We will always be thinking of something. Although often pitched as emptying the mind, meditation is practicing letting distractions pass through. Enhancing the capacity for conscious focus. That is the connection between money and yoga.
If you have or build buffers for financial noise, and an engine to support your immediate physical needs and future development, you gain the ability to choose your point of focus. You can care about things that are bigger than you.
What are you worrying about? Is it what you want to be grappling with? Can you involve yourself in solving problems that revolve around more than just you, your survival, and your status?
With community wealth, we become truly invested in the bigger vehicle that solves those problems. We build universal capacity to deal with noise. With a longer-term commitment, it is no longer about mercenaries and sellswords who are rewarded and go on their way. We become a part of something larger.
Focus can expand when you have confidence that the basics are secure. Focus can expand beyond money, as the money distractions pass through.
Where money gradually takes more of the burden of working for money, and we are increasingly released to focus on issues that get suffocated by the rules of money-making.
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