All you need is...worry

All you need is.....worry.

A favourite drinking game at college was to substitute one word for another in a film title.One particular night the word was Reg and we focussed on Bond films. "The Reg who loved me", "For Reg's eyes only" etc. It is amazing the difference one word can make and how this simple game was the source of so much laughter to a bunch of drinking students.

How appropriate does it feel to substitute the word worry for love? Can you imagine John Lennon and Paul McCartney whooping as they hit upon the lyric "All you need is worry...". Think of some other blockbusters, "The Power of Worry" by Huey Lewis and the News. Phil Collins "You can't hurry worry" . Or do you fancy partying with the B-52s at the "Worry Shack" ?

However incongruous this sounds, it is actually the way we conduct ourselves in many crucial areas of our life. The Parenting With Grace and Ease Telecall highlights six Mindsets which will change your perspective, not just on parenting but, on life. One of those Mindsets is WORRY IS NOT LOVE.

The energy of worry is very far removed from the energy of love. The two feel as incoherent as the song titles sound. Worry takes you out of present time and separates you from your power. It is also contagious and undermines confidence. The remarkable thing is that worry is often mistaken for love, especially in parenting.

Perhaps the most extreme example of this I have seen was when a parent genuinely epxressed "the worry that she wouldn't have anything to worry about once she had stopped worrying about her daughters." An incredible admission but I suspect a strangely commom view of life.

NOW IS NOT A GOOD TIME TO WORRY

I have just listened to the excellent Alison Chester Lambert's thoughts on OCTOBER and for those astrologers amongst you she points out that the antagonistic angle between Pluto and Uranus is generating some high powered energies which leave us feeling as if we are "walking on eggshells which are scattered on a hot in roof", and although there are many healing aspects to October's energy, change is a theme and there is the potential to feel unsettled.

This presents both challenge and opportunity. Moving into familiar patterns and behaviours are unlikely to provide much comfort. It seems that change is going to happen whatever, and it is just a question of how you embrace it. My suggestion is that you embrace that change with excitement and possibility rather than anxiety and fear.

As I keep repeating (to myself in particular) the energy with which you engage in every moment will turn into your experience faster than ever. I suggest you choose LOVE rather than WORRY.

Stop blaming the money!

I was enjoying the hundreds of Facebook posts which have accumulated over the past weeks and I stumbled across one which caught my eye. It pictured a US $ bill next to a note of Monopoly money. The caption observed that the only difference between these two notes is your belief that one has more value than the other.

On reflection I think that it is not your belief in the relative value which is important but the belief of the person who is willing to accept it in exchange for something tangible or real. There is an awful lot of noise from people (usually those without money) about the injustice of the monetary system. There is an equal amount of noise from those with money about economic policies which dilute the value of their money.

A common explanation of the troubles within our economy is that we have moved away from the Gold Standard and as a result paper money has become pretty much worthless. The argument is that there is too much money and we should move to a unit of exchange that is by definition limited. I guess this is the point of the Monopoly money comparison on the Facebook page.

To attack the monetary system we have developed is a bit like shooting the messenger. Money is not moral or immoral, money is not fair or unfair, money is not a persecutor or a victim.  To be honest money couldn't care less where it rests, it does not have an opinion but it does tend to like its own company! Money will flow to where money already is, I think that is called the Law of Attraction and surprisingly this is, in part, the problem.

Money itself is not the problem. The problem is that money holds a monopoly over the measure of value. As a result of this money has acquired its own value. To go back to the Monopoly money analogy, the belief has become reality. The $ bill does have more value than the Monopoly money and necessarily so, but it has developed a value beyond its role. The work of Stephen Belgin highlights this in his book New Money for a New World. He accurately describes money as a tool and our current issue is that we are only using one tool for the many different functions required of money. His analogy is trying to build a house with just a hammer. We are trying to build a society with an economic system equipped with just one tool.

Having just one measure of value is the problem underlying so many economies. The example which springs to mind is in the UK. If I put on my trader hat for a moment I have noticed that housebuilders in the UK look to be a good investment, which means if I want to accumulate more money I will buy shares in housebuilders and will be rewarded, with money as their perceived monetary value increases. Now the perverse thing about this system is that the reason housebuilders look like an attractive investment is that they have stopped building houses. In response to fear in the economy they have worked out that the way to increase their monetary value as a company is to stop doing what they are there to do.

The task we face is to build a system in which housebuilders are rewarded for building houses rather than the perceived monetary value of their business. One idea is to have a tax system which penalises the hoarding of assets or money whilst rewarding productive investment. A housebuilder gets taxed at 0% for profits on actual economic activity, but 105% on simple asset or monetary accumulation. The case for complementary currencies as proposed by Belgin is compelling as it is logical and a real possibilty as a solution to our perceived problems.

