what’s blocking your inner wealth
Discover how your inner state shapes abundance—and how to stop blocking what’s already trying to flow through you. Inspired by Deepak Chopra’s teachings on creative intelligence.
What if abundance was never something you had to chase, but something waiting to flow through you the moment you stop blocking it?
Abundance is not just about money. Money is simply one expression of a deeper, invisible state: the quality of your inner life. True abundance is about how open you are to receiving—not just wealth, but also love, inspiration, support, clarity, and opportunity.
And while money is one form of abundance, it's not the source. It’s a byproduct. Far from being just a means of exchange or material possession, it’s shaped and directed by your consciousness: your thoughts, beliefs, intentions, and inner state. In that sense, it becomes a tool of consciousness—a mirror of how freely energy flows through you.
Your inner state creates your outer flow
Whether you feel abundant or limited has little to do with external circumstances. It depends on the state of your awareness. That includes:
How you perceive abundance—do you see it as natural and available, or something you have to fight for?
How you attract it—through trust, openness, and creativity, or through pressure, fear, and control?
How you use it—do you use what flows to you for expression, support, and purpose, or to fill a void?
Two people can receive the same gift, the same opportunity, the same amount of money—and yet experience it completely differently. One may feel grateful, generous, and safe. The other may feel anxious, greedy, or insecure. The difference isn’t the resource. It’s the consciousness behind it.
That’s why cultivating abundance starts not with getting more, but with being more.
Abundance is not a goal. It’s a frequency.
If you chase abundance like it’s something outside of you, you’ll always feel like it’s just out of reach. But when you realize that you are already whole, that life itself is abundant and wants to move through you, everything changes.
You stop chasing. You start allowing.
Instead of asking, “How do I get more?”—you begin asking, “How can I stay open and aligned with what wants to move through me?”
That’s where creative intelligence comes in.
Creative intelligence is the living, breathing force within consciousness—the energy that gives birth to thoughts, ideas, solutions, connections, and new realities.
It’s not something you control. It’s something you collaborate with.
Creative intelligence is life itself, trying to move through you. You’re not the creator—you’re the channel.
The problem isn’t that the energy isn’t there. It’s that it often gets stuck between your inner and outer world—held back by fear, doubt, or inner resistance.
That’s why you can feel stuck even when you have good ideas or strong desires. The energy wants to flow—but it needs space. And it needs you to open. To allow.
Clarity creates movement
Abundance flows most freely when your desires are aligned with clarity, trust, and presence.
Clarity doesn’t mean having a detailed plan or a perfect reason for why you want something. It means being honest about where your desire is coming from.
Is it rooted in lack—or in wholeness?
There’s a big difference between:
“I need this, otherwise I’m not enough.”
and “I know I’m already whole—and I allow myself to receive more.”
When desire comes from a place of lack, the energy behind it contracts. When it comes from inner abundance, it expands. And this orientation—lack or fullness—can be either conscious or unconscious. That’s why bringing awareness to the root of your desire is so powerful: Once you recognize the underlying patterns, you can begin to shift them. You can turn unconscious blocks into conscious choices—and then gently release them.
Of course, it’s not always easy to identify every single block. But in most cases, there are just a few core beliefs at the root—and once they’re seen and addressed, many of the smaller patterns begin to dissolve with them.
When your energy contradicts itself, abundance cannot flow
Desire is powerful. But when it’s mixed with fear, shame, or self-doubt, it loses coherence. The energy gets pulled in opposite directions—and what could have flowed easily becomes blocked, tangled, or delayed.
This is what is describes as a “double bind”—an inner conflict where two opposing signals are being sent at once. Your conscious mind says yes, but your subconscious whispers no.
You might recognize it in your own experience:
You want abundance—but deep down, you’ve been taught that money is dirty, selfish, or dangerous.
You crave recognition—but part of you believes that being visible will make you vulnerable or unsafe.
You want to grow and expand—but you secretly fear that success might isolate you or cause others to envy you.
These opposing beliefs don’t just coexist—they cancel each other out energetically.
Your conscious intention might be clear, but your unconscious resistance sends a signal of contraction. And so the creative flow—your ability to receive and act on what you desire—gets stuck in between.
It’s like trying to move forward while simultaneously stepping on the brakes.
This internal contradiction creates energetic confusion, not just on a spiritual level, but also emotionally and physically. You might feel tired, unclear, hesitant, scattered—or like life keeps "delaying" your plans, even though you're trying so hard.
But it’s not life that’s blocking you. It’s the misalignment between your desire and your belief.
And until your inner system becomes coherent—until the desire in your heart aligns with the permission in your body and the belief in your mind—abundance can’t flow freely.
So strong desire doesn’t guarantee manifestation. In fact, when desire is tied to desperation or attachment, it creates pressure rather than flow. You set a clear intention—but you don’t force results. You trust, act, receive, and adjust. You stay present. That’s the natural rhythm of manifestation.
These are my key learnings from the book Abundance: The Inner Path to Wealth by Deepak Chopra. If you want to read it yourself, you can order the book [here].
Inner Obstacles That Disrupt Abundance
Abundance doesn't just depend on what you do—it depends on what lives inside you.
Certain internal patterns can quietly interfere with how freely energy, support, and opportunities move in your life:
Fear of visibility or failure
Doubts about your worth
Beliefs like “I’m not good enough” or “I don’t deserve more”
Resistance to change
The need to stay in control
Self-protective emotional patterns
Unprocessed past experiences
Conflicting desires or intentions
Because these patterns live inside you, you have the power to shift them—through awareness, compassion, and conscious release.
You don’t create abundance. You allow it.
In the following, you’ll find two practices that helped me reconnect with a deeper sense of abundance. They’re not about doing more, but about becoming more open, aware, and receptive.