Why is everything, including people, given monetary value? The simple answer is that, it is how people know what is owed or collected…
Money has been given the power of people. It is even a way in which people keep score, with each other. “Who won?” “Who is most powerful?” “Who is the most influential?”” Who is the most…spiritual?” Money is in everything. You want to know why some of these powerful, super wealthy people sound wise? They have been making the rules. They should know something…they also know one little secret…you can “get around” anything. Everything is negotiable or flexible, if you work on it. Limitations are only for the people who see limits….but that is another topic…and yes, it has it’s own practice.
Somehow, money became the proof that a person is worth something. It has been made the object for anything’s validity and power.
The problem is that, things have become confused. We have forgotten that PEOPLE assign a bill note’s worth. Men are printed on currency yet, it’s like we have printed money on our skin for a raise in self-esteem. (Maybe we shouldn’t mix the image of people and money…like putting human faces on bills…just an after thought).
More than once, I have heard a child say, “I want to be rich.” Or, “I want to be famous” (and that usually implies rich). But why? To simply have stuff? Are we collectors of stuff or, has having stuff become the fix for something else?
We Have Habits That Complicate Things
If we want to balance out the scales, we take it to the courts for literally any issue concerning money.
Is greenish laced paper truly the most important thing?
Is there something to our financial obsession? Chasing something will always make us slaves because, it encourages us to follow along with the already established unfair, broken game. Take yourself out of someone else’s game. Make your own rules. Know your own worth with and without money. This was something I had to think about in my own life. I literally had to have my own inner dialogue…
“Erica, why do you have to take this particular job? You don’t want it.
I need to work.
No, you don’t . You have this other option. Plus, you will be able to do the things you truly want to do. Start making your own rules. Set new boundaries.
Strong people have paychecks.
They do? Money, in this way, makes you who you are?
No…it …doesn’t.” (in that moment, I understood and came to my own realization.)
We don’t all have the same path to take but, I had been an “independent” take charge kind of person for nearly my whole life. I had already conquered this lesson of…”independence” and “taking charge.” I was a little stuck on it until that inner dialogue.
What if people didn’t identify so strongly with this paper?
Can I ask you something?
How do you know if someone is being treated fairly, at work? How do you know if a person is at “the top of his game?” How do we know when we are actualized? Can you make money less of a qualifier for your answers?
Your paycheck buys stuff and services. Nothing else.
It is time to reevaluate how we look for empowerment, equality, and, ability.
So what do can you do?
- Choose what you teach and demonstrate.
- Notice your priorities.
- Value your own abilities.
- Support people who are finding their own way, if you get a good feeling from what you see (not a time to be blind. I would never say to “just do” anything, for the sake of it.).
- Think about why you might “like” certain celebrities. What do you know first- hand, about them? Sometimes, we admire a person’s image more than anything else. We don’t know these people.
- Do you have a natural talent? Is there a way to support yourself, doing what you love?
- Have an open heart, with yourself and the people around you. Deep down, most of us know fundamental truths we have forgotten. It’s a practice for everyone to get back onto our paths.
- Value the baby steps to change, in your life.
- Feeling stuck? That’s a normal thing, for most people. Take some time to see what is at the root for what’s keeping you stuck. Sometimes, it’s our own beliefs or opinions. Ask yourself, “Why do I feel like this?” What would a happy go lucky child do? There is wisdom in our youth…If you truly don’t see a way out of your situation, sit in that place and allow it. Your situation may actually be serving you (not you serving it, necessarily. Yeah. Watch your thoughts. Keep it light but, balanced). Consider taking a leap into another direction. Yeah, I know something unexpected might happen! Exciting!
- All of us are worth more than the jobs we do. Who are you? What do you love? Make space for that person? That is where the value is…
Money controls too many of our decisions. We could change that…you don’t think that sounds logical? There are billions of us normal people…so, actually it is completely logical.