Soul Accounting: The Power of Money and Emotions

SOUL ACCOUNTING: THE POWER OF MONEY AND EMOTIONS

by Patricia C. Nuovo

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Soul Accounting: The Power of Money and Emotions

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INSPIRATIONAL VERSE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER 1 – STARTING THE PROCESS

The Journey Continues

A Child’s View

The Intent

The Poverty Consciousness

Solutions

CHAPTER 2 – GOING WITHIN

Understanding the Child

Boot Camp for the Soul

Emotions Are the Beginning

CHAPTER 3 – UNIVERSAL CONCEPTS

Understanding Universal Concepts

Center of the Universe

You’ve Got the Power!

CHAPTER 4 – ABUNDANCE

$$ Money $$

Abundance

You Are a Reflection of Source

What’s Money Got to Do with It?

Money – That’s What I Want

Part I – It All Begins in the Family

Part II – Religious Messages

Part III – Society’s Child

Part IV – Giving and Receiving

Be a Billboard, Not a Beggar

Where Do I Begin?

Growing Is Ongoing

We Just Have to Get Out of Our Own Way

CHAPTER 5 – GOD

Need To Know

Faith

Why the Doubt?

Belonging

The Absence of Source

Disconnection with Money

So Who or What Is God?

CHAPTER 6 – SPIRITUALITY

Quest for Connection

Who Are We?

Spirituality versus Religion

How We Lose Our Way

Why Is Spirituality Important?

You Are Great

The Way I Think

CHAPTER 7 – LOVE

Penny for Your Thoughts

Unlearning the Hallmark Moment

What’s Love Got to Do with It?

Could This Be Love?

You Can’t Give What You Ain’t Got

Love in Relationships

The Simplest Cure

How Do I Know This Is Love?

Love Is the Answer

CHAPTER 8 – LIFE

Concept of Life

Purpose of Life

Meaning of Life

CHAPTER 9 – DEATH

Ideal Concept of Death

In What Form?

CHAPTER 10 – CHILDHOOD

In the Beginning

Adolescence

Learning

CHAPTER 11 – FAMILY

Creating Family

Family Is About Choice

What Constitutes a Family?

Money and Family

The World Is Your Family

CHAPTER 12 – WOMANHOOD

Perils of Pauline Syndrome

How Is a Woman Different from a Man?

Woman as Home

CHAPTER 13 – MANHOOD

Role of a Man

Searching for a Home

Men and Money

CHAPTER 14 - FRIENDSHIP

Be Yourself

Expectations

CHAPTER 15 – RELATIONSHIPS

The Usual Suspects

Romantic Relationships

Expectations in Relationships…and the Ideal

Unconditional Love

Your Relationship to Money

CHAPTER 16 – SEX AND SEXUALITY

The Oldest Profession

What Is the Instinct for?

Energy

Normal

Procreation

CHAPTER 17 – MARRIAGE

Money and Marriage

The Big Reality Check

First Comes Friendship

Resentments Add Up

Two Do Not Become One!

Vows and Commitment

Where Does Love Fit In?

CHAPTER 18 – PARENTHOOD

In a Perfect World

Motherhood and Fatherhood

Do You Remember?

How It Begins

You Already Know How

Confusion and Contradiction

Seen Through the Eyes of the Child

Examples

The Essentials

What Your Parents Never Told You: Common Investment Tips

Investment Topics Not Talked About at the Dinner Table

CHAPTER 19 – CONSIDERATION

Coming from the Heart

Pain

It Is All about Me

CHAPTER 20 – COMMUNICATION

Why We Say What We Say the Way We Say It!

How Do I Fix It?

Getting Our Point Across – An Implementation

CHAPTER 21 – TRUST

It All Goes Back to Childhood

Replacement

CHAPTER 22 – TRUTH

Whose Reality?

What Is Truth?

CHAPTER 23 – RESPONSIBILITY

Did You Know?

CHAPTER 24 – WORK

A Unique Beginning

Hurdles

A New Path

What Is Work?

Do What You Love!

Do What You Enjoy!

What Is Your Passion?

You Are What You Do

Why Are You Here?

CHAPTER 25 – CREATIVITY AND TALENT

Creativity

Talent

We All Have It

That River in Egypt – De Nile

God’s Reflection

Becoming Free

CHAPTER 26 – LEARNING

Understanding Marketability versus Liquidity

Love

Teaching

Fun

CHAPTER 27 – HEALTH

Wholistic Health

Natural Remedies

You Are What You Digest, Assimilate, and Eliminate

Emotions Are Essential to Health

The Mind/Body Connection

Lost and Found

CHAPTER 28 – ATTRACTION

The Challenge

Illustration

DEFINITIONS

CHAPTER 29 - FEELINGS

What Are Feelings?

Action - Reaction

Becoming More Whole

More about Feelings

CHAPTER 30 – FRAME OF REFERENCE

Knowing the Foundation

CHAPTER 31 – REFLECTIONS

More Questions

Reflections Are Your Mirror

Reflecting Everything You Don’t Want to See

CHAPTER 32 – REPLACEMENT

Awareness Is Key

The Need to Let Go

ADDITIONAL UNIVERSAL CONCEPTS

CHAPTER 33 – EVOLUTION

Which Came First?

Nature versus Nurture

Masters of the Universe

CHAPTER 34 – GENETICS

DNA

CHAPTER 35 – DUALITY: THE PRINCIPLE OF TWO

One Is the Loneliest Number

The Exception

CHAPTER 36 – TIME

Cultural Differences

CHAPTER 37 – SPACE

CHAPTER 38 – LOYALTY

CHAPTER 39 – INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY

CHAPTER 40 – INTEGRATION: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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INSPIRATIONAL VERSE

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God; your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

-Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to personally thank the following people for all their help, love and support of my work and me. It is because they are the best that they conspired to push me to be the best. My heartfelt thanks and love to each one of you. You know who you are. I have undertaken this adventure with the support of the people I have met. Their love and support gave me the confidence to complete this work.

