The Connection Between Our Emotions, Money and Health

Julie Murphy • August 1, 2022

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The reason why I’m so passionate about my work in the financial industry is because so many people aren’t aware just how connected our money is to our health. Everything is energetic and there have been countless times I’ve worked with people professionally as well as witnessed in my own life, where health and finances have suffered as a result of unfelt emotions and trauma.

The Connection Between Our Money and Health

I was called to write this post today, because I had the honour of appearing on Dr. John Bergman’s podcast ‘In the Know with Dr B’. The episode aired this week and our conversation demonstrated the profound correlation between the manifestation of physical health issues, our money and our emotions. Dr. Bergman educates people on how to address the physical, chemical and emotional pillars of our health to bring the body back into physiological balance, and as our conversation unfolded, I shared how connected our health also is to our money - and our feelings around money.

Why is this? Surely money is a separate part of our life altogether? We know logically that to create financial freedom and have our needs taken care of, we have to follow the smart advice, make the right decisions and then all is taken care of in that department, right? After all, there are plenty of wealthy people who still experience disease and suffering.

Well, we already know that for a state of poor health to be created in the first place, the body has to be in a state of dis-ease, of imbalance. We also know that emotional factors such as stress put the body into that state of inflammation and dis-ease, and so when you’re not living a life that you love, disease in your body will crystallize on a cellular level.

Leaving Our Heart on the Sidelines

This is why there are indeed many wealthy people who still go through poor health because despite having money, they can find themselves in a category of people I call ‘Rich but Empty’. They have done all the ‘right’ things with their money, saved hard and invested smartly, but underneath the surface, perhaps their marriage has caused them deep unhappiness. This person’s happiness and joy has been left to the wayside and although their finances are in great shape, this emotional suffering has created disease in physical form.

We might show up and do all the right things, follow all the rules, walk the path that was set for us, but we leave our heart on the sidelines. This is when a health crisis will appear.

Most of us experience some form of trauma or rejection before the age of 7, which is the core wound that then plays out through our relationship with money to avoid feeling the emotions connected to that trauma or rejection. These can often be subconscious and what many of us might even see as insignificant as an adult and brush off. However, those subconscious emotions are immensely powerful and can show up in various ways through our behaviours around money. For example, using credits and accumulating debt, being overly controlling with our finances, financially caretaking for others at the cost of our own needs and so on. Anything to avoid feeling what we really need to feel!

The behaviours can manifest in different ways, but regardless, there is always an emotional component driving those. So, when considering why you can’t seem to hold money for example, reflect on what else is going on in your life? You’ll know if you’re familiar with my Julie Murphy work, books and videos that I offer many strategies to take action on creating a life of Real Wealth such as how to hold money and reduce debt. Until you address the emotional side of your money first though, and look at what in your life isn’t in alignment and where you’re not tapping into your heart, the same patterns will play out, or you’ll swap one coping mechanism for another.

This is why I’ve seen clients such as the one who came to me to help reduce their debt and create a retirement plan, which they fully committed to, yet when they returned for their review, had gained 30 pounds in the process. When we tap deeper into what else is going on in their life, we often discover a suffering pattern of some kind as a result of an unhappy marriage, an unmet desire for children or dissatisfaction in a career.

It’s not until we shine a light on and feel through these unfelt emotions and clear them that we can live that life of Real Wealth – a profound sense of freedom in all areas of our life, where everything is brought back into harmony and there is no suffering in the process. This is when we can create abundance in our finances, enjoy wonderful relationships and feel incredible in our physical body. We can have it all!

The Magnetic Force of the Heart

A health crisis only appears as a way to align us with our soul and I firmly believe that we don’t have to call one in first in order to shift energetically. We can prepare and avoid that suffering by leading with our heart. Why our heart? We know through research from HeartMath.com that the magnetic force of the human heart stretches 8 miles. Yes, 8 miles! The magnetic force of the brain stretches 2 feet. So, let me ask you; which one do you want to make your decisions from?

If you want to create financial wealth, once you do this from a place of leading from the heart, this is when all the practical action steps stick because you’re making an empowered choice. You’re following your heart, are in full alignment with what you want to create and that is when you start to rewire your subconscious mind. Those old hardwired actions and beliefs around money clear in place for new ones that vibrate on that energy of Real Wealth.

The only way to get to the other side of what you’re going through is to feel the feelings you experienced as a child. The only way out is through and then you can begin to live that life of Real Wealth right now, wherever you’re starting from. Commit to changing how you plug into the world differently and take the action to do that. Be truly relentless about what you want to create!

This is how you enjoy a life of abundance and vibrant health and you don’t have to call in a health crisis first to attain that.

A huge thanks to Dr. B for having me on his show and talking about this topic that I’m so passionate about in more depth! Again, if you’d like to watch and listen to the preview video of the full episode, you can do so here.

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