The main focus of this week's education on the Living a Wealthy Life programme is around our attitudes and beliefs about money. Money throws up so many shadows for us. It doesn't matter how supposedly 'spiritual' the vision of our lives may be, for the majority of us, the issue of money tends to lurk as a shadowy presence in our lives. The feeling of not having it makes us want it, the feeling of having it makes us either afraid to lose it or compelled to have more of it. Yet we're told that we're not supposed to want money, that it's the root of all evil, that the love of it will turn you into a greedy, selfish person. We're told that it's hard to come by, that you have to really work for it, and when you get it you must save it up 'for a rainy day', and do everything you can to protect yourself against those who seek to take it from you.
It occurs to me that our relationship to money is very much like our relationship to everything else in our lives that we believe is ontologically separate from us. It occurs to me that when we feel really good in a situation or feel really good about a particular person, animal, tree, or place, it is because we feel connected in some profound way to whatever it is that's making us feel good. Yet there are many things in life, that, most of the time, we believe ourselves to be cut off from, distant from, isolated from. When we feel disconnected or isolated from something or someone, then we tend to do one of two things - we either idolise it or we demonise it. I'm only just really thinking about this now as I'm writing this, but isn't that exactly we do with celebrities for example, who seem so far from removed from our own mundane existence. We tend to either them worhsip them or condemn - we say, oh I wish I could be like them, or I'd never want to be like them.
I actually think we do it with this with everything and I'm damn sure we do that with money. We tend to either worship it or shun it. Either we think we believe that having lots of it will be the answers to our prayers and bring us longed-for happiness, or we believe that it will turn us bad in some ways, make us lose friendships, change us in frightening ways. I reckon many of us probably swing between these two poles on a regular basis. I know I have in the past. Yet I also know that being able to attract more money into my life can facilitate me to be more authentically who I am, and ironically that being authentically who I am will attract more money into my life! So what's my role in the wealth attraction process? Simple - be authentically who I am - don't compromise, don't play small, don't try and please or appease others whose favour I am currying, in my desparate desire to look good and be seen as a 'good person'. These judgments are based in the fear that I might not be, or rather the fear that I might be seen not to be! If I can let go of this inauthentic pretence of looking good in other people's eyes then I can truly be responsible for the way I create my life, truly be my authentically wealthy self.
There is no shame in wealth, it simply facilitates an abundant flow of energy into your life. Being wealthy simply means you've got more energy at your disposal and more responsibility as to how express that energy. When you're more authentically aligned with the naturally abundant flow of the universe, you've got more responsibility - you can't play small anymore.
Wealth is my responsibility and it's my responsibility to be wealthy! It's my way of honouring life. It facilitates my service to the world.
Love John x
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