Holistically Speaking with Meira Findel
As talk of falling housing prices, rising consumer debt and declining retail sales bring up worries about the nation’s economic health, more Americans feel additional stress and anxiety about their financial future.
Money is often on the minds of most Americans. In fact, money and work are two of the top sources of stress for almost 75 percent of Americans, according to the American Psychological Association’s 2007 Stress in America survey. Add to the mix headlines declaring a looming economic recession, and many begin to fear how they can handle any further financial crunch.
While there are definite signs that the economy is changing, these shifts can be very positive and empowering, if you choose them to be. You have the power to change your experience, eliminate stress and claim your health in all areas of your life.
What happens to us on a collective level is, in some part, also happening inside of us individually. If you believe that your thinking, feeling and mindset create your reality and the economy is very much a part of your reality, then, by logical deduction, you are also a part of contributing to the consciousness of the current economic situation.
Think about this for a minute. Inside of your body are millions of cells. Your total health and wellness depends on the optimal function and alignment of each cell. If a large enough number of your cells aren’t doing what they are supposed to then you will experience some kind of shift in your well-being.
Our role in the collective reality is much like the role of each individual cell within your body. We collectively project a reality that we are all experiencing, to some degree.
Physical well-being and health are the body’s way of expressing abundance. We are hardwired to be healthy. If our bodies are metaphors for our greater collective experience then we have to also understand that economic health is also natural and part of our “hard-wiring”. We are created to be happy, healthy and financially abundant.
The current economic situation is simply a symptom that a large enough percentage of our collective consciousness is not behaving in a way that is “healthy”.
There are a lot of reasons, on a consciousness level, why we are seemingly experiencing an economic downturn. See if any of these beliefs are impacting your personal financial “health” in any way:
1. I can’t make good money doing the work I love.
2. I have to work hard to make money and I don’t know how I can work any harder.
3. I don’t know how to make money following my dreams.
4. I’m not good with money.
5. There isn’t enough money and only the rich and greedy get to keep the bulk of it.
6. Making money isn’t spiritual.
7. I’m afraid of money. I don’t even want to open my bills when they come because I’m worried there won’t be enough.
8. People won’t really pay me what I want to make. I just have to accept whatever I can get.
These are just examples of some beliefs and thought forms that may be contributing to your own personal lack of financial health. Of course, our personal beliefs contribute to the consciousness of the whole.
The good news is that you have a choice and the power to change your experience.
According to Megatrends 2010, we are entering a new type of economy called “Conscious Capitalism”. The current economic shifts and stresses are creating contrast to help us clarify what we truly want to be experiencing in our reality.
The lack of integrity that has led to the current economic situation is a call for us all to “clean up” our act. We are being called forth to create a reality that is deeply integrity-based. By integrity, I mean aligned with our True Selves and our True Heart’s Desires.
Any time we step away from who we really are and compromise, we step out of integrity. Imagine a liver cell trying to get a job as a heart cell. It just doesn’t work, does it? And it certainly does not contribute to the well-being of the body.
If our natural state as humans and Divine Children is abundance in all of its expressions, then any time we step away from that abundance, especially in consciousness, we are taking away from the health of the whole. Now is the time to remember that abundance is your birthright and you can and must align your life with the abundant well-being that is yours to create, if you choose.
You can do this by simply keeping yourself focused on opportunities and solutions and operating from a place of knowingness that every perceived crisis is always accompanied by new possibilities.
This economic situation can be quickly and powerfully shifted in a positive direction if we all individually contribute to the consciousness of unlimited and natural abundance.
We must change our thinking and, equally as important, we must take conscious action to support each other in creating a new economic reality. There is plenty of business and money to go around for all of us.
We must work together in community to support each other and each other’s businesses. When we collaberate and create conscious business partnerships, we not only win personally but we create alliances that allow us to better serve our clients and create a new economic community. We can no longer fight for business in the old competitive ways.
Competition is by nature, of course stressful, but also a symptom of a consciousness that implies there isn’t enough to go around.
There is plenty to go around. In fact, if we took all the resources already available on the planet, there is enough for each and every human on the planet right now to be a millionaire. (Read the works of Buckminster Fuller.)
We stand on the brink of a powerful new era. Outdated business models are crumbling. Authentic soul-based businesses are emerging as powerful players in the economy. We are ready to truly work together and support each other in new ways that can change the face of the planet in a positive way forever.
Staying focused on these powerful new possibilities and keeping your awareness open for new opportunities and possibilities is not only exciting, it also has a positive impact on your physical health. An open and calm mind and body can easily find solutions.
To your abundant well-being and your overall health!
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