By Robert Scheinfeld

Book review by Cate Montana

When I was first handed the book Busting Loose From the Money Game, I thought, “Oh great. Another financial advice book about how to manage my income.” I couldn’t have been more disinterested or more wrong.

Busting Loose From the Money Game is not a book about how to manage finances. It’s a book about managing your mind. It’s a book about exposing the social and neurological network humans have created around the whole concept of money. It’s about setting people free from the limiting thoughts that squeeze the life out of their money flow, their creativity, and their happiness.

The key point in the book is that consciousness creates everything you experience, including money. Scheinfeld points out that the Money Game, which is embedded in a larger game called The Human Game, is currently designed to make us believe just the opposite. It is designed to prove to us over and over that we are powerless in life; that we are constantly at the mercy of externals; and that our only role is to react to what life serves us.

Lucidly and logically Schiefeld demonstrates how The Money Game has been deliberately designed as a game that humans can only lose. To prove it all you have to do is take a look at the rules: there’s a limited supply of money available; money is somehow separate from us and we must go after it; we must work harder or smarter to increase our supply of money, and we can’t just have anything we want in life, everything is purchased at a price. There is no clear definition of what constitutes “winning” and no matter how much money you accrue or invest, it’s always still at risk.

The Monday Game is designed to get us to convince ourselves that our perceived limitations are real. Scheinfeld shows us how to bust loose from that belief system by focusing on the only thing that really is real: our thoughts and our beliefs … in other words, our consciousness … the tool that created The Money Game in the first place.

Writes Scheinfeld, “In Phase 1 (of The Money Game), you told yourself over and over, adinfinitum, ‘money is real, the checking account is real, the numbers are real, the money game is real.’ In phase 2, you reverse the process and repeat to yourself over and over, ‘It’s an illusion, it’s an illusion, and I’m creating it, I’m creating it,” as you reclaim your power from it.”

Not only does Schenifeld dissolve the illusions around money, he outlines a series of self-coaching steps to give readers real tools for empowering themselves as the creators of their own lives, as well as for changing their minds about money. A powerful and life-changing book, I can’t recommend Busting Loose From the Money Game highly enough. Read it – and get copies for your family and friends – because once you loan it out, you’ll never get it back.