Funding Your Freedom

WEALTH & RESOURCES

First things first – this is not about money. ‘The Money Paradigm’ goes into that subject in much more detail. Funding your Freedom is about ‘wealth – but if that’s not about ‘money’ what do we mean by, understand by, ‘wealth’?

n Pillar 7 and in Freedom of Resources in ‘The Seven Keys to Freedom’ I have discussed ‘wealth’ in terms of the resources we require to ‘fund’ our freedom, by which I mean to create and maintain it. Freedom is Life is Freedom. Wealth creates builds and maintains it and we’ll consider those topics separately in a moment.

Resources are what you and I need, wealth is about ‘having’ those resources, whatever they may, be in the right measure as and when they are required. Wealth gives us the ability to manage these resources and ensure we have a healthy resource circulation and ‘resource flow forecast’ (like our financial budgeting should have a healthy cash flow forecast).

Where are the resources coming from, how are we going to use them, and what is the end result of consuming or transforming them? Remember, everything is energy and everything we do is a process of transforming, or perhaps transporting energy in its various forms from one thing or place to another.

There are different categories of resource we need and the means of creating (or acquiring) them, building (or growing) them and managing them will vary only in kind. It’s the same principle and process for all. These categories as with all things, follow, match or apply to the four domains of life.

For our ‘self’, human and spirit, we need food, shelter and a healthy environment, water, sleep, movement and sunlight. Some of these might not look like ‘resources’ but without them and some in other domains we decline and die. These are just the bodily ‘human’ requirements, we also need resources to learn from and help us engage with Source. Knowledge and understanding are both resources.

For simplicity the categories of resources required in this domain are environmental, intellectual and mechanical. These cover, generally, all that goes on in the domain of self.

In the domain of Others, we need first to be able to communicate, but we also need to travel and explore. One thing in particular here which impacts on the self is touch. Without physical contact of whatever nature we cannot survive either as an individual or as a ‘race’ – whether that be human or spirit. Touch isn’t restricted to people, we need to be able to touch other animals, plants and inanimate objects such as sand on a beach or the grass beneath our feet. Without touch we might as well not be here.

The key resources in this domain are touch, communication and environment. We could add ‘opportunity’ – the opportunity to travel, explore and meet others.

In the Outputs or ‘Doing’ domain we clearly need ‘something to do’ and the main resource here is opportunity backed up by the ‘ability’ to do things, skills, techniques, creativity. It works both ways. We have skills but need the opportunity to use them.

This domain is also highly dependent on Self and Others, without which you and I would not be able to do anything. Opportunity and ability are supported by interest and enthusiasm in whatever we do and strength, persistence and a sense of endeavour to maintain whatever we do.

The Lifestyle or Input domain depends on all the others. Our lifestyle is the ‘result’ we achieve (and then feed back into our Self) from our activities in the other three. If freedom itself were a resource, it would be one of the elements we need here but this is where ‘finances’ appear as a resource.

I specifically use the word finance because as has been explained before and will be expanded upon, ‘money’ doesn’t exist and is not a resource. Finance however is something more tangible – a means to an end. Finance enables us to turn into reality those things we cannot achieve or create by ‘doing it ourselves’.

Finance in this context gives us the ability to call on others for help us put something into place. As an example we may have the money to pay a plumber to fix the shower but – do we ‘have’ a plumber we can trust? It’s not the money we’re looking for as the resource, it’s the plumber who we know like and trust. ‘Having’ the plumber comes before having the money.

Opportunity also figures in this domain. We might like to own a particular house – but is it for sale?
Now with a better idea of what wealth or resources really means we can go on to look at how we manage it.