Spirit Means Business by Alan Cohen

Author:Alan Cohen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2018-12-12T16:00:00+00:00

SHOW ME THE EXPERIENCE

The demand “show me the money” from the movie Jerry Maguire became one of the all-time most famous movie lines and cultural catchphrases. But if you think about why we want to be shown the money, you will understand that it is not really the money we desire, but the experience we believe the money will bring us.

As spiritual beings, it is experience we seek, and only experience that will satisfy us. The events that lead to the experience are stepping-stones but not substitutes for the feeling we long for. Let’s say you are yearning for a sleek new sexy roadster, the ad for which promises “a passionate expression of freedom with unlimited exhilaration per mile.” Now let’s say you take the car for a test drive, but instead of the experience the ad promised, you feel nothing, and it is simply a neutral, dispassionate act. Upon finishing the ride, you would most likely feel disappointed and unfulfilled. Your goal was not the car itself or the act of driving it. You were seeking the feeling you believed the drive would bring you. Otherwise, the vehicle is worthless except as a means of transportation, which you could have purchased at a fraction of the cost. The auto dealer is not selling you a car. It is selling you passion, expression, freedom, unlimitedness, and exhilaration.

So it is with money. We seek money because we believe it will bring us a particular feeling, such as freedom, power, relief from burdens, abundance, and the sense that we can have whatever we want. What we want more than anything is soul fulfillment. If you knew you are already free, powerful, unburdened, and abundant without money, money would no longer be a vehicle to salvation. It would cease to be a source of arguments and a motivation for fearful people to manipulate, steal, and kill. Nations would not need to go to war for economic interests. Money would lose its status as a god unto itself, and it would become the convenient medium of exchange it was intended to be.

Right about now you may be thinking that I am suggesting you forget about money, don a sackcloth, join a religious order, and take a vow of poverty. Not at all. I believe you deserve all the material things that would make you happy and supply all of your needs, and I want you to have them. How you get to your material goals is as important as that you get to them. If you seek things for their own sake, you have missed a crucial step in the manifestation process. If you generate good things as a result of a shift in your consciousness, you have garnered the real prize.

When I coach people who have money struggles or feel poor, I ask them to identify all the areas of their life in which they feel abundant besides money. Clients state that they are rich in family, friends, pets, health, creativity, music, art, great ideas, nature, their spiritual path, and much more.

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