The Palace of Possibilities 12--The River of Money
The Palace of Possibilities 12--The River of Money
Hi Everyone,
We are going to devote the next few "Palace" installments to the subject of money and our "abundance awareness." The writing on our walls is loaded with fiscal limits, all of which can be erased and replaced. Financial abundance is everyone's right. It is only our consistent thoughts about it that have limited our access to money. We are not denied money by "other people," the "system" or anything like that (even though it seems that way--a major illusion). Along these lines, Pat Esborg wrote the following to me...
"Dear Gary, I'm enjoying your Palace of Possibilities papers so much. Thank you! You mentioned how the "writing on the walls" keeps us from our goals when doing affirmations (and other times). So true! The one I've found present (in capital letters) for us "helpers and healers" is: "If I get what I want (particularly money, recognition and ease of living), I can't be truly helpful/spiritual" or some such variation. Seems it's an either/or choice, so people stay stuck. You seem to be a living, breathing, writing example of how money and recognition need not negate "spiritual/helping" goals, but can potentiate them. Perhaps you could say more about how you came to this place in a future paper?"
With a thank you to Pat for her queries and supporting words, I submit below the following excerpt from the How to Drive Your Own Bus transcript. After that I develop what I call The River of Money. These articles should answer Pat's query and shed much light on money and how our perception of it "rules" our accumulation and use of it.
FROM THE HOW TO DRIVE YOUR OWN BUS TRANSCRIPT
GARY: Look at the box below "My mother and father always said." There you'll see four sentences with blanks. The first one says, "Rich people are.........." Please replace that line with, "People who earn a lot of money are............" [Note: this has been done for you in the manual.]
This exercise is similar to "My mother always said...." in that we need your spontaneous responses. So please complete each of those four sentences with the first word or phrase that comes to mind. This will point the way to some of your hidden passengers. I'm only going to give you 20 seconds to do all four of them. Ready...Go. [Audience writes for 20 seconds]
Now tell me what you wrote down for the first sentence and I'll write your responses here on the board. What did you write for "Wealthy people are.....?" Who's first?
AUDIENCE: Stressed out.
GARY: Stressed out. Wealthy people are stressed out.
AUDIENCE: It's supposed to be "People who earn a lot of money are...."
GARY: You are right. I'm sorry. Let's do it this way. [Gary puts a $ sign at the top of the board] Now.... "People who earn a lot of money are......." stressed out. What's next?
AUDIENCE: [Responds with many words and phrases while Gary writes them on the board]]
GARY: "Spoiled." What's next? "Holier than thou." I hear "Lucky." What did I hear back there? "Weird." "Freer." "Giving." I hear "Worthy." I heard some other ones. "Dishonest." "Successful." "Ambitious," I hear. "Work hard." "Pushy." "Powerful." "Selfish." Okay, that'll do it for now.
Why do you suppose I had you do this? Who could guess for me?
LADY: I can't believe the people in this room.
GARY: Why not?
LADY: Everything put up there was negative. And I kept saying focused and you didn't even put that up there.
GARY: Yes, I did. I just didn't finish it. I put "focused" right there, okay? "Ambitious" isn't bad. "Worthy," which somebody said, isn't bad. You are right, however. There are many negative responses.
[To audience] Please pay attention to the words you wrote down for each of those sentences. They are clues to your own barriers in those areas of your life.
Here's what I mean by that. If to earn a lot of money is to be "stressed out," then what is going to happen when a new job opportunity comes your way that could result in your earning a lot of money? If being stressed out is a piece of your belief about that new job your passengers are likely to say, "Oh! Look out, you don't want to be stressed out! People have heart attacks, you know!" Is that going to be an influence?
AUDIENCE: Yes.
GARY: Is it true that people who earn a lot of money are stressed out?
AUDIENCE: [Some say yes, some say no]
GARY: Are some people who earn a lot of money stressed out?
AUDIENCE: Yes.
GARY: Are some people who are poor stressed out?
AUDIENCE: Yes.
GARY: Well, make up your mind. [Laughter]
As long as you have the view that to make a lot of money means you need to be stressed out, then you are attempting a journey towards becoming wealthy with your brakes on. Whether or not that is your major belief, I suggest that if it came out of you then it's at least a piece of your belief system. It serves as a limit when you start to think in that direction.
[Reading from the board] "Spoiled." "Holier than thou." How many here would like to be judged by the rest of the world as "Holier than thou." [No hands raised] Yet, if a piece of your belief system links "Holier than thou" with earning a lot of money, is that going to be a brake on getting wealthy?
AUDIENCE: Yes.
