Elevate Your Money DNA with Judy Wilkins-Smith

Everybody inherits distinctly unique DNA. We inherit our ancestors’ good or bad looks, their blue, brown, or hazel eyes, their height, their teeth, and even their diseases. But did you know you can inherit your ancestors’ money habits as well?

The science of epigenetics, which studies how gene expression is modified by individual behavior and environmental factors, is revealing that patterns of thought and emotion, attitudes, and actions are passed down to future generations. Just as we inherit DNA that dictates our physical attributes, we also inherit what we call emotional DNA. This means along with grandma’s broad shoulders you might also have been bequeathed her quick temper or her spendthrift attitude about money.

Judy Wilkins Smith, world-renowned Family Patterns, Systemic Work and Constellations Expert, Motivational Speaker, and Author of Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns offers guidance to disentangling the financial patterns that aren’t working and transforming your Money DNA.

Highlights from this conversation with Judy include:

• Why is money one of the best places to start looking at your unconscious emotional DNA inheritance and how do you determine if you have inherited an emotional pattern around money that is not innate to you?
• In systemic work and constellations (a process that swiftly reveals and helps transform hidden issues arising from family, business, and other kinds of close-knit groups or systems), anxiety and other negative emotions are common signs that a pattern is needing or wanting to change in the system.     
• Understanding Money DNA and creating a healthier money mindset with a simple systemic exercise that will reveal your money bandwidth and current state of mind. Once you know the pattern, then you can change it.
• First off, identify a pattern with money that you wish you could stop. 
• Now, take time to write down all the things you tell yourself about money. “Money doesn’t grow on trees. A penny saved is a penny earned.” We all have these automatic sayings about money, and it’s amazing how deeply these sentences affect us. 
• Next, notice your feelings around money. Does just thinking about it make you apprehensive? Jot your feelings down. 
• What actions do you take around money? Do you spend it freely? Pinch every penny? Wish you had more? Make a list.
• Now, you have an understanding of your inner financial world, write down where you first heard the sentences you use around money.  Who did those words come from? Your actions with money, whose money patterns do you follow the most closely? Try to identify originating events surrounding money in your family.
• If you can identify patterns and events from prior generations, you’ve just identified the origins of your thoughts, feelings, and actions around money—your Money DNA. And if you don’t have any knowledge of your ancestral history, that’s okay. Simply look at your own patterns with money. They came from someone. Being able to pin a name on the source of your money DNA is fun, but it isn’t necessary.
• Finally, imagine something good that you really want to do with your money.  Your deepest heart’s desire. Your heart’s desire embodies the new pattern of money that is trying to emerge through you. Allow yourself to feel what it would be like to achieve that heart’s desire. The clearer your heart’s desire, the more you can emotionally invest in it
• Now you are building new Money DNA—a new pattern that will pull you beyond your excuses, reasons, and patterns of staying stuck.

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