Last weekend I went on a mini weekend getaway up to Connecticut with Justin centered around seeing my favorite band, 5SOS, play at Mohegan Sun. (They were amazinggg btw)
Along with having an awesome concert venue (it was sooo convenient and clean and easy, would 100% go back) obviously Mohegan Sun is also a casino.
Justin played a few rounds on roulette one day but I personally was scared to play any games…and I found myself asking: “wait, why am I scared?”
I checked in and realized it was because I was scared of losing money. And that’s when it hit me - a casino is actually a perfect place to do some shadow work around money!
The whole place is money… there’s tables where you have to spend $15,000 to even enter! There’s jackpots of $100,000, there’s penny slots, there’s winning and losing, big money, no money, it’s all there, you can feel it in the air.
Being at a casino literally makes you face your money mindset head on.
While being there, feelings will arise and make you see head on what your dominant belief around money is. It can get uncomfortable for sure, but it’s also a great way to work through healing it and shifting it.
As I mentioned, I realized for me, I was scared to bet anything because I was scared to lose. I wasn’t focused on the fact that I could win big, which was probably from a lifetime of middle class people around me (peers, teachers, family, friends, community members, etc) who never saw big money as a real, tangible thing that was possible for them. I come from middle class New York suburbia where the cost of living is much higher than most of the country and most people are in a frequent cycle of complaining about the expenses of everything; fearful that money will never, ever be enough.
Even if I consciously tell myself “money is an infinite resource” and all the money affirmations I have since learned, those community beliefs are still within me, lingering in my subconscious mind, and coming to the surface in instances as such.
However, I was able to mostly talk myself out of those fears. As Justin played roulette, his money went down, but then it went back up. I told myself it was proof that even if we spend money, it always comes back to us. The universe will always provide and support us. By putting money into circulation, it helps other people (in this instance casino workers and owners and other people winning jackpots), to become more abundant, therefore of course that abundance would come back to us.
Money is a constant ebb and flow, you can’t be afraid to lose, because then you’ll never gain. By watching Justin’s money go away and then come back plus extra, it really helped me to see that cyclic abundance lesson in action in real time.
While we didn’t win super big, we did always come up on the positive side in the end, which to me showed the Universe wants to provide; it wants to give abundance, you just have to not be afraid. When you’re afraid, you subconsciously push it away. But when you’re confident and know (like Justin was) of course it’ll come back!
Like I mentioned earlier, there were some games where $15,000 was the minimum to enter. Minimum. All I could think was how having an extra $15,000 would be such a help in my life… yet to someone else it was spending money; the same way I’d spend $150 on something.
That was another facing of limiting beliefs … because it was proof that large abundance is possible. The Universal Law of Oneness states that what’s possible for one is possible for anyone. We’re all connected via the same energetic field, so if one person can attract and manifest something, it means anyone has the capability to attract and manifest that same thing.
Clearly, not only is there just one but there’s multiple people who could afford to bet $15,000… because if there wasn’t anyone, the casino wouldn’t offer that price. So, the fact that there are enough people who can afford it shows money is out there. So, why wouldn’t that be possible for me one day, too?
Some machines were offering $100,000 jackpots…solely for like pushing buttons, pulling levers, and being “lucky”. Which is another limiting belief smasher, proving that money doesn’t have to come from hard work. You don’t always have to struggle and hustle to make 6 figures, you could literally just pull a lever and happen upon it!
Of course, in that case, your mindset and your energy would have to be soooo aligned to six figures coming in at once. Mine isn’t there yet, but I know one day it could be!
I remember my former psychic mentor once told me she had an Aunt who won the lottery multiple times and it was because she always said “I know I’m going to win…” and embodied that “of course it’s coming to me” attitude. She was in alignment with winning, she refused to accept any other outcome - and that’s why she did.
Now, while I’d totally love to be like “yes I’m going to win 6 figures” and feel it and know it and try for a casino game, I know right now It wouldn’t work…because even if consciously I declare it, I still have all these subconscious feelings that contradict that big money alignment.
This is actually a main reason why skeptics claim manifestation doesn’t work… they think about something and then it doesn’t happen for them, but they never, ever considered that they maybe needed to do the inner work.
The brain is really like an iceberg. Our conscious mind is just the tip we see from above the water, while our subconscious mind is every part of that iceberg underneath the surface.
You can think and visualize and attempt to manifest it all you want, but if your subconscious beliefs are screaming that it’s not possible for you to be rich, and that money is hard and scary, you’re never going to hit that jackpot.
It’s really all about getting into alignment with the vibration of money.
Yes, of course this is still something I’m personally working on, but I know I’ve gotten so much better at it, and I will keep getting better.
So don’t be upset if your money mindset is still a struggle, honestly it’s probably one of the hardest beliefs to re-write within your subconscious mind because everyday we’re faced with society complaining and demonizing money. It takes a lot of work, but it’s still all possible. Daily affirmations, daily embodiment, meditations, and shadow work all help so much.
And of course like I said, going to a casino can really help. You’ll really face your money fears all head on.
So, if possible, try to go to a casino, and see what comes up for you. What scares you? What intimidates you? How do you feel about the high-roller tables? How do you feel about betting anything? For me I was comfortable with the penny slots, so maybe next time I’ll work my way up to something a bit more expensive, and then even more so the next time after that.
It’d also be great to go to a casino to practice divine wealth embodiment. The same way you can go into a Chanel store and pretend you can afford everything in there, go into a casino and pretend that betting thousands of dollars is no big deal and fun because you know more is going to come back to you no matter what. Go there and act like you just won the jackpot - or even walk around and wait til you see someone win big and feel their excitement; feel their vibes! Celebrate them too, because if it’s possible for them, it’s possible for you!
