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A Deeper Perspective on Money

Written by Sen on January 25th, 2013

Money is simply a representation of energy exchange, you can either take, give or accumulate energy,

and your state of balance, or imbalance, dictates how you experience this energy in your life. If you have

an inner state of balance, you should/would also have a balance in your financial condition your

financial experience will always be in tune with your inner experience of balance. Its not possible for

someone who is truly balanced to experience a lack in his/her financial condition, however, its also

important to understand that lack is a relative experience and is personal to the person involved what

seems like lack for you may not seem like lack for the person in question. For example, a person may be

living in a simple house, leading a very simple (or possibly minimalist) lifestyle, and you may think that

this person has a lack of money, however, the experience of this person may be that he has enough money

for his mode/mindset of living, and he doesnt experience lack of it you cannot be the judge of what the

other persons experience is like, you can only know what your experience is like.

With some awareness you start realizing that a windfall of money does not always imply well-being of its

own. There are people who win lotteries and end up committing suicide by messing up their life, in their

case winning a lottery becomes a manifestation of their inner imbalance and it simply amplifies it so

winning a lottery by itself is not a sign of balance or alignment, its totally relative to the person, it can be

a manifestation of imbalance or balance. The simple pointer is that if you focus on money as being the

source that brings you a sense of happiness, you buy into the delusion of depending on an external

factor which keeps you in a constant state of anxiety/insecurity, imprisonment, greed, superficiality and

narrow thinking. Instead if you focus on doing the inner work to find your sense of inner balance, by

working on releasing your momentum of negativity/imbalance, in terms of emotional momentum and

mental momentum, by gaining a balanced perspective on life, and thus move into an aligned expression of

your potential for contribution, you automatically attract a balanced inflow of money in your life its

always inside-out, its never outside-in.

The balance of consumption and contribution

You may notice that some multi-millionaire business men who have enough money to live each day of

their life vacationing, in the most luxurious manner, dont actually do so, rather they spend time at their

work/business, working on innovations, improving their products, staying abreast with the changing

technology etc. However, if you ask a middle-class person what he would do with the multi-million, the

answer would always be along the lines of vacationing everyday day of my life this is because of the

core delusion that vacationing everyday is the ticket to a happy life. The truth is that when you consume

more than you contribute, you always end up in a state of imbalance its so evident in the food we eat, if

we eat more than whats required for a balanced nourishment of the body, we end up gaining extra weight

which leads to health issues of its own. So what does balanced nourishment imply for the body? It implies

the below

- Having enough calories to take care of the inner body functions (Remember that even digestion needs

expenditure of calories, because the body is doing work to get nutrition from the food you eat)

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- Having enough calories to take care of the external bodily functions, like your mental and physical

work, and recreation based activities

- Having an amount of surplus of calories stored up for future contingency. A healthy body usually would

store upto 20-25% of body weight in fat (called storage fat) as a wise measure towards a future

uncertainty.

The above requirements vary from person to person, some people need more calories some need less, fortheir particular lifestyle and body makeup. However, the bottom line is that when you consume more

calories than whats needed, you always end up with extra-weight which actually becomes a burden on

the body. Also, if you expend more than you consume, you end up with a dissipated body which goes into

a state of fatigue. The same principles hold true for money, in a balanced state your finances would follow

the below pattern

- Having enough money to take care of your personal requirements on a daily basis

- Having enough money to fuel your external occupation, like your work or business, or any other means

of service that you are involved in

- Having some surplus of money, as savings, for your sense of security with respect to future uncertainty

(this sense of security is needed for the mind to be at ease to focus on the present creativity/challenges

without having to constantly worry about a future contingency)

The requirement of money varies from person to person, some people need more money for their personal

requirements and business requirements, some need less, whats important is to note that its always about

having enough and not more than enough, or less than enough, that allows for a healthy life. Its

just that most people have a very deluded sense of whats enough for them. In terms of food it requires

a body awareness in order to know whats enough for your body, and whats over-indulgence or under-

nourishment for you. Each body has its unique requirements, and it varies over time, after all, what youate as a child-body is not enough for your adult-body. The same principle holds true for money; it requires

a self-awareness to know whats enough for you instead of comparing yourself with the external

standards whats enough for you is exactly what you will get when you are in state of balance, not more

not less, and it will be an ongoing movement because we are not static beings and our requirements will

keep varying as we grow.

