the wealth thermostat
Find your internal income limit & raise it without betraying your nervous system.
Everyone has an internal “wealth thermostat,” a subconscious comfort zone for how much success, income, visibility, and impact they believe they can safely hold.
This guide will help you find yours, regulate your nervous system, and expand your capacity for receiving and keeping wealth.
1. What Is a Wealth Thermostat?
It’s the invisible setting that controls your financial reality.
It’s not logic. It’s identity + nervous system + subconscious beliefs.
Just like a thermostat keeps a room at a certain temperature,
your subconscious keeps your life at a certain wealth level, based on what feels safe, familiar, and allowed.
Even if you consciously desire more…
If your nervous system associates wealth with danger, loss, or rejection, you will unconsciously sabotage or resist having more.
Example:
“Even when I make more, I find a way to lose it.”
“I feel unmotivated after a big win.”
“If I’m too successful, people might leave me.”
These aren’t surface-level thoughts. They’re thermostat signals.
2. Where Is Your Current Thermostat Set?
Answer these honestly and without judgment:
Mindset Signals:
What is the highest amount of money you’ve ever allowed yourself to comfortably hold?
Do you feel guilt, anxiety, or fear when you receive money?
Do you often get close to a goal… then “something happens”?
Nervous System Signals:
Do you feel safe in your body when thinking about big money?
Do you contract (tense, overwork, feel urgency) when income slows?
Do you spend quickly, give it away, or “lose it” after big inflows?
3. Your Wealth Identity
Let’s get deeper. Complete the following:
I believe wealthy people are: ___________
If I made 5x more right now, I’d feel: ___________
When I think about charging more, I feel: ___________
I secretly believe money will bring: ___________
Now Ask:
Who taught me this?
Is it still true for the version of me I’m becoming?
4. The Emotional Cap for Receiving
Money flows where there’s safety.
If your nervous system associates success with abandonment, guilt, or danger, you’ll unconsciously block it.
Signs of a low emotional wealth cap:
You stop marketing after a big win
You feel tension receiving payment
You deflect compliments, support, or high-paying clients
You overspend to get back to your “normal”
5. Resetting the Thermostat
The Formula:
Awareness → Acceptance → Rewiring → Embodiment
Awareness: Notice your upper limit.
Acceptance: There’s nothing wrong with you. You were wired for survival, not expansion.
Rewiring:
Write the new belief:“It is safe for me to hold more wealth without collapse or guilt.”
“The more money I receive, the more grounded and generous I feel.”Embodiment:
Every time you receive (a payment, a gift, even a compliment), pause and say:“I’m allowed to hold this. I choose to hold this.”
6. Nervous System Expansion
Raise your wealth capacity safely through the body, not just the mind.
Do this daily for 7 days:
Sit or lie down. Breathe slowly.
Visualize receiving 3–5x your current income.
Ask: Where does tension show up in my body?
Place your hand there. Say:
“You’re safe to hold more. We’re not in survival anymore.”
Let the energy expand. End with:
“It’s safe to grow. It’s safe to thrive.”
7. Wealth Rewriting Journal Prompts
If I could hold double the wealth I have now with ease, what would I do differently?
What’s the wealthiest, calmest version of me like?
What part of me doesn’t feel safe being seen or paid?
What would it feel like not to apologize for my success?
Ready to Raise the Ceiling for Real?
This is what we do inside my mentorship.
I work with visionary founders and creatives ready to build from expansion, not exhaustion.
You don’t need another mindset hack. You need to rewire your nervous system and build from truth, not performance.
You’ve done the work. Now it’s time to hold the results.
Not just for a moment, but as a new baseline.
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