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Money is energy. Change your perspective about money…

 
Today I received a question for a reader. Below is a copy of that question, and my response to her is below the copy of the question, about how money is energy…

Question sent by reader:

Many of the metaphysical teachers say that money is energy. As a student of metaphysics, I have learnt that everything is made up of energy, i.e. automobiles, human beings, water, tables chairs etc. A couple of metaphysical teachers describe money as an idea or a concept. What came to my mind is that money seems to come in different formats.

For instance – I’m guessing on this – if America wanted to obtain oil from another country, it is possible that in exchange for the oil, America may have supplied the other country in question with American-made clothes, electronic devices etc., in exchange for the oil, rather than having paid for the oil with dollars and cents.

Since money is described as a medium of exchange, then I am assuming that the merchandise that America may have supplied that country with in order to obtain the oil is itself another form of money. Correct me if I’m wrong. Another example may be two children. One child has a Kit-Kat bar and another child has a handful of toffees. The first child trades the Kitk-Kat bar with the other child for the toffees; so I’ m guessing that the chocolate bar in question is a form or currency or money. Am I getting it so far?

I was reading an article about money being energy. I was told that the different-coloured slips of paper or the coins which people obsess over are not actually money but SYMBOLS of money.

This is where I got stumped. What do metaphysical teachers mean by that? I am having some trouble wrapping my head around that theory.

My response to that question:

What is money? Money is, any “good” that is widely used and accepted in transactions involving the transfer of goods and services from one person to another. Economists differentiate among three different types of money: ‘commodity money‘, ‘fiat money‘, and ‘bank money‘.
‘Commodity money‘ is a good whose value serves as the value of money. Gold coins are an example of commodity money. In most countries, commodity money has been replaced with fiat money.
‘Fiat money‘ is a good, the value of which is less than the value it represents as money. Dollar bills are an example of fiat money because their value as slips of printed paper is less than their value as money.
‘Bank money‘ consists of the book credit that banks extend to their depositors. Transactions made using checks drawn on deposits held at banks involve the use of bank money. [Source]

I certainly don’t have “answers”, simply my own perceptions & opinions. So, here goes!

Before “money”, the trading of like valued goods was common place. Money is is a conscious & social agreement on measuring value. We made it up! That’s why it has energy and why it is symbolism of energy, rather that something “real”. It has our emotions attached, based on past experiences – whether in our personal life, or historic, over thousands of years.

Sure, the colored notes and coins are tangible objects and carry their own intrinsic energy. However, the fact that we named/labeled those objects “money”, means that over time we associate other energies to the object, extra to the intrinsic energy of the objects themselves.

If enough of us agree, we can “make up” something else to “be money”, and have that be universally accepted. [See also] No accident then, that the term ‘fiat‘ derives from the Latin fiat: “let it be done”/”it shall be”.

For example, with regards the HappyUSummit event, they write: “The key is reaching critical mass to trigger a phenomenon of global transformation. Inspired by the magic number of Phi (also known as Golden Ratio) that appears throughout all Nature from the spirals of seashells to principles that govern population growth rate, we believe that it takes as little as 1.618 % of present world’s population to effect change.”

I’m not religious, however the conversation about the “energy of money” does make me think of a parable in the Bible:

Mark 12: 41-44 “And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.”

The “flow of energy” emanating from her gift could have been perceived as greater than that of those who might have given a higher amount, because her money was sourced from a “smaller pot” and was not “disposable income”. Like cooking a meal, we can do that begrudgingly or make the meal with an intention of giving a loving gift. The end result could be completely different because of the intentions and energy flow from “the cook”.

I’ve known of life coaches who will charge their fee based on percentage of income of the person being coached, rather than a set fee. It emphasizes the personal investment contributed to the agreement & therefore heightens perceived value of the coaching. It increases a person’s level of commitment & willingness to act, or to play a bigger “game” with the coach. The coach too will sense having a greater obligation to their client when the fee being paid is just outside of “comfort zone”.

Near the bottom of this site you’ll see a “Picasso story” cartoon, and just above that, 3 scenarios. That explains the idea of energy exchange a little better also.

You might want to write to someone like Robert and ask their view. It appears that he has spent more time thinking about the subject and done a lot of research into the “spiritual” side of “the money conversation”.

