Teal Swan's course "The Financial Mastery Vault"

[blankisomeone]

I'll post this here instead of in Teal's platform because for some reason I trust actualized.org more lol

I'm trying out Teal Swan's course "The Financial Mastery Vault".

I'll share some stuff here. I welcome you to chip in with your perspectives, personal experiences and ideas as well. No need to be taking the course yourself.

The course is filled with guided meditations designed to take one deep into the "sub"conscious mind and unlock some patterns. There's also a workbook with questions so you can write down your insights and how your experience went. It's supposed to be a 9-week journey. Let's start with the introduction today.

-- DAY 1: COURSE INTRODUCTION --

1. What is your primary intention for this journey? What specific shifts or outcomes do you hope to achieve?
    •    I don't know, I just want to try something... I want to just complete the course and see if anything good and insightful comes out of it. I feel so frustrated and I just want quick results, to be honest. I want this course to help me unlock something in me, whatever it is, that will catalyzed my journey. Ok, I get it that everything great requires effort and shouldn't be expected to go "easy". But honestly I feel that there's gotta me something in me specifically that isn't normal in terms of keeping me stuck for this long. There must be some truths in the world of money-making that I feel that if I ACCEPT will get my journey to even start. I'm very hopeless, honestly. I just want to complete this course and see what happens. The shift I'm hoping to achieve is somehow getting from CONFUSION to CLARITY, from INACTION to ACTION, from FEAR AND DOUBTS ABOUT THE PROCESS to TRUST AND OPENESS TO THE PROCESS. I want to release all this anxiety relative to money and work. I want to release feelings of entitlement like the idea that I should have whatever I want now. Or that I SHOULD just have money regardless of X, Y, Z, like regardless of the fact that I'm not providing unique, high-quality value to anyone

2. What is your current relationship with abundance, and how does it feel in your life right now?
    •    I can't fully trust that "abundance" is a reality. Most of the times it feels like wishful thinking. It feels to me that abundance is inconsistent, sometimes we kinda have it, other times it gets taken away, and when it gets taken away we're left with the truth: just a barren landscape, the abundance period was illusion. Emotionally it's like I'm in a desert. Very despairing. I also wanna say I have no relationship with "abundance". I hope this answers the question? Idk how to do these types of activities that explore our "inner world". I'm just trying here. Not even sure what "a relationship with abundance" means.

3. Reflect on the patterns, beliefs, or experiences that have shaped your current state of abundance. Which ones feel supportive, and which do you feel ready to release?
    •    I don't know how to answer this... What does all of this mean? Does it mean like abundance-feeling experiences I've had throughout my life? Like the Internet gives me access to an abundance of information. Flying on an airplane in a window seat gives me the experience of seeing the abundance of houses making up a city. Is this what is meant by "experiences that have shaped my current state of abundance"? Like experiences that support the idea that abundance is possible? Or like growing up I've had so many experiences of hearing my parents argue about money. It's like money was never enough. While at the same time, they'd be throwing parties, buying a car, building an inground pool. So it was always very confusing to me growing up. DO we have money or NOT? Cuz on the one hand y'all are filled with worries over money, while on the other hand having all of these expenses? Idk, it's all very confusing to me. Oh here's also a list of beliefs I have about finances in general

• I'm too ugly to make money
• My reputation is too tarnished to market myself as a serious value provider, I'm already perceived as lazy and unreliable
• If I make money, I'll crash later and it will suck
• To make money, I'll have to lose fun and be serious
• To make money, I'll have to sacrifice my health by working long hours and then get sick so what's the point of pursuing something that'll just make me sick
• To make money, I'll have to sacrifice the pursuit of connection like friendships and so I might just end up alone
• The system itself is just rigged. The more I learn the more I'll become aware that it's all just currupt and rigged
• If I actually succeed in making money, I'll be hated and envied by those who can't and that's like... most people. So I don't want to be hated
• Creating wealth = creating illusion, because we have to keep upkeeping it constantly. The REALITY is poverty and starvation, that is the default structure of life on Earth
• I've heard a lot about how if I'm gonna make money I have to make myself visible, put myself out there, market myself and my skills. But there's a big part of me that is afraid of being seen, afraid of competition, afraid of rejection, etc
• I just have a meek, weak, small personality. Not much of a go getter type

etc...

