The Trick
Of Money
Money is a thoughtform. It is a symbol of energy and as such
it has no real, intrinsic value. It is neither good nor bad,
positive nor negative. It is impartial. The guy who wrote
that "money is the root of all evil" just flat out
didn't have any! You can't make it through the physical plane
without it. And whereas sometimes the love of money can cause
people to become evil and weird, it is a fact that without
money you cannot be free. Poverty is a restriction and, as
such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon
yourself.
Yet, when you look at nature
and you see the abundance and flow that are naturally a part
of our environment, it is hard to understand why people take
up poverty as a way of life. It seems that in order to be
poor, a person has to work so hard. It takes a constant effort
of mind to avoid the abundance that life offers naturally.
In the same way that joy is natural and God-given, so too
is abundance; everything else is a drag.
If you were to carefully analyze
the feelings of a tramp and a mega-millionaire, you would
be amazed to find only a very slight variation in how each
feels about abundance. Then if you look at the people you
know and compare the successes to the failures, you will again
find that the difference between them is only that of a thoughtform.
The successful ones often started off as failures and then
one day changed their minds and never looked back. My question
to you is. how are you going to change you feelings so that
you make lots of money quickly, reclaim your power and trot
off into the sunset absolutely free? You should realize that
the acquisition of money is not a serious business; it's a
game that you play. At first it may seem that it is a game
that you play with forces outside of yourself— the economies
of the marketplace so to speak—but as you proceed you
discover it is actually a game you play with yourself. How
you play that game affects the quality of your life and determines
the extent to which you can liberate yourself.
To liberate yourself, you
have to review what it is you believe about abundance and
finances so that you can fashion an appropriate battle plan
which will take you from struggle into flow, from skimpy into
lush.
Now if you have any thoughts
about money not being spiritual I hope to pummel them out
of you, because that idea is absolutely ludicrous. It is a
handy ego trip for all those who are too apathetic to do anything
about their condition.
I believe that in life we
are all on a quest. You may not necessarily describe your
life in those terms, but I believe we are here to understand
ourselves: that means physical body, intellect, emotions,
spirituality, sexuality, love, motherhood, fatherhood, and
cash. You have to have it—otherwise the tail wags the
dog.
The whole trick to money is
having some. There is really nothing else to it. That might
sound a bit glib, but only to a person who doesn't have any.
If you have money, you will know that how you got it was by
having it. I will explain the subtlety of this later.
Becoming Rich
There are loads of ways of becoming rich. Let us eliminate
some of the obvious ones so that we can concentrate on those
circumstances in which most of us find ourselves.
First, you can inherit it.
But if you were not born into a wealthy family, acquiring
relatives who are loaded is not a simple process, although
it is not impossible. You could be adopted. You could hang
out with wealthy folk and become so valuable to them and affect
their feelings so dramatically that they consider you a relative
even though you are not. You could marry into money. Perhaps
you already have, and the fellow keeled over after a year
or so and you are sitting on a beach in Hawaii sipping Margaritas,
thinking, "Simple, really." Of course, you could
become rich by stealing the money. That achieves the end result
for you but with it comes certain nasty implications. You
would be a little disappointed to discover that, once you
had filched the million you set your heart on, it did not
in fact set you free. Most likely, you would find yourself
in the emotional trap of constantly listening for footsteps
up the stairs, wondering when the heat was going to show.
Further, if you steal money,
it has karmic implications and, as the money came easily to
you, there will be a tendency for you to let it go the same
way. Life has a balance of its own. A man I knew committed,
with others, one of the most famous robberies in the history
of British crime. His mates were caught and went to prison,
but he remained a free man because of an incredible fluke.
The police made a clerical error early in their investigations
and got his identity confused with another's. So as the case
wrapped up, the police were satisfied that they had all the
perpetrators under lock and key. In the confusion, my friend
got away.
The pack of money he stole,
however, brought him no comfort, and eventually he drifted
into drugs and became a heroin addict. Whatever became of
him I do not know, but when I last saw him, his condition
was pitiful and his life a disaster. The problem with theft
is that it is an affirmation of lack. It affirms that you
do not believe that you have it in you to "play the game"
and do well no matter what.
The motivations of larceny
are so destructive. They carry with them an implied disease
that eventually shows up in the thief's life as weakness,
and causes him or her misery. In a world where there are so
many crooks and chiselers, where so often people are out to
make a quick buck, it is satisfying to set rules for oneself
that are honorable and fair. Perhaps, by living by these rules,
the point of your eventual financial freedom is delayed somewhat;
but in reaching it eventually, you can look back and see that
each step added to the goodness of the world, and that each
move allowed you to become a better human being.
(Continued
- The Trick To Money Pt2...)
| Authors Details: Stuart Wilde Excerpt
from the book "The Trick to Money is Having Some" |
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