energy exchange in freedom and love
&
money redeemed is possible!
The Compassionate Communication workshop on the 25/26 February in Edinburgh is based on the understanding of free energy exchange.
This 'free energy exchange' means that I give freely what I can give. It doesn't mean that I get things 'for free'.
"Getting things for free" as in not using money in the energy exchange is a notion wrought and fraught by our 'power over' culture, which distorts the actual facts of a true community which dares to care because it can care.
It is natural for the human being to give freely one's skills and resources (time, things, money) if s/he feels either strongly about the recipient (a cause, a person, a project) and if s/he is free to do so. Sometimes people give more than they can afford, and that can create tension, as the gift was not given freely. Often people are not even aware of any hidden agenda when they are giving - such as wanting love in return, recognition, respect, etc..
In Compassionate Communication we learn to give and receive as free human beings, ideally however much pressure might be around us. It can be steep learning curve!
This 'free energy exchange' means that I give freely what I can give. It doesn't mean that I get things 'for free'.
"Getting things for free" as in not using money in the energy exchange is a notion wrought and fraught by our 'power over' culture, which distorts the actual facts of a true community which dares to care because it can care.
It is natural for the human being to give freely one's skills and resources (time, things, money) if s/he feels either strongly about the recipient (a cause, a person, a project) and if s/he is free to do so. Sometimes people give more than they can afford, and that can create tension, as the gift was not given freely. Often people are not even aware of any hidden agenda when they are giving - such as wanting love in return, recognition, respect, etc..
In Compassionate Communication we learn to give and receive as free human beings, ideally however much pressure might be around us. It can be steep learning curve!
Concretely Speaking
Our Compassionate Communication training project as part of Occupy activsts training and linking implies that there is a community of people caring for each other by
- sponsoring learning
- identifying and manifesting taking care of each other's needs
- staying connected
Money as love = money redeemed
There are a growing number of people and projects which point out the obvious (and it is not new either, but it needs new oomph!):
How our hands and our consciousness touches money will be essential for to establish an economy of love and care first.
http://www.amazon.com/Money-Love-Reconnecting-Sacred-Origins/dp/0967334608
"War, Poverty, hunger and crime are caused by the fear that surrounds money and its scarcity. Money is energy, and energy is limitless. Only our fear and our limited way of thinking make money seem scarce. Using the tools and the exercises in Chapter Three, you can reconnect with the sacred origins of money, and direct the flow of money through your life and the world on a current of love, joy, goodwill and abundance. Money is energy, and according to quantum physics the universe is made up of energy, which becomes matter only when information is focused on it. Wood is wood and not iron because of the information that forms the two different kinds of matter. Too many of us labor under the belief that money is "a necessary evil," which is, more often than not, difficult to obtain. By changing our feelings about money from fear, anger, greed and scarcity, to love, joy, abundance and goodwill, we can change the way money moves through our lives and the lives of others all over the world. "MONEY IS LOVE" teaches that as we begin to remove the negative thoughts and feelings that surround money and redefine money as love, we bring the power of love into all of our monetary transactions. This in turn opens our hearts to allow money to flow abundantly into our lives, creating a place of peace and joy. From this place of harmony we can then send money back out into the world on a flow of love and gratitude. Money healed can begin to heal all that it touches. And because money flows like blood through the planet, diseased it causes disease, but infused with love, money can become rejuvenating. This work stands out from other transformational money theories, because it deals with not only healing our personal relationship with money, but with healing the money itself, returning it to its sacred roots and then using this money infused with love as an agent for healing "Money is the blood of the planet. Heal the money and we can heal the world." Page 82."
What other resources for learning how to redeem money do you know?
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