Money Difficulties
What’s typically the most significant problem for the majority of people? The educated guess here is lack of money. This is to say, most people would probably consider a lack of money as their most significant difficulty. Another way of expressing this problem would be to say a lack of resources. In fact, money doesn’t really have much intrinsic value. The true value that money has is as a means of trade for various sorts of resources, like shelter or food for instance. So when a person says then that they don’t have sufficient money, what they’re actually saying is they aren’t able to obtain some resource or extravagance that they want to obtain.
It’s significant to understand the true role of money if only to bring certain priorities into focus. It’s quite common to find citizens of advanced societies making it a personal goal to acquire the greatest amount of money that they can. In reality however these people aren’t coveting money: they’re coveting the resources that money can acquire. Money is not the same thing as survival, and it’s certainly not the same thing as being content. As an exercise, a person might stop referring to money altogether and instead refer to those things that they would like to exchange money for. This may change a person’s outlook as they consider money to begin with, as well as reducing frustration when money seems as though it’s not available.
The consideration of personal outlook is one aspect of the ho’oponopono problem solving method. Within ho’oponopono, all problems are thought to originate within the individual in the most literal way possible. An expression sometimes used among ho’oponopono practitioners is ‘There is no out there’. So when looking to solve any problem, including a lack of money or resources, a person starts with the element they have greatest control over: themselves. Moving forward from this juncture, a person can see a difference in their life experience if ho’oponopono is used. Learn more about problem solving by visiting Ho oponopono or God Help Me.
