Money is not the problem or the solution to it… EVER.

 

I know what you are thinking, “What about this stack of bills I have?  Surely having enough money to pay them off would alleviate my stress and make me feel better!”

 

Or maybe you are asking, “What about the small village in Africa where there isn’t clean water. Wouldn’t money solve the problem by providing the resources to get the clean water?”

 

Surely these are problems that can be solved WITH money.

 

Here’s the thing; money can fix a surface problem, but it cannot resolve the deeper issues that cause the problem.

 

If the deeper issues are not resolved, the problem will resurface over and over again. No amount of money thrown at the problem will stop this cycle. To move on to solving the deeper issues, we need to realize the futility of money’s empty promises and STOP believing in them.

 

Money loves to take center stage. It is happy when we pursue it in a perpetual wild goose chase; never quite able to catch up, yet never letting our focus wander from the illusionary pipe dream. Money will have us constantly running on the wheel, like a rodent, getting nowhere. It loves the rat race. Money weaponizes our insecurities of scarcity, our worry that there is always a lacking; a lack of time, a lack of resources. It preys on our overall feelings of “not enoughness”; leaving us forever chasing.

 

Let’s take a moment to contemplate what is really going on when we are not getting our needs met.

There is a cause, something isn’t flowing properly. We are stopped up. Usually because our beliefs and reality do not match up. They are incongruent. If life isn’t providing for our needs, look for the block; avoid the reflex of turning to money to solve our problems.

 

It is time to look at our thought process and at the way we perceive reality. Ask ourselves, “What are my preconceptions about life itself; What are my expectations? Do I really believe that we live in a miserly Universe?”

 

The truth is that life IS abundant.

 

All the resources that we need are available to us. When we connect with life itself, we connect with its abundance. The moment we realize that we have all we need to produce what we need, we will have all we need.

 

So, how do we connect with life; our source and sustenance? By choosing to listen to the voices inside of ourself that are life affirming; believe them and live by them.

 

It is a fallacy to think that “money” or “things” will set us free.

Rather, it is our own realization that we are not limited in how we choose to show up in the world that will set us free. Once you can grasp that we all have the same regenerative and creative powers as the Universe, it opens the door to manifesting what we need when we need it.

 

I remember hearing a story about a town in a third world country where the people were very, very poor and lived amongst trash piles. They made homes out of trash and even, to the horror of our Western mind, defecated in the open outside often on these future building materials.

 

Life for these poor villagers wasn’t easy, but they had a sense of community and belonging. The man who reported this story observed that these people, even though they lived in what we would deem as horrible conditions, were much happier than most of us living in first world countries. That story really stuck with me. It drives home the reality of our own suffering.

 

These third world people who lived in trash heaps, with no money, KNOW SOMETHING about happiness that we don’t. It is because they are connected to our source. They understand the power within each and every person.

 

 In relaying this story, I am not advocating that we become monetarily poor so we can know happiness. Rather I would like us to consider the even more dire poverty that we already live in. By choosing to believe that scarcity exists; that we live in a miserly universe, we become needy. When we are cut off from knowing that we have the power to create what we need in the moment, we become impotent; dooming ourselves to living with an insatiable wanting. And yes, want leads to strife; to that feeling that we never have enough or will be enough.

Cutting ourselves off from our source and sustenance is the true root of poverty.

 

As a “privileged” class, we prance around the world, both literally and on the internet, shouting what we have determined to be “the way” to freedom. But most of these solutions primarily involve chasing money and thus directly cut us off from the reality of the abundance all around us. This is NOT freedom.

 

We have a choice; buy the lie that resources are limited and that we need to compete with each other for survival OR accept the truth that life is abundant and regenerative. There is plenty to go around. Accepting this truth allows us to relax with each other and form nurturing relationships from which we can build community and a sense of belonging. And with this comes peace.

 

Accepting life’s abundance will lead us on a path of selling from our hearts; generously sharing what we know while simultaneously asking directly for what we need. This requires that we come to peace with our moment and surrender to the creative process. When we truly “show up”, we can make our visions real in the here and now.

 

Let us accept the possibility of it all.

 

This is what life is asking.