Growing through awareness of money

Growing through awareness of money

"What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose?"

-- Jacob Needleman

How do you relate to money?

Money is a powerful tool for growth. Pay sharp attention to your thoughts, emotions, reactions and actions where money is involved. Don’t judge what you find; just be aware of what’s going on. Your growing awareness will automatically support changes in your behaviour.

“What we're after in Prospering is nothing less than a major shift in consciousness—in the attitudes, beliefs, and ideas you have about yourself and your relationship to money.”

-- Jerrold Mundis

Money is a currency and a tool but not the only one where abundance is concerned. It gets confused with our needs and wants and there lays the problem. In Western societies we are conditioned to want want want and our status is very much tied to what we earn, what we do (job) and what we have. In alot of ways it destroys the very fabric of who we are. Now that the world is in a global financial crisis, the sad reality is that many people who don't feel they fit the accepted norm are taking desperate measures to escape the capitalist structures. It is a travesty when a person's life is reduced to being worth a debt of a few thousand dollars and death seems the only answer.

Money need not be the focus. We have the power over it not the other way around. We can choose a different value system. We can choose the currency of life and shared abundance so that nobody goes without. In fact, it is a necessity if humanity is to move forwards to a better situation.