My respected mentor and friend, Steven Zara and greatest human reflection I have ever known, who helped me on my path. My beloved sister and ascended master, Susan Nuovo Carney. My family, who unconditionally love me for who I am. My friends and students, from whom I learn so much each day.

My proofreaders in creating excellence with the written word, Jennifer Carney, Denise Cugini, Dr. Donna Pontrello, Susan Nuovo Carney, Lin Lacombe, Lauren Mayher and my developmental editor Francesca Fasano. I couldn’t have done it without you.

And thanks to those individuals who have influenced me and given me a wonderful perspective on life: Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Dr. Bernard Jensen, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gloria Steinem, Jerry and Ester Hicks, The Dalai Lama, Billie Jean King, Kiran Bedi, Oprah Winfrey, Shirley MacLaine, Dr. Norman Walker, Louise Hay, Dr. Christiane Northrup, and Suze Orman.

All my reflections, who continue to show me the magnificence of the universe. And most importantly, God, our Creator.

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FOREWORD

I have created this book to understand Soul Accounting, which is the understanding of abundance and the role of money using universal principles for a variety of reasons. I wanted a challenge that I could undertake for myself on a topic that I wanted to learn more about. The whole purpose of life is to challenge oneself. From these challenges come awareness, growth and wisdom. From my experience, knowledge and wisdom, I would like to share this book with you.

In order to achieve Soul Accounting in your life, it is necessary to detach any and all negative and prohibitive feelings that may be connected to a life of plenty. Now, it is possible that you may not be aware of these feelings that hold you back. A sure sign is to ask yourself, Do I feel abundance in my life? Do I feel I have enough? Am I fulfilled and have all that I desire? If you answer these questions in the negative, then it is possible that you have conflicting thoughts and feelings regarding money. Once you untangle your conditioned thoughts and feelings regarding money, you can then change the belief system in your head of not enough, I can’t, not possible, I am without, to one of having everything your heart desires. When you do this, you get money out of your head and into your pocket.

My hope is that you have as much fun and gain as much inspiration from reading this book as I did from putting it together. These are my own interpretations of universal concepts and my hope is for you to create your own work on universal concepts. My wish is for you to become more aware of your own innate intelligence or Soul Accounting by tuning into the universe to find the universal concepts by which you can live your life. Only then can you truly live your life by your own principles and claim your destiny as truly your own.

Thank you for being yourself and God bless each and every one of you.

Be free,

P.C. Nuovo

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PROLOGUE

I began this process of transformation stressed out, burnt out, physically unhealthy, unhappy and feeling empty. I felt I was missing out on something, yet I did not know what it was. I had been searching for so many years with lectures, seminars, re-visiting religions, reading books on new age thinking and watching videos on spiritual and enlightened masters. And while so much was interesting and gave me hope, none filled the void I felt within.

I had a successful career, both short and long term relationships, the house, cars and all the trappings of the good life. Unfortunately, I still felt empty. Having the money, being successful, and doing all the things I thought I was supposed to do to make me happy were either fleeting or failed completely. I was living my life unconsciously, seeking with my eyes shut. My view of life was distorted by my childhood pain, conditioning, and programming. I was not aware of what was in the way of my being free. As a matter of fact, my programming was such that when asked how I was doing, I always answered FINE. And I really believed it! Yet all evidence was to the contrary. My health was mediocre. Each day I went through the motion of living only what I knew, and it did not work. I hated Mondays, wished for Friday to be over, collapsed on Saturday and felt better Sunday morning until the late afternoon, then began the dread of not wanting Monday to come and sad that Sunday was drawing to a close. What a way to live life! I lived that way for more years than I can count. I was ready for a change. I just didn’t know how or what to do to change it.

I had it all together at work. I was in top form with my career because there was no emotional or spiritual need for me to be me. I could pass. On the personal front, my life was a mess. I bounced from one relationship to the next, unhappy, unfulfilled and always looking for something or someone better. The saying that money doesn’t buy you happiness was so true, yet I was conflicted because my childhood programming and society’s brainwashing told me that it was the answer. Money, success, marriage, a house, career and church attendance would be the answer. Alas it was not for me. I was still empty with everything I was told would fill my void.

My ignorance about life, relationships and love made me follow the examples that I grew up with. I was just going through the motions. I was performing the way I was taught; never venturing outside the box I inadvertently placed myself in as a child. As an adult, I still lived in that proverbial box. I felt enraged, powerless, doubting, fearful and lost. I was living life unaware, misinformed and in denial.

Then one day, my sister called me and invited me to come to a one day workshop in Boston. I gave her all the acceptable excuses I could think of to avoid going – I had no time and I would lose money if I took time off from work. I would tell her it was too far into the future to know if I could come, then there was too little time to change my plans and be spontaneous. After all, I couldn’t just drop everything and race off to do something on a whim. How irresponsible! How impossible! How scary! Then came my excuses about work. Who would take care of the business while I was gone? I couldn’t afford to go and be away from work. I didn’t have vacation time or flexibility at work. You all are familiar with the excuse game. No time, no money, no can do, oh my. I was definitely swimming in that river in Egypt - De Nile! What I did not expect was that my sister had considered each and every road block I put in my path. I was left with no more excuses. She had beaten me at my own game, and I finally surrendered.

It was a decision that would change my life forever. I put up