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Rules of the House #23: The Spiritual Energy of Money

The Root of All Accomplishment

If you have a relationship with nothing else in the physical world, you will have a relationship with money. Go through the day and notice how almost every moment of every day is intimately connected with either the getting or spending of money. Most days you go to work to earn the money that you will inevitably need to spend.

Whether you live in an apartment or a house, each day that passes means you have used up one more day of your mortgage or rent payment. Try taking a bus, riding a train, or driving your car without spending any money. Not to mention having a physical body which has an annoying habit of wanting to be fed and clothed every day.

If you have a job you hate, money is keeping you there. Because money is everywhere you want to be, past lives usually have strongly dominated your attitudes toward it. Worse, past lives may be keeping you from the enjoying the abundance of the universe which - believe it or not - is your birthright.

So learning these rules of money becomes a very necessary - and lucrative - pursuit. Here is how the "Energy of Money" really works:

1> MONEY IS THE MEANS, FREEDOM IS THE GOAL

Every day, all the time, everyone always wants more money. People will go to enormous lengths to get it... even going so far as to marry a multi-millionaire! Yet often these self same people end up believing that money is the goal when the real goal is freedom. For money gives an individual freedom to move in the world: whether it ranges from exploring and healing one's karma to the simple desire to have fun.

Money frees one from having to struggle to put food on their table, clothes on their back, or a roof over their heads. Money frees one from being "trapped" in abusive relationships, unsatisfying jobs, unproductive ways of life and from fending off fears that someday, somehow, somewhere there will never be enough.

Money frees one from existing in "Scare City" (scarcity) to living in "Magnified Sense" (magnificence). Simply put, money makes life much easier because it gives a person the means to fulfill whatever desires God has implanted inside them.

2> MONEY IS THE MEANS FOR MAGNIFIED PURPOSEFUL LIVING

Fulfilling the desires of God is what money is all about. No one knew that better than Mother Theresa of Calcutta. She lived simply and soulfully in the worst slums in the poorest part of the industrialized world and successfully carried out her mission of healing the sick and caring for the needy. Pennies did not rain down from heaven enabling her to do this necessary, charitable work.

On the contrary, Mother Theresa was an efficient and skillful fund raiser who went to wherever the money was. She raised millions of dollars both in the United States and in Europe to fund her work in India. Money did not detract from her amazing spirituality one bit. In my opinion, Mother Theresa is one of the most magnificent models of magnified, abundant, and purposeful living from the 20th Century.

3> THE KARMA OF MONEY CORRECTS IMBALANCES IN IT'S USE

Having taken the vows of poverty in many religious lifetimes, the following Biblical passages are tattooed into my cellular memory. You may have heard that "Money is the root of all evil" and that "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven".

Yet, in looking closer, for those of us who are ex-Biblical scholars, it is really "for the lust after money that is the root of all evil" and "it is easier for a camel than a puffed up man" to reach Heaven.

The difference in translation, in both cases, clearly states that the imbalance existing in the individual's use of and regard for money is the true problem. For when money is spitefully kept from those who need it, when it is used as a weapon to hurt others, when it becomes more important than love, God, and dear ones, when it makes us think that we are in fact God, it is a real problem.

This imbalance is quite easily corrected by karma as when "rich men" who have used money in a "puffed up" way incarnate into their next lives as "deflated, poor men" to balance the scales.

4> MONEY IS JUST ANOTHER FORM OF ENERGY & GOD'S LOVE

Those who by karma evolve to a more balanced view of money realize that it is just another aspect of the energy of spirit made visible in form. The energy of spirit takes on many forms in the physical world: like love, time, space, and nature to name a few.

No one ever says: "it is bad to have more love in my life... or more time, or more space, or more natural resources that are freely abundant to everyone" like air, sunshine, and so on. In fact, people desperately seek love, take time for granted, occupy space without really noticing it, and ignore nature unless it gets in the way.

No one says "give me less love, less time, less space, and while you are at it, cut down on the air I need to have every moment and without which I will be dead in three minutes". Yet these same people say give me less money when they believe that it is "evil" and will keep them from "being a good person" or from "becoming more spiritual".

