What’s typically the most significant problem for the majority of people? Here the guess would be not having enough money. This is to say, most people would probably consider a lack of money as their most significant difficulty. Another way of expressing this problem would be to say a lack of resources. After all, money in and of itself has very little inherent value. Money’s greatest value is as trade for some resource or another: food for example, or shelter, or transportation, etc. So when a person says then that they don’t have sufficient money, what they’re actually saying is they aren’t able to obtain some resource or extravagance that they want to obtain.
The actual role that money plays is relevant to know because it can serve to impact one’s true priorities. It’s quite common to find citizens of advanced societies making it a personal goal to acquire the greatest amount of money that they can. But it’s not actually money that these people covet: it’s the goods and services that money can be exchanged for. Money is not the same thing as survival, and it’s certainly not the same thing as being content. As an exercise, a person might stop referring to money altogether and instead refer to those things that they would like to exchange money for. This may change a person’s outlook as they consider money to begin with, as well as reducing frustration when money seems as though it’s not available.
The consideration of personal outlook is one aspect of the ho’oponopono problem solving method. In the ho’oponopono method, it’s believed that any and every problem comes from the self. An expression sometimes used among ho’oponopono practitioners is ‘There is no out there’. The key then to solving a difficulty, including financial or resource difficulties, is to start problem solving from the self. From this point, change in a person’s actual experience can and does take place when ho’oponopono is implemented. Learn more about problem solving by visiting Ho’oponopono or God Help Me.
