Money Wealth Prosperity Creating a prosperity Consciousness Understanding our relationship with money
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Very few things in life will create more distress or anxiety than lack of money.
Poverty, debt or simply not having our needs met will consume most of our
thoughts throughout the day and leave us struggling to sleep at night. Survival is
our strongest instinct and surviving in today’s world requires money. We could
argue that all we really need to survive is; clean air, water; food, shelter and
protection from harm. Maybe in primitive times or even in much simpler cultures
this is true, but for most of us now, survival is more in line with meeting needs
rather than simply existing.
Psychologically and emotionally our needs have become very complicated. Our
reactions and responses to our needs have become confused with our survival
instincts. That heightened mental alertness and the fight or flight reaction is just as
real regardless of the validity of any threat. The relentless anxiety over money will
destroy a person’s health or in some cases it can destroy their lives.
Almost everyone would like more money. We often say we would like to be
very wealthy, but when we really think about it, we usually find that we don’t
have any real burning desire for too much at all. Most of us would be more than
happy to have enough money to cover our needs and a little extra to fulfill some
of our desires. We might all agree that poverty is a very bad thing, but many of
us can not agree that wealth is a good thing. Money or wealth is neither good nor
bad. Rich people are not bad people any more than poor people are good
people. Money is often thought about as sinful. Superstitiously we might think
that if we have money we forfeit something else; like love, time or happiness. We
all have our own belief system about money and those beliefs are often lacking
truth or logic. Our beliefs dictate our relationship with money and are often
emotionally motivated. How money became an emotional issue is anyone’s
guess, but emotionally charged it is.
Some people have good jobs which pay well; beautiful homes, fast cars and all
of the bells and whistles. These people can be just as stressed and fearful about
money as someone else who is struggling to buy their next meal. Money is about
survival at base level but it can also be about ethics, religion, greed, self-esteem,
punishment, approval, jealousy, love, power, selfishness, insecurity, prestige or
guilt. Of course it can be a combination of these things as well as other emotional
issues or subconscious or erroneous beliefs and habits.
Before anyone can change their financial situation they must first understand and
then address their ideas about what money is. Money is not good or bad. Having
money is not good or bad. Money is rarely about good luck or bad luck and no
one is good or bad based on having or not having money.
Money is an exchange of energy.
Money is a token of value; an agreement between two parties to exchange
goods or services. Money is very similar to breathing in air. It is abundant. There
is an infinite need for goods and services and you need to sort out how to
exchange your requirements with the requirements of others. As sophisticated as
we all think we are it still comes down to barter. “I’ve got this and I want that –
let’s swap.” Let’s think about that for a moment; is it good or bad, is it about
greed? No, of course not, it is just me exchanging my energy with you.
If we go back to an earlier time we can simplify things in this way: A farmer goes
into town with his truck loaded up with chickens, potatoes and a pig. He meets
with other farmers and between them they have all manner of fresh foods,
animals, tools and utensils. The farmer exchanges his load (his surplus) for the
goods from the other farmers. Simply, they exchange goods or service for an
agreed value.
Back then, people were very limited in their exchanges. Physically carting goods
or traveling many miles to exchange services made things very difficult. Two
cows might have been of the same value as 3 goats and 12 chickens. But
distribution would have been very time consuming and limited. The important
thing to understand is that it is about the agreed value. This is how simple and
clever money is. Money became the token of value. A dollar is a unit of value.
The value is in line with the amount of energy required to produce the goods or
the service. The wonderful thing about today’s commerce is that we don’t need
to take our cows to a limited number of direct buyers. Money represents the
exchange of value with unlimited flexibility.
Everyone has something to sell and everyone needs to buy something. Everyone
is in the system and it’s a very, very good system. If you can’t accept this
principle then you will probably need to live under a tree and survive on berries.
Understanding money is very simple, but understanding our relationship with
money is much more complicated. It could be as simple as make more or spend
less. This might sound trite but the truth is that for many people this is how simple
it is. Money problems are more likely to be the result of self-sabotage; saying no
to opportunities or feeling uncomfortable or unworthy of accepting more than a
survival amount.
The main reason for most people not having enough money is that they have a
distorted or irrational concept of money. This results in a psychological inability
to receive money. It’s not that money doesn’t exist for them nor are they
incapable of providing goods or services. Either they can’t accept money or they
just don’t value their own energy output. That is not a money problem; that is an
emotional reaction. And it’s very dangerous and it is soul-destroying.
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