Dear Friend,
Fear seems to be in the very air we breathe this week!
I'm no economist (I dropped Economics 101 because of total boredom). But a permanent antidote to fear won't be found in a discussion of economics. It
will be found in an understanding of who we really are.
It's easy to forget, when chaos appears to abound, that we are
individualized expressions of the One Being, and that we innately possess
all of the characteristics of our divine source. Why does source "allow" these crises, we wonder.
If you're having trouble remembering that you and source energy are one and
all-powerful, here is a spiritual point of view about what's been going on
with the economy.
My desire in writing you today is to help you return to your deeper knowing.
As a society, our use of credit is new. Most of our parents and grandparents
grew up without it. If they wanted something, they saved for it.
Our desire for faster gratification created the entire credit industry. And
overall, that's been a wonderful thing.
BUT -- collectively we're still learning to manage credit.
Will we return to the old days of scrimping and saving for everything with
no credit available? Unlikely. The universe doesn't move backwards.
Prediction: during our next stage of evolving in the use of credit, we will
learn to put additional safeguards in place to handle it, both individually
and as a society.
In our eager embrace of credit as our new toy, we completely overindulged
and got out control. Don't blame the banks, we are all in this together! Now
we must make adjustments.
We're learning the value of discipline and moderation as we make a course
correction.
When you first learned to ride a bicycle did you fall down a lot? You didn't
yet have the internal balance required.
In the same way, we've been riding a fast new money machine that we hadn't
yet found the internal balance to handle.
Advice: don't make the economy's woes such a big deal. If this current
crisis had occurred 100 years ago, panic would have been widespread, with
bank runs and suicides.
Yet, as I write this, life on a Thursday morning in Denver continues as
usual. People will work, play, and love today as they always do. The sun
shines, the air is fresh.
I invite you to see the blessing in this.
Fear AND well-being are always present in this universe of polarities. And
we, as spirit, always have the choice of where to focus.
No matter what has happened to your financial portfolio this week, remember:
you are an expression of the One Being.
No matter how much you fear loss of your home or other assets, you possess
unlimited resources as spirit individualized as you.
Are you worried that credit will be more difficult to get?
That is putting your faith in the bankers, when your faith belongs in
spirit.
Do you have fears about hurricanes and other natural disasters, the price of
oil, pandemics, 2012, the wrong person getting elected for president?
These fears keep you from living your life right now.
They prevent you from receiving grace right now.
Remember this about the Law of Attraction: it responds to each one of us
individually.
Individually!
Because you are THAT important.
You may have noticed that most of the commentary on economics focuses on the
past (what happened, why, how did it happen). And most of your fears about
it focus on the future (what will happen to us?). Yet, right now, as you
read this, you are safe.
Even if you experienced Hurricane Ike this week, right now you are safe.
Even if you lost your job at Lehman Brothers, right now you are safe. (In my
marketing consulting days, I met a lot of Lehman employees -- they will land
on their feet.)
All spiritual teachers -- Abraham-Hicks, Eckhart Tolle, Byron Katie, Deepak
Chopra and countless others -- teach that our only power is right now, right
in this moment.
Turn to those teachers instead of to the news.
To release your fears, center your thoughts in your heart, and be here right
now. Observe your breathing. Right now all is well. Right now, right now,
right now (continuing forever).
Choose well-being. No matter what your circumstances, you always have the
choice to access a deeper peace.
Have you ever wondered why, no matter how tough things are, you can access
peace within if you intend to?
It's because we ARE peace and well-being in our divine essence, and that
core never leaves us.
"The winds of grace are always blowing; it is for us to raise our sails." (Ramakrishna)
Raising our sails = raising our consciousness and remembering our divine
origin.
Whatever appears wrong in the world arose from the past and is already, now,
in the process of being made right, because spirit moves this world forward,
eternally.
Choose to focus forward.
To your happiness and success,
Andrea
