the inner muse

What if wealth had nothing to do with a dollar amount?

The way we spend our money is temporal, and disappears as quickly as it came.

What you own in monetary form is designed to be exchanged, designed to disappear as quickly as it came. That item of clothing or experience you exchange it for is a temporary state in which you will eventually begin to desire other items or experiences.

To be wealthy is not about how much you possess, but having stability in what you need or want at any given time. But what if what you wanted could be changed? What if what you needed was an illusion?

Having wealth is a state of mind, an inner state of stability and power.

Wealth cannot be a measurable idea, a certain number to be attained. Whether we’re aware of it or not, it is a state of mind, an inner state of stability and power.

Money is simply a means to attain experiences that bring about certain feelings in our life. The key word here is feelings, and what we feel is directly related to our inner world, and who ultimately dictates its choices.

Money, therefore, is not the same as wealth.

Having wealth begins with understanding the self

The less value I placed on money itself, the wealthier I became. How is that possible?

When we buy a thousand dollar suit, what we desire from that suit may very well stem from the same need that an hour spent in nature or self-care can satisfy.

A person who has this awareness will often choose the second option. A person who does not will have a thousand dollars less every time.

Who is wealthier?

Even if Person B (the one who chose the suit) started out with a hundred thousand dollars more than Person A, how long will it take before he breaks even?

The less value I placed on money, the wealthier I became.

Does wealth truly come from how much we own, or is it determined by the power we give away to the material world?

If wealth is a state of stability and power, who is truly wealthier–the one who spends more on material experiences, or the one who creates abundance from within?

Is wealth determined by the power we give away to the material world?

Money is energy spent and energy gained

“Money is energy” is a phrase I hear often in the New Age. But what does it mean?

Money is both 1) the energy you spend per hour to earn it and 2) the energy that others spend in exchange.

In other words, it is a measure of how we use our energy and time. It appears as the dollar amount in our wallet, but in reality, it is the energy and time we trade in to acquire it.

Wealth is a state of balancing our energy and time.

Wealth, therefore, is a state of balancing our own energy and time. Are we giving it away begrudgingly at a nine-to-five job? Do we spend more time in stress and disempowerment, in exchange for a few hours of enjoyment?

Freedom is the state of having choice in how you spend your energy and time. What if we began to see wealth from a state of sovereignty?

Value is agreed upon collectively

Wealth is both the collective value placed on what we have attained, and the potential of what we have yet to attain.

In the 3D world, it is the house or car we buy and the money we have yet to spend.

It is both the sum of your experiences and the un-potentiated energy you carry in order to attain those experiences.

Value, therefore, can also be changed, and may not always take the form of material possessions.

What happens when we collectively place more value on internal experiences, as opposed to material ones? What happens to our concept of wealth?

And more importantly, do we still remember that we can choose?