A recent email correspondence with a client got me to clarify something that I'd like to share with you. I love it when clients help me understand what I'm actually doing... haaa...! So here's a slightly edited version of what I wrote to her, which I think will resonate for many of us:
Dear Susan,
I totally understand your concern with the corruption that happens around money, and the particular way that has influenced you. In fact, distortions and insanity around money continue to happen in our day and age, in both flagrant and insidious ways.
However, what I wish to propose is to separate out the behaviors and the lack of integrity and humane compassion from the money itself. In fact, money itself is innocent. It has no opinion about anything. Money is just a tool, like a hammer or a car or an electric wire. It's an energetic conduit. If you drive your car and get totally lost a few times in a row, that's still not your car's fault. It's the driver responsibility for having lost his or her sense of direction.
In the same way, we as a society have gotten totally lost as far as our inner compass regarding the use of our social and economic resources is concerned. That's still not the vehicle's fault, nor is it money's fault that it has been used to fuel people's greed, fear and narcissism. It's also not money's fault that your parents used it to measure people by or judge you.
In fact, when we do this sorting, both personally and collectively, we have the opportunity, maybe for the first time, to see what money is and how we want to use it. A hammer can be used to build a home, it can be used to kill someone. It's the same hammer.
By exploring the holding pattern in your body-mind that has been projected onto money unconsciously for so long, we bring mindfulness into the equation, and finally get chance to see the projection for what it is. At the end of the session there was a glimmer of clarity, a moment where you could see money with fresh eyes. You also became more clear about rejecting of the distorted perceptions your family had surrounded you with.
This space of not knowing is very precious. This is the moment of coming out of the trance, and being able to establish a new relationship with money. Like getting into that car that had previously 'taken' you astray and saying, "hmm, this is my vehicle. It can get me anywhere.... so where do I want to go? How do I want to use money in a way that IS aligned with the my heart and soul...?"
That's what I mean by 'sorting'; in getting clear about what you're
saying "no" to, you also get to reclaim your authentic "YES", your right
to participate in the flow of abundant resources flowing through our world.
This process of reclaiming your relationship with money afresh is uncharted territory, and it takes time to get oriented. You cannot follow the maps given by your family (we all know where they lead...) or the advice given by our consumer society ("spend more, feel less...!") This is why having a community of people charting a new course based on sufficiency, integrity and creative collaboration is so helpful.
This process does not require us to go back to the past and resolve whatever wounds happened there, either in past lives or in this lifetime. It certainly does help, and can be very healing, but it's not necessary. What is required is to wake up to the fallacy that money is anything other than what we make of it.
I hope this email gives a better perspective on my approach.
Sending you many blessings and much love,
Deepika
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