There are also a couple of excellent conversations to read at SpiritofMaat

There are 4 videos in this Mastery Of Money series that are well worth viewing too. Stuart’s book is summarized here.

I’ve given you a lot of reading with those links included above, and hopefully some of those texts might give you a view which will empower your relationship to money or expand your thoughts in relationship to money.

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Story of the 87 year old college student named Rose

 
Dan Clark is the most beloved and popular author from the early stages of the “Chicken Soup” phenomenon. Dan’s incredible story of the deaf school counselor, “Pay Attention” and his masterpiece about his 87-year old fellow college student, “Rose” are classic Chicken Soup stories that are still circulated on the internet to millions throughout the world every day!

After the video, enjoy the story of 87 year old Rose. A touching story to remind & inspire…

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.

I turned round to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being.

She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?”

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze.

“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked.

She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids…”

“No seriously,” I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me.

After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake. We became instant friends.

Every day for the next three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this “time machine” as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet.

I’ll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor.

Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, “I’m sorry I’m so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I’ll never get my speech back in order, so let me just tell you what I know.”

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.

There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.

We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it!

There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight.

Anybody can grow older. That doesn’t take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change. Have no regrets.

The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.”

She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The Rose”. She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives.

At the year’s end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago.

One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.

Thank you Monsieur, Dan and Bette

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One Billion Rising, break the chain

 
“Break the Chain” aims to raise awareness around the world about V-Day’s fastest escalating global campaign to date, ONE BILLION RISING.

The ONE BILLION RISING campaign began as a call to action based on the staggering statistic that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. With the world population at 7 billion, this adds up to more than ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS.

On 14 February 2013, V-Day’s 15th anniversary, activists, writers, thinkers, celebrities and women and men across the world will come together to express their outrage, strike, dance, and RISE in defiance of the injustices women suffer, demanding an end at last to violence against women.

Find out more at www.onebillionrising.org

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Happy Chinese New Year for 2013.

 

2013 is Year of the Snake and it will arrive on February 4, 2013. Chinese New Year Day is on February 10, 2013.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

There are some taboos on the Chinese New Year Day! See a list of those taboos here…

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This happy, happy, happy post has three lovely happiness resources for you

 

Renowned spiritual guru Deepak Chopra says that HAPPINESS is the goal, of all other goals. How true that is!

Apart from making us feel good, do you know that people who are happy create more magic in their lives than people who are not? Being happy with yourself is the key to success for so many areas of life.

“Happiness doesn’t just happen to you, like some “accident”. It is something you choose.” –Andrew Matthews

The Dalai Lama said, “I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness….the very motion of our life is towards happiness”. When asked if it is really possible to be happy, the Dalai Lama replied, “Yes, I believe that happiness can be achieved through training the mind”. “By bringing about a certain inner discipline”, the Dalai Lama continues, “we can undergo a transformation of our attitude, our entire outlook and approach to living”.

Share this happy video and my free collection of 365 mini-actions to raise your (and others’) happiness quota…

Being happy is a choice and a state of being that you can create anytime.

Have you yet seen this happy movie too?

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This message is for those who are aware of the light (everybody)

 

The following letter was written by Crystal at Clear Health. Thank you Christopher Westra for sending it through to me, so that I can now share it forward with you…

I had an experience last night that I want to share, one that gives insight to the coming weeks. I was laying in bed thinking about recent events both personally and in our communities.

I began to feel a lot of fear around these next couple of weeks as we head deeper into December and into 2013. The shooting in CT, and other shootings, how corrupt the government is becoming, just all of it. And I mean, it was intense fear like Holocaust fear.

I wanted to cry. So, I began to pray. Archangel Michael appeared before me. I felt his strong loving presence and was immediately settled and comforted. He took me with him and without saying a word, I knew he was taking me to show me a clearing of the earth.

I could see the city I live in and all of this dark inky black and brown air being sucked from it and angels faster than lightning pushing this beautiful, clean, sparkly, heavenly light energy into every house!

We went higher and higher, I could see it happening to the state, the country, the world! I was amazed at this process, how quick and swift it was. I could see this dark energy being sucked out of the whole planet and all of this divine light replacing it.

I was astounded as I thought, what an amazing thing to behold.

