Native Americans teach that there are 3 miracles in your life, every minute of every day.
- Life exists
- You are gifted with life.
- You are evolved enough to KNOW you are gifted with life.
How often do you remember that life is a gift?
It’s easy to take life for granted. We wake up in the morning and jump right into the things we do to keep our lives running. We forget to take time to connect with our deeper selves. To express Gratitude.
We are trained to believe that we need to earn a living. Consensus reality says we don’t deserve life simply because we are alive.
We all need money, a safe, comfortable home and good, nourishing food. We also need satisfying relationships, spiritual connection and creative expression. In today’s world, how can we make friends with our survival needs and live as if the mere fact of our existence means we are worthy of being alive?
Is there a gap between your connection to Spirit and
your relationship with money?
We are called ‘homo sapiens sapiens’ because we have the capacity for self-reflection. We can be conscious of who we are.
Being conscious of who we are increases the choices available to us.
In The Currency of Connection, Nogie King demonstrates that money is means of connecting with each other, nourishing ourselves and each other. She recommends treating money as if it is your dear friend. She says the original purpose of money in the marketplace was to bring people together. Trading goods is a way of connecting and improving quality of life.
Do you fear money? Hate it? Hoard it? Try to pretend it doesn’t exist? I’ve done all the above. Do you see money as power over others, or power that others have over you?
Write out your beliefs about money, without judging what comes out of your pen.
When I first did this exercise, I was disturbed by what came out. When I was young, I saw money used to control others. As a child with little or no money, I had no power, and no say-so over even small choices that weren’t economic. The breadwinner of the family wielded absolute power and seemed to resent having to pay the bills.
In my neighborhood, I saw families with plenty of money, and seemed miserable. Their houses looked grand on the outside, but on the inside was a lot of unhappiness.
I rebelled against the idea that people with money are somehow better than people without. At the top of the money pile seemed to be a cold, cold heart.
Money and love seemed to live in completely unrelated dimensions.
Does earning and spending money HAVE to take place completely outside your heart? Is money separate from the 3 miracles?
Most people will more readily tell me how much they weigh, or how their sex life is going, then tell me how much money they make or spend.
One reason for this is, there is no “Enough” when it comes to money, Even people who are wealthy are always insecure because, what if they lose it? And, other people are even wealthier! What the heck is going on?
King encourages us to think about money from a Sacred Feminine perspective. For centuries, our economic policies have been based on outmoded patriarchal values of competition and a belief in separation. Money has separated us from each other, from Spirit, and from our own deeper, inner needs.
This way of thinking has encouraged entrepreneurs to walk into beautiful, old-growth forests and calculate board-feet of lumber, seeing magnificent, ancient trees as profit rather than miracles of life. Many people believe that the Universe is a dead, purposeless place. From this mindset, it makes sense to take what you can get, to amass material possessions to compensate for feeling alone, in a lifeless universe.
What if, instead, you open your heart to beauty? What if you choose to do less, to prioritize caring, loving relationships over competing and hoarding? What if you and I have the power to make a difference in the larger economy through aligning ourselves with the Sacred even in our spending and earning?
King calls us to prioritize connection, relationship and nurturing the life force with money.
Even during the years when I was very poor, I prioritized healing and art in my budget. I wanted to create a world where spiritual healers could make a decent living. This was YEARS before I knew I would be called to do the work I do now.
I see many people doing this, in small and big ways. Composting, growing gardens, sharing the bounty with neighbors. Creating bi-lingual schools. Volunteering, help others. Cleaning up the environment. Taking a lower paying, lower stress job, to have more time, and quality time with friends and family.
Men and women are doing this together. The Divine Feminine calls the Divine Masculine to the Dance. Together we can use brains and brawn, hearts and minds to live the Miracles of Life, even in our money lives. We can look at the big picture.
I invite you to trust your intuition. Tell the truth about how you feel about money.
What steps are you taking to live from your heart? Where do you need support? We are all unhooking from a dysfunctional money culture.
