How we learn to handle Money

I live in the Philippines and as you know for sure it is a third world country. A 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd world country does not mean the whole of the country is 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd, it means the majority is. Even if you go to a first world county like the US you might find areas which barely have 3^rd world status. And in the capital of the 3^rd work country you will find things, places, gadgets, technology and attitude of a 1^st world place.

One interesting aspect to observe here is the handling of money. Due to my way of living I would not consider myself a financially stable person.

I guess as being self employed you only can be stable by either having a fairly big company or considerable savings.

What I wanted to say is that since I chose to become self-employed money became an issue.

From a spiritual point of view I understand it, because it is the weak aspect for most emerging or small companies and for me.

I currently have a cash flow problem and was sharing it with a local friend. She suggested I ask my friends. My reply was that I will do it if I really need it. She then replayed that they might not have when I need it. Sad but true. I think here and in many other places, parents do not teach their children how to handle money. I observed that most students here every morning get their allowance.

While talking with my friend this morning I realized this is teaching them to spend all what is in your pocket, because the next day it will be replenished. Later in life, if you get your salary spend it.

One or two years back I had a similar talk with another  friend and suggested she give her kids a weekly allowance. Of course she did not. By then I only saw that she was not training her children to handle money well, and now I saw that you train your children to spend or to live hand to mouth -money wise.

You may not agree with me, but I think the thought is worth being considered.

I understand the advantage of a tradition, but times and the world are changing so fast at the moment that the values valid for a rural society no longer fully apply to a melting pot like a modern mega-city. Maybe it is our duty as parents to reconsider our upbringing. We can keep the values but might need to change the techniques, if not for us, then for the sake of our children.

We get what we are ready to receive

Sorry no fantastic adventures lately. Should I be sad?
Well it makes me wonder when I have an active cycle with numerous oob experiences which are  followed by a calm time.
But lets face it, at least we souls in a body closer to replacement than others, especially people who work in a calmer and not to hectic environment, we feel exhausted if we travel to a big town and have lots of people and noise around us. We feel exhausted after the journey. For sure I do, and I even would call myself a city dweller.
So, when I come home in the evening, I normally go to bed soon and sleep like a log.
So comparing it to my inner experience, it can be more or less the same, after an activity a rest period is normal.
If you think that there is no spiritual growth during this rest periods you might overlook the experiences that are not so dramatic.
I liked it when Sri Harold Klemp made me aware that life runs in cyles. Mine does and at time the cyles are not to long, sometimes especially the ones I do not fancy to much, seem to last far to long.
Like many of you out there, I am trained to use my creativity. Or to use different words, not many of this cycles are cycles of abundance in money.

As you know I live in the Philippines which has very favorable conditions for loitering and now is considered a developing country (some time back it was one of the tiger states, a group of fast growing economies in South east Asia)
I spend most of my life in Germany and hence seeing poverty still attracts my attention. I mean I think about.
The spiritual world are not black and white only (neither is this world) meaning what I write here is only one of the many facets.
It is easier to be poor than to be rich (remember you are born into a rich or a poor family. And as an Eckist  better as Soul, we have a saying in it.) So why are so many people born poor?
Because it is easier!
You think there is not enough wealth for all who are poor?
As soul we are the ultimate creators, hence we could create a world full of economies like Germany, Swiss, Singapore or even Monaco.
Many countries on this planet have a lottery like 6 out of 49 or similar, which basically every week creates a millionaire. If you look at the lucky winners after some time, a huge percentage no longer has money.
Now I am at the second point I want to stress:
We only can have what we are ready to receive or perceive?
I am poor because I am not ready to accept the riches!
If you are one of this people who urgently need money, ask yourself: What do I miss, to have what I need!?
I remember years back me and my neighbor were walking through the spring. He with his girlfriend, I with mine. I was a freelancer, he was an artist, all four of us was a certain shortage in common. I remember how he and his girlfriend were discussing how to imagine to have riches. Where are the hinges, what are the tricks, How can you truly think you are rich if you do not even have money to buy food. Not a single moment did we think that WE ARE THE PROBLEM. It is not God who is not willing to give us, it is US who are not ready to receive.