Can Money Buy Happiness?

Can money buy you happiness? Does the following equation hold true?

Not quite. It sure can make your life easier but true happiness, as often has been mentioned on this blog, is the state of your mind. In fact, what usually happens is more like the other way around: if you are rich and happy from the inside, you will then be able to attract more money on the outside.

Money can be viewed from an energy standpoint. According to the Law of Attraction, the energy of money is the flow of physical abundance that the Universe provides to you. Hence, to bring it into a vibrational high to match what it is that you desire, then you will need to focus your mind on more positive thoughts when you think about money.

“Money is not the root of happiness, but it is not the root of evil either. Money is the result of how somebody lines up Energy.” — Ask and It is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks

However, many of us fall into the trap of becoming unhappy when we think about money. We feel miserable in the state of wanting and become depressed when our mind chooses to focus on the current situation of not yet enough. We also lack spirituality, because we would rather spend our time and energy on pursuing materalistic intents and do not realise that money is in itself a spiritual asset.

“We must all realize that nothing is separate and apart from God, that money is spiritual substance made manifest, the creative energy of the Spirit stepped down into visibility.” —Empowerment – You Can Do, Be, Have All Things by John Randolph Price

To avoid the trap of an overly materialistic mind, it is better to get in touch with who we really are. Spend time exploring the spirtual side of things. Ask for guidance for what it is that is our purpose. We can also find that it is not the bed, books, finery, house, medicine, luxuries (as in the poem above) that we truly want but what goes deeper, such as happiness, knowledge and salvation.

There is no need to also deny what is instinctive in us; that is the desire to be in an improved situation. What we need to recognise is that money is the flow of energy that helps to bring about the deeper desire. It is the means to support a higher purpose and not an end on its own. When we lend spirituality to what it is we desire, then we are really in the state of body-mind-spirit balance that can bring about just about any thought into manifestation.

“Spiritual versus material are not the choices. Everything about this physical, manifestational experience is spirital. It is all the end product of Spirit.” — Ask and It is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks

When we can see the point that money is a physical extension of who we really are, we can then know what we need to do (which is to really begin with ourselves). We can also start to savor happiness in its purest form; happiness is that which brings abundance, including money, into physical manifestation. See the diagram below, for a 2-dimensional illustration.

Bitten by the creative bug, here’s a video that I’ve just published, using a poem by an unknown author, that I came across from a dharma book….

Poem: What Money Can Buy

A bed but not sleep
Books but not knowledge
Food but not appetitie
Finery but not beauty
A house but not a home
Medicine but not health
Luxuries but not comfort
Pleasures but not happiness
Religion but not salvation.

Say not that this is yours and that is mine,
Just say, this came to you and to me;
So we may not regret the fading shine
Of all glorious things which ceased to be.

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