Does Money Ease Pain?

I have the longest urge or desire to write about $ woes. Since past weekend, or the past few months, there were not just money woes, there were political undertones along with $ issues. There would be some crossover with some policies and money.
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Thanks rugged gurl! These are some good thoughts. It is very true that the assumption of “never enough” is embedded within the doctrine of capitalism. Very interesting results, in challenging the Econ 101 professors on this one! Because what if we all DID learn, somehow magically overnight, what the heck ENOUGH is? Wouldn't that be a HOOT? Bye bye to capital gains, to the prophets of profit,  to the mindless momentum of progress and to the grossest of gross national product (GNP). Bye bye to mountain-top removal, to life-depleting agribusiness, to labratory-born food-induced disease, torpitude and death, and to the ten-thousand brands of toothpaste and other zillions of earth-hungry non-essentials, which are ceaselessly, for christ's sake, criss-crossing each other in oil-belching cargo-transports on our national and international byways…

sheez! We think we are so smart!

So this idea of “keeping up with the Joneses'” has been around since i was a kid. I haven't ever suffered the affliction, so i can't really speak to it from personal experience. But i can speak to the dissatisfaction that besets us as we pursue happiness, discovering as we do, like children on christmas, that no matter what delights us in one moment turns stale the next, and we are forlorn for the thought that christmas will not come again for a whole year.

This dynamic eggs us on through acquisition after acquisition throughout life, until of course, the individual happens to notice that, beyond the first blush of excitement, it never actually works. Which is sadly as close as many people come to happiness. Such a tragic misunderstanding! Which keeps us as children, as hamsters on the wheel of commerce, mindlessly powering the very beast that consumes us!

And this question, can money ease pain? I think if perhaps we could use it to construct casts for broken limbs, or use it as tinder for a warm fire to brew healing teas and tinctures, perhaps it can help. But otherwise, it is only a key to the padded cells of our imagination. Seeking clothing, i can be happy. Seeking food, shelter, medicine, i can be happy. Seeking for my children may be a bit more anxiety-producing, though!

The misunderstanding is that happiness is a product. It is decidedly NOT! It is a state of being, a dimension that opens to us when we come to understand this radical, revolutionary concept of ENOUGH.

Which, my Econ profs scoffed, will NEVER happen. Let's prove them wrong, okay?

Thanks so much for your post, rugged gurl.

Blessings!

mary ;-)

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If you've ever been hungry then you know that money does ease the pain.. smile
As spiritual Beings.. in a physical body.. money is important.
We have all created this system of exchange.. we call it money rather than shells, beads or blankets being exchanged.
I've been working online since 95 and love it. I love that my work..  is helping others.. and I also love having utilities.. for which I exchange money.

By paying attention to what we don't like about our economy.. our business standards.. we only add another log to the fire.
I also have discovered something about people..even “spiritual” people who don't like all the physical possession.. stuff.
When I give away free ebooks.. or offer to coach for a small donation.. you know what happens?????? Want to guess?
If people get the book.. they don't read it.. and since the coaching is so “cheap” people don't honor it and the energy of the work.
I realized a long time ago that I don't create this world all by myself.. I work with others. I also realized that I don't have to play with or interact with things that don't line up for me.
I create my own life experiences.. and by paying attention to.. being emotionally attached to things outside of myself.. I bring them in so they can matter to me.
LOL
Not fussing.. just explaining what I've experienced.
Not one of us created this planet alone. It's a joint effort. I don't have to interact with things I don't enjoy.. like I don't have to eat spinach.. yuk… lol
Money is important. It's the way we've all set things up.  Money is important.
The # 1 reason for misery is not money.. it's not the root of evil.. the reason people are not happy is they don't remember who they are .. how powerful they are.. they forget they are powerful creators.. and can change things for themselves in a shifting of believing.
Wow.. long winded.. huh???
Smiles,
Donna