Are you a spendthrift or a miser? Well actually there is good in both of these characteristics believe it or not.
A spendthrift is just a generous person gone wrong and a miser is just a frugal person gone wrong; both are simply different polarities of the extreme.
As a former spendthrift I always had difficulty with what I called the miser mentality but I couldn't see I was just as bad, namely caught in my own particular personality trait.
After time the so-called miserly characteristic in someone did not bother me as I understood it was just my other side. I needed to learn the ways of frugality.
Both characteristics have their place in nature but not in our psyche or being. Nature is a spendthrift, just look at how much nature produces of everything without asking why.
If we become too miserly we can't open up to life and share with others; we cling to our possessions, our exclusive relationships as if we own people as well as things.
The moment we focus on things we have missed the target anyway as things are not the target, our innermost being is the target.
Things are to be used not valued neurotically like we all tend to do. If we keep searching for a beautiful car and a beautiful house and forget our beautiful self we have wasted our life.
Of course it's nice to have such things but we need to remember the essential priorities.
Naturally, we have to have things and things are to be used and they are needed, but don't start living by them. We cannot live by bread alone.
Cheers
Sam
Sam J. Borrett - first trained as a lawyer,then retrained in India as a Rebalancer, Bioenergetics Therapist, Meditation Leader, Facilitator, and Hypnotherapist. For a different angle go to http://mentoring4change.com/ for more free material and also [http://www.familyconstellation.com.au]
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