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- Having enough calories to take care of the external bodily functions, like your mental and physical work, and recreation based activities - Having an amount of surplus of calories stored up for future contingency. A healthy body usually would store upto 20-25% of body weight in fat (called storage fat) as a wise measure towards a future uncertainty. The above requirements vary from person to person, some people need more calories some need less, for their particular lifestyle and body makeup. However, the bottom line is that when you consume more calories than whats needed, you always end up with extra-weight which actually becomes a burden on the body. Also, if you expend more than you consume, you end up with a dissipated body which goes into a state of fatigue. The same principles hold true for money, in a balanced state your finances would follow the below pattern - Having enough money to take care of your personal requirements on a daily basis - Having enough money to fuel your external occupation, like your work or business, or any other means of service that you are involved in - Having some surplus of money, as savings, for your sense of security with respect to future uncertainty (this sense of security is needed for the mind to be at ease to focus on the present creativity/challenges without having to constantly worry about a future contingency) The requirement of money varies from person to person, some people need more money for their personal requirements and business requirements, some need less, whats important is to note that its always about having enough and not more than enough, or less than enough, that allows for a healthy life. Its just that most people have a very deluded sense of whats enough for them. In terms of food it requires a body awareness in order to know whats enough for your body, and whats over-indulgence or undernourishment for you. Each body has its unique requirements, and it varies over time, after all, what you ate as a child-body is not enough for your adult-body. The same principle holds true for money; it requires a self-awareness to know whats enough for you instead of comparing yourself with the external standards whats enough for you is exactly what you will get when you are in state of balance, not more not less, and it will be an ongoing movement because we are not static beings and our requirements will keep varying as we grow. The purpose of life is not just to consume. To consume is an aspect of life, as is contribution. If your whole focus is on consumption, you are bound to become an imbalance person, not only in conflict with your own well-being but the well-being of your environment per se. There is always enough around for everyones need, its a fact of life that life can easily support a balanced state, but it cant support everyones greed greed is all about the mindset of I just want to consume more than I contribute. You know you are in a balanced state of being when your sense of contribution is as strong as your sense of consumption. By contribution I dont mean something high and elevated, I just mean using your ability to provide a service, and each of us has some abilities in us to be of service in some way which is always aligned with our personal requirements of money if we simply stay true to our abilities for service/work, and keep honing its potential, we automatically will be aligned with allowing a balanced inflow of money. If you see everything in nature automatically follows the principle of consume-contribute, the bees, the birds, the animals of the wild its only our home-grown pets who end up over-consuming sometimes under the influence of an induced imbalance perpetrated by the human master.
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involved towards these two aspects. Of course work can also be entertaining but its not about entertainment but about being productive in terms of utilizing your abilities for example, a stand-up comedian may enjoy his job of making people laugh, but he expends energy on working on his delivery, practicing his punch lines, observing real life quirks, working on new jokes, in all seriousness, to ensure that he gives a professional performance every time hes on the stage; so even a profession like stand up comedy requires a seriousness and sense of responsibility to deliver a quality output (which is what productivity is), its not all about play. Having fun, or playing, is like an inflow or consumption, work is like an outflow or production, when you make money for your work its always a balanced inflow. Work should not be confused with struggle. Struggle is like an over-expenditure, or an over-strain, or an overly forced discipline, its like working on something thats not really aligned with your ability or over-working your abilities or working in a mindless manner (whats called running around like headless chicken). When you are doing something thats not really aligned with your ability/potential, you end up producing low quality output (no matter how much you force your discipline), and low-quality is low productivity, which directly implies that you are not aligned with a balanced inflow of money you owe it to yourself to live/hone your potential in terms of your abilities, you have no-one else to blame. No-one is born without a potential/ability for certain forms of work(s), and your monetary requirements will be in sync with this potential there is never an aberration to this natural balance which is inherently present in each of us. Its just that some of us become disconnected with using our potential/ability either because we compare ourselves to others, trying to be like others, or because we buy into some delusion about trying to do something thats not really our potential. This whole deal of dream big seems to ingrain some form of deluded thinking about what big is, not everyone needs a Mercedes, not everyone needs a big rock for their wedding (rock = diamond), not everyone needs to go on luxury cruises, not everyone needs an iphone and none of these define youve made it a more prudent pointer would grow in self awareness and sense your current position to know the possibilities/options available towards using your abilities. Its just that a lot of commercial interests drive the delusion of making people think that they need something that they dont really need, simply by telling them this is what defines the good life a lot of ads subconsciously create this image in your mind, no wonder people buy stuff, that they rarely ever need or use, purely from a place of delusion. If you notice, in most cases, the notion of dream big seems to focus only on the consumption aspect and can simply be replaced with consume big, which is just an imbalanced way of looking at life to force yourself to think about things that dont really want is just silly, to force yourself to think big in some hyped up manner is just childish, rather just work on knowing yourself in terms of what your real requirements are, what your abilities are and the ways in which you can use them. You may have an interest, passion or ability, but to translate it into something productive (which can be given for external consumption) requires you to put in some work to get it organized. There are many geniuses who dont have the balance to be productive, they are simply rooted in the I just want to have fun mindset. Joy/fun is one dimension of life, its not the only dimension of life if you are imbalanced towards joy you will end up being an unproductive person who is more into consumption than any useful contribution and this will lead to an inner imbalance of energy which sooner or later hits a threshold, leading to a crash of some kind. You need to understand that work is not always fun, sometimes it requires you to let go of immediate gratification and focus on just preparing the foundation for the product/service for example, learning to drive is not always fun, it requires you to work at it until it becomes natural to you, extending this example further, you can drive for fun but if you take up driving as a profession (like being a cab driver) then you will notice that its not always fun and needs some professionalism. You may have the capacity/talent/interest for a certain expression, but that does not mean that you will just have fun while using that expression as a means of service/productivity you can be great at math but to do a PhD in number theory requires a lot more than just having fun with numbers, it requires the attitude of using your abilities and your focus (which can involve an aligned discipline) to
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create something productive. Aligned work is the only channel through which a balanced inflow of money is possible.
