June 17, 2024

“As you work on your own issues of Pain, you will find yourself able to get to work and accomplish your objectives around money”

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“We will approach our work on Pain in two ways. First, I will help you see and identify the stories and patterns to which you attach difficult feelings. We will begin by exploring patterns in general. Then, building on the exercises in [chapter 2](private://read/01hz0w5zfhrw0gv3ftbmerfe8k/#None), you will explore your own particular patterns of Pain, discovering how you get hooked in ways that are difficult to give up. Next, I’ll share exercises that help you recognize painful feelings as sensations in the body and come to a place of ease around them. Once recognized for what they are, feelings, like thoughts, can be released and let go.”

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“The first has to do with the discovery of economic differences in the world, the difficult realization that arises when we understand we are richer than some people and poorer than others.”

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“The second primal source of Pain, one typically encountered in adolescence, arises in the understanding that either we will have to work for a living or we will have to secure money by other means—manipulation, inheritance, marriage, perhaps even crime”

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“we will be paid not for who we are or what we want to accomplish in the world but for doing what someone else wants.”

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“Power drains from our souls. Despair at losing freedom itself and the freedom of our time saps our energy and diminishes our sense of self-worth. Feeling enslaved to the dollar, we question our integrity.”

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“The third source of childhood Pain around money comprises any of a list of difficult emotion”

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“belief systems that we hope and pray will hold us safe against the feelings we have just experienced. Then a new Pain strikes, different from the first one but equally destructive, equally excrutiating. And again we create a new Innocence, once more setting the stage for Pain, the two joined together by the hinges of the vows and commitments we make. Money”

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“*In every cry of every Man*, *In every Infant’s cry of fear*, *In every voice, in every ban*, *The mind-forg’d manacles*”

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“First, take all the messages, stories, and belief systems you uncovered in [chapter 2](private://read/01hz0w5zfhrw0gv3ftbmerfe8k/#None) and identify the feelings associated with them. Second, see if you can find patterns of feeling associated with thoughts that have repeated themselves in your life and thus constitute ongoing cycles of Innocence and Pain”

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“To our childlike minds, Innocence represents divine secrets, some quality of being held, cared for, and recognized even in the face of forces as impersonal as money. Innocence feels as if it is who we are. It is freighted with our identities, with everything that makes up I, mine, and me. If we let go, we fear we will lose our very selves”

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“clinging is the source of suffering.”

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