Owning Our Economy Part One
As a result of the current economic crisis, we are being given the opportunity to figure out who we are and how to use our money to support the life that we want to live. The failing of our economic system is a direct reflection on a collective level of the degree of disconnect that we perpetuate in regard to money in our personal lives. The choices that we make now can change everything and we can choose to see what is happening as an opportunity or a crisis. It is our choice.
We have to acknowledge the situation that we are currently in economically on an individual level as well as accepting the overall economic situation at face value. At this point, we pretty much have all of the information that we need to make informed choices and take appropriate action.
You know personally what your financial situation is. You may not like it, but continuing to hope that the economy will improve before taking any action will only further disempower you and allow you to continue to be disengaged from the reality of your money as an extension of your energy.
It is important to understand is that it is not only about you as an individual or simply about what the government needs to do, it is about the whole system being fundamentally flawed. While you may not be able to have a significant effect on the overall economic system at this point as an individual, is important that you take responsibility for what you are doing with your finances and how you deal with what is happening within the failing system in ways that you do have control over.
At the governmental level, many of the people responsible for implementing the needed changes to stabilize the economy are in denial and are looking for stop-gap measures rather than actual long term solutions. In meantime, crucial decisions required to avert the economy from de-stabilizing further are being discussed and debated instead of important decisions being made and action being taken to implement those decisions.
So with the situation as it is, what can you do?
You can begin by honestly assessing your personal situation and taking action to be prepared for what might or might not happen to your finances. Trust what you see right in front of you. The key here is to truly be in the present moment and to take responsibility for your financial situation and to take the appropriate actions required for you to be financially stable.
From a spiritual or metaphysical perspective, this is what we have been preparing for all along. How many of you have been working with the concept of staying in the present moment? Has it occurred to you that the reason that you don’t like the present moment is that it is really uncomfortable? Right now most of you are mentally, physically, emotionally and financially uncomfortable in your lives.
The key is to put your life in order in a systematic way and preferably to begin with the issues that are making you most uncomfortable and for many of you those are your issues around money which are being triggered by the collective experience of an economic collapse. Many of you are also experiencing physical discomfort in your body and/or health issues as well as emotional discomfort in your relationships.
For many of you, your physical and emotional discomfort has been in evidence for awhile and by choosing to not adequately resolve and move through these issues prior to this point, you now have to deal with the economic stress on top of the other areas which are out of balance in your life.
Do not imagine that this is the most uncomfortable that you can get, because it isn’t. If you continue to refuse to take responsibility for the circumstances in your life which are simply a result of your own choices and actions, then the unresolved issues will continue to pile up until you do get uncomfortable enough to take responsibility. There is no one who can address and resolve your personal conflicts and challenges except you and there is no way that you are going to be able to stay in the present moment until you become comfortable in your own life.
It is essential that you take responsibility for your financial choices
It is essential that you take responsibility for the financial choices that you have made up until this point and decide what you need to do next. Now we say take responsibility and you hear judge yourself. We mean be accountable, not critical. At the time that you made each of the choices you did to get to this point in your life, it was the best choice you could make at the time. You don’t get to go back and make those choices again. But you are not in that moment now, you are in brand new moment where you have never been before and you get to choose again.
The other part to this is that there is a tendency to tell yourself that since you obviously didn’t make such a good choice last time you are not sure that you can be trusted to make a good choice this time, so then you simply refuse to choose. Right now many of you find yourself in the situation where you don’t like what has happened; you don’t like your options; and you don’t trust yourself to make good decisions; and so you are no longer making proactive choices. You need to acknowledge that not making a decision is a choice itself and at this point that is going to be the most uncomfortable one that you can make.
This is your life and it is up to you to choose how you live it. The beauty of it is that you got here by making choices, good bad or otherwise and that is how you go on from here. So begin by telling yourself the truth about where you are right now. Seeing the situation as it is is crucial to being able to make accurate and effective choices about what to do next.