4. From your current day perspective, what would it look and feel like to live in full alignment with abundance? How might this version of your life transform your experiences, relationships, and sense of self?
    •    It would feel like my mind would be free from worries of not having enough so I can actually just live my life. It would feel like I can breathe. Like I can have free time. Like I can have fun. Like I can slow down. That would be nice. But is this possible? Probably not, idk. We'll see. It would feel like a life free from the burden of constant anxiety and emotional and physical starvation and stuckness. It would feel like I can easily fulfill my desires in life, I don't know. It would feel like my routine wouldn't have be to filled with activities that feel like drudgery to me just so I can make the minimum amount of money to survive through the month. My mind would feel more free somehow idk

Tomorrow is day 2 and I'll lock myself in my closet in the dark and try her meditation "resolving your financial blockage".

I'll come back and write about how that experience went if I don't die.

Edited 21 hours ago by blankisomeone

[Bjorn K Holmstrom]

Your anxiety about money isn't pathology - it's pattern recognition. You're sensing that the system structurally produces scarcity while demanding you maintain psychological abundance. That's not a bug in your consciousness; it's an accurate read of contradictory incentive structures.

The question isn't "How do I align with abundance within this system?" but "What systems of exchange actually enable care to circulate?" You've already listed the real constraints: health sacrifice, relationship trade-offs, corruption. These aren't limiting beliefs - they're design flaws in current economic architecture, the inevitable result of a financial monoculture that only values extraction.

Consider: What would change if your community had a parallel currency that recognized care work, ecological restoration, mutual aid? Not as mystical manifestation, but as engineered protocols that make visible and liquid the value you're already creating?

The real spiritual economic abundance isn't transcending the need for fair systems - it's recognizing that just systems are spiritual technology, and consciousness work that ignores this builds towers on sand.

[Ishanga]

19 minutes ago, Bjorn K Holmstrom said:

Your anxiety about money isn't pathology - it's pattern recognition. You're sensing that the system structurally produces scarcity while demanding you maintain psychological abundance. That's not a bug in your consciousness; it's an accurate read of contradictory incentive structures.

The question isn't "How do I align with abundance within this system?" but "What systems of exchange actually enable care to circulate?" You've already listed the real constraints: health sacrifice, relationship trade-offs, corruption. These aren't limiting beliefs - they're design flaws in current economic architecture, the inevitable result of a financial monoculture that only values extraction.

Consider: What would change if your community had a parallel currency that recognized care work, ecological restoration, mutual aid? Not as mystical manifestation, but as engineered protocols that make visible and liquid the value you're already creating?

The real spiritual economic abundance isn't transcending the need for fair systems - it's recognizing that just systems are spiritual technology, and consciousness work that ignores this builds towers on sand.

This is correct and well written,,

The problem with these course is that they make it about fixing You, which in some sense is correct, but lots of what is wrong is with the systems we have in place as Bjorn has stated above..

We have tons and tons of Abundance, but we are brainwashed into believing we live in a state of Lack, therefore You feel Incomplete and suffer it, and then try to buy your way out of it if you can via cloths, cars, houses, trips and BS like this, if you don't have this ability you feel worse because you compare yourself with others.. this pattern is also brainwashed into you too so that they can profit off of You..

Don't buy into this stuff, just make Yourself Peaceful of your own nature, then most all of it is fixed...

[Joshe]

Fear is a model of expected harm. The model only updates when experience contradicts the model. Trying to use cognition for major updates doesn't work.

To remove fear, you have to make it non-existent by not feeding the signal. This is solved by having aims other than removing the fear or "fixing yourself".

You can't remove your fear if your objective is to remove fear, because that would be to amplify the very signal you want to eliminate. If fear isn't the main character, it doesn't get fed the attention that keeps it alive. You have to be interested in something beyond yourself.

The nervous system learns that the thing isn't dangerous by noticing you're not treating it as dangerous.

Edited 21 hours ago by Joshe

[Bjorn K Holmstrom]

1 hour ago, Ishanga said:

This is correct and well written,,

The problem with these course is that they make it about fixing You, which in some sense is correct, but lots of what is wrong is with the systems we have in place as Bjorn has stated above..

We have tons and tons of Abundance, but we are brainwashed into believing we live in a state of Lack, therefore You feel Incomplete and suffer it, and then try to buy your way out of it if you can via cloths, cars, houses, trips and BS like this, if you don't have this ability you feel worse because you compare yourself with others.. this pattern is also brainwashed into you too so that they can profit off of You..