The purpose of life is not just to consume. To consume is an aspect of life, as is contribution. If your

whole focus is on consumption, you are bound to become an imbalance person, not only in conflict with

your own well-being but the well-being of your environment per se. There is always enough around for

everyones need, its a fact of life that life can easily support a balanced state, but it cant supporteveryones greed greed is all about the mindset of I just want to consume more than I contribute. You

know you are in a balanced state of being when your sense of contribution is as strong as your sense of

consumption. By contribution I dont mean something high and elevated, I just mean using your ability

to provide a service, and each of us has some abilities in us to be of service in some way which is always

aligned with our personal requirements of money if we simply stay true to our abilities for service/work,

and keep honing its potential, we automatically will be aligned with allowing a balanced inflow of money.

If you see everything in nature automatically follows the principle of consume-contribute, the bees, the

birds, the animals of the wild its only our home-grown pets who end up over-consuming sometimes

under the influence of an induced imbalance perpetrated by the human master.

Work is not play

Play is for entertainment, work is for productivity there is a real difference between the energy/attitude


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involved towards these two aspects. Of course work can also be entertaining but its not about

entertainment but about being productive in terms of utilizing your abilities for example, a stand-up

comedian may enjoy his job of making people laugh, but he expends energy on working on his delivery,

practicing his punch lines, observing real life quirks, working on new jokes, in all seriousness, to ensure

that he gives a professional performance every time hes on the stage; so even a profession like stand up

comedy requires a seriousness and sense of responsibility to deliver a quality output (which is what

productivity is), its not all about play. Having fun, or playing, is like an inflow or consumption, work is

like an outflow or production, when you make money for your work its always a balanced inflow.

Work should not be confused with struggle. Struggle is like an over-expenditure, or an over-strain, or an

overly forced discipline, its like working on something thats not really aligned with your ability or

over-working your abilities or working in a mindless manner (whats called running around like headless

chicken). When you are doing something thats not really aligned with your ability/potential, you end up

producing low quality output (no matter how much you force your discipline), and low-quality is low

productivity, which directly implies that you are not aligned with a balanced inflow of money you owe

it to yourself to live/hone your potential in terms of your abilities, you have no-one else to blame. No-one

is born without a potential/ability for certain forms of work(s), and your monetary requirements will be in

sync with this potential there is never an aberration to this natural balance which is inherently present ineach of us. Its just that some of us become disconnected with using our potential/ability either because

we compare ourselves to others, trying to be like others, or because we buy into some delusion about

trying to do something thats not really our potential.

This whole deal of dream big seems to ingrain some form of deluded thinking about what big is, not

everyone needs a Mercedes, not everyone needs a big rock for their wedding (rock = diamond), not

everyone needs to go on luxury cruises, not everyone needs an iphone and none of these define youve

made it a more prudent pointer would grow in self awareness and sense your current position to

know the possibilities/options available towards using your abilities. Its just that a lot of commercial

interests drive the delusion of making people think that they need something that they dont really need,simply by telling them this is what defines the good life a lot of ads subconsciously create this image

in your mind, no wonder people buy stuff, that they rarely ever need or use, purely from a place of

delusion. If you notice, in most cases, the notion of dream big seems to focus only on the consumption

aspect and can simply be replaced with consume big, which is just an imbalanced way of looking at life

to force yourself to think about things that dont really want is just silly, to force yourself to think big

in some hyped up manner is just childish, rather just work on knowing yourself in terms of what your real

requirements are, what your abilities are and the ways in which you can use them.

