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| Category: Alternative Healing Schools |
Date published: May 14, 2004 |
 There is a wonderful prosperity parable that goes...There was a man who appeared to be ragged and financially destitute. He came upon a road boss and he said, "I need work." The road boss said, "Go over there and roll that big stone up and down the hill, and that will fulfill your need." The ragged man responded, "You don't understand. What I really need is money." "The road boss said, "You didn't say that. If it is only money you need, here is $50, but you can't spend it." Again, the man was confused. "What I truly need is food, fuel and clothing, not just money." The boss responded, "Again you didn't say that. If you truly need these things, take the money and spend it on food, fuel and clothing, but don't eat the food, nor burn the fuel, nor wear the clothing..." Because of the road boss, the man was forced to look at what he really needed, which was a sense of security, a sense of inner satisfaction. These are all invisible; all are within the mind and made of a divine substance.
When you break it all down, it wasn't work that he needed, nor was it the money or even the things money can buy. It has something to do with an inner sense of fulfillment, of satisfaction, of being taken care of. It is the ability to be able to manifest all of those things in your life, with or without money or food or fuel or whatever. What you think you need and what you truly need are often very different things. Prosperity is in the now. It is in your mind and in your thoughts. You'll never find it in material things. The only thing you'll find in the material world of things is a need for more material things.
We live in a society where money is the medium of exchange, so money is extremely important. Many spiritually based people have fear based money beliefs like... "Money is the root of all evil!" and "Poverty is holy and money is evil!" The truth is that... the worship of money is evil. This means that to use money as a tool for manipulation and external power is evil, not the money itself. Law is the process by which the unmanifest becomes manifest. You don't have to like the financial laws, but you do have to learn them because you can get hurt by not knowing.
I know a couple that earns $32,000 a year and they have Money Mastery because they live on 90% of what they earn. I know another couple that earns $152,000 a year, but they spend $160,000 a year. They always feel like they will never have enough money even though they earn five times as much as the other couple. This simple key to Money Mastery is one we must all learn... live on 10% less than you earn, than you will always have enough money.
Whether you have a lot or a little, money talk is perceived as deeply personal. According to William G Herron, Ph.D., the author of Money Matters, "We are taught that revealing financial information about ourselves is exposing ourselves." Our money issues, however, remain largely shrouded in personal privacy. A recent study of 2,000 working Americans (men and women of all ages and income brackets), conducted by Princeton sociology professor Robert Wuthnow, Ph.D., reported that most people flatly declared "no" when asked if they ever discuss their finances with friends or family.
When we avoid talking about money, we are cheating ourselves. Our unwillingness to talk through our own and other people's money fears has its costs. Who is talking about money to the conflicted mother when she is deciding whether she should quit her job and stay at home with young children? Who is talking to the new holistic practitioner about how to market his/her new practice? Who is giving the welfare parent the financial education that he/she needs to get a good paying job?
Money can be a hot, tricky topic, as intimate as talking about sex. But without ever mentioning numbers, we can discuss money and our values with people we trust in ways that invite us into new and healthy viewpoints about one of life's most challenging issues. According to Rosemary Williams, executive director of the Women's Perspective (a national nonprofit organization that provides non-denominational workshops on reconciling money with spirituality), attendees at her workshops are almost invariably transformed in some way by sharing their money stories. "It can be the opening of a window, or the opening of a floodgate," she says. "But it is always light that comes through
There is much to be gained by breaking the money taboo and exploring your beliefs about money. What you think you need and what you truly need are often very different things. You'll never find what you need in material things. The only thing you'll find in the material world is a need for more material things.
Most people have been conditioned to associate making money with struggle and pain, and thus they have come to believe that they can only earn money by doing things that they don't want to do. If you are spending your life struggling at something that has no meaning for you, and justifying it by saying that you must do it because it gives you the money you need to pay your bills, then you are opting for some personal dishonesty with yourself. Financial struggle is effort laced with negative emotions. Financial struggle is a programmed response. A money struggler creates a life-style that is fragmented, which makes everything that he/she does to earn money into a painful grind.
In closing, when you that you love to do, you will make plenty of money and it will feel like you'll never have to work another day in your life. Remember.... Money only makes you more of what you already are!
Namaste, my soul friends..... Hu Dalconzo
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