We use this energy of money to power and empower our lives, says Nemeth. When it flows, life is simply easier. Also, it’s a metaphor for our relationships with other forms of energy: time, physical vitality, enjoyment, creativity, and the support of friends. The way we deal with money is reflected in other aspects of our lives.We earn, spend, save, and invest money. It brings our goals and dreams into physical reality.
When we, as Religious Scientists, do spiritual mind treatment, we declare our intentions...what we desire to show up in our physical reality. Declaring these intentions isn’t enough, however; we have to “treat and use our feet.”
We have to take action. We let go of limiting beliefs in the metaphysical realm, know and declare our life intentions, and then get to work in the physical realm to make them happen.
Sometimes we have “trouble at the border,” says Nemeth, where the metaphysical realm meets physical reality. This is where monkey mind...that incessant inner chattering of worries, doubts and fears, tries to block us from any new or risky adventure.
I was reminded of a film I saw recently, The Last Word, starring Shirley MacLaine as 81-year-old Harriet Lawler, who is determined to have a positive, noteworthy obituary about herself when she transitions. She engages a young obit writer, Anne Sherman, to write it. Anne learns that no-one has anything good to say about Harriet, so the obit is abysmal.
What to do? Harriet decides to shape her legacy, to craft a life worth praising in print. She’s going to have “The Last Word.”
Analyzing a bunch of obits, she finds four essential ingredients: 1)loved by family; (she’s divorced from her husband and hasn’t seen her daughter in 20 years); 2) admired by co-workers;(they hated her bold, challenging, perfectionist, self-centered, bossy ways, and kicked her out of the company she founded); 3) touched someone’s life unexpectedly (preferably a disabled minority, and she doesn’t know any), and 4) the wild card.
So what’s the wild card? Something of such breadth and wonder that it is the opening line of the obituary.
The journey begins, and we see Harriet as not only this tough, challenging, success-driven woman, but a well of hard-earned wisdom.
“Are you willing to take a risk to do something stupid?, she asks a group of schoolgirls. “Are you willing to take a risk to do something great?”
“Fail.” Fail spectacularly. When you fail, you learn. When you fail, you live.”
And this one: “Please don’t have a nice day. Have a day that matters. Have a day that means something.”
Her love of music of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s lands her an unlikely gig as a disc jockey at station playing music for independent minds. A definite wild card.
Harriet didn’t have any trouble managing the energy of money, or dealing with Monkey Mind at the border between intention and accomplishment, or seeing her goals materialize in physical reality. She plowed ahead. She was willing to follow her dreams, take risks to live up to her potential, and stay true to herself in the process.
In the end, she touched others unexpectedly, especially the obit writer who became a risk taker. She was inspired to shift and lift, to change her thinking and change her life.
We can all learn from Harriet.
And so it is.
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