GARY: Are there some poor people who are "holier than thou?"
AUDIENCE: Yes.
GARY: How about this one. They are "lucky." What does that say?
MAN: If you say someone is lucky, sometimes the inference is that they just walked into what they got.
GARY: You're right. I don't want to be a mind reader to anyone here because we all have different ideas on what these words mean. But one thing lucky could mean is that someone needs to be lucky to earn a lot of money. And if someone believes they must be lucky to earn a lot of money they may also believe that they don't have the skills to do it on their own.
They may say to themselves... "I'm going to have to inherit it or win the lottery. Otherwise, I'll never get it because I don't have what it takes. I have to be lucky in order to earn a lot of money." Is that a barrier?
AUDIENCE: Yes.
GARY: Oh, let me tell you that's a barrier. That's a big wide one that says "I really don't have what it takes. I can only go so far. I don't deserve it."
Now let me tell you what I rarely hear in this exercise. I've done this many times with many audiences and I rarely hear something like this...."People who earn a lot of money are the cornerstones of our society. They create jobs. They are innovators that create the products we have that make our life so easy."
I do see the word "Giving" up here on the board but I rarely hear anything as glowing as what I just said.
What would happen if your vision of a wealthy person shifted towards being someone who is a contributor and to be admired? What would happen to your own goals in that direction? What would happen to your own thoughts in that direction if that's what it was to be a wealthy person?
AUDIENCE: More motivation.
GARY: That's right. Because it will become more attractive to be wealthy, won't it? But so long as we have these kinds of passengers [pointing to list on board] kicking around inside our bus, we are not likely to make much progress in that direction.
By the way, this list of negatives is not your fault. We've been given this stuff by a society that tends to feed us negatives. Shad Helmstetter authored one of the tape sets in the back called "What To Say When You Talk To Yourself." He points out in there that by the time we are age 18, we have received 140,000 "no's."
THE RIVER OF MONEY
Money is neither good nor evil. Our perception of it is simply a belief that has taken up residence in our minds. Money is a form of energy that can finance everything from heavenly pursuits to holocausts. If we equate money with greed we will stifle its flow in our direction. If we equate it with free flowing abundance, it will find its way to us much more easily.
Money is abundant. It is all around us. Imagine, for a moment, the amount of money that flows into and out of your hands in a year's time. Most of it you didn't keep, did you? You only used it to buy food, clothing, etc. and pay your rent or mortgage. Your money was turned into goods and services for your use but continued to circulate from your hands to the hands of others. Even the money you put in the bank was loaned out to others for other purposes.
Now imagine the amount of money that flows into and out of the hands of everyone in your family and in your neighborhood and in your workplace. That's a lot of money, isn't it? It just keeps flowing, something like a stream. Now imagine all the money that flows into and out of the hands of your grocery store and the bank you do business with. Include your automobile company, power company and telephone company. Now we are talking about a River of Money that is flowing everywhere. Sit back and observe this someday. You can scarcely make a move anywhere where money isn't flowing from one set of hands to another. And no one really keeps it. They just use it and put it in places that have their name on it. Bank accounts are like that. So are real estate, stocks, mutual funds and the like.
Now imagine all the money that goes into and out of the hands of your state or local government. More additions to the River. What about all the money that goes into and out of the hands of the U.S. Federal Government? Include Japan, Canada, Australia, the Middle East and all the European countries. Huge amounts of money. Now include the rest of the world. Trillions of dollars per day change hands all over the globe and a plethora of goods & services are created in the process. The River of Money, like spiritual abundance, is unlimited. There is no way to measure how big it really is.
You and I are standing beside the River of Money watching it flow right on by. It is so wide that we cannot see the other side. It is so deep that no one can find the bottom. And it is ours to use, right along with everyone else. Some of us approach the River of Money with scarcity thinking. We come with a teaspoon to take barely enough for our perceived needs. We somehow think that the more we "take" the more we are into greed and the less there is for others. We don't realize that the more we use the more we create. The more we use, the more we generate abundance for others through the things we buy. The more we use, the more freedom we have to extend love into the world.
Some people come to the River of Money with a teacup. That's better than a teaspoon. Others come with a 5 gallon container. I come to it with a swimming pool. Ross Perot comes to it with a lake bed and Bill Gates comes to it with the Grand Canyon. None of us, however, has even dented the size of the River. The money flows through us and creates everything from jobs to software that transforms the world to low cost EFT videos (that also transform the world).
As I said, money is neither good nor evil. It is abundant energy that flows in a River and is available to us all. It's "goodness" or "evilness" resides only in the perceptions that are written on our walls. Our consistent thoughts become our reality.
