A friend recently commented about Deepak Chopra: "He's too much into the money." It's a coment I've heard about him before. He's also someone whose insights and writings have been very helpful as I've struggled to rework and realign my beliefs about wealth. The messages of my childhood environment were that it was much more noble and spiritual to be poor than rich. In those messages, it was made very clear that wealthy folks were very likely not "good" folks.
This morning I spent some time re-reading Joe Vitale's book, The Key. Joe said: "You are a physical being, but your essence is spiritual. Everything you want is a symbol -- an apparently concrete reality that is actually made up of energy. That energy is spirit. The material and the spiritual are two sides of the same coin. Wanting something material is the first step to awakening to the spirit within it, and you, and all things."
My friend's comment echoes loudly the beliefs instilled within me a long time ago. I hear those beliefs echoed in many places. I know that those childhood beliefs choked off the flow of spirit within me. It has taken me a long time to re-connect to the integrity of physical/spiritual unity.
As a nurse I "got" the disparity of the mind/body split fairly early in my career. I remember saying, "Wait! Mind and body do not split apart like Legos." Now I know that body and spirit aren't split apart either. They just seem that way to us because we've been taught to see them that way.
What if we refused to see ourselves as split? What if we shifted our self-perceptions to be conscious of ourselves as embodied spirits -- spiritual beings occupying, but not limited to, our bodies? What if we off-loaded some/many/all of the self-limiting beliefs that result from seeing ourselves as separate from spirit? From Spirit? What if we recognized (re-cognized) our essential wholeness? And allowed ouselves to be healthy and whole?
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