Color is perceived from refracted waves of light.  Light is the primal source of energy and life on this planet.  Color is much more than a palette for preference or adornment.  In color resonates the pure energies of all creation.

When we speak about the colors of money, we are not referring to the color of any specific currency. For our purposes, the color of money refers to the vibratory frequency of different colors and how they affect our physical bodies, our emotions, and our thoughts. (more…)

Ed Grimley, the Martin Short character from Saturday Night Live, used to dance around with a maniacal grin saying, “I’m going mental.”  It was funny, but what he really meant was that he was letting go of his emotions.  Sometimes it’s easy to confuse the two because they are so interdependent. What and how we think determines much of what and how we feel.  This is especially true with our thoughts and feelings about money. (more…)

Music touches the deepest recesses of our emotional being.  As silly as it may sound, for all of the great music I have heard in my life, one piece of music that always brings to me a feeling of contentment and joy is a song by Simon and Garfunkel called “59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin Groovy).” For any Baby Boomers reading this there is no need for explanation.  The lyrics (“slow down you’re movin’ too fast, you got to make the moment last”) and the signature hook (“lookin for fun and feelin groovy”) are indelible imprints on our collective teenage consciousness; one minute and fifty-six seconds of pure adolescent emotion. (more…)

People learn best from stories, both from living them and from the telling.

My first car was a bare bones Datsun, and when I married we had a Toyota Corona. Those two cars provided me as much enjoyment as any form of transportation I have experienced since, probably because my only criteria for an auto at that time was to get me where I wanted to go as cheaply and efficiently as possible. Over the years we progressed through Volvos to a succession of Mercedes. I chose the Mercedes because, late one evening on a trip to southern Indiana to visit my mother, I was pushing the speed limit, going over eighty mph, when the transmission seals on our Volvo wagon overheated. We lost our transmission fluid and came to a halt.
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Money usually begins with the physical.  It is where we have the most direct contact with money and the stuff we buy.  We can feel the coins and paper currency.  We write checks make bank deposits, use our charge cards.  We see, touch, hear and smell our cars, food, fuel, houses, iPods, computers, books, clothes and all the other many toys, diversions and necessities of life.  Physical money is not at all interior.  It is by definition exterior yet has no meaning or purpose without some interior reciprocal quality or faculty.  A physical manifestation is defined and realized by how we perceive and value that thing.  Think of the old adage “If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it does it make a sound?” (more…)

Money issues span every part of human consciousness. There is no part of us that thinks, feels, or knows that is not intimately affected by money. That is why we need so very deeply to better understand money. In my book, The Colors of Money. Finding Your MoneyForce, I discussed how money works on four distinct but unified parts of human awareness. There is physical money that we touch, and the physical manifestations of that money. There is emotional money, our deep feelings about money and wealth. In the mental plane we think about money and form abstract, but often seemingly concrete theories and philosophies of money. Finally, money has a soul level where we harbor the deep intuitive knowing about money and its true meaning. Each interior level has a color, which not only symbolizes that area but also resonates with, and defines the deepest qualities, attributes and faculties of that aspect. (more…)