Hugs, Gary
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Hi Everyone,
We are going to devote the next few "Palace" installments to the subject of money and our "abundance awareness." The writing on our walls is loaded with fiscal limits, all of which can be erased and replaced. Financial abundance is everyone's right. It is only our consistent thoughts about it that have limited our access to money. We are not denied money by "other people," the "system" or anything like that (even though it seems that way--a major illusion). Along these lines, Pat Esborg wrote the following to me...
"Dear Gary, I'm enjoying your Palace of Possibilities papers so much. Thank you! You mentioned how the "writing on the walls" keeps us from our goals when doing affirmations (and other times). So true! The one I've found present (in capital letters) for us "helpers and healers" is: "If I get what I want (particularly money, recognition and ease of living), I can't be truly helpful/spiritual" or some such variation. Seems it's an either/or choice, so people stay stuck. You seem to be a living, breathing, writing example of how money and recognition need not negate "spiritual/helping" goals, but can potentiate them. Perhaps you could say more about how you came to this place in a future paper?"
With a thank you to Pat for her queries and supporting words, I submit below the following excerpt from the How to Drive Your Own Bus transcript. After that I develop what I call The River of Money. These articles should answer Pat's query and shed much light on money and how our perception of it "rules" our accumulation and use of it.
FROM THE HOW TO DRIVE YOUR OWN BUS TRANSCRIPT
GARY: Look at the box below "My mother and father always said." There you'll see four sentences with blanks. The first one says, "Rich people are.........." Please replace that line with, "People who earn a lot of money are............" [Note: this has been done for you in the manual.]
This exercise is similar to "My mother always said...." in that we need your spontaneous responses. So please complete each of those four sentences with the first word or phrase that comes to mind. This will point the way to some of your hidden passengers. I'm only going to give you 20 seconds to do all four of them. Ready...Go. [Audience writes for 20 seconds]
Now tell me what you wrote down for the first sentence and I'll write your responses here on the board. What did you write for "Wealthy people are.....?" Who's first?
AUDIENCE: Stressed out.
GARY: Stressed out. Wealthy people are stressed out.
AUDIENCE: It's supposed to be "People who earn a lot of money are...."
GARY: You are right. I'm sorry. Let's do it this way. [Gary puts a $ sign at the top of the board] Now.... "People who earn a lot of money are......." stressed out. What's next?
AUDIENCE: [Responds with many words and phrases while Gary writes them on the board]]
GARY: "Spoiled." What's next? "Holier than thou." I hear "Lucky." What did I hear back there? "Weird." "Freer." "Giving." I hear "Worthy." I heard some other ones. "Dishonest." "Successful." "Ambitious," I hear. "Work hard." "Pushy." "Powerful." "Selfish." Okay, that'll do it for now.
Why do you suppose I had you do this? Who could guess for me?
LADY: I can't believe the people in this room.
GARY: Why not?
LADY: Everything put up there was negative. And I kept saying focused and you didn't even put that up there.
GARY: Yes, I did. I just didn't finish it. I put "focused" right there, okay? "Ambitious" isn't bad. "Worthy," which somebody said, isn't bad. You are right, however. There are many negative responses.
[To audience] Please pay attention to the words you wrote down for each of those sentences. They are clues to your own barriers in those areas of your life.
Here's what I mean by that. If to earn a lot of money is to be "stressed out," then what is going to happen when a new job opportunity comes your way that could result in your earning a lot of money? If being stressed out is a piece of your belief about that new job your passengers are likely to say, "Oh! Look out, you don't want to be stressed out! People have heart attacks, you know!" Is that going to be an influence?
AUDIENCE: Yes.
GARY: Is it true that people who earn a lot of money are stressed out?
AUDIENCE: [Some say yes, some say no]
GARY: Are some people who earn a lot of money stressed out?
AUDIENCE: Yes.
GARY: Are some people who are poor stressed out?
AUDIENCE: Yes.
GARY: Well, make up your mind. [Laughter]
As long as you have the view that to make a lot of money means you need to be stressed out, then you are attempting a journey towards becoming wealthy with your brakes on. Whether or not that is your major belief, I suggest that if it came out of you then it's at least a piece of your belief system. It serves as a limit when you start to think in that direction.
[Reading from the board] "Spoiled." "Holier than thou." How many here would like to be judged by the rest of the world as "Holier than thou." [No hands raised] Yet, if a piece of your belief system links "Holier than thou" with earning a lot of money, is that going to be a brake on getting wealthy?
AUDIENCE: Yes.
GARY: Are there some poor people who are "holier than thou?"
