Do you ever experience confusion? It could be facing a fog of not knowing how to address a challenge you are meeting in your career, your finances or even where to live. I find that confusion often comes before a time when what is next for me is about to be revealed. As the saying goes, the darkest hour is just before dawn.
With anything of a negative or worrying nature, your first step is to accept it for what it is. Take a few deep breaths, stretch, go for a walk, drink plenty of water so that you can let the clarity begin to reveal itself to you. As a friend says about challenges, love them all, and yourself through them. Yes, I know, easier said than done, especially when you are in the middle of a crisis, not sleeping at night and feeling stressed.
What if fear -- often woven in with confusion -- were the energy for a new situation? What if fear were truly a blessing in disguise that comes to serve you to move closer to a new goal, possibility or opportunity? What if, in the seeds of fear, you could find your greatest resources?
Human Condition
The human condition is a term I use to describe the challenges that we face, from issues in relationships, to health problems or money worries. I am not aware of any person, rich or poor, famous or unknown, who does not face a condition of some kind. The inspiring ones are those who manage to surmount their difficulties and even soar beyond them. Do you know people like that?
This story illustrates what I regard as the human condition divorced from the greatest resource of all -- the human spirit.
Human Nature
Human nature is how I view the strengths, qualities and resources with which we are born and have available to transform trials into triumphs. I choose to see human nature as being fundamentally loving and motivated to give. With practice and experience, it grows and increases its resources of talents, skills and gifts.
Each one of us is rich in the resource of love with which we can resolve problems, contribute to others and create an experience of our lives that is fulfilling and vital.
In his article "Infinite Money, Infinite Good," John Morton offers a positive perspective concerning money.
Human Spirit
The human spirit I see is that extraordinary, almost indefinable, quality that we notice in even the most ordinary people amongst us.
This story illustrates a person who chose to live freely, dependent upon his spirit and connection with others. His way may not be your choice, nor is it mine, but he shows what is possible.
The human spirit within you is a primary resource you can tap into to find your way through your difficulties and into the life you truly want to create, experience and fulfill. The human spirit connects, observes and is your voice of wisdom, joy, compassion and understanding. The power of your human spirit, expressing in unity with others, can bring about transformations for the better of all.
I am curious to know: What does "wealth" mean for you? What is, or might be, your personal intention for wealth? Whose spirit most inspires you? Please leave a comment below or write to me at annenaylor@me.com
Wealth School is in part about awakening to the choices you have, especially when you feel stuck. The Wealth Book -- Winning With Spirit offers many tips and hints about creating a happy and fulfilling life, from the inside out.
Anna Fill of The Riviera Woman interviewed me recently on Wealth School:
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I especially liked that part in the video when you related your experience of feeling frenzied etc. re: finances and then heard this voice saying, " Be still and know that I am God."
That sort of experience is extremely rich and priceless. It touches on what wealth means to me. To be sure, we all need shelter, food, water, connections with others; however, the real treasures lie within and not in accumulating outer forms of wealth such as fancy automobiles,mansions, $500,000 necklaces etc.
My personal intention for wealth is to be open and willing to evolve into the "best me" that is possible to be... to surface the latent qualities and talents given me and to use them unselfishly... to be loving vs fearful. I am inspired by the numerous spirits who dare to follow their heart vs following the status quo.
Blessings....
Great to see you here again. I love that these articles get read - and commented upon - over time.
I also love your intention for wealth.
Thank you for sharing.
With joy and blessings to you,
Anne
Your video is grand. It is so good to actually see you here, in this form. Your warmth and practicality, and spirituality shows through beautifully. You ask some questions here, and below are my responses:
What does "wealth" mean for you? Wealth, for me, is a 24/7 access to Infinite Supply regardless the appearance of our circumstances and conditions. Wealth has little to do with outer things, but, rather, its source has to do with attitude, with an attitude of prosperity consciousness that does not dwell in fear, but holds, and acts 'as if' there were nothing but Infinite Supply available in the moment, albeit it may arrive in unexpected forms.
What is, or might be, your personal intention for wealth? My personal intention regarding wealth is to Be the Love that informs the moment, that is freely, abundantly exchanged with whatever is before me, that makes this world, personal and cross-culturally, better off through trusting giving, and mastering the art of Receiving.
I am inspired by those who live examined lives, and out of their journey, share through the gifts embedded within to reach people, to shift poverty consciousness, a fear of Stillness, into embrace of the Stillness where all that inspires arises.
peace and blessings,
Cara
What a joy to read the answers to your questions. Your words made me smile and feel the vitality and trust that is part of how I know you.
Your words, and you, are truly beautiful.
Thank you not only for being you, but also for taking the time and the care to live an examined life and share it so fully with others.
Love and joy to you,
Anne
I realize now I am not within your
full understanding, though it is meant
to be in such a way, as my life
with all the traveling and places and things
I have seen are so far removed from the world
within which you have always lived
Your religion is not mine, your dreams
are your own and not mine, your vision
of life is your own, not mine, though it is
meant to be in such a way. The different
aspects of my life so mingled with yours
I will always remember, some being golden
moments of joy though others will always
be tear stains on my soul
all the times I have stumbled and fallen
were equally such
in order for me to gain all the different
perspectives in which I now live
You say that you need me, though it is not
I you need so much as it is the knowing
that I love you and think well of you and this
I have given you and this you shall always
have. If you would hold this love within your heart
the moments still lay upon your horizons
where by it shall protect you
I feel sadness in the thought of your lonelyness
though know time will teach you
to except both the pleasant and unpleasant
memories, for they are the complete sum
of all of your labors and the shelter within
which you shall always abide.
Farewell.
Rolf KrogsætherC.1978
I finally get down to making sure all the paper work is right and I can proceed without anger. By then the Employee knows it is comming and if they have not left it is because they don't know where to go for another job. So I try and help them out there too.
Perhaps you set to high a demand, you are not at war any longer. Burning people is something they live with for a long time after and it is not easy to get another job after being fired from another. That is distruction of their credibility which they carry 24 hours a day after the fact happens. Be gentle with yourself and you will more than likely be more gentle with others.
Norge
If I stand back from a window and the carpenter has set it in crooked and the Homeowners jaw drops and he burst out in laughter whant am I too do ?
It cost me 100's for the man to take out and reset the window correctly. if it does not break comming out !
I love your Wealth School idea. Of course our true wealth is what lies within. I totally agree with you. We could have all the material things we could ever want but if we do not know ourselves we are poor indeed. Wealth has little to do with money and much to do with our connection to spirit.
This is such an important topic now, more than ever before. We need to learn where our true source of wealth is, hence your Wealth School is an idea whose time has come.
Thank you, dear Anne, for raising this subject into our collective awareness.
Love and blessings to you,
Judith
I trust your 70th celebrations in Hawaii were truly magnificent!
Wealth School is a topic that my soul is calling me to address, so I am curious to observe where it might take me. And yes, wealth is what each of us has in great abundance and money is only one of the crops that get to be harvested from it.
Collectively, I feel we are still learning how to best "mine" that wealth. Of course, wealth is not just mine, but yours and others', and grows the more and better we connect with each other. A very rich part of my soul journey!
Joy and peace for your next decade!
With loving and Light,
Anne