What Do Spiritual Laws Have to Do With Making Money?

About 6 years ago, my wealth building journey hit a fork in the road. Up to that point I was meticulously following a personal development regime that involved a lot of reading, studying, seminars, and a lot of journaling. I was totally captivated by learning the newest and most advanced personal development techniques, business processes, time management concepts and other productivity enhancers.

I went to Tony Robbin’s seminars to learn how to influence people and I learned how to manage my time more and more effectively. I studied financial concepts, accounting practices and investment strategies. I studied management concepts, leadership and marketing. You can pretty much name any aspect of business building and wealth building and I was studying it.

But something was still missing.

I kept running into this whole “spiritual” aspect of personal development that I was purposely staying away from. Being a highly analytical type person, I just didn’t see any reason to study “spiritual” stuff at the time as it all just seemed like “woo woo” stuff to me. I was also equating Spirituality with Religion, and I am not a very religious person myself. I definitely always believed in some kind of “spiritual” power out there, but I’m not much for organized religion and going to church every Sunday. Also, I saw no reason to mix “religion” and “business”.

The challenge, however, was that when I studied highly successful people long enough I always found that they all talked about all this spiritual stuff that I always skipped over. I wanted to know about productivity tips, not their spiritual beliefs.

Then one day, I was reading an article by a billionaire who said that the most important book he ever read on business is the Bible. I found that quite shocking. What does the Bible have to do with business? I finally decided to investigate further to get some perspective, and what I found opened my eyes big time.

One of the first things that I discovered was that there is a huge difference between being “Spiritual” and being “Religious”. You can totally be a “Spiritual” person and not be “Religious”. Just because you believe that there is something bigger than yourself out there, doesn’t mean you have to run out there and join one of the more established faiths.

I began reading books that are related to spirituality and wealth and discovered that a lot of the teachings and spiritual laws that are taught in these books were completely in alignment with my way of thinking anyways so it wasn’t like I had to really believe in something “woo woo” and a lot of the spiritual teachings definitely helped me to put things much more into perspective. I began reading a lot of books by Deepak Chopra, Napoleon Hill, Mark Victor Hansen, Harv Eker etc.

Then a book came into my life which completely changed my financial situation almost over night. The book was called “The Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace Wattles. This of course is the book which was the inspiration behind the movie “the Secret” which has become so popular over the last few years. “The Science of Getting Rich” is by far the most practical book I have ever read on applying “spiritual laws” to building wealth and making money.

Even if you are a complete analytically thinking atheistic non-”woo woo” believing person, I still think “The Science of Getting Rich” is a book you will get a lot of value from. It basically lays out a step-by-step process for building wealth that anyone can follow.

In the years that followed I have explored the spiritual path studying a lot of books, worked with coaches and mentors and have done a lot of personal seeking and exploring on the topic and I really have no clue anymore how anyone could even begin to try to make money doing what they loved if they didn’t at least attempt to embrace spiritual laws on their path.

I believe true inspiration comes from our true self, which is a spiritual being having this human experience in this moment. If you’re at a point right now in your journey where you’ve been purposely avoiding the whole “spiritual” side of making money because the thought of “religion” or “woo woo” stuff turns you off, you may want to re-consider your position on this and at least explore the area. Nobody says you have to believe anything that doesn’t make sense to you, but if you are at least open minded enough to look into this stuff you might be really surprised what you will find.

You might actually realize just how practical a lot of the spiritual teachings out there are, and you might just learn that ignoring your “spirit” is actually impractical.

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