Exploring Our Money Shadow
This is an excerpt from my upcoming book from Integral Publishers, Pay What It's Worth: You Don't Need to Set a Price on Value. Stay updated on when it's available for purchase here.
Money is a symbol of two basic principles that underlie every process in the physical world: the principle of value, and the principle of giving and receiving. Whether it is our money, our labor, our commitment, or our care—we estimate the value of something by what we are willing to give for it and receive ...
Buying In & Out Of ‘Not Enough’
I don't want to feel this way any more. I don't want to feel that I am 'not enough.' I want to see how wonderful and amazing I am—and how wonderful and amazing you are. It has been far too long that I have bought into the message that you and I are 'not enough' as we are.
In response to these feelings, I've decided I'm no longer accepting any message, internal or otherwise, that encourages me or anyone else to believe that who or what or why we are is 'not enough.' I'm done buying into ...
Everything Has The Same Value
Everyone can be your teacher, and everything can be an object of worship.
When you can free yourself from the scales of judgement in your lower mind—where one thing is held in higher virtue than another—in your higher mind, everything has the same value.
In this space, you see the teacher learns from their student, as the student learns from their teacher. In every exchange and in every relationship, there is value to realize.
When you can accept yourself and your true nature, ...
We Don’t Know What We Are
Our true nature, who we inherently are, is expressed in all that we do. Yet most of us live without an awareness of this truth, and the practice of expressing who we naturally are becomes difficult to realize.
Instead, we find our selves striving, pushing, giving up; actions driven by our confusion over who we naturally are.
When we express our true nature, we are human beings — we are what we are. When we do not express our nature, we don't know what we are. We are confused. ...
Money, You, and the Work to Be Done
Psychology is to money what an engine is to a car. Your motives — what drives you — determines your experience with it.
Increasing the quality of your thoughts, your wealth increases. In valuing yourself more, you naturally exchange this greater sense of worth with the world around you.
In building credit with yourself, you build credit in the world.
But in order to increase the quality of your thoughts around money, in order to build your credit, you first need to do the ...