Archangel Michael then said to me, “Crystal, we do this hourly. Every hour of every day. As the world fills up with this darkness, we are working tirelessly to remove it and push God’s love back into it”.

I began to weep and cry. HOURLY? This huge and wondrous process has been going on every 60 mins. around the entire earth? The magnitude struck me and, through sobs, I asked what I could do!

He said that for the next 2 weeks, the two energies of dark and light will be come even more intense, and that the angels who are coming in legions and waves will have to work even faster. He urged me not to be affected by the dark waves and to stay strong though the roller coaster effect of this opposition, that continues to chase each other like cat and mouse, throughout the world.

The darkness comes, it is then removed and light returns. The dark returns darker, the light returns lighter! No wonder we’re all feeling crazy, right?

He told me to keep myself as positive as possible. He said that it is easier for the light to remain when humans hold the light for long periods of time, and that one human can hold the light for 30 or more people at a time.

My job, and the job of all people who are aware of this light, is to hold the intention for holding it for 30 people or more, for as long as you can, throughout the day. To not let fear, drama, or anything negative, personal or global, get to us.

In my mind, he showed me a vision of the light remaining for longer periods of time and that the angels would eventually have to remove the darkness every day, then every other day and so on… until the light prevails.

He showed me that it was only because of people’s prayers and commitment, not to carry fear of what the world is going through, that they even have the power to undergo this mass intense project.

He showed me that when the darkness comes, people are more apt to have their personal insecurities and dramas affect them. However, if we can recognize it as just an effect of having darkness sweep through us, we can be more aware and stand up to it with wisdom and love. We will be like the angels, sweeping the darkness away and adding light from heaven to our lives, and this affects everyone around us.

He brought me back into my bedroom and told me to visualize light going in through my body and down into the earth, filling all of the light grids throughout the planet, and to fall asleep with this image while repeating, “Light prevails, light prevails, light prevails”.

I did as I was told and fell asleep in this process. I had beautiful dreams that were ineffable – in many of those dreams I was with the angels, who sang in choirs and in tones I cannot describe, because it was so beautiful and ‘other worldly’.

I am fully committed to doing what I’m told for the next 2 weeks and to get the information out there to as many people as I can. I think it’s important to be aware that many of our own personal drama is a part of that darkness trying to distract us from our purpose at this time.

Upon relaying this information to a friend, she reported feeling the back and forth, the ups and downs, very intensely. Another friend reports that she feels she’s being sucked into a black vortex.

Whether you are sensitive to the energies, or just notice a lot of drama and ups and downs around you, it is obvious there is a lot going on. Someone asked if we could pick our 30 people for whom to hold light. I’m not sure if we can pick them, or that it even matters.

It matters only that we hold the light, when we start to feel the darkness come. I would simply attempt to hold the light for as many people as you think you can. Archangel Michael was not trying to limit us, just give us a figure from which to work.

Brothers and sisters, it’s time to flex our spiritual muscles… the ones we’ve been practicing, working for years. I believe that many of us chose to be here at this time for this one very pivotal turning point.

It’s being downplayed, there is much distraction and confusion, however we must keep focused on being loving, forgiving, compassionate, happy, and doing things that make us feel joy and connected.

Those things are different for everyone and we need to engage!

You may even have to set aside the anger and drama you might be in, with others right now. Tell them you’re on a sabbatical and that you will pick up where you left off, in February! lol

This is precious time, people. Not a time for wimping out and saying it’s too hard, or that you are too busy or insecure in your own power to hold light. Nope. We don’t have the privilege of chickening out or downplaying ourselves, or this situation, right now.

After what I saw, and continue to be made aware of, we need every single person to set aside any ‘personal issues’ and participate right now. Spend this time engaging in an inspiring hobby, listening to a song that brings joyous tears to your eyes, watching inspiring videos, or looking at photos and spending time with pets and loved ones.

Give, give, give, as service brings you out of personal drama and into the light for long periods of time. Randomly call/text people to tell them you care, pray, visit an old or lonely person… whatever makes you feel good. You know what brings you joy… do it.

Do it for 2 weeks and commit, to helping our beloved and tireless angels rid this planet from such intense fear.

LIGHT PREVAILS! I love you, spiritual warriors. LIGHT PREVAILS!

Love, Crystal. Message Delivered 12/17/12 Clear Health

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