ISSUE 009
..unless you believe it is
Greetings
While catching up on one of my top podcasts earlier this week, I landed on an episode titled (warning, long ass title ahead.) ‘An excerpt from the book The Illusion of Money: Why Chasing Money Is Stopping You From Receiving It by Kyle Cease’. After listening through, I replayed it, and then I replayed it again. What Kyle was rapping about hit home. If you’re anything like me, then you’ve also experienced a love-hate relationship with money. Admittedly, my own positive beliefs about the $dolla $dolla are a work in progress, and apparently i'm not alone. But back to our topic at hand. The secret sauce that kept that podcast episode on repeat was about, in my own words:
a belief that we own the things we have is actually what keeps us from receiving more.
To break it down how I understood it was that if we think that the $xxx dollars that’s in our bank account is ours, then it’s also fair to say that we assume someone else owns the rest of the money in the world, so now any money we do need/ want is limited. Since other’s own the other supply, we don’t have access to it.
On the other hand, lets think that the $xxx dollars in our bank account is in free flow. This means the money we have is at our disposal, yet we aren’t tied to it like ownership would assume. Now with this thinking in mind, any dollar amount we want, for whatever reason we want it, is now readily accessible since we believe the supply is great and free for use.
Absorbing all the nutrients from that episode, brought my mind to an idea on how owning something is akin to being owned by something, even money beliefs. Similar to the buddhist practice of detachment/ non-attachment, being unattached bears a certain freedom that being attached could never satisfy.
The mind could be so meta at times I tell ya.
To wrap this post up:
Changing a belief about anything ain’t easy, unless you believe it is.
Enjoy issue 009 and talk next week!
- Gaelan
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