Money

Something broke my morning ritual at the gym. So used to handing my card to the receptionist for swiping, my forward movement was halted as she sanitized her hands after placing cash in the drawer. Along with her apology for delaying my check-in, she shared her ritual of cleansing immediately after handling money.

Racing through my mind were images of germs bouncing off a greenback infecting those who came into contact with it.

What a metaphor.

So as not to attach to money in an unhealthy way, did the cleansing enable her to let the cash pass through her? Not to horde as a compulsion, but to act as the steward of wealth.

What is your relationship with money? Have you had a conversation with money? When “money talks”, we get surprising insights into our lives, our values, and the essence of prosperity.

Do you have freedom, power and sufficiency in your relationship with money?

Enough

When is enough enough? Most of us spend our lives aspiring for more of something: Money, happiness, cars, houses, power, sex, adventure... And all of us are disappointed at times when we believe we don't have enough, didn’t get enough or don't feel good enough with what we’ve achieved. We are not rich enough, pretty enough, thin enough or talented enough. This feeling of “not enough” is a never-ending cycle, a moving, unattainable target, borne from self-defeating life patterns we ourselves created. Enough already! Explore and change those patterns, and exchange “never-enough” with “I am enough and I have exactly what I need.”

This piece of art is a reminder to pay attention to that part within us that’s always searching for more, and to realize and appreciate what we have. As American intellectual Joseph Campbell said, "We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about."