MINDSET
On Love, Money and the Universe
Welcoming abundance
Is love greater than money or is money one of many expressions of love? If money is currency and currency is energy, money is a way of giving energy to people, causes, and organizations we in turn receive energy from in the form of attention, goods, services, love, and the list goes on. When we pay a massage therapist we are agreeing the energy and love we’ve received during our massage session has value.
Attaching money to the flow of giving and receiving love may seem dirty, gross or inappropriate. Why? We get to decide what it means to us to lift each other up in ways that allow us to thrive and live our best lives. As a human being on planet Earth in most current societies, money is necessary to secure our basic needs and to expand our resources and share our gifts with the world.
Even if we don’t get out of bed for a day, even if we don’t own a bed, it’s likely we are spending money everyday or that we owe money. Housing, utilities, phone service, wi-fi, food, dental and medical bills, clothing — even if these resources are offered to us ‘free’ they have a cost, they have value, they are forms of exchanging energy and resources.
When my FT job ended due to the pandemic I spent a period of time unemployed, almost. I regularly write and…
