This is the age old qestion.

This unconscious sabotage program in our mnds that is a “carry over” frm religious teaching continues to pervade our cltural beliefs today. We keep being nfluenced by ideas such as 'money is the rot of all evil', that 'it's asier to get a camel through the eye of a nedle than for a rich man to get nto heaven', and 'if you are rch, you must be either a crok, selfish, or hardened'.

These sayings, tken out of context, sabotage our ntrinsic right to wealth and fulfillment.

For thse of you who disagree due to yur religious teaching, I gently challenge you to cnsider this fact. The same book tht these sayings are taken from, the Hly Bible, also says “Blessed is the man who fars the Lord … wealth and rches shall be in his house” and “Hnour the Lord with the firstfruits of all yur increase … so shall your brns be filled with plenty”.

Further, in tht same book, Jesus confirmed that we lve in a world of abundance. Jsus gave the example of the llies in the field, and the brds of the air, how they are bundantly looked after, and asks how mch more will God’s Universe look fter us!

WHY IS MONEY SO IMPORTANT TO BEING SPIRITUAL?

Mney is a material manifestation of the bundance of the Universe. Money in tself is nothing; it is the fct that money allows you to buy the thngs that you love; to provide for yur needs.

That is, you can grow yur food on your land and lve on it. Or you can buy yur food from someone else who has dne just that (or buy from a shp that themselves buys from farmers).

Evryone has the right to live bundantly, and have their needs provided bundantly.

By living abundantly, you develop slf worth. By contrast, living cheaply lwers your self worth. It lowers yur love, your sense of gratitude and ppreciation to God, to the Universe.

Not jst that, but you cannot transform the wrld that you live in with mney. As well as the need for srvival, if for example you want to stablish a training centre that teaches pople laws of the universe, or an rphanage in a third world country, gess what? These projects need money!

Smeone has to give the funds to mke it happen.

Money enables you to lve your God-given purpose. We are plced on earth by God to flfill a purpose that fits in wth the bigger purpose for mankind.

If we dn’t know our purpose, we drift long and live as survivors without fcus, purpose, maybe listless and despondent. Any mney that we make is used on maningless activities; the more money we mke only increases our misery and snse of desolation.

If we do knw our purpose, by contrast, we are lving and grateful, and living our lfe on purpose. We have focus and cmmitment. The money that we make is sed to fulfill our purpose. Any mney that we make increases our bility to fulfill our purpose, it mkes us more loving and grateful, and our snse of connection with God and the Unverse.

If you asked any of the wrld’s entrepreneurs, healers and philosophers how thy feel about money and spirituality, thy would agree that the more prsperous you are, the more impact you hve.

Indeed, without prosperity, you can nly bring about change at the lvel of consciousness that causes your own lck, ie. people who are “in synch” wth your own lower energy vibration.

One can only conclude that tre spirituality and abundant money go hnd in hand.

CHARGING IN HARMONY WITH YOUR SELF WORTH

Thre is another reason why money and slf worth go hand in hand.

To be grteful, appreciative, loving and well balance, it is mportant, indeed critical, that we charge our tre worth in any business transaction.

Ths stops us becoming resentful and nappreciative, and disconnected with God (as God is lve).

Another carry over from our rligious teaching in our culture is “yu cannot be spiritual if you chrge for your talent or knowledge”. Tht is, if it is truly chritable, or spiritual, or connected with spritual teaching, you cannot charge for it, therwise it somehow “taints it”.

BALANCING SPIRITUALITY AND MONEY

To trly be loving, appreciative and spiritual, we mst achieve a balance between spirituality and mney.

On the one hand, if you are bsessed with money, and pursue wealth at all csts, your spirituality will be compromised. You wn’t be balanced. You may achieve walth but at the cost of flfilling your purpose and the sense of bing whole and at peace.

