEY AS AN ENERGY EQUIVALENT
The category of “money" is studied by various branches of science. In economics money is viewed as an equivalent of goods, in sociology – the equivalent of communication while psychology can view it as an equivalent of energy. We have talked about it with the psychologist Irina SHKOL’NIK. A person, who grows crops, spends energy; a person, who fishes, also spends energy. Things used to be easy in the past: people exchanged their invested energy. Then money was invented as an energy equivalent for convenience. In any event money is still energy. A lot of things depend on who will obtain this energy: a creator or a destroyer. If a person is not mature enough to handle a lot of money then, as a rule, a considerable sum of money turns into a tragedy for him. As money is a relationship between people, it is social energy, and if a person wants to live in a community, instead of living in a desert solitude, he will hardly become happy and successful without it. Surely, we all have our own limits and sums. WHEN CONSCIOUSNESS IS “PRO” AND SUBCONSCIOUS IS "CON" - Are there any people who do not want to possess lots of money? - There are people who are not aware they do not want money, - Irina said, stunning me with her answer immediately. - A person actually has what he really wants to have. We view money as energy, and a person “trying on” this or that sum of money (testing the extent of energy on himself), begins to have certain feelings. Those are often the feelings of fear, shame and guilt. Those very feelings block money energy.
- Basically it is all clear, but as Kortnyev sings in one of his songs: "... what exactly did you mean?" - Let us begin from the point that a category of money has a cultural aspect, based on the ideology passed from generation to generation and forming personal views regarding money. These views can be formed subconsciously, and a person is often not aware of them. In other words consciousness says that money is necessary for happiness and a person is ready for it, but subconsciously (rather unknowingly) he has a negative attitude towards money and does not want to be rich. For money is a serious trial and a large responsibility. It is a fundamentally different, unfamiliar style of life. Some people simply like being victims: if you are poor, everyone feels sorry for you, helps you and does not make claims. - So how is the negative attitude to money formed which becomes an obstacle for our consciousness later on? - Each of us is raised in a certain environment, which forms our attitude to money from an early age creating a so called certain “image of money”. For instance, if an expression like "being poor is normal" was a family credo, it could lead to blocking a money “channel” on a subconscious level. That is if a person grows up in a poor family and feels comfortable with it, becoming rich to him means betraying his habitual way of life subconsciously. Others are driven by the fear of responsibility or change: "Bad is better because this is something you are used to," - their subconscious says. Or a different example: a popular particularly cultural stereotype “money does not come in an honest way”, which is also an obstacle to becoming rich. This is a heritage of the system we lived in. But you cannot help agreeing that it is almost impossible to earn money in an honest way in Russia. - The point is it is this cultural aspect that materialized a respective situation in the country. If the stereotype changes, the situation will change, too. Of course today there are people who are “not infected” by this conviction and they have a considerable amount of money, earned in a completely honest way.