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Author: [[Kyle Cease]] Full Title: The Illusion of Money Category: #books To chase money is the way we have all been raised. We have all grown up observing this highly toxic dependence on money: happy when we have it and stressed when we don’t. We have grown up absorbing an ideology that money is something scarce and to be coveted. We are raised to see it as this elusive prize that only the very fortunate get to win. Our life’s mission, then, is to accumulate loads of it at all costs. It is here, in our early conditioning around money and its implicit association with happiness that creates our tragic dependence on it. When our awareness is small, we’re blind to the unimaginable inspiration that is available to us and become focused on the struggle to survive. When we raise our awareness, the magic of life starts to show up and the abundance that is all around us comes into focus. If you’re appreciative when money comes to you, confident in your ability to create abundance, and generous with the money you have, money will probably start to want to be around you more. Money is not what we really want. What we want is freedom, joy, creativity, love, connection, community, energy, health, contribution, peace. All of the things that your nervous system knows are based on experiences. All of the habits, patterns, and traits that are being held within your body and mind have come from experiences you’ve had that created an internal, emotional impact on you. Just reading something usually isn’t enough of an experience to shift paradigms and patterns that have been held in place with years of experiential reinforcement. As you read this, I challenge you to go beyond reading. I challenge you to take what I’m saying and actually experience it for yourself. Read it in a way that allows you to feel more than think. Go beyond the mind and allow this to become an experience that shifts something real. So, to start that process, the first thing I want to What if you discovered that you were actually the real source of those experiences and feelings you are looking for externally? Those external things are just ways you give yourself permission to experience the feelings that are already inside of you. So what is real security? It’s you being fully present in this moment; it’s your open heart, your acceptance of yourself, your awareness, your appreciation for life, your unconditional love—these are the real assets that make you invincible.

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The Illusion of Money by Kyle Cease presents wisdom from the contemplative traditions.

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