6 Tips for Surviving an Economic Crisis with your Self Intact part 3
6 Tips for Surviving an Economic Crisis with your Self Intact
6 Tips for Self-Mastery in an Economic Crisis
1. Give up your insistence that you are what you do.
Your self-definition should include more than your career: Do less, Be more. Stop saying, “I am a lawyer”, or “I am a nurse.” Replace these “I Am” mantras with the statement, “I work as….” e.g. “I work as a nurse…” You will still be You long after your job or career has changed or disappeared.
2. Don’t be a Material Girl. Or Boy.
Don’t be a slave to the material world. In the past century, the world economy has depended on ever-increasing levels of conspicuous consumption. Depletion of our planetary, economic, and personal resources follows. Sacrificing your mental, physical and spiritual health for an addiction to material junk with built-in obsolescence and a predilection for planet killing is insanity. Stop it now. Material possessions can’t buy you love, happiness, or inner peace, and ya ain’t taking it with you when you go.
3. Forget about Money, Focus on Abundance.
There is a wealth of beauty around you, awaiting your appreciation, regardless of your socio-economic status in life. Slow yourself down, smell the roses, watch the sun set, eat the wild berries. No one has yet cornered the market on joy and spiritual bliss is in the public domain.
4. Be Present and Get Centered.
Your fear of what the future holds for you cannot help you now. But obsessively worrying about it can definitely impact your Now. Develop centeredness and confidence based on internal self-mastery rather than external social validation of your identity and self-worth. Be the Change you want to see.
5. Breathe
Each full, deep, conscious breath is a gift and holds the potential for higher awareness, inner peace, and joy. And it’s free!
6. Invest in your mental and spiritual health.
Your financial investments are dependent upon the value others place upon them. Your personal valuation and self-worth depends solely on how you perceive yourself and your function, your karma yoga, in the world. As such, it is an internal process that can be altered by your Attention and your Intention. Schedule at least 15 minutes each day (an hour is much better) for body-centered Meditation, T’ai Chi, Qigong, Kundalini Yoga, or similar mind-body spiritual disciplines.
You may think you don’t have enough time to learn these things, but actually, time is all you really have in this life. How do you want to use it? Chasing after material things that end up owning you, or developing your higher nature and being Present, enlightened, and joyful in your world? Choose carefully, one path will fragment your consciousness, the other will make you whole, and set you free. © 2009 Keith E. Hall & www.inner-tranquility.com. All rights reserved. Contact us for reprint information.
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