[Radiant Living] Thriving in Times of Crisis
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Emerge Healing
Nov 10, 2008, 5:46:13 PM11/10/08
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by Megan Woolever
I just returned from spending the month of October traveling and studying both in Europe and the US. Specifically, I was in France during those first few weeks in October when the stock market fell and the US banks went into crisis.
I was actually informed of the situation at dinner one night by a German businessman who was staying at our B&B. He told me that he used to think it didn't matter what happened to the US economy, but with recent events he had realized that what happens to the US happens to the rest of the world...we are all one. He had come to realize that our financial systems, like our ecological systems, are all interconnected.
As I turned on the French news, I watched the truth of what he was saying first hand. Analysts all over the world were panicked and afraid because of the panic and fear in the US. I began to wonder, how much of this market fluctuation is based on fact and how much on opinion? Consider this: if economics are largely based on the behavior of the market, and the market is greatly determined by consumer action, and consumer action is based on an individuals beliefs and behaviors...then how much power do we the people potentially have to shape our economy?
Just because someone tells us we are in a recession, that there is no work out there, that everything is falling apart do we actually have to live into that statement by becoming fearful and worried? Yes, we must scrutinize our financial habits and spending patterns, and ensure we are being good stewards of our money. But we do not have to live each day in fear of what the market is going to do, as if we are powerless to control anything.
The true power of our economic system lies in the fact that WE THE PEOPLE can greatly determine its health and well being. I am not advocating we all go out and spend, spend, spend. What I am advocating is a seasoned and circumspect look at the way we discuss and communicate with each other about money. Businesses base many of their decisions about things like hiring, investment and new development based on where they believe the market is going. So who gets to determine the market? WE DO!
Instead of talking about all the horrible things that are happening, focus your attention on the potentials that are opening up right now. In every downturn there are subsequent opportunities if you look for them. From the perspective of Conscious Evolution, we are experiencing a "birth crisis," something new is being born, a New Money Paradigm with Spirit, Heart and Integrity. As such, something old must die; a system of debt and spending beyond ones means that is no longer sustainable or healthy for our future. Recognize it as such. Realize that with any birth a little pain happens, but that pain is in the interest of the overall birth.
Take a deep breath. Breathe into the new potentials that are opening up as old ones die away. Look for those opportunities, even as you are being asked to reevaluate where you spend your life force (work) and your energy (money).
An excellent resource for learning more about how you can transform your currrent relationship with money and our economy to one of power and spirit is The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of our Inner Resources by Lynne Twist.
May your lives be filled with true Abundance of your Soul!
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Posted By Emerge Healing to Radiant Living at 11/10/2008 01:46:00 PM
I just returned from spending the month of October traveling and studying both in Europe and the US. Specifically, I was in France during those first few weeks in October when the stock market fell and the US banks went into crisis.
I was actually informed of the situation at dinner one night by a German businessman who was staying at our B&B. He told me that he used to think it didn't matter what happened to the US economy, but with recent events he had realized that what happens to the US happens to the rest of the world...we are all one. He had come to realize that our financial systems, like our ecological systems, are all interconnected.
As I turned on the French news, I watched the truth of what he was saying first hand. Analysts all over the world were panicked and afraid because of the panic and fear in the US. I began to wonder, how much of this market fluctuation is based on fact and how much on opinion? Consider this: if economics are largely based on the behavior of the market, and the market is greatly determined by consumer action, and consumer action is based on an individuals beliefs and behaviors...then how much power do we the people potentially have to shape our economy?
Just because someone tells us we are in a recession, that there is no work out there, that everything is falling apart do we actually have to live into that statement by becoming fearful and worried? Yes, we must scrutinize our financial habits and spending patterns, and ensure we are being good stewards of our money. But we do not have to live each day in fear of what the market is going to do, as if we are powerless to control anything.
The true power of our economic system lies in the fact that WE THE PEOPLE can greatly determine its health and well being. I am not advocating we all go out and spend, spend, spend. What I am advocating is a seasoned and circumspect look at the way we discuss and communicate with each other about money. Businesses base many of their decisions about things like hiring, investment and new development based on where they believe the market is going. So who gets to determine the market? WE DO!
Instead of talking about all the horrible things that are happening, focus your attention on the potentials that are opening up right now. In every downturn there are subsequent opportunities if you look for them. From the perspective of Conscious Evolution, we are experiencing a "birth crisis," something new is being born, a New Money Paradigm with Spirit, Heart and Integrity. As such, something old must die; a system of debt and spending beyond ones means that is no longer sustainable or healthy for our future. Recognize it as such. Realize that with any birth a little pain happens, but that pain is in the interest of the overall birth.
Take a deep breath. Breathe into the new potentials that are opening up as old ones die away. Look for those opportunities, even as you are being asked to reevaluate where you spend your life force (work) and your energy (money).
An excellent resource for learning more about how you can transform your currrent relationship with money and our economy to one of power and spirit is The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of our Inner Resources by Lynne Twist.
May your lives be filled with true Abundance of your Soul!
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Posted By Emerge Healing to Radiant Living at 11/10/2008 01:46:00 PM
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