However, I would like to play with the possibility that it is not the system which is in question, but the consciousness which underlies it.  Whatever solution is proposed if it is based on the principles of scarcity (the Gold Standard for example) the same perceived faults will emerge. 

What it comes down to is that money is just a reflection of our state of consciousness, and at the moment we are operating from a place of lack and fear. We reward and covet accumulation above creation. I believe the cellular expression of this consciousness is obesity. Blaming money as the cause of our problems is similar to blaming food for obesity.

If we could perhaps ascribe one more role on the overstretched tool that money has become it would be that of messenger. Money does have a consciousness of its own and at the moment it is trying to tell us something. We are out of balance and living in fear. If we could look at some of our fundamental belief patterns around scarcity we might begin to understand the message that money is trying to give us.

Money just like everything else wants to be loved.

Practical Presence

What needs to change in my world for me to be OK?

Nothing.

STOP

See your name in lights....Neon Lights

This week's  We Love... link is to a conversation between Jim Self and Bruce Lipton. These are two of the teachers whose insights have had a profound effect on my thinking and hold such as resonance with our work here at acreativespace.

Those of you who have attended one of our workshops will be familiar with the concept of Integrated Energy Circuits and freeing yourself from the limitations of co-dependency. Indeed, our work at a fundamental level is about developing your own clear and coherent frequency pattern. To achieve this we have to move beyond the limiting belief patterns which drive us into co-dependent relationships, and gain the stability afforded by a state of presence.

The belief that we are not enough compels us to look to the external for survival and this pattern has resulted in the way we have organised ourselves. Not just individually, but societally, nationally and internationally. Interactions are based on competition, completion and survival, rather than communication and co-creation.

The diagrams I have used to explain the energetics of this in workshops tend to end up with a slightly chaotic and abstract feel (that is a mess in plain English) and I have been searching for a clearer way to communicate this information. Ask the question and the answer arrives...

I didn't pay too much attention when Patrick, Tracy's son, brought his physics revision into the Centre and posed a question about The Noble Gases. As ever, the kids show us the way and I dived into Wikipedia in attempt to bridge this gap in my knowledge. However, it was not until I listened to Bruce Lipton's brilliant explanation of how the Noble Gases can be used as a metaphor for the stability which, quite literally in this case, leads to enlightment.

If you listen to the ten minutes beginning at 40:00 minutes you will be treated to an explanation which demonstrates that relationship beyond co-dependency operates on a different plane, quite literally radiating light. This is more than an analogy of interaction. It is a presentation of the realiy we currently have available. The chemistry is there to be seen. As part of the holographic nature of our reality the stability of the Noble Gases is within us all and if we learn to manage our enregy appropriately we will see our names up in lights, NEON LIGHTS at that!

What's your game?

I have spent the last two weeks helping people create new family money legacies.

Listening to the family stories I found myself in awe of the resilience of the human spirit. Then one evening I found myself standing back from the stories and marvelling at the variety of beliefs we have inherited which lead to us, in effect, rejecting money. At that point an image dropped into my head.

I saw Money sitting on a wall swinging it’s legs looking fed-up (think Humpty Dumpty and substitute a £50 note for an egg!). “What’s up?” I asked. “Oh, I’m just waiting for someone to play with,” Money  replied. Then I realised it was sitting on the wall of a playground full of groups of people playing different games.

“But there are loads of people to play with.” I said. “Well it’s not as easy as that.” Money replied. “You see that group over there think I’m dirty so I can’t play with them. That group over there think I make people unhappy so they won’t play. I can only play with men in that group and if I try to play with that group over there they lock me up and I never get away.

“What about that group playing Grandmother’s Footsteps over there?” I asked. “Oh that’s the Law of Attraction lot...I don’t really understand that game but everynow and then I just go over and join in and they get very excited. There’s another group over there who are fun for a while but then the other people make them feel guilty so they usually send me away.”

“There must be someone.” I said. Suddenly, Money jumped off the wall. “Sorry got to dash. That group over there have decided they have worked hard enough so they will play with me for a while.” At which point Money ran off to play with a woman who looked surprisingly like.....hang on a minute...me!

Which game are you playing?

with love

Tracy

Life beyond survival.

 A game you can't win?

As an economist by training I look at the current situation of the World Economy and, like all other economists can see no real solution within the current system. There are ways to profit from it, to position yourself with a greater chance of survival, but there is no solution to it.  The subtitle of the book Busting Loose from the Money Game gives us a clue...Mind-Blowing Strategies for Changing the Rules of a Game You Can't Win.

This is a classic example of Einstein's oft quoted truism 'you can't solve a problem with the thinking used when we created it."

What is the problem?

So what is the thinking which created the problems we currently face? I believe it is the same thinking which underlies all of our current "problems", be it in finances, in relationship, in education, in environment, even in time.

