Comments on: Part 1: Sometimes money is just money

By: Adderall tolerance and bontril.

Adderall tolerance and bontril. — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:02:58 +0000

Adderall tolerance and bontril….

Adderall tolerance and bontril….

By: Part 2: Money as Metaphor | The Writer's [Inner] Journey

Part 2: Money as Metaphor | The Writer's [Inner] Journey — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:26:11 +0000

[...] The Recovering Creative, prosperity As I mentioned in a previous entry, Melanie Votaw’s views about money came from her study of Jungian psychology, specifically the [...]

By: Tom McCranie

Tom McCranie — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:37:44 +0000

Woodman, a Jungian analyst, teaches us to be wary of emotional projection onto [that which is] physical, as this causes unhealthy attachments…

As others have pointed out, it difficult not to have an emotional “projection” with something that in our current society is needed to live, to feed and care for ourselves and those that depend on us.

This leads me to my second money truth: I can improve my relationship with money by noticing (without judgment or disdain) my emotional reactions toward it.

I suspect you can improve your relationship with money when the things you need/want match the income you have, with a little left over of the latter.

Left brain or pragmatic?

Thanks for helping get me thinking this morning.

By: Barb

Barb — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:45:43 +0000

Money is just money, but it gives worries–especially when there doesn’t seem to be enough. We have enough, but I worry about it anyway…I’d like to give that one over.

By: Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell

Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:45:28 +0000

I just watched “What the Blip do we Know?” (not sure how I missed that when it came out), but that documentary talks about our relationships and also our “addictions” to the emotions surrounding those relationships. It made me realize my own feelings and emotions from the past make my own relationship with money toxic. Now I just need to figure out how to change those emotions to change the toxic relationship!

By: MarthaandMe

MarthaandMe — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:40:01 +0000

This is interesting to think about – it’s really hard to separate my own emotional reactions to money and think about it in a detached way.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:43:20 +0000

I often think about the money I have made in three different jobs. No money as a mother/cook/housewife, etc. Minimum wage, once divorced, as a toddler teacher at a large daycare center where the parents made tons of money. And, today I get paid a good amount of money for future work as an innkeeper, far less full-filling and so much easier than child-care. So, I will follow your study of money with much interest.

By: noel

noel — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:25:16 +0000

The freedom to change your feelings about money seems directly linked to just how important it is. Ask some one who make six figures and money is nothing. Ask some one with a spouse and kids to support who make 12 thousand a year and money is as important as as his own blood. Abraham Maslow touches on it in his theory.

By: Sheryl

Sheryl — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:58:37 +0000

Yes, money is an inanimate object…but a powerful one, at that. And one that we need to get things we need/want. I wonder if it’s possible to have a (well)-balanced relationship with it. It seems that sometimes, money rules while other times, we can easily rise above its pull.

By: Jennifer Haupt

Jennifer Haupt — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:34:05 +0000

People have so much baggage around money, myself included. This was a very interesting post.