Money: An illusion, a shadow of something else... The first step to having wealth is to know what it is. And few people know what it really is, in and of itself. What is wealth? What causes it? What causes the cause of it? Let us start with money, the world’s symbol of wealth, and then move deeper.

Money is not real. Money is merely legal tender, a form of exchange. We use it to e xchange value. It represents value. Money is the ‘body’ of value. It is the physical representation of value that rises and falls in ourselves, within us. Not within ‘things’ outside of us, but within us. For without us, what can the value of a thing, such as a car, be to us? Nothing, at least not to us. 

In other words, it is we, the observers, that place value in things, but this value is really value in us – we give value to the material things. The material things have no ‘money’ value in themselves – we give that to them. So, money is the external physical representation of a particular section of our internal value, within us, within you. That is why a house or a block of shares valued at $1 million today can fall to a valuation of half a million dollars tomorrow when fear is introduced into the hearts of those involved. The fear kills a portion of the internal values of the participants and that is reflected by the paper money, the ‘body’ of value.

Here is something else: physical paper money does not e ven represent money in full. It cannot reasonably do that. By some estimates (and this varies from nation to nation), only as little as 4% of the money in the banks exists as paper cash. Imagine how much cotton, linen, pulp, and metal the world would need so as to make all the money everyone has in his or her bank accounts. Imagine how much space it would take to store all this money in paper form. If you were to stack only one million US$1 bills, it would weigh one ton and be 361 ft high. Neither does money exist as gold reserves any more. This is for exactly the same reason – we ran out of the reasonable ability to keep a gold standard in the 1970s.

So what does it exist as, the money that we are always talking about? Well, it is one massive illusion. It is all just numbers written on paper and computer storage devices, and assigned to people and entities such as companies and investments, or more accurately, further records! 

To put it in another way, for every $100 or its equivalent in any other currency, only about $4 exists as printed-paper notes or coins, while the remaining $96 exists as numbers written on papers and computers in banks and businesses and other entities. The only reason this system does not collapse is that we all believe in it. The last time people stopped believing in it in a large enough extent was just before the Great Depression when large numbers of people rushed to their banks to withdraw their money and found that they could not all get it. This is not what caused the Great Depression, but it in a large way accelerated it.

So, money is not real – something else is. Money is just the shadow of that other something. The first step to wealth is to know what money really is, or more accurately, what it represents. Learn not to look at the money most of the time. As you will soon see, it is very rare in a day that you should ever look at money as you know it today – the cash, the bank accounts, the costs, etc. This is merely the shadow and not the real thing. Looking at the shadow, the p hysical money, as you will soon see, is most of the time very unwise and unhealthy for you and your finances.

Look, instead, at the value within you and within people, and the flowing and exchanging of this value between people. Our internal value, is what creates money. Money is the shadow of our internal value. Develop this internal value in yourself and in others and your external money and wealth will correspondingly rise automatically, without fail.

Know this however: Money represents an aspect of a person’s internal value, but that does not mean that it represents a person’s entire internal value. That is very important. It is not about self-worth. Money only represents an aspect of that internal value that pertains to wealth. You cannot therefore say that a wealthy person has a higher self-worth and value than a poor person, but you can correctly say that in matters that relate and pertain to money, the wealthy person has a higher internal value in that aspect of value or that the person chooses to exercise a higher proportion of this internal value. 

This section of internal value that reflects on the outside as money, when exercised, is called Wealth Consciousness. It is available to all people equally and can be developed by and within all people equa lly. Like everything else that is important to our being alive, such as air, wealth consciousness is free to all. But you can choose to develop it or not develop it, or to exercise it or not. At any time, you can change your choice, and nothing outside of you can stop you.

You require nothing outside of yourself to increase your wealth consciousness, and therefore your money. All you need is within you right now. You may have forgotten it, but it is right there. You will now remember it. And the first step to that is to always remember that money is not real; it is the shadow of something else.

And here is another secret: Wealth consciousness is simply the expansion of your consciousness and awareness into the wealthy parts of your Self. That is why all that you need to increase your wealth consciousness is within you already. You are already wealthy, but you have been taught to choose to not experience your wealth. This insight changes everything. Like the wealthy people, you can now know how to and choose to start experiencing.

A HAPPY POCKETFUL OF MONEY

Would it be safe to say money is just a physical expression or representation of spirtual energy? I always wonder why spiritual people get so hung up about money. I would love to be filthy(and why is this word always asssociated with rich) rich. Because money in our culture represents or offers you freedom. More freedom means less stress and more opportunity to be creative or productive...which in turns enables you to make more money.

Your post is more on, "As you give you will receive." Jesus teaching not on the Law of Attraction that is expressed as "To those that have even more shall they be given, to those that haven't they will lose what little they have." That is also a Jesus teaching but a different lesson on money.

As we give freely, we reprogram our minds from scarcity to flowing abundance. This is as we acknowledge "God is our Silver, God is our Gold." (Job 22:25) We give freely without guilt or fear that we will not have enough for ourselves, this puts the mind into an abundance mindset. And so as you give you receive back far more because now your mind is in the second teaching "To those that have even more shall they be given." Your mind is in the abundance or having mindset, that you will always have enough to give and enough to have because your supply comes from God who is all giving! So with this thought you are now attracting yourself toward more money because you do not feel like I had better keep what little I have or I'll have nothing, you feel like there is plenty more where that came from because God is awesome, he knows my needs and to do his work he will continue to provide so that I may continue to bless those that do not know or do not believe this about God.

As I bless I will be blessed way over as my cup and table overflows from God's good blessings upon me. These two laws work together that is why they say be generous and you will experience generosity. It will be within your heart that God is generous and you can never out-give God. Your good will will return to you many fold because you have switched your mind to prosperity, plenty, abundance for all including you.

That attracts money as in the Law of Attraction.

You said, "I have not even paid back to them that I owe as my current priority is something else." My question is did you borrow money with the promise of repayment? Is keeping your word a priority? Is being debt free a priority? Maybe you can give the money to your family that you owe, and do kind act for strangers. I think that you are holding on to the debt vibration by holding on to the debt. It is also causing bad feelings in your family. It is one thing if you don't have the money, but if you do, get that debt paid off and raise your vibration.

You will feel a sense of accomplishment when you get it paid off, as well as have better vibrations between you and your family. You could offer to work off all or part of the debt as well. Do they pay someone to do work for them that you could do? Do they have a short term project you could help them with to pay off your debt?

Is there some family, emotional issue that keeps you from wanting to pay them back? You seem to want to be able to be generous and helpful to people. (I can see you in my mind skipping through town whistling with fists of money passing it out to the poor.) Is there a reason you struggle with extending this grace to your family?

Please don't take this wrong. I am not judging you, just asking questions that you can ask yourself to get answers. Only you know the answers to these soul searching questions. Peace and blessings.