The definition of economics I learnt at school was "the study of the allocation of scarce resources". The concept of scarcity is the base assumption which governs the way we organise ourselves. Scarcity creates the need to differentiate ourselves and underpins the whole Darwinian outlook of survival of the fittest and is the basis for competition. We live as if we are just about to run out of everything. Money, energy, water, time, love...you name it and we believe there is not enough of it.

The current banking crisis is not caused by lack of money but the reluctance of the banks to circulate the money they have. The banking system has become obese because of their fear of future lack, in the same way as the West has an increasingly obese population while others in the world go hungry.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

To understand current US economic policy we need look no further than the episode of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in which society is run by hairdressers and phone sanitisers (a metaphor for the service economy). To solve their economic problems the hairdressers adopted leaves as their currency. This of course made everybody immensely rich but had created a bit of a problem with inflation due to the high level of leaf availability (one peanut now costs three desciduous forests!). The Fed is currently using the leaf solution, but calling them dollars and the policy is quantative easing!

To solve the problem of inflation the hairdressers have decided to revalue the leaf by an extensive campaign of defoliation and burn down all the forests. This is the IMF and German solution to the problem!

Watch the first minute and a half of the clip ( Economics ) and you have a pretty good understanding of world economics.Watch the rest and you will find the answer to life, the universe and everyhting!

So what is the solution?

The bad news is that at this level there isn't one.

The good news is that at this level there isn't one.

How can this possibly be good news?

To go back to Einstein's quote, we need a new type of thinking, not to solve the problem but to transcend it. We have to select a new belief pattern which can see beyond the paradigm of scarcity. We have to move beyond survival. The fact is that all the time we hold onto the base assumption of scarcity there is no solution to our problem.

If there was a solution, it would simply keep us locked into the game you can't win. It is time to start playing a new game.

Fortunately, the evolutionary leap required to transcend those limitng structures is now firmly in progress. Described by some as the Shift, this evolution of human consciousness, is moving us from a limited conditional framework, known by some as the third dimension, to a more fluid unconditional experience known as the fifth and higher dimensions.

This shift is hard to imagine as it transports us to a paradigm beyond survival and operates with a different set of ground rules which is akin to installing new software and escapes the 'logic' of cause and effect thinking which is, rather cleverly, part of the scarcity package. 

You are the solution!

This shift in consciousness is not something which will happen outside of you, although the current paradigm may make it appear that way. The replacement of survival programming with new higher dimensional software is an indivdual process. Think of it as installing anti-spam software to your e-mail. Choosing your attention point (see an earlier blog where attention = LOVE) is your key to your experience. Focus on the higher aspects of life as opposed to the lack.

As your attention point moves beyond the paradigm of lack so will your experience of the world. As your perceptual reality adjusts to life beyond survival the nature of the information you will be able to access will evolve and with it your whole experience.

The exciting part is that this new experience is available now, its just a question of giving it your attention.

Flexi-time?

So here we are in June already and there is so much happening it is taking a real discipline to retain the degree of stability which is needed to stay outside the story. One of the clearest indicators of change to me is the elasticity of time. Travelling back on the train from London the other day I called my wife to let her know what time I would be home so that I could get a lift from the station. The parameters were very clear and the usual operation of time suggested that from where I was the journey would take a minimum of fifteen minutes but a probable twenty. I obviously checked the current time and gave a fairly certain expectation of my arrival time. Disembarking the train I realised that time had moved on by only eight minutes and I that somehow I had no real recall of the last part of the journey. I was a little bemused, not to mention fed up at having to wait in the rain for a lift, but noticed others around me in the same situation. I am used to strange experiences with time but this one had clearly transcended planet Bill to other more regular commuters.

On reflection the past month has been a strange combination of time passing in a blink of an eye, yet an incredible amount of time available to achieve the seemingly unachievable. Our experience at the Mind, Body, Spirit show in London seems to have packed a months worth of activity into ten days.

Others have reported a real urgency to get on with projects and setting seemingly impractical timelines for themselves, only to find providence and co-operation make things happen.

One of the aspects of the current shift which we are all experiencing has been the fragility of our previously certain reference points, and I suspect this is what is happening with time. In the past the time between having a thought and having the experience generated by that thought has been slow enough to allow a degree of flexibility. It has taken a continued focus on something for it to become our reality. My experience of late is that the time between a thought and a manifestation has greatly reduced. This is fantastic if you are disciplined and productive in your thinking but less so if you are scattered and pessimistic in your outlook. Without the luxury of time to temper your thought patterns it has become important to be aware of where you are placing your attention.

We are all more powerful than we have previously been aware because of the long lead time necessary for manifestation. Now that the old reference point of time is becoming more fluid and the speed of manifestation is increasing we will become more aware of our power. With power comes responsibility, but that responsibility is to yourself. Become more aware of the effects that your thoughts have on your experience and you will soon learn to embrace that power.