I wanted write a little about personal prosperity and the economy. I am sure that all of you who are reading this are quite aware of what is going on with the economy of our country. Many of you are intimately aware of  how this period of economic flux is effecting the minds and emotions of our communities. The News is constantly bombarding us with every little detail of the “crisis”. It is this idea of “crisis”  that I wanted to Address. Yes we are going through a time of change and fluctuation. Does this equate with a crisis? Is this Change any different in it`s essence than any cycle that we may have experienced since the dawn of time. Not really.

We as humans have always had to learn to flow with the changing of the seasons. The ebb and flow of the Tides. The cycles of Drought and Flood. We have survived as a whole. We have risen to the occasion. Our ability to survive these changes has always been our ability to change with the circumstances.

There is one predominant theme that I see running through the masses that I encounter, Fear. Fear that the things that they have work so hard and spent their hard earned money on will be taken away from them. Now I understand that most of this fear is because of the system that we have put in place. The  fortunes of many seem to be in the hands of the few. The days of self sufficiency seem to be long gone. The masses are in the hands of mega corporations who control so many of the jobs in this country.

Now I could go on and on about all the inequities of the system. The truth is that this is what were are left to work with. The question is How do we manage to flow with the changes when so much of our personal control seems to have been removed. We learn to start making the changes in our life that need to be made. It is those of us who struggle  against the changes that will find ourselves becoming victims of the times.

It is through living in the present moment and the acceptance of impermanence that we find our strength and resilience. First we need to learn to Be in the present moment not yearning for the past or worrying about the future. Those two avenues are forever out of our influence. The present Moment is the one true place where we have the ability to affect change in our lives or find peace with it. It is through Acceptance of impermanence, the truth that the world and our lives is always in a state of change and nothing in the universe is permanent, that we release our attatchement to the material world that we have built up around us and know that This to shall pass.

Our history as a race has shown that it is our ability to evolve to meet the changing circumstances of the present moment and to imagine new ways of living that has moved us forward. Necessity truly is the mother of invention. That same history shows that those who hold on to the past to rigidly are destined to be left behind.

Change is not a bad thing. It is the truth of all existence. when we are truly living in the present moment we can affect change that will benefit us in ways that we can only begin to imagine.

So quit worrying about the future. Live fully in the Present moment then no matter what comes your way in the future you will be right there to meet it fearlessly.