1. FEAR (of not having enough)
We know this one very well. You want to buy something but that little voice is saying "Don't, you won't have for this or that (usually for living, food, etc.).
This is also the fear that there will never be enough (money, love, food, friends, you name it) that feeds on us making us feel insecure, and thus falling deeper into the fear state/energy/vibration. I've personally have been (partially still am) in a situation that I feel (know) that if money doesn't come, I will die. Some of you have maybe been in this feeling if you were unemployed and without savings or other means to support you. Maybe you had that fear that often leads people to make suicide as they don't see any other way out.
We have to know that, as long we are in a fear state, we will not be able to grow our energy or vibration.
2. GUILT - SHAME
It can correlate to many things, but here we think about you feeling guilty for spending the money. You buy a book and then feel guilty as you could have borrowed it from the library. Or you buy something for you and feel guilty as you didn't buy anything for your kids/partner.
The basic truth about money (now more than ever) is that money is energy. For energy to work, it has to flow. If energy is stagnant (check Feng Shui) it will cause disease, financial problems and myriad of different problems for places/people. So you have to receive and give money freely so that this energy can flow. This is very hard when you come from low energy (fear), as fear will prevent you to enjoy spending or cause you to be very reluctant to spend.
There are many ways to prevent being reluctant, from affirmations (check Florence Scovel Shinn), using gratitude every time you pay for something, not blaming yourself if you spend more than you wanted, trying not to buy everything on a discount, but buy something small but luxury.
This guilt is often associated with our upbringing, with what we were told as kids or teens. Mostly it was our parents saying: "Money doesn't grow on the tree"; "Money has to be earned, not spent"; "It is hard to get/have money"; "You have to work really hard to have money"; "Money is evil"; "Only bad people have a lot of money". And it goes on and on. You have surely heard such statements, over and over. More you have been "programmed" with such negative affirmations, more difficult it is for you to give. You block money energy and you experience a lack of abundance in your life. So give money with a smile, bless every purchase you make, bill you pay and fear will subside.
3. GRIEF (from loss of money)
Fear and guilt lead to grief. Every time we spend money, we feel sad. We are grieving money that has left us. We feel we will not be able to earn enough to cover the expense, to cover the loss of money we are experiencing. We often also fear we will not receive enough, not only money but love as well. So we feel sad and we grieve. If we give with love and bless the money that is leaving us (just as we bless money that comes to us), we will cancel reasons for grief, and it will go away, not being able to feed on our low energy.
