So many of us identify a good life with an “option” that comes from having “more than” money. We want financial security. We want to know that our future is safe, and so we “save”. We know life is precarious or can be, so we try and outlive it by putting in actuarial buffers in place like life assurance, a pension, a retirement package. We invest for the future.
I used to think exactly this. Except I felt uncomfortable about owning anything or taking a loan to gain ownership such as a house on a mortgage.
And then I woke up. The “we” in me came home. I realised I am not in my reality a limited being. I am infinite. Well, at least I realised that the entire infinity in within me and I have the faculties to live in that mindset. An ever expanding as opposed to contracting limiting and ageing consciousness. I can grow within outward if only I can seed that infinity within.
Sounds good in theory by how do we do this in practice?
I started by identifying what freedom meant to me, and how I could possibly put the word freedom and finance together. One is limiting the other. It just doesn’t work. Even by saying we want this or are this (financially free) we start with the want which comes from a place of not having so a “lack” mentality, and then, we limit our sense of freedom to money. You might say or think but the freedom here is with having a free flow of money. Financial freedom does not give us an option to be or to feel free.
What you will find is that once you get your financial freedom you will start to cover another state of wanting. It doesn’t stop until you can address the root of this desire.
The question then is why do you crave financial freedom. Can you trace your childhood and see whether you can locate a mindset that you might have witnessed or grown accustomed to about the status of money or finances? What was the attitude to finances that your caregivers had? What is your current attitude to giving and receiving?
Realising the freedom of us, to crave or to be in wanting of anything simply doesn’t feature in our lives. You start to live right now, feeling grateful right now. There is no desire that comes from a place of lack. There can be a desire to know oneself and in so knowing comes true freedom. That knowledge will prove most useful and will be of itself and itself most rewarding profound and self sustaining.
Our children will thrive in poverty as they will in riches as long as we are connected to them fully present to their needs meeting these mostly and sharing our time and space with them. When this is lacking, we plant the seed of lack in them. When we buy them a lot of stuff instead of spending time with them we tell them that things are used to fill the gaps when people can’t be there for each other. And for that we “need” money. For the “money” we need to work hard. And you know how this one spirals.
Why limit yourself at financial freedom when you can have full freedom through self mastery? That’s the only worthy cause that will yield a fruit that never dries up!
Try the fruit of you.