Can I Have Multiple Money Blocks Running Simultaneously?
Yes — and it’s the norm rather than the exception. Most practitioners who examine their financial patterns find more than one active block.
This is less overwhelming than it sounds when you understand how multiple blocks relate to each other and what to do about them.
How Multiple Blocks Operate
What money blocks are includes the possibility of patterns operating at different layers at the same time. A practitioner can simultaneously have:
- A discount reflex operating at the somatic layer — the nervous system’s automatic accommodation response in pricing conversations.
- A limiting belief at the narrative layer — “charging what I’m worth would make me the kind of person I don’t want to be.”
- An income set point at the identity layer — a self-concept that has a definition of what’s financially normal, and produces the conditions that maintain that definition.
- A financial avoidance pattern at the behavioural layer — consistent not-looking at accounts, deferred financial conversations.
How multiple blocks can operate at different layers simultaneously is structural: the layers are semi-independent. A block at one layer doesn’t prevent a block at another layer from also being active.
How They Interact
How blocks interact and reinforce each other is worth understanding, because the interactions sometimes make a smaller block look like the primary one.
The most common interaction pattern: a somatic-layer block (nervous system activation in financial contexts) creates the conditions that activate a narrative-layer block (a limiting belief gets triggered by the body state). The practitioner notices the belief and works on it — and finds some relief — while the somatic layer that was triggering it remains unaddressed. The belief recurs in the next high-stakes financial context because the somatic layer is still producing the activation that surfaces it.
Another interaction: a narrative-layer belief (“people like me don’t have a lot of money”) creates an identity-layer set point, which then produces the behavioural avoidance patterns that maintain the identity’s financial ceiling. Addressing the belief without addressing the set point produces intellectual openness without behavioral change.
Understanding these interactions is part of the diagnostic for prioritising multiple blocks — identifying which block is producing or amplifying the others, and starting there.
Why Trying to Resolve All Blocks at Once Usually Doesn’t Work
The somatic layer updates through accumulated regulated contact with activating contexts — this requires consistent, repeated attention to a specific pattern. The identity layer updates through accumulated lived experience at a new level — this also requires sustained focus on a specific shift. Spreading effort across five blocks simultaneously means none of them receives the concentrated consistent attention that update requires.
The sequenced approach to multiple blocks involves identifying the highest-impact block, directing daily practice at that block until there’s meaningful reduction in its influence on financial decisions, then moving to the next.
The sequence is typically determined by impact: which block is most immediately costing income or most actively limiting financial decisions? That one gets priority. The others remain visible — noticed and named when they surface — without becoming the primary focus until the first has meaningfully shifted.
The Practical Implication
Discovering multiple money blocks isn’t evidence that the problem is more serious than expected. It’s a clarification of the terrain. The work doesn’t expand proportionally with the number of blocks identified — it stays focused and sequential.
The diagnostic framework helps identify not just which blocks are active but which is most immediately limiting results. That’s the one to start with. The others don’t disappear from awareness, but they don’t dilute the work either.
Most practitioners who sequence the work find that addressing the primary block also produces incidental reduction in others, because some blocks are downstream of the one being worked. The economy of the approach is better than it looks when the full landscape is first visible.
The Abundance GPS Skool community works with David Cameron Gikandi on multiple money blocks in sequence — with a diagnostic framework that identifies where to start and an approach that produces movement layer by layer. Join us here.
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