Money and prosperity
Prosperity is not really about being financially wealthy or living a life of luxury but having what we need to thrive and live a fulfilling and meaningful life.
We all have what we want, what we believe we are worth, or what we have taken from others.
Trading goods and services for the material things we need is necessary to be prosperous in the modern society we live in and money is a means of trade that simplifies the process.
The beliefs we have about money often have more to do with the beliefs we have about ourselves and other areas of our lives that we have taken from past experiences.
Some people believe it’s difficult to make the money they need to be prosperous, while others believe they shouldn’t have the money they make and subsequently seem to throw it away. Then there are people who make money by stealing it from others or by exploiting others, perhaps believing they don’t have the skills or the means to obtain what they want or need themselves.
People who believe it’s difficult to acquire the money they need may have false beliefs about their worth. If they believe they aren’t valuable, they naturally won’t believe their goods or services are valuable and continually undercharge, or they may charge too much to avoid any transactions to justify the belief that what they provide isn’t valuable. Some who believe it’s difficult to acquire the money they need, may have had a needy parent/carer or they may now have a needy partner and falsely believe other people’s needs are more important than their own.
Some people will unknowingly make sure that their services always provide prosperity for others while providing little for them. This is often due to a false belief they have taken from a childhood experience that was possibly marred by violence. They may believe to be safe, they have to keep the peace and to do that they’ll have to hand over everything they have. It’s like feeding a vicious dog all of their food so it doesn’t bite them.
People that grow up with a pathological parent will often get an indirect message from them that says, ‘be successful but I hope you fail’, and will therefore spend their life constantly having boom and bust financial experiences. The stress it causes may feel familiar but it won’t feel good.
For some people, it seems no matter how much money they make or receive, they still don’t have the money they want or need. They may have grown up in a household where the belief about money was, there is never enough and to justify the belief, they subconsciously make sure there isn’t enough. They might purchase things they don’t need or give away what they need, lose it or allow what they receive or purchase to be damaged or lost.
While many beliefs like these may be necessary to survive childhood, we don’t need to hang onto them when we are adults.
Some people who have experienced lack in their lives as children will often later fill their homes with all sorts of everything that they don’t need to compensate for what they believe they missed out on financially or emotionally, or to make sure that what they need will be available if the time ever arises. The lack they experienced in their childhood may have been due to false beliefs their parents or carers may have had that they took from their own past experiences.
Other people who find themselves in the same situation may have had a controlling parent or carer that used money to wield power over others. Their belief might be that money is something that will control them and subconsciously find a way to get rid of it, but it wasn’t the money that was controlling, it was the behaviour of the person using it.
People that believe money will give them control or power over others only have the power and control that has been given to them, which can just as easily be taken away. No one can control another person unless they allow it.
The language we use when we talk about prosperity or money can help us see some of the beliefs we have and if the beliefs cause any discomfort or anxiety, then they are false.
A woman was once heard saying that she knew she would never have much money, but she only needed enough to pay her bills. Later, the same person was heard complaining that she only ever had enough money to pay her bills and not enough to buy the things she wanted to improve the quality of her life.
Some people will say money is evil or that money causes trouble, but money is an imamate object that is neither good nor evil and therefore can’t cause trouble.
To have more prosperity in our lives, we need to value what we have. This means always being grateful for everything we have manifested according to our beliefs. It’s respecting ourselves and others when trading, which is paying no more or no less than the real value of any goods or services instead of looking for a bargain or a cheap way out. It’s living within our means and appreciating our bills because someone has trusted us enough to provide goods or services before paying for them. It’s taking care of the investments we have that provide us with more of what we want or need no matter how small. It might be investing in a bunch of flowers to cheer up a friend, investing in an enjoyable activity to enhance our emotional wellbeing, a computer or phone so we can communicate with others, the clothes we wear so they have a long life or it might be a financial investment for a financial dividend. This could be investing in gaining new skills for further employment, investing in a business or ethically investing in a company.
The real source of our prosperity comes from having a true connection with ourselves, others and the world around us and trusting nature to let us know when we don’t.
It’s not possible to judge another person’s level of prosperity; we can only judge our own. A person may appear to be prosperous or deprived but in fact, have everything they want or need for the life they have chosen to have.