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life-energy, and the same principle of balance holds true for all of us. You may ask what about the people who are born wealthy or who inherit big sums of money for nothing? what important is to understand the principle of balance and imbalance works in all cases. Just because someone inherits a lot of money doesnt mean that the person is going to have a balanced experience. Its not money that decides if your experience is one of well-being, rather its your inner balance that decides it. Also, people who are born into a lot of wealth have their own challenges to deal with, there are as many depressed millionaires as depressed beggars, its a huge delusion to imagine that money solves all your life issues. If a person does not follow the balance of consumption and contribution, he/she will inevitably enter into an imbalanced state of being its just a reality that cant be avoided, and no-one is exempt from this reality, no-one is given special treatment that way. Everyone has a potential for contribution/work, and this ensures that they have the potential to allow an inflow of money thats needed for a balanced life experience stop comparing, and just live your life by knowing yourself, you may not need a mansion so stop trying to force visualize a mansion. There is no need to make money into a big deal, as its being made in all the law of attraction literature; we dont live for money, its just an aspect of energy exchange thats natural to living a balanced inflow of money is a smooth byproduct of a balancing your consumption and contribution aspects.
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irrespective of the taxation. Dont see taxation as something thats taking away your money, rather just understand that your money inflow will always depend on your state of balance there is no external factor that decides your reality unless you allow it to, and you will allow it to do so only when you focus/fixate your energy on that influence instead of focusing on yourself and your potential. People who fixate on cribbing about taxes are also the ones who end up providing low quality productivity/output because their energy is not aligned with focusing on their work, and hence they dont earn a balanced amount of money and they blame the external factors for their lack. Let go of wanting an imbalanced experience of money to let go of imbalanced needs requires a real awareness. A low awareness person is bound to by into delusions of imbalanced nature. The truth is that you will not feel happy through an imbalanced experience of money, its just a delusion that you may have because your thinking is not grounded in reality. Always remember that there is no such thing as a purely light natured reality, and to imagine such a reality is a delusion. You may ask what if its just your belief that a purely light natured reality is not possible? to which I can only say that there is a knowing that comes from open observation of life, and this knowing is not a belief its just an aware understanding; just like gravity is not a belief and just because you dont believe in gravity doesnt make gravity go away from your experience. There is no such thing as a life of pure leisure, because leisure is a light nature and it needs the dark nature of work to balance it. To desire a life of pure leisure is what it means to want an imbalanced experience of money even if you do manifest it somehow (through whatever forced visualization exercises you employ) it does bring along the imbalance with it. If you want a balanced experience of money, you just need to be true to your consumption-contribution balance, thats all thats needed, nothing more. Dont compare your requirements with others we are a population of close to 7 billion people, each with unique characteristics, personality and potential. The problem with living in such a huge diversity is that we are likely to forget out individuality and start focusing on trying to copy the individuality of someone else. If your neighbor buys a BMW you start imagining that you also need a similar, or a higher, car brand, though it may hardly be a true desire in you so this so-called desire is stemming from a place of jealousy, or inferiority, rather than from a place true alignment with who you really are. Some people like to have a grand wedding, but it doesnt mean that everyone needs a grand wedding, you might be a person who would just like a small wedding or may be just a 5-min wedding at a Las Vegas church its important to understand that just because someone else is doing it doesnt mean that you have to do it to feel successful. It takes some real self-awareness to be able to come out of this comparative mindset and truly align with yourself as who you are right now. There is nothing wrong with a grand wedding as long as its something thats really aligned with what you need/require as an experience in your life. The inflow of money is a very relative thing, its personal, it cant be compared, and there is no universal standard for what wealthy means. Stop expecting everything in one go You cant eat all the food of your lifetime in one day to accumulate so much food is not what abundance is, its just an imbalance of energy. Allow your desires and goals to take their time to mature, and allow the experience of gratification in a balanced manner. If you got everything at once there would be nothing to work towards and such a reality is imbalanced to say the least. Moreover, theres a limitation to the options that you can manifest in one lifetime, in that you cant have it all in one lifetime to make a choice between whats important to you, and what needs to be let go of, is an important aspect of learning self-awareness you need to let go of some realities to allow certain realities, you cant be deluded about having it all. There is no such thing called perfection as far as realities are concerned. It comes down to having a balance in your joy dimension; if you are overly driven by your joy dimension you end up becoming a greedy person whos constantly restless for more consumption without aligning with balance. In conclusion, its self-awareness and a willingness to understand the reality of life, what I would call life-awareness, that acts as the foundation for a balanced experience of money. This whole hype
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surrounding a fixation on money, or attracting money, only leads to a delusional mindset. A balanced inflow of money is a natural byproduct of a balanced expression between your desire to consume and your potential to contribute/produce/work in alignment with your abilities in this human body.
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