We have been programmed to be poor

The unfiltered truth about our scarcity “mindset”

There’s something many of us have in common: the desire to be rich. To reach that place where money flows freely and we finally feel “free.”

We’ve all dreamed, at some point, of liberating ourselves from the burden of scarcity. We’ve fantasized about having access to extraordinary experiences, ones that feel out of this world, reserved for a few.

Years of self-introspection and a deep desire to understand myself have brought me back to this theme several times: money. I’ve questioned my relationship with it, and I’ve even questioned God about the obvious unfairness and imbalance of wealth in the world. These questions have pushed me to dig into the beliefs I inherited from my lineage, that money is evil, that it’s the root of all problems. But they’ve also opened me to a deeper truth and to divine insight.

This isn’t just an article about “money mindset.” It’s a reflection, personal and collective on our relationship with money. After years of inner work and transforming my own patterns, I’ve come to a tough realization: we are all complicit in the scarcity we experience, both individually and collectively. Even though we live in an era where tools, education, and opportunities are more accessible than ever, still only about 2% of the population holds the majority of the world’s wealth. The rest? Often caught in cycles of debt, survival, and stress.

Money is not a mindset, it’s a conscious behavior

Books and courses will tell you that money is a mindset: think positively, and it’ll rain. If only it were that simple, we would all be millionaires by now. Money is not just about thoughts. It’s about behavior. It’s about embodiment.

Yes, much of that behavior is shaped by our upbringing, environment, and cultural programming, often running on autopilot. But changing it requires more than affirmations. It requires conscious responsibility:

• How we use money?

• How we receive it?

• More importantly, it requires understanding money as sacred energy,

  a reflection of God.

  

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We gave power to the wrong people

The wealth imbalance in the world isn’t just a case of “bad guys winning.” It’s the result of collective unconsciousness. We’ve handed power to people who are’t in their hearts, simply by not taking responsibility for where and how we direct our money.

Money is neutral. It only expands who we are. If someone is greedy, money amplifies that. If someone is generous, money magnifies that too.

We’ve all complained about not having enough, while simultaneously fueling systems and companies that perpetuate harm. But what if, instead of blaming, we owned our role in this imbalance? What if we used our money, however little or much with intention?

Imagine if we only supported brands and creators aligned with human values. Imagine if we reclaimed our power and stopped treating money as some cosmic lottery. We'd start shaping a world where wealth flows more equitably and naturally to all.

We need a conscious consumer revolution

Changing this unfair distribution of wealth doesn’t begin with governments or billionaires, it starts with us, as consumers. The people at the top? They’re there because we placed them there. Every purchase, every swipe of the card is a vote.

It’s not about boycotting everything or living on second hand goods forever. That’s just another extreme. Conscious money behavior means balance: honoring innovation, beauty, and creativity, while also supporting sustainability, ethics, and community impact.

When money circulates in systems built on values, it grows. It flows. And it creates an ecosystem where giving and receiving is balanced.

Small amounts don’t make us powerless

One of the biggest rewiring we need to do is: stop believing we’re powerless just because we don’t have millions. Every dollar we spend carries energy, and that energy shapes the world.

When we spend to numb pain or chase trends out of fear of missing out, we disconnect from that power. Conscious spending doesn’t mean restriction, it means alignment. It means understanding the why behind our choices.

Yes! Buy the bag. But buy it from intention, not emotional void. That’s where the real shift begins

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Money Is not an object of desire, it’s a relationship

Too many people treat money like some golden prize, valuable, rare, and hard to get. Everyone wants it, but very few cultivate the skills to hold it. Money, like anything sacred, demands respect. And like any relationship, it needs care, consistency, and attention.

If instead of obsessing over attracting money to solve our problems, we took time to nurture a healthy relationship with it, money might stop running from us.

You can’t hold millions if you can’t manage hundreds. Money is energy. And energy, by nature, requires flow. The moment we grip it too tightly or ignore it altogether, it stagnates. Money also demands practical action. If we haven’t developed the skills to manage and grow it, how can we expect it to stay?

Everyone wants to be a millionaire, but no one wants to be the manager

People dream of being rich because they think money is freedom. But money is not meant to buy happiness, it’s meant to expand life.

And expansion requires structure.

Managing money is the dance between the masculine (action, structure, discipline) and the feminine (flow, intuition, purpose). Both are needed.

There are people with massive wealth who feel miserable, not because money is a bad company, but because they’re disconnected from its sacredness. Their sole intention is to keep money, not to circulate it. And when money is hoarded, it creates disconnection, fear, and suffering.

On the flip side, many heart-centered people reject wealth, unconsciously believing it’s dirty or dangerous. So they manifest just enough to survive, but never allow it to grow. Because money requires inner alignment and practical tools to know-how, it’s not just spiritual openness.

Money is neither good nor evil. It’s a mirror. A current. A sacred tool. And like all sacred things, it asks for our respect, responsibility, and readiness.

If you were given a million dollars today, what would you actually do with it?

For most, the answer is: buy more stuff. And there’s nothing wrong with loving luxury (I adore Chanel too). But money isn’t just here to fund desire, it’s here to empower, expand, and create. That requires inner foundations to hold it without shame, and skills to manage it with grace.

Con amor,

Jen 🫶

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