Shara Grove Holistics

I don’t know about you, but to me for a very long-time, wealth looked like a mansion, perhaps in America. It looked like big brands, fine dining, a very lazily lavish lifestyle.

I could talk about how we’ve been conditioned to believe that wealth comes from material objects, status/ranking and how you choose to live. This conditioning only fuels consumerism, fear and lack of self-worth/identity, but I’m not here to talk about the conditioning…I’m here to talk about true wealth. The wealth that makes you feel healthy.

“Possession make you rich? I don’t have that type of richness. My richness is life, forever.” Bob Marley

They say there are 4 types of wealth:

1. Financial Wealth (money)
2. Social Wealth (status)
3. Time Wealth (freedom)
4. Physical Wealth (health)

We’re told this, but once again it only covers the physical and again, fuels the conditioning that we have to work our arses off, in order to gain money (financial wealth), to get promoted (social wealth), which then brings more opportunities (time wealth) which will then allow us the time and energy to balance our health (physical wealth), but what about spiritual wealth? Well we don’t have any if our souls are drained of their vital energy, due to this robotic, systematic world we’re forced to fit into.

What if true wealth meant freedom of expression, freedom to create, freedom to be, freedom from chains and shackles. Because with all of that, you’re feeding your soul. You’re creating your own life and then you get to bask in what you’ve created. How incredible is that?

For me, I became very wealthy when I stepped away from my career and everything that went with that. I became wealthy when I had the freedom to be unemployed (with the support of my partner). I became wealthy when I got to know myself again. I became wealthy when I started to allow myself emotional expression, and I became wealthy when I started to listen to what my body was telling me.

Google searches tell me that wealth is about the physical, and maybe there is a more specific word out there for what I’m talking about (if you know of one, please let me know), but wealth is quite a common word, one that can hold a lot of healthy power, but seems to have this heaviness about it because many people don’t think they are wealthy. And in some instances that might be true. The world wants to push wealth in a certain direction, like I mentioned above, but we, as human beings with etheric souls, don’t find that natural.

Our souls are not only meant to feel the sun on our skin, but they’re meant to bask in it. To appreciate it, to enjoy it and to allow it to energise us, but we struggle. Our minds are so elsewhere, that our emotions and awareness have no choice but to go with it.

To me, wealth looks like this:

• Being comfortable with only having $5’s in your bank account
• Appreciating the songs birds sing
• Watching animals go about their day
• Having food to eat that actually nourishes me
• Having the ability to be grateful
• Being able to see colours
• Feeling grounded and connected to land around me
• Knowing and communicating with my spirit tribe
• Expressing love
• Living a lifestyle that makes me feel like I’m living
• Independance
• Having true human connection
• To have the knowledge to grow
• Listening to Luna
• Crystals
• Reading
• Being unique

The list goes on, but to me wealth isn’t (or at least it shouldn’t) be about what you own or what you can do, it’s about what life brings you.

My life brings me opportunities to learn, grow and evolve, that makes me feel wealthy. My life allows me to form connections with people that mean something, that makes me feel wealthy. My life allows me to express myself, that makes me feel wealthy.

When you’ve lived a life (or part of it) that you associate shame, pain, grief, vengeance, depression and any heavy emotion with, you don’t feel wealthy. You feel wronged, left behind, angry, traumatised or perhaps you seek revenge, maybe you seek justice somehow for the pain you feel. This is where people tend to chase wealth. They chase the money, they chase the promotions, the fancy cars, the names on clothes, superficial appearances, they fill their homes with objects just to make it feel full. This is the trap.

Wealth, true wealth comes from starting fresh. Like baby or toddler figuring out the world. They have so much awe and appreciation. They have an eagerness to learn and explore, they are human.

Our childlike natures are pushed out from us when they are vital in our ability to feel human and experience this life in the most human way.

When you hit rock bottom, you have to completely switch up your life, which can be horrifyingly daunting and challenging, but it can also be so fucking magical. You’re learning how to appreciate, you’re learning how to take back control of your life, how to express yourself, how to feel enjoyment, freedom and creativity. You can sprout so many seeds from rock bottom.

So I want to ask you, what is wealth to you?

How would you define it?

Are there ways that you can bring more wealth into your life?

Do you already feel wealthy?

I’d love to know what you think x