Episode 41: Money
One Heart One Mind
Thomas McConkie
5.0 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
A continuation of the lessons on the Energy Centers, i.e. Money, Sex, Fame, Power. This week Thomas discusses extreme monetary wealth as an unrecognized form of obesity in modern culture. Learn to recognize in this episode how much awareness you unnecessarily commit to feeling more secure, and reconnect with a profound sense of security at the heart of this very moment.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm your host Thomas McConkey. |
| 0:15.0 | Thank you so much for listening today. |
| 0:17.8 | Now, last week, I was on schedule to talk more energy centers. This is a theme I was covering |
| 0:24.4 | in the month of June. And last week, due to Independence Day, I was inspired to talk about my |
| 0:32.7 | brothers and sisters who are incarcerated and practicing like their hair is on fire. |
| 0:39.6 | In other words, practicing like it really, really matters. |
| 0:43.2 | Last week, I invited you to do the same. |
| 0:46.7 | This week, I want to come back to the theme of the energy centers. |
| 0:51.4 | The energy centers, if you haven't tuned into previous episodes, they're essentially |
| 0:55.7 | places in our development where our awareness fixates. We get stuck. We get hung up. And this hampers our |
| 1:06.7 | healthy development. I want to focus in today on energy center number one, one of the most |
| 1:14.6 | basic areas in life where we tend to get hung up. In different literatures, according to |
| 1:22.5 | different researchers, the first one that comes to mind in the moment is Abraham Maslow talking about a hierarchy of needs. |
| 1:30.0 | We talk about safety and security as being a basic need that we need to take care of |
| 1:36.6 | in order to thrive in order to flourish in life. |
| 1:40.8 | The issue is that when we grow into adulthood, if there's any sense of, or rather if our sense of security at a young age was impeded in any particular way, we might develop a fixation and awareness where no matter how secure we are, we always feel like we need to exert more energy to be even more secure. |
| 2:04.6 | So the way this plays out in modern society, simply one way, one very common way, is in the way of accumulating money and wealth. It's become a truism. There was even an |
| 2:23.3 | article a few years ago in the New York Times talking about the sweet spot where if your earnings |
| 2:30.1 | exceed this sweet spot, then your happiness will not necessarily increase. In fact, the more |
| 2:37.1 | wealth you accumulate beyond a certain point, the more stressful your life is likely to be, |
| 2:42.6 | the more unhappy you will feel. So maybe you've heard of this article, but it points to a truth |
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