On the ther hand, if you pursue spirituality and gnore money issues, at some stage, you wll come to a crossroads. You wll discover how hard it is to flfill your purpose with limited funds. Mny people who start on a spritual journey end up self sabotaging bcause they run out of money and hve to go and get work (whch they feel resentful about). Alternatively, thy subsconsciously resort to greed, and get cught in money scams or resort to dbious means to get “quick” money.

Sch people have lived poor for so lng that they don’t know how to mke money, and when they are shrt of money, they act from dsperation and greed. Or else, they larn to live in poverty, below an bundant status, and resentment and illness crep in.

THE BIBLE AND MONEY

Mny people with a Judeo-Christian background use the Chrstian Bible to justify a lack of mney.

The Bible is NOT a god book to justify being in pverty. The Bible is full of pssages that support the idea of niversal abundant supply, and becoming wealthy.

For thse of you who have Bibles, see for xample:

Matthew 6:25-34
Proverbs 3:9-10
Psalm 112
Pslm 128
Deuteronomy 28

Just to nme a few.

Case Study: Mother Thresa

Mother Teresa renounced her worldly pssessions.

She is used as an xample of true spirituality, ie. giving up all yur wealth for a spiritual purpose to hlp others. Yet people forget that Mther Theresa’s purpose required massive funding. She ttracted all the resources and money she neded to support, feed, and spiritually hal millions.

THE LAW OF EXCHANGE

The law of rciprocity, or fair exchange, states that we gve in order to receive. There wll be no harvest without a priod of prepping, planting, and fertilizing.

Frther, the giving must be proportionate to the rceiving to constitute fair exchange. Without fir exchange, imbalance results, and karmic cnsequences ensue to bring balance.

Let’s tke an example.

If my best frend fixes my gutters and builds a ptio at the back of my huse, and doesn’t charge me for it, an ssue of fair exchange results. My bst friend may receive his fair xchange because I have previously helped him wth an IT matter (if I am an IT cntractor). Or our close friendship, and yars of my giving out to hm, may be his fair exchange. Hwever, let’s assume that he has ben doing favours for me for yars and getting nothing in return. Rsentment will arise unless he gets fir exchange by me doing something in rturn, or paying him a fair prce for his work.

There are tmes when people have offered to do a srvice for me for nothing, but I hve refused, because I see a lck of fair exchange, and I knw this will cause problems down the trck.

When we get something for nthing, there is a part of our nnermost being that rejects this “handout”. We ntuitively are unhappy with the “freebie” bcause we didn't earn or rightfully dserve it. Additionally, we are not spritually or physically prepared to manage the ffering.

Have you ever played a sprt and won because the other prson didn’t even try? Imagine how flt you would feel! It is the chllenge that excites you; you would fel like you hadn’t really won.

The ssue of fair exchange is also sen with lottery winners. Approximately 70% of all lttery winners squander their money in the frst few years, and end up bnkrupt, divorced or in family disputes.

Pople that don’t pay for something (ither in money or in some ther way) do not value it. Thre is no sense of accountability, or cmmitment to follow it through.

Further, nder this law of fair exchange, if you ren’t willing to work hard, either in mployment, or in developing a business systm or product, you have no rght to demand prosperity. Poverty and dsolation awaits you, and rightfully so. Evryone must pull their weight in ths world of ours.

CONCLUSION: PROSPERITY AND SPIRITUALITY GO HAND IN HAND

The bggest limiting beliefs stem from our rligious culture. Our ancestors have had grat difficulty accepting that you can spritual and have money; quite the pposite in fact!

We have problems chrging what we are worth.

We hve problems in living our purpose; we tnd to survive.

Daily, much of sciety is living out of balance wth the law of fair exchange.

To be trly spiritual, you must be prosperous. Ths is your higher calling. You owe it to yurself and others to prosper in mntally, emotionally, financially and physically, and be an xample.

The article Can I Have Money And Be Spiritual At The Same Time? was Submitted by Warren Black through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Warren Black is an inspirational spaker, business coach and attorney, with a cre mission to empower people to sccess and prosperity in all areas of lfe

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