Don't buy into this stuff, just make Yourself Peaceful of your own nature, then most all of it is fixed...

I resonate with this deeply. I spent two years without money, living off the land and scraps, and found exactly that peace you describe. When you unplug from the comparison game, the lack disappears because the present moment is usually sufficient.

However, I've come to believe there is a trap in stopping there.

While we can train ourselves to be at peace in a harsh system, we shouldn't have to.

If we only focus on making ourselves peaceful, we risk becoming tolerant of systems that grind others down. It's easy for us to say 'just detach' when we are healthy and single; it's much harder to say that to a single mother working three jobs who can't feed her kids.

My view is: Do the inner work to find peace, but use that peace to build systems that don't require extraordinary spiritual strength just to survive.

We can walk and chew gum at the same time: Detach from the brainwashing of consumerism, but actively redesign the economic plumbing so it stops generating artificial scarcity.

[Ishanga]

7 minutes ago, Bjorn K Holmstrom said:

I resonate with this deeply. I spent two years without money, living off the land and scraps, and found exactly that peace you describe. When you unplug from the comparison game, the lack disappears because the present moment is usually sufficient.

However, I've come to believe there is a trap in stopping there.

While we can train ourselves to be at peace in a harsh system, we shouldn't have to.

If we only focus on making ourselves peaceful, we risk becoming tolerant of systems that grind others down. It's easy for us to say 'just detach' when we are healthy and single; it's much harder to say that to a single mother working three jobs who can't feed her kids.

My view is: Do the inner work to find peace, but use that peace to build systems that don't require extraordinary spiritual strength just to survive.

We can walk and chew gum at the same time: Detach from the brainwashing of consumerism, but actively redesign the economic plumbing so it stops generating artificial scarcity.

Yes for sure totally agree. But before we can act and make change we must establish our BEING, that is we are at Peace within naturally no matter what is going on.. Peace doesn't not mean detachment or no action, its just an Emotional Stability of sorts, plus when Your at Peace you gain Clarity, you can see Reality as it is, not filtered by wanting, needing, or lack of any kind, then via that you go out and perform action and DO, that can mean making change in the world and betterment for all around You.. Without Peacefulness in your experience, your Ego will rise up, your internal suffering will take over whenever challenges/problems arise and then you go off course because You own wellbeing is at stake, that doesn't work..

So create the stable base by which Your actions produce the most Empowerment not only for You but everyone around you and the world itself! 

[blankisomeone]

Ok, so let's go, there's 3 lessons per week.

WEEK 1 - Clearing the path to financial flow

LESSON 1 - Resolving your financial blockage guided meditation

So in this meditation, Teal's voice will guide me into my subconscious mind where I'll ask to be shown what internal blockages are keeping me stuck when it comes to finances. Why don't I have enough of it? Why do I hate talking about money so much? Why is there so much frustration in the pursuit of it? Let's find out I guess. This guided meditation is supposed to be done multiple times, as there can be many blockages. Today's the first time I'm doing this, let's see. I sat in the closet in the dark and followed the meditation.

Questions in the workbook post-meditation:

1. What specific financial block or metaphorical image emerged for you during the meditation? Describe its shape, form, or presence.

• While in a meditative state, I asked to be shown what my internal block is to finances. The first image I saw was me trying to swim towards the shore, my hands out in front of me trying to reach for something, but the strong current kept pulling me back. The second image I saw was me sitting alone in my room in the dark at night, with my parents' spirits/presence surrounding the room. I also saw the image of an electric fence around me keeping me protected, anything that touches it gets burned.

2. What insights did you uncover about the origin of this blockage? Reflect on where and when this belief or energy might have taken root.

• I don't know, I didn't quite pay attention to that part. I did get images of childhood. Being constantly grounded by my parents as a parenting method. Not being able to leave my room, being powerless to doing anything about it.

3. What feelings or resistance arose while exploring this blockage? How did you respond to these emotions?

• I felt a bit of fear, some hesitancy to exploring it. Some doubts as well "Is this even leading me anywhere?" "Is this exercise even doing something for me or is it just silly?" "What's happening?" I didn't give these emotions too much attention, I just let them sit there, sort of on the sideline, and tried to focus my attention instead on the object of exploration at hand.

4. What steps or actions did you intuitively sense needed to happen to resolve this blockage? Reflect on how those actions unfolded in the meditation.

