Our darkness around money

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The sky!  I cannot believe the vastness of it, the way the moon lights a path on the ocean towards me at night and the way that path is illumined again at sunset.   Most distinct are the twinkling stars, the Milky Way, and the shooting stars (so present in August).   What produced this fantastic light show that was opening my heart and mind with inspiration and magic?  Darkness.  And yet our modern ways have produced enough pollution and artificial light to minimize the darkness and the natural spectacle that is right above us every night. 

What does all this have to do with Money Madness? 

Just as the darkness allows us to enjoy the light of the stars, if we open to our darkness around money, we can live a life free of financial worry and adrenalin.  What are the feelings that arise when money is the topic?  Is it the fear of not having enough or the fear that we are not enough?   

What's behind our drive to spend, accumulate, invest for a big hit, or buy a lottery ticket?  What darkness did we learn to avoid as a 5 or 6 year old and learn to overlay as an adult with a money thought? 

The goal is not to change our behavior around money, but rather to open to the "dark" feelings that seem to mechanistically trigger us to do something unproductive around money.  The more we befriend these feelings, the less overwhelming and important they are, and the more we can access our natural money wisdom.  Maybe this wisdom, independent of our culture, parents and friends, will lead us to make the same money decision, but it will feel like a true and vibrant choice because we will no longer be dealing with money in a habitual way.

Moving to a non-habitual relationship to money allows the stars or the wisdom of our beings to shine brighter.  As we free ourselves of money madness, we discover that the whole world of money can be understood and successfully mastered just by using our own wisdom and common sense.  We don't need to listen to television money experts or read every finance book or get an MBA; we need to allow the darkness to reveal the brilliance of our minds without Money Madness.