This Week’s Gratitude 16
For Money
This Week’s Action Statement
”I give great thanks for the existence of money. I am grateful that we have agreed there is a common medium of exchange for goods, services, and time. I am thankful for the infinite supply available to all of us. I choose to use money for the expansion of love and joy and affirming life. I use money to experience and learn about me and my place in this world. And so it is!”
This Week’s Information and Action
This week we give great gratitude for the historic medium of exchange: money. The collective agreement to use this tool for payment for goods and services is a remarkable exercise in human cooperation. The idea behind it is sound. The practice is not. So, this week, we acknowledge the intention and invite our awareness and action to be a vehicle that brings the runaway money world back to center.
People spend their time in choices of activities. Some are for pleasure and relaxation. Some are to generate money with which to buy goods and services and time to do that which we desire. Technically, the more money one has then the more one is able to access these desired items. The challenge has come that this end has become the primary focus of so many lives. The cost of this is to diminish the opportunity to enjoy this dimension, its people, its natural beauty, because so much of the time of day is given to work.
Many work for money, period. Still some work for the love of the activity or the creation. Theoretically this ought to result in greater reward because of the fairly stress free joy that comes from doing what we love. And, indeed, this is happening. I do what I love and immerse myself in creation and music pretty much throughout the days. It leaves me gratified and I always have what I need to meet my commitments and obligations and get what I desire. It is a growing exercise in applying the universal laws of manifestation. I show up to that which is before me and receive in a variety of kind back from my efforts. Sometimes it is money, sometimes it is appreciation, sometimes encouragement, sometimes invitations to perform or travel, sometimes it is gifts of relationship. All have value. They are not money but they are an affirmation of prosperity and abundance. It all leaves me in a state of gratitude.
There is endless supply of wealth available to all. We, unfortunately, have been programmed to believe in scarcity. So we scramble to get more of this limited supply of money, often resenting those who have more through, work, manipulation, family, or criminal activity. The drive to have more often is at the expense of enjoying what one does have. It is sad.
In many ways, the woundings, unmet needs, losses, holes in the soul, have been replaced by money and stuff. In attempting to fill a hole that cannot be filled by money (only love and self acceptance can do that), many simply get more, as if that will make everything OK. Too often the greed leaves one empty in the midst of the riches.
It is necessary to return to a proper relationship with money. Seeing abundance everywhere, practicing gratitude, being generous, balancing work and play, being an open hearted loving person…all serve to attract money. Life is meant to be lived. With proper self care one can create a beautiful life where money flows and does not corrupt. Trusting life and the promise of supply is a critical step to being in alignment and having what is necessary for you to do all that you are here to do.
When we stop judging, wishing and hoping while we sit idle, wasting our money in attempts to fill our inner holes instead of working to clear them…then our relationship with money will change. The external signs of the economy are signs of the inner conflict. So start getting clear on what you love to do. Make money your friend. Enjoy what you have and affirm the infinite flow with thought, belief, and action. Be generous and supportive of others. Be open to receive as well as give. Affirm your self worth in all you think, say and do. Make clear intentions and work your imagination and visioning. Tell the Universe what you desire. See it happening. Feel it. Claim it. Use actual money instead of credit. Pay cash. Rather than stuff affirm the use of money to fund experience and learning, things you just don’t put on the shelf. Recreate a loving, supportive relationship with money now….the money is always there.
