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4 MYTHS ABOUT FINANCIAL SECURITY

LET GO OF THESE RIDICULOUS
NOTIONS ABOUT MONEY

Pam Grout is the author of 16 books, three plays, a television series, and two iPhone apps. She writes for People
magazine, Cnngo.com, Huffington Post, and her travel blog, www.georgeclooneyslepthere.com. Find out more
about Pam and her out-of-the-box take on life on her website: www.pamgrout.com.

The world is a magical place. Here are a few of the bald-faced premises upon which the
What we’ve been offered so official dogma of the Western world is built:
far is anything but. Let’s start
with our current economic system. 1. THAT WE FACE AN INDIFFERENT UNIVERSE.
It’s made up. It’s a random agreement we’ve all agreed to par-
ticipate in. But it’s not real. It was designed by the reptilian Every thing we do, everything we believe, is predicated on the
part of our brain, the part that’s scared, the part that hollers, idea that we live in an indifferent and sometimes even antago-
Danger! Watch out! Protect yourself! nistic universe. To be successful, we think we must bend it to
our will. Exert control, use discipline. To believe the universe
It’s based on artificial lack and rampant, un- might know what it’s doing, to think it might actually love us
satisfying consumerism. It can never give us and have a plan for our lives, is antithetical
what we really want. One of its key tenets, WHEN WE BREAK FREE to every lesson economists teach.
in fact, is to encourage us to seek things we FROM OUR CHAINS,
already have. To keep the economy grow- WE SEE CLEARLY THAT Is it really just a chance coincidence of
ing—the holy grail, according to the current THE WORLD IS WILDLY random molecules that we are conscious
paradigm—we’ve been forced to monetize all ABUNDANT, THAT and breathing and listening to Israel
the gifts we were given coming in . . . things THE UNIVERSE IS NOT Kamakawiwo‘ole play “Over the Rainbow”
like health, water, entertainment, food. ONLY A CO-CREATIVE on a ukulele?
Once you get on the joy and gratitude fre-
Even self-help books promote the very peace FORCE, BUT IT’S OUR quency, you come to see that the universe
and well-being you already have—or did, be- STRONGEST ALLY is not only a co-creative force, but it’s your
fore we laid our economic story on top of it. strongest ally.
Until our financial paradigms got all up in Mother Nature’s 2. THAT THERE’S SCARCITY AND LACK.
face, we were gifted with everything we could ever need.
The current economic system touts insufficiency and promotes
When you build anything, particularly an economic system, on the preposterous notion that important things are missing in
faulty information, it should come as no surprise when it fails your life.
to satisfy.
Once it supplied all your basic needs (food and shelter, both of
which were originally provided for free by Mother Nature), it
was forced to come up with fake stuff to sell you—things like
deodorant, plastic banana slicers, dancing Santa decorations,
Spiritual Services with and other things that don’t serve human happiness. In many
Laura Beers Shift your Mind, ways, the economy Adam Smith helped create is little more
Enlighten your Body than a government-sponsored pyramid scheme.
& Connect your Spirit
The assumption of scarcity is one of the central axioms of eco-
Psychic Medium, nomics. It’s regarded as objective truth. However, like most
Motivational Speaker, “objective truths,” it’s nothing but a projection.
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In Person, Phone, Skype, Groups, will travel break free from our chains, we can see very clearly that the
world is wildly abundant.
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