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Living in MotherWealth Naomi Rose {For fuller details, also see Rose Press Books, "Money & the Inner Life" Series} The "Money & the Inner Life" Series Cover and text illustrations by Naomi Rose ~ The sequel to MotherWealth: The Feminine Path to Money ~ Beautifully illustrated by the author. (Advance copy) Published by Rose Press
After reading Volume 1 of the MotherWealth series, you will definitely want to read Volume 2. Because it's about making MotherWealth ~ money, and beyond money ~ real in your own life. In her deep, intimate, and inviting way, the author gives her readers ample opportunity to relate to and connect with the MotherWealth way. Providing personal stories, reflections, evocations, exercises, meditations, and abundant artwork, she offers a healing, sometimes poignant, feast for anyone who seeks to live well and supportedly from their true being, rather than continuing to follow the destructive path of going out of oneself to get money. Reading Living in MotherWealth will inspire you to do just that.
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CONTENTS OF THIS PAGE Excerpt from the Introduction A Partial List of the Book's Contents Chapter Excerpt: "Nature's Generosity" Purchasing Details
EXCERPT FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "MotherWealth is about being, something we inherently know but may have lost contact with along the way. It requires little outer doing of us. Mostly, it comes into our outer lives when we are deeply connected to our inner lives. "Wealth is not only a certain needed amount of money. It is, more potently, the inner experience of our rich being ~ the multi-textured tapestry of sensing, feeling, knowing, and perceiving the richness of the moment, and the infinite reserves of the One who is experiencing all of that. When we bring this settling-into-ourselves to our needs and fulfillments in the outer world, wondrous and unexpected blessings can take place in our lives. This is not so much the product of making lists of the things we want to attract into our lives as much as an inherent resonance with who we truly are. "For the longest time, I absolutely and unconsciously associated the getting of money with the masculine approach. A child of the era when working wives were less the norm than the exception, I watched my father go off to work each day, briefcase in hand, and arrive home depleted, too used up to notice my being, the total, ardent gift of my innocent love. Money, then, became the province of my father, and nurturance (while it lasted) of my mother. My mother worked too, later on; but the unspoken assumption was that her work~ and her way of being ~ was less important and valid than his, and that even the money she brought in was merely supplemental to his. It has taken me decades to unhook from trying ~ unsuccessfully ~ to follow my father into the world, so strongly was that sense of leaving home and leaving self imprinted. And yet, as Volume One of MotherWealth makes clear, there really is another way. "As with first embarking on the spiritual path, sometimes we must be brought to our knees (in my case, it was a broken ankle) before we can slow the outer rim of the ingested world down and come ~ through our fears and externally created desires ~ to stillness. In that stillness, we encounter nothing less than the depth, radiance, and sustenance of our own being. This, I am calling 'MotherWealth.' MotherWealth can bring us all we need, nor does it require self-injury of any kind in order to do so. It holds and nourishes us with an infinitude of Mother Love, and we are only asked to yield to it and receive its bountiful gifts." A PARTIAL LIST OF THE BOOK CONTENTS: Nature's Generosity Being Present: Listening Mothering & Being Mothered The Mother's Fragrance Trusting Your Ground of Being: Body Wisdom Contentment Tuning Doing from Being Gratitude & Plenitude CHAPTER EXCERPT ~ From "Nature's Generosity" There is a creek not far from my very urban home, a five-minute drive away. You head down towards the freeway, but don't take it. Instead, you bear right past the residential houses, then past the few blocks of wall-to-wall stores, and then, just past the gas station on the corner there, you make a right down another residential street. Two blocks later, you are in the woods. I happened on this creek and its surroundings one year, while taking a new route home from somewhere else. I didn't expect this verdant opening, the expanse of trees and vines, the densely rich fragrance of earth moistened by running water, or the music of the water tumbling over glistening creek-bed stones. I didn't expect the noise of my mind and the city life to hush that quickly, as the sky suddenly took on its rightful magnificent proportions above the treetops, raising me towards it as if I too grew in that unexpected, textured soil. Instantaneously, something in me quieted down and remembered, in some ancient, cellular way, that I too was part of nature; that I was at home, here. Step by step as I walked along the trail, the city disappeared (though a ridge of houses in the distance kept its memory alive, along with an overhead stretch of abandoned freeway), and something in me reappeared. Thoughts dropped down to my feet and sank into the earth; my step met the soil with a moccasin-like contact, as if I had too long been away from the great embrace of home and even the bottoms of my feet were relieved to return. The very first time I had happened on that creek and its surroundings, it's likely that I left my car filled with worries about money. I was used to worrying about money: “Where will my next dollar come from?” Can I meet my bills this month?” “How much do I have in the bank?” “What do I need to do to get more money?” This was a familiar litany to me, well-worn like threads in a rug placed just behind the threshold of a front door. It's likely that I carried from the car with me, into the place where the tree roots reached down to meet the flowing water, my worries about money, running their ticker-tape calculations in my head (minus actual figures), nature simply the backdrop for my strained survival thoughts. And then ~ though the money part hadn't changed ~ something shifted, and everything changed. The background of nature became the foreground, trees and vines and water and sky; my worries about money became the background; and all of a sudden I could breathe fully and freely. Everything around me supported my full breathing: the water's sinuous movement invited my breath to slow down; and stretched out by that legato rhythm, I embraced the fragrance of the moistened earth rising up to meet my nose and dance. Trees gave their breath to me as oxygen, and their gift compounded itself as I noticed, now, more keenly, what had been there all along: the pungent smell of leaves underfoot, rosemary and mint lightly oiling the air; the long-forgotten scent of my own skin warming in the sunshine, my armhairs, even, happy for the return. The unfolding to the presence of nature drew me closer to my own nature ~ into the presence of what grows because it is in it to grow. Copyright © 2009 by Naomi Rose. All rights reserved.
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