You may have an interest, passion or ability, but to translate it into something productive (which can be

given for external consumption) requires you to put in some work to get it organized. There are manygeniuses who dont have the balance to be productive, they are simply rooted in the I just want to have

fun mindset. Joy/fun is one dimension of life, its not the only dimension of life if you are imbalanced

towards joy you will end up being an unproductive person who is more into consumption than any useful

contribution and this will lead to an inner imbalance of energy which sooner or later hits a threshold,

leading to a crash of some kind. You need to understand that work is not always fun, sometimes it

requires you to let go of immediate gratification and focus on just preparing the foundation for the

product/service for example, learning to drive is not always fun, it requires you to work at it until it

becomes natural to you, extending this example further, you can drive for fun but if you take up driving as

a profession (like being a cab driver) then you will notice that its not always fun and needs some

professionalism. You may have the capacity/talent/interest for a certain expression, but that does not meanthat you will just have fun while using that expression as a means of service/productivity you can be

great at math but to do a PhD in number theory requires a lot more than just having fun with numbers, it

requires the attitude of using your abilities and your focus (which can involve an aligned discipline) to


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create something productive. Aligned work is the only channel through which a balanced inflow of

money is possible.

A different paradigm on money

There is a huge influx of law of attraction books that talk about wealth attraction its very easy to

sell these books because a majority of the population buys into the delusion of consume big. The truth

is that money has to be the least of your focus if you are looking to allow a balanced inflow of money,rather your focus should be on using your self-awareness to understand your abilities, and to use your

understanding of life (its light and dark nature balance), to know that work is the dark nature needed for

the light nature of consuming goods/money dark nature is not a negative, its just a nature of life.

Work is not negative, we have an inherent need in us to work, to be productive, to contribute, to serve, to

provide, to create, to be disciplined, to be organized and to have a focus. In order to eat fruits you have to

dig a hole, plant a seed, water it, protect it and fertilize it all this work allows for the consumption of

fruits, and this work also allows us to be balanced in our energy, pure leisure leads to emaciation. What

about fruits growing in forests? Well, if you want to consume them you have to do the work of walking

into a forest and protecting yourself from wild animals. Even if you had a billion dollars, you would stillwant to work for a good portion of your day, and if you dont get this truth about the need for work it just

means you are not self-aware the people who over-indulge in fun, and create the external notion that

they are living it are, in fact, just building up an imbalance within that sooner or later hits a threshold,

the most common example of such a deluded mindset is the symptom of Monday blues and the Friday

highs, the highs always lead to the blues. The balanced state is not indulgent towards highs nor

suppressed towards over-straining.

Its quite immature to waste your time over positive affirmations on money putting up snippets on your

bathroom mirror about I am a wealth magnet feels silly because it is silly. An affirmation is a

declaration that you dont really believe it, if you really believed something you wouldnt need to affirmit, would you? Its simple logic, and if you are honest with yourself you can easily see the truth in this

logic. In fact you dont even need visualization exercises; think about the things that are really required by

you, do you really need to keep visualizing them or are they naturally in your thoughts? You only need to

force visualize something that you dont really need. This whole deal of trying to manifest through

visualization seems to be rooted in a sense of delusion, and it keeps you in a state of inactivity because

you are holding on to a delusion. Self-awareness, utilizing your abilities, thinking for yourself, letting go

of struggle-based mindset and understanding your consumption-contribution balance is all thats

realistically needed to ensure a balanced inflow of money and manifestation of desires that are needed

in your balanced experience of life.

Moreover a lot of these visualization exercises are imbalanced towards having a consumption mindset

alone, most of us would only visualize the consumption aspect and not be open enough to sense the

reality of work required to manifest it for example, if you visualize a big house, you must also realize

that it will take construction workers to devote a few months working at your site, it would take engineers

to get all measurements and foundations right, it would take some skilled work from gardeners to get the

lawn in place, so there is a lot of contribution of work that goes into your house, and inflow has to be

balanced with an outflow, so whats the contribution you are making towards life in order to warranty all

the contribution being made for you? The money that you pay to these workers would have to come in

from your work work pays for work, and work is what creates the consumption possibilities; that

delicious pastry required the baker to get up at 5 am to ensure that the dough was ready in time, when yousee a light nature of creation always be aware of the contribution of dark nature behind it of work. When

you consume always remember that you are required to contribute also, you are not a special entity who is

here to only be served without requiring to be of service no-one is special that way, we are all equal as