AUDIENCE: Yes.
GARY: How about this one. They are "lucky." What does that say?
MAN: If you say someone is lucky, sometimes the inference is that they just walked into what they got.
GARY: You're right. I don't want to be a mind reader to anyone here because we all have different ideas on what these words mean. But one thing lucky could mean is that someone needs to be lucky to earn a lot of money. And if someone believes they must be lucky to earn a lot of money they may also believe that they don't have the skills to do it on their own.
They may say to themselves... "I'm going to have to inherit it or win the lottery. Otherwise, I'll never get it because I don't have what it takes. I have to be lucky in order to earn a lot of money." Is that a barrier?
AUDIENCE: Yes.
GARY: Oh, let me tell you that's a barrier. That's a big wide one that says "I really don't have what it takes. I can only go so far. I don't deserve it."
Now let me tell you what I rarely hear in this exercise. I've done this many times with many audiences and I rarely hear something like this...."People who earn a lot of money are the cornerstones of our society. They create jobs. They are innovators that create the products we have that make our life so easy."
I do see the word "Giving" up here on the board but I rarely hear anything as glowing as what I just said.
What would happen if your vision of a wealthy person shifted towards being someone who is a contributor and to be admired? What would happen to your own goals in that direction? What would happen to your own thoughts in that direction if that's what it was to be a wealthy person?
AUDIENCE: More motivation.
GARY: That's right. Because it will become more attractive to be wealthy, won't it? But so long as we have these kinds of passengers [pointing to list on board] kicking around inside our bus, we are not likely to make much progress in that direction.
By the way, this list of negatives is not your fault. We've been given this stuff by a society that tends to feed us negatives. Shad Helmstetter authored one of the tape sets in the back called "What To Say When You Talk To Yourself." He points out in there that by the time we are age 18, we have received 140,000 "no's."
THE RIVER OF MONEY
Money is neither good nor evil. Our perception of it is simply a belief that has taken up residence in our minds. Money is a form of energy that can finance everything from heavenly pursuits to holocausts. If we equate money with greed we will stifle its flow in our direction. If we equate it with free flowing abundance, it will find its way to us much more easily.
Money is abundant. It is all around us. Imagine, for a moment, the amount of money that flows into and out of your hands in a year's time. Most of it you didn't keep, did you? You only used it to buy food, clothing, etc. and pay your rent or mortgage. Your money was turned into goods and services for your use but continued to circulate from your hands to the hands of others. Even the money you put in the bank was loaned out to others for other purposes.
Now imagine the amount of money that flows into and out of the hands of everyone in your family and in your neighborhood and in your workplace. That's a lot of money, isn't it? It just keeps flowing, something like a stream. Now imagine all the money that flows into and out of the hands of your grocery store and the bank you do business with. Include your automobile company, power company and telephone company. Now we are talking about a River of Money that is flowing everywhere. Sit back and observe this someday. You can scarcely make a move anywhere where money isn't flowing from one set of hands to another. And no one really keeps it. They just use it and put it in places that have their name on it. Bank accounts are like that. So are real estate, stocks, mutual funds and the like.
Now imagine all the money that goes into and out of the hands of your state or local government. More additions to the River. What about all the money that goes into and out of the hands of the U.S. Federal Government? Include Japan, Canada, Australia, the Middle East and all the European countries. Huge amounts of money. Now include the rest of the world. Trillions of dollars per day change hands all over the globe and a plethora of goods & services are created in the process. The River of Money, like spiritual abundance, is unlimited. There is no way to measure how big it really is.
You and I are standing beside the River of Money watching it flow right on by. It is so wide that we cannot see the other side. It is so deep that no one can find the bottom. And it is ours to use, right along with everyone else. Some of us approach the River of Money with scarcity thinking. We come with a teaspoon to take barely enough for our perceived needs. We somehow think that the more we "take" the more we are into greed and the less there is for others. We don't realize that the more we use the more we create. The more we use, the more we generate abundance for others through the things we buy. The more we use, the more freedom we have to extend love into the world.
Some people come to the River of Money with a teacup. That's better than a teaspoon. Others come with a 5 gallon container. I come to it with a swimming pool. Ross Perot comes to it with a lake bed and Bill Gates comes to it with the Grand Canyon. None of us, however, has even dented the size of the River. The money flows through us and creates everything from jobs to software that transforms the world to low cost EFT videos (that also transform the world).
As I said, money is neither good nor evil. It is abundant energy that flows in a River and is available to us all. It's "goodness" or "evilness" resides only in the perceptions that are written on our walls. Our consistent thoughts become our reality.
Hugs, Gary
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