12 Questions That Reveal Your Relationship With Money Blocks and Limiting Beliefs

The relationship to the blocks — whether it’s adversarial, curious, avoidant, or collaborative — shapes what the work produces. An adversarial relationship activates the blocks’ defences and makes them more entrenched. An avoidant relationship means the work doesn’t happen. A curious, collaborative relationship is the one in which blocks actually update.

These 12 questions reveal the current quality of the relationship to the blocks. The answers indicate not just what the blocks are, but how they’re being held — and whether that holding is supporting or undermining the work.

What money blocks are at the relational level — the relationship between the practitioner and their own patterns — is as important as the content of the blocks themselves. How the relationship to blocks shapes the work is through this direct effect on whether the blocks can be worked with or whether they remain defended and defended.

1. When you think about your money blocks, is the primary feeling frustration or curiosity?
Frustration indicates an adversarial relationship. Curiosity indicates an investigative one. Neither is permanently fixed, but the current default is worth knowing.

2. Do you approach the blocks as enemies to be defeated or as patterns to be understood?
The enemy framing produces conflict; the pattern framing produces investigation. Why adversarial approaches produce entrenchment is worth revisiting if the enemy framing is dominant.

3. When a block runs — when the discount happens, when the avoidance occurs — is your immediate response self-blame or observation?
Self-blame collapses the distance between the pattern and the self. Observation maintains the space in which the pattern can be examined.

4. Do you expect the work to be linear and rapid, or gradual and nonlinear?
The expectation of linear rapid change produces the experience of failure when the actual gradual nonlinear process unfolds. Adjusted expectations are part of a sustainable relationship to the work.

5. Do you talk about your money blocks with shame or with matter-of-factness?
The shame quality reveals the moral loading still active in the relationship. Matter-of-factness indicates the blocks have been separated from character judgement, at least somewhat.

6. When money block content comes up in a session or reflection, do you engage with it or change the subject?
The internal management of the moment when a block surfaces — whether it’s engaged or deflected — is a direct measure of the avoidance level active in the relationship.

7. Do you give yourself credit for the work you’re doing on money blocks?
The practitioner who has been doing genuine sustained work on difficult patterns and receives no self-credit for it is applying the scarcity default to their own effort. Recognition of genuine effort is part of a healthy relationship to the work.

8. When you make a financial mistake, does it feel like evidence about your worth or information about your pattern?
The evidence-about-worth relationship to financial mistakes maintains shame. The information-about-pattern relationship maintains the possibility of learning.

9. Do you approach your money blocks with patience or urgency?
Urgency activates the stress response, which reduces the nervous system’s flexibility and update capacity. Patience is the prerequisite for the nervous system’s gradual recalibration.

10. Can you imagine your income at double your current level without significant internal resistance to that image?
The strength of the resistance reveals the identity’s current definition of what’s real and permitted. Strong resistance indicates the identity layer is actively holding the current ceiling.

11. Do you see money block work as something you do or something done to you?
The active-vs-passive distinction reveals the agency dimension. A passive relationship to the work produces variable outcomes based on external support. An active relationship — doing specific things with conscious intent — produces more consistent movement.

12. When you complete a money block practice or piece of work, do you notice and acknowledge the completion?
The acknowledgment of small completions is how the evidence for new identity definitions accumulates. Discounting the completions — moving immediately to the next thing without registering the one just done — slows the identity layer’s update.

The framework for engaging blocks productively is more accessible in the relationship that these questions, honestly answered, can reveal and adjust. Shifting the relationship to support the work often produces more movement than adding more techniques.

The Abundance GPS Skool community works with David Cameron Gikandi on the relationship to money blocks as a primary dimension of the work — because the relationship determines whether the techniques actually reach what they’re aimed at. Join us here.