YOU (AND MONEY).
I ask you to care more. I say it is essential for our survival. I say you have amazing, unrealised power and strength. I say you are a beautiful being of pure love because you are part of the Creator’s mind set. I say you create your own reality. I say you are eternal. If these things are true, how amazing is that? It is a kind of magic – these things are true!
If you are this truly amazing, special being, which I believe you are, you must be pretty cool, you must know a lot. Then why do you feel so helpless, inadequate and unable to make a difference and why are you so unsure about some of my words. It is because you are a child of your generation. It is also because you are a child of your experiences. If you are eternal, if you have lived before in other lives you will also bring in past fears and traumas. Fear negates belief, it negates action, it creates a kind of helplessness. You might not believe in past lives so let us just stay with this one.
You are in a world where money is very important (for many a kind of obsession). Your parents will have talked many times about money. You will have seen them happy when they have it, stressed when they don’t. Money must have appeared almost like an invisible member of the family with a special power. A power to make people happy. A power to give you the things you want. Also, you are bombarded by media coverage which constantly tries to encourage you to buy. They even use some of my words. They tell you, you are unique, special, providing of course you buy whatever product they’re promoting. The ‘Bullshit’ never stops. You are surrounded by it, soaked in it, you listen to it endlessly and are even sung to about it. It is little wonder you are confused, helpless. You are lied to endlessly. Everybody around you appears to have agenda – they all want something from you. They are turning you into the mindless man, the faceless man, the fearful man, the tin soldier, the consumer. Your government also is obsessed by money even more than your parents. They too require your unspoken obedience. They virtually never tell you the truth. They will tell you how important you are but seldom back it up with action. They actually need you, want you, to feel helpless. That way then can maintain easy control. They certainly don’t want you to say No! How often do they follow through with their promises? In a world this cheap, this dishonest, this shallow, who do you turn to, who do you trust? No wonder you’re confused and feel helpless.
But wait, there is hope, there is light at the end of the tunnel. There is someone you can really trust, somebody who doesn’t lie to you, somebody who only wants what’s best for you, somebody who really knows you. There is you.
I am not saying your friends, family and loved ones don’t want what’s best for you. In their own way I’m sure they do but they also have their own agenda and they too are subject to all this confusion and they, like you, struggle to find their way through it.
Trust yourself. You know. You truly are this amazing, special being even if you feel a million miles away from that person right now. Your higher consciousness is so wise, so old, so loving and it is trying to guide you all the time.
One of the hardest things, in a world that constantly looks around to others for approval, is to trust yourself. Generally, you get it right, your feelings, intuitions are correct, your conscience keeps you morally sound (You always know the difference between right and wrong). Why then do you make mistakes and so often get it wrong? It is because you don’t trust yourself enough. You are not strong enough. You let others influence you too much. You look to others too much for reassurance. You follow the trend, go with the flow, are subject to the vagaries of fashion. In truth you are not yourself. You are on the treadmill of being the person you think others want you to be. You are not this amazing, special being I talked of because you are not being yourself. You are being part chameleon (changing colour depending on who you are with) because you haven’t got the confidence, strength or courage to be yourself (or you think you haven’t) and because you haven’t got the confidence, strength or courage to be yourself, you don’t respect and love yourself enough. If you don’t respect and love yourself enough how can you respect and love others?
Do you see the bitter spiral (struggle) you are in and how it drags you down?
So, keep it simple, be gentle with yourself, avoid all this inner stress hiding creates. Be yourself. You do have the courage. Your inner strength is virtually unlimited (limitless) if you empower it with your desire, your mind. Be true to yourself. Be true to others. Never lie to them. Lies at every level always hurt because the other soul believes you, acts on your words and does or thinks the wrong thing and you are responsible. Speak your truth quietly, be yourself and you will start to love and respect yourself again. From this vantage point it is easier to love and respect others and your life moves up a level, gets easier, lighter and happier.
Now you are ready to start caring more, to go beyond self and start helping. This needs to come from within. You have no need to share this experience with others if it makes you feel uncomfortable. You are now ready to help me in that you can join me in caring for the planet, its future and ultimately us all.
P.S.
Money is completely neutral. It can be used to promote good or bad. It is just a tool. We may treat it like we treat our superstars, giving it huge and imagined status but actually to have a lot of it is a big responsibility and can be very stressful. What are you going to do with it? Should you be sharing it, helping others, giving it away, keeping it all for yourself when you know you’ve got so much on a personal level you could never get through it? Some might believe you can never have enough as they are attracted to the power that shadows it. What it can never do is make you happy because it is not a person. You may love it but it never loves you back. There is no feel-good factor unless you use it to help others and it is their appreciation and gratitude and your own pride in yourself in doing something good that feeds you.
On a personal level I have no views on money. I simply watch its hold on others and what they will do to get it. Like you, I need some to survive. We all need food and a safe place to live.
I do see money as the root of most evils particularly with regard to the issues I am trying to help with.
I would love to see a world without money. A world where caring and sharing are taken for granted. Where everybody is fed, cared for and important (where everybody is treated the same and there are no superstars).
However, that is one step too many. We are not ready for that yet. It is something for the future. In the meantime, if we can care more and save what we’ve got, that future will be ours. We will be there.