• The first thing that surfaced for me was the feeling that something had to happen in that scene, the one that appeared to me in the darkness of my room, with my parents hovering outside. I sensed that I needed to dig a hole into the ground that led outside and crawl through it. I had to leave the "ghosts" of my parents behind, leave behind the internal image I have of them, of them being my "protectors" and "providers" and the bearers of the truth of the correct way to make finances work; maybe they're not the best. I just needed to leave the darkness of my room and get outside. I didn't know what would happen after that. But I had to get out.
• Regarding the image of being pulled back by the ocean currents, I needed someone to grab my hand and help pull me out.

5. How did it feel to imagine this blockage resolved? What sensations or emotions arose in your body when the block was removed?

• I imagined myself crawling through that hole and leaving the house. I found myself outside. On the street. Looking out into the road. I felt so much grief. I started sobbing uncontrollably. I felt alone. I felt like betraying the image I had of my parents. I felt empty. So the sensation I had was one of deep grief and sadness. Some fear as well, not knowing who to turn to or where to go. Teal said that this reaction is okay and can happen sometimes.

6. What is one practical step you can take in your daily life to align with the feeling of financial freedom you accessed during this meditation?

• I don't know. Perhaps I have to get out more, stop isolating myself. I guess this would help me feel more "free"? Perhaps I have to think differently about finances than my parents have always thought

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I also feel the need to get clear on what financial freedom means to me exactly. What do I want?
______________________________

Going to bed now. Drifting into a dream state with the following intention in mind 

"I need help understanding with simple metaphors what is preventing me from living a life free from financial stuckness

"I can't have ______, because I have no money."

Edited 11 hours ago by blankisomeone

[hyruga]

Read books like Spiritual economics or Ask and it is Given. 

It's funny how a spiritual leader come up with a financial course. She will pivot to spiritual science of money.

[blankisomeone]

WEEK 1 - Clearing the path to financial flow

LESSON 2 - Redefining Work and Abundance

So here Teal is helping out a guy that wants to stop going to work at the office everyday. So she asks him like, ok, what you lack is basically a feeling of passion for what you do, so what's your dream? Whayever it is. Think huge. He says he wants to buy land in Costa Rica, build his home there, and earn a living planting trees, but he doesn't know how to do that. He doesn't have the money for it.

Teal asks him what's so painful about doing something you don't particularly like at the moment at the current job that you're at, to make money, knowing that that dream is what you're headed towards? My first response is that I'm sacrificing present happiness for future happiness... Should I adopt that mentality or...? Maybe this is the concept of delayed gratification? The patience that I need? [...] Sometimes I feel, though, that if I'm doing a job right now just to make money to do something else, I feel like that's lying to the people I'm working for, you know what I mean? Like here I am showing up everyday, putting in the work, but PSYCH! peace out. I just did it to save money to do something else, bye. And that's just not right? Idk.

She says something like, paraphrashing here, if you KNOW that you wanna buy land in Costa Rica, if you've decided that that's what you want and you don't have the money for it, then you still have options, it's not like the dream dies in "I don't have money for it." You can borrow it. You can get someone to give it to you. You can move into somebody else's land. Or you can make that money some other way. There's a bunch of options that you can chase all at once, actually.

Then Teal does that thing where she "takes on the aspect of the other person that's in the way of them getting what they want." This guy has an internal aspect that has decided: "There's only one way I want to get money: by it being given to me. I don't want to do any work for it. I just want it to drop on my lap." And this aspect is completely closed off to any other possibilities, especially the idea of putting in work and effort.

--- WORKBOOK ---

I'll finish this later. Gotta rush to work.

1. What was Teal's advice for someone feeling stuck and wanting to pursue their passion?

• A) Wait for inspiration to strike
• B) Stick to their current job and save money
• C) Begin exploring unmet needs they could fulfill
• D) Focus solely on manifesting wealth without action

2. What does Teal emphasize as a major block to manifesting abundance?

• A) A lack of financial literacy
• B) Restricting the universe (God) to provide abundance in only one way
• C) Not working hard enough
• D) Believing that abundance is undeserved

3. What limiting beliefs or fears have kept you feeling trapped in unfulfilling work or financial situations?

4. How does the idea of opening yourself to new possibilities for abundance challenge or expand your current thinking about earning money?

5. If you were to fully embrace your passion as a path to financial success, what is one courageous step you could take to begin aligning your actions with this vision?

Edited 14 minutes ago by blankisomeone