Unlocking Financial Abundance: Transform Your Money Mindset Today

Freedom, opportunities, responsibility, energy—money evokes different associations for everyone, but most people aspire to have it. Why do some succeed in increasing their income while others struggle? How can we understand ourselves better through our relationship with money? Psychologist and Access Bars practitioner Olga Lapteva shares her insights.

Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone to Earn More

“How can I earn more and with ease? What do I need to do to always have enough money?” These questions haunted me for decades. Sitting in a park, I realized how challenging it can be to choose something new. I intended to write this article at home, but suddenly felt a strong urge to take my laptop to the park—something I had never done before. On my way, I repeatedly thought about turning back, sitting at my familiar desk by the window, and not venturing into the unknown. “Why are you doing this? Who needs it? Where are you going?” Strange questions echoed in my mind, as if they weren’t my own. Only when I told myself, “Just start, and if you don’t like it, you can always choose something else,” did I find myself sitting under a tree, typing these words. I realized that if it was so uncomfortable for me to simply sit on the grass in the park, what happens when we choose a financial reality different from what we’re used to, different from what our parents and surroundings chose? Many of us strive for higher incomes and opportunities, but in reality, most choose what is comfortable and familiar to our psyche and body. Often, scarcity feels more familiar than abundance. Let’s explore this fascinating topic of money step by step.

How Money Beliefs Are Formed

Our relationship with money begins to form in early childhood. Even what our mother thought while carrying us, her worries about financial well-being, all of this influences us. The financial attitudes in our family, experiences like dispossession, the fate of successful and wealthy ancestors—all these factors shape our views. As we grow, society further influences us: what our surroundings say about money, fairy tales where the rich are often evil and the poor are kind and resourceful, movies, books. How openly does society talk about money? Is it acceptable to ask about someone’s salary, especially acquaintances? How often do we hear admiration for people’s achievements and successes, or do we more frequently encounter judgment and envy towards the wealthy? How comfortable are we with receiving judgments—admiration, hatred, envy, lies, gossip? When it comes to money, the only thing that truly matters is our readiness to receive. We always receive as much as our psyche finds comfortable and safe. For many, living in debt feels more comfortable than having savings that could be lost in a crisis, stolen, poorly invested, or foolishly spent. Did reading this evoke strong emotions? Did you feel like closing this article? Don’t rush. There is a way out. Let’s release all the energy these words might have stirred up—all the reactions, thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Let’s release all this energy from our bodies and realities. “Is it really that simple?” you might ask. Yes, it is. If we don’t hold onto energy, it naturally dissipates. Remember how you once aired out a room—when you open a window, everything that needs to go, goes naturally and by itself.

“When it comes to money, the only thing that truly matters is our readiness to receive.”

“Money Has No Opinions”: The Truth About Money

Before discovering Access Consciousness, I spent ten years searching for methods and practices to improve my financial situation. I tried everything: rewriting beliefs, working with a psychologist, becoming a psychologist myself, seeking my path and purpose where my “money” supposedly hid. I consulted numerologists, astrologers, palm readers, and tarot readers. I studied every method I came across, including ThetaHealing, cosmenergy, bioenergy, and even magic. Finally, in 2020, I encountered the Access Bars method, where I first heard the phrase: “What feels easy for you is true for you; what feels difficult holds some falsehood. Start choosing what feels easy for you.” This was strange to me, as I, like many, believed that I must be missing something, that I needed to find and uncover some truth about money, learn how it works, take the right actions, and then everything would fall into place, and money would come as if it had legs. The idea that I might already know something, that the truth lies within me, was new and exciting. Thus began my journey into discovering what I know about money. The first thing to know about money is that it has no opinions. Money exists with the kind, the evil, the generous, and the stingy—money has no opinions about us. So why do some people have money while others perpetually have zero in their accounts or a so-called “financial ceiling”? I once had a financial ceiling for seven years that I couldn’t break through with any practices until 2021, when I earned my first million rubles in a month. I didn’t understand how it happened; money just started coming from everywhere.

“I Don’t Have to Believe It, I Can Choose Again”: A Useful Practice

What did I do? I examined my beliefs about money, writing down every day what I had decided about money, where it could come from in my opinion, where it couldn’t, who rich people are, who people with money are. I sat down and wrote out all my thoughts, feelings, and decisions about money every day. After that, I carefully reviewed what I had written and asked myself one question.