Back when I was still married, my husband and I started a construction business together. In the beginning, everything was from scratch, and we faced many financial difficulties.
One day, when a client payment came in, my husband would show it to me, and each time I would say, “Let’s dance with money!” and actually dance with it.
Some might find that strange, but for me, it was an expression of pure joy in the moment—welcoming “Mr. Money” as an identity that had come to visit.
The late Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona used to tell me, “Tell money that you love it.”
She would also say, “Money hears every word and thought you have.”
“Money has its own will.”
That’s why Morrnah taught me to treat money as its own identity—with care and respect.
There’s a well-known story from Morrnah’s own experience.
One day, she picked up a 5-cent coin to feed a parking meter. Just as she was about to insert it, she suddenly heard a voice say, “Wait a minute! What do you think you’re doing to me?!”
To her astonishment, the voice was coming from the coin itself.
It was a moment of revelation—this round, ordinary coin she had taken for granted had its own thoughts and will.
Morrnah spoke to the coin gently: “Don’t be afraid. I’m going to use you now. This is where you’re going.”
And with that, she cleaned with it as she sent it on its way.
Some may raise their eyebrows at such stories.
But at the time, I had just encountered Ho’oponopono and was earnestly facing questions like “Who am I?” and “How do I want to live?”
Because of that, I couldn’t treat my relationship with material things—like money—lightly.
Since then, I’ve related to money through a dialogue of cleaning.
That doesn’t mean everything suddenly went well, or that the business took off immediately.
But having the perspective that “money is an identity” helped me avoid being overwhelmed by bank balances or financial anxiety. I no longer lost myself.
There is an identity called “money” right in front of me.
By facing each feeling and situation that arises between us and cleaning with them, I can return to my true role.
As I continue cleaning in each moment, I believe both I and the money will remember our roles and move forward together.
When we treat things like money—things we assume have no voice—as precious beings, we ourselves begin to recover our true function.
Intuition, health, and the abundance I need all begin to surface as each being awakens to its true self through cleaning.
Peace,
Christine Leimakamae Chu