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irrespective of the taxation. Dont see taxation as something thats taking away your money, rather just

understand that your money inflow will always depend on your state of balance there is no external

factor that decides your reality unless you allow it to, and you will allow it to do so only when you

focus/fixate your energy on that influence instead of focusing on yourself and your potential. People who

fixate on cribbing about taxes are also the ones who end up providing low quality productivity/output

because their energy is not aligned with focusing on their work, and hence they dont earn a balanced

amount of money and they blame the external factors for their lack.

Let go of wanting an imbalanced experience of money to let go of imbalanced needs requires a real

awareness. A low awareness person is bound to by into delusions of imbalanced nature. The truth is that

you will not feel happy through an imbalanced experience of money, its just a delusion that you may

have because your thinking is not grounded in reality. Always remember that there is no such thing as a

purely light natured reality, and to imagine such a reality is a delusion. You may ask what if its just

your belief that a purely light natured reality is not possible? to which I can only say that there is a

knowing that comes from open observation of life, and this knowing is not a belief its just an aware

understanding; just like gravity is not a belief and just because you dont believe in gravity doesnt make

gravity go away from your experience. There is no such thing as a life of pure leisure, because leisure is a

light nature and it needs the dark nature of work to balance it. To desire a life of pure leisure is what itmeans to want an imbalanced experience of money even if you do manifest it somehow (through

whatever forced visualization exercises you employ) it does bring along the imbalance with it. If you want

a balanced experience of money, you just need to be true to your consumption-contribution balance, thats

all thats needed, nothing more.

Dont compare your requirements with others we are a population of close to 7 billion people, each

with unique characteristics, personality and potential. The problem with living in such a huge diversity is

that we are likely to forget out individuality and start focusing on trying to copy the individuality of

someone else. If your neighbor buys a BMW you start imagining that you also need a similar, or a higher,

car brand, though it may hardly be a true desire in you so this so-called desire is stemming from a placeof jealousy, or inferiority, rather than from a place true alignment with who you really are. Some people

like to have a grand wedding, but it doesnt mean that everyone needs a grand wedding, you might be a

person who would just like a small wedding or may be just a 5-min wedding at a Las Vegas church its

important to understand that just because someone else is doing it doesnt mean that you have to do it to

feel successful. It takes some real self-awareness to be able to come out of this comparative mindset and

truly align with yourself as who you are right now. There is nothing wrong with a grand wedding as long

as its something thats really aligned with what you need/require as an experience in your life. The inflow

of money is a very relative thing, its personal, it cant be compared, and there is no universal standard for

what wealthy means.

Stop expecting everything in one go You cant eat all the food of your lifetime in one day to

accumulate so much food is not what abundance is, its just an imbalance of energy. Allow your desires

and goals to take their time to mature, and allow the experience of gratification in a balanced manner. If

you got everything at once there would be nothing to work towards and such a reality is imbalanced to say

the least. Moreover, theres a limitation to the options that you can manifest in one lifetime, in that you

cant have it all in one lifetime to make a choice between whats important to you, and what needs to be

let go of, is an important aspect of learning self-awareness you need to let go of some realities to allow

certain realities, you cant be deluded about having it all. There is no such thing called perfection as far

as realities are concerned. It comes down to having a balance in your joy dimension; if you are overly

driven by your joy dimension you end up becoming a greedy person whos constantly restless for moreconsumption without aligning with balance.

In conclusion, its self-awareness and a willingness to understand the reality of life, what I would call

life-awareness, that acts as the foundation for a balanced experience of money. This whole hype


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surrounding a fixation on money, or attracting money, only leads to a delusional mindset. A balanced

inflow of money is a natural byproduct of a balanced expression between your desire to consume and

your potential to contribute/produce/work in alignment with your abilities in this human body.

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