Was Buddha corrupted by wealth he was born into? No, he gave it up for spirit. Was Jesus corrupted by the manifesting abundant food ("loaves and fishes") for his audience? Certainly not. All Jesus objected to money being worshipped instead of God.

5> BARRIERS ARE JUST OPPORTUNITIES IN DISGUISE

Take the case of Roberta Guaspari, the violin teacher who started a music program for the inner city children of Harlem, NY, and upon whose life the movie "Music of the Heart" was based. When the funding was cut for her violin program by the school system, she fought to save it by putting on a recital featuring performances by her best students. Despite initial enthusiasm, the recital was nearly cancelled when the appointed theatre suffered flooding.

Yet at that moment, Carnegie Hall, hearing of her heroic efforts, offered her their space for free and recruited several internationally renowned musicians to appear with the students. The recital was successful enough to keep Guaspari's music program going for another three years. This attracted the movie and now the future of her music program is virtually guaranteed. This all resulted from financial barriers paving the road to success.

6> HELPFUL PEOPLE ARE THE TRUE ABUNDANCE

When people focus on manifesting money alone, they limit the abundance that the universe can provide. For abundance is much more than money, it is personal qualities such as physical gifts like health, strength, and athletic skills or mental gifts like talents, skills, knowledge or emotional gifts like influencing others.

Of these, the greatest gift is connecting with others. For no one can do or know everything on their own. The greatest abundance of all is knowing others who can and will help you reach your goals as you help them reach theirs. That is why the Internet is so powerful because it provides a way for all kinds of people to more easily exchange abundance. The ancient Chinese knew this and it is why their symbol for abundance is many people pulling together.

7> HELPFULNESS IS THE SECRET TO MANIFESTING MONEY

If you want to know the secret to success in business it is this: "that you get what you want from life by helping others get what they want from life". It is just that simple. Those who serve the most people get the most money. Look around and you will see that the businesses which are the most successful are those which offer a superior product, at attractive prices, with great customer support, and a genuine commitment to customer satisfaction.

All this springs from their core desire to serve others to best of their ability. The motivation for this is often just money but those that succeed the most link their motivation to love. This ironically is a very logical proposition: if love is the most powerful force in the universe and if it is very strongly linked to a money making goal, then that goal will be fulfilled abundantly and the money will flow like water!

8> ABUNDANCE GETS YOU TO BECOME MORE OF WHO YOU ARE

For many, the greatest block to manifesting greater levels of money and abundance in their life is actually the fear that abundance will in fact drive them to become more of who they already are.

They fear that it will magnify their shortcomings (as in becoming a mental wreck like multi-billionaire Howard Hughes who died alone in rags and filth because his money supported his aberrations). They forget that it also magnifies their strengths (like Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, or Tom Cruise who have been known to be generous with both their money and their time to those in true need).

The truth is that money is much like a gun or a knife in that it's results depends on whose hands it is in. The same gun used to defend a loved one from harm can be used to hold up a liquor store. The same money that can be used to get medicine for a dying spouse can be given to a hit man to blow that spouse away.

If you cannot trust yourself with receiving more money, the best use you can make of the money you do have is to find out why and solve your disempowering money problems.

9> YOU ARE THE SOURCE OF YOUR OWN ABUNDANCE

Those is the technical fields know this truth all too well. If they do not like the job they are in and if the technical skills they possess are in demand, they will attract another, better job quickly and easily. For they are the source of their own abundance: getting and maintaining their skills is the true source.

The truth is that everyone has something which they can do well. Finding out what that special skill is means looking no farther than to what they like to do or what they can do particularly well. For it is the joyful exercise of God given skills and abilities which leads to the greatest abundance of all: happiness and money!

10> DO WHAT YOU LOVE & THE MONEY WILL FOLLOW

If you have never read the book by Marsha Sinetar, "Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow", I strongly recommend that you do so. Trust is the key to this process working and it is a process.

To do what you love, you must first find what that is. Once you have found it, you must honor it by doing it wherever and whenever you can. Once you have honored it, you must pursue it if you truly wish to succeed. By pursuing it, you must love it with your heart and soul.

If you do not love your work, you will not be able to push through the obstacles and barriers that arise so that you can see the gifts they are trying to bring you. What makes this happen is the trust that you can succeed, that you deserve to prosper, and that the support you need will come to you. This is where faith in "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" pays off.