# Money > Money is one valid symbol of abundance equal to barter gift trade and synchronicity that flows as a side effect of acting on excitement rather than a target to be chased while the learner must untangle limiting definitions about worth that block the symbol from reaching them - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/money # Money Money, in Bashar's teaching, is one valid symbol of abundance — equal to barter, gift, trade, and synchronicity, never above or below them. The work this chapter points to is not learning to chase money but untangling the definitions that warp your relationship to it, so that money — when it is the path of least resistance — can flow, and so that other forms of abundance can arrive when money is not. Bashar is explicit that this is not financial direction; it is an examination of the beliefs that determine whether the symbol can reach you at all. ## Abundance is the ability; money is one form The primal definition Bashar returns to across sessions is that abundance is "the ability to do what you need to do when you need to do it." Money can be the form this takes; it does not have to be. Restricting abundance to the money symbol alone closes the doors through which synchronicity, exchange, gift, and opportunity could otherwise deliver exactly what is needed. A friend with an empty house, a stranger with the right skill, a coincidental opening — these are all abundance arriving without a dollar changing hands, and insisting on the money route shuts them out. This is why Bashar frames money as a side effect, not a target. When someone asks how to "make more money" in business, he redirects: money is a side effect of acting on what actually excites you, not the excitement itself. The mother whose greatest joy was telling stories to her children was eventually paid to tell stories to groups — not because she targeted money, but because she acted on her excitement and let abundance arrive in whatever form offered least resistance. ## You are the first coin Beneath every money fear, Bashar locates a definition about worth. Money has no value of its own — it would not even exist as a concept without you. You are the original coin, the first unit of value that has to be "spent"; if you devalue yourself, you have nothing with which to attract the symbol, and physical reality — which can only reflect — finds nothing to reflect. Self-worth is therefore not a side note to abundance; it is the mechanism. "Your physical reality can do anything but reflect it. But if it doesn't reflect something you say you want, you have to understand you're not giving off the image to be reflected." A habit, once you know you are doing it, is no longer a habit but a choice, repeated because a belief motivates it. The one who "keeps shortchanging" money is choosing to, and the work is to find the belief that drives the choice — not to relabel it an intractable pattern. ## Conflicting definitions block the flow The culture hands out contradictory definitions about money, and these are what sour the relationship. You are told that to be successful you must make a lot of money, and in the next breath that money is the root of all evil — so if you become successful, you must be becoming evil. Taken to heart, these create an inner war that prevents either side from resolving. The instruction is not to adopt a new positive belief over a negative one but to lay the definitions out clearly, separate them, and see what you are actually working with. Bashar also flags the inverted language of the monetary system itself: when your money loses value you say it is "inflated" (something getting bigger gets smaller), and when it gains value you say it has "deflated." Whether or not this seems profound on the surface, it is one of the deep, repeated signals that locks the inverted relationship in place. The exercises he gives — visualizing the dollar bill inflating in power, then shrinking, then returning, and noticing whether it comes back at the same size — are designed to surface what value you actually assign to money relative to the "going rate," and by extension to yourself. ## Do more with less The paradoxical formula Bashar calls "the secret to money" is: when you learn to do more with less, you will be able to do less to get more. The greatest expression of power requires the most delicate touch; when you feel powerless you push and force, but when you are actually powerful, a nudge of the little finger moves mountains. Training yourself to start with what is at hand — the burnt stick of the cave painter, the pencil instead of the fancy pens — closes the circuit and teaches the consciousness that access to abundance requires almost nothing. This is the principle behind the destitute artist illustration: even at the bottom, you still have every single thing you need to begin generating momentum in the direction of who you are. People without fancy paints, pens, or pencils used burnt sticks on cave walls and produced art that still stands in any museum. Forgetting this — believing only the fancy tools count — is what stops the start. ## Relative value and the coin you marry A coin's value is situational, not fixed. In the penny-and-dollar exchange exercise, the person with a pocket full of dollars stands at a vending machine that only takes pennies and is suddenly poor relative to the person with one penny who can buy the chocolate. Abundance is having what lets you do what you want when you want it — not the denomination you hold. The "marry the coin" ceremony takes this further. Bashar cites then-emerging research that the intelligence of the heart, cell for cell, is greater than that of the brain, with transplant recipients sometimes taking on characteristics of their donors — one heart even carried the memory that identified its donor's murderer. The brain divides and compartmentalizes; the heart relates and wants to be in love with everything. Marrying the coin is the exercise of bringing the heart, not just the head, into the relationship with money, so that the essence of money is imprinted into the heart's cellular intelligence rather than remaining an abstraction in the head. ## Flow, service, and the long arc Abundance flows; it does not sit. Those who are functionally abundant are not stockpiling — their money is doing things, flowing through them. Clinging to the symbol blocks the flow, and Bashar observes that the universe will engineer a release (sometimes through something being stolen, sometimes through other forced openings) when a person will not release willingly. "A gap created will be a gap filled. There have been no vacuums in creation." Service is the closed loop. "When you enrich others, you will be enriched" is stated as a 100% guarantee, without reservation. Tithing in a specific format is not required, but giving, supporting, and serving are necessary — there are many forms of tithing, and which form you use is up to you. The longer arc Bashar points to is a future economy based not on arbitrary currency but on the skills, abilities, and gifts people themselves have to share — an organizational body that synchronistically matches what each person offers with what others need. A true revamping of exchange will also require the dissolving of many political, sociological, and religious borders, all changing together into a holistic global system. ## Practical implications Trace any money fear back to the definition beneath it. Ask: "What would I have to believe is true about not having money in order to be this afraid?" The fear is never primary; the belief is. Externalize your money beliefs by writing them out, positive and negative, on paper where you can see them outside your head. Seeing that they are "props, smoke and mirrors, weightless, with no power" — alive only by borrowing your power — returns the power to you, the source of their value. Relax the definition of abundance so that money is one form among many. When money is not the path of least resistance, let synchronicity, exchange, or gift deliver what is needed without insisting on the money route. Examine whether an impulse to share or spend is flowing from fullness or reacting to a feeling of lack. Honest self-evaluation tells the difference; sharing from lack leads to trouble. Begin where you are with what you have. The burnt stick is enough to start; waiting for the fancy tools postpones the momentum that would have brought them. Note: Bashar states that he will not give financial, legal, or medical directives, and the above is a description of his teaching on the vibrational relationship to money — not personal financial advice. ## Representative passages Recognize that the basic primal definition of abundance, in your terms more closely is simply being able to do what you want to do when you want to do it. This does not always mean that you must have money in order to fulfill that definition.— Bashar, Abundance (abundance#qa-1) This is all about honoring yourself. It's all about understanding that you are the first coin you have to spend. And if you're not willing to believe you have value, what can you buy? You have devalued your money by devaluing yourself. So you have nothing to spend. The only value there is is your value. Everything is a reflection of your value. Money doesn't have value on its own.— Bashar, To Be Rich About Money (to-be-rich-about-money#qa-3) When you learn to do more with less, you will be able to do less and create more… The secret to money is knowing that you can do more with less — then you will require less to do more. It is based on the idea that the greatest expression of power requires the most delicate touch.— Bashar, The Money (the-money#qa-4) Those that are expressing abundance are not stockpiling, they are allowing abundance to flow through them, to do things… For a gap created will be a gap filled. There have been no vacuums in creation.— Bashar, Abundance (abundance#qa-3) When you enrich others, you will be enriched. 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