Collective Manifestation

The last couple of months have been a struggle as some of my ego-mind, socially-programmed beliefs around self-worth and money have been challenged once again.

Deprogramming myself from money values inherited at every level of the collective Western mind is tough. It’s like struggling out of a cocoon that no longer fits — that limits emergent potential. To challenge inherited programming challenges our sense of how we fit into established societal structures, how we offer value to others and how we derive self-value.

Yet, it is just this struggle that ensures strong wings for the liberation that follows. Unconscious programming and automatic alignment to old beliefs come to light so that we can reevaluate old stories and structures. It is what every generation faces as it asks collectively:

• “Are my parent’s values my values?”
• Do society’s values align to my current conscious values?
• How I define success?
• Do I give my authority and power away by letting exterior value systems define my self-worth, my service to others, and my contributions to the greater world community?

I can see how I had to feel angry about finances for the hundredth time in order to break free from the old social programming. The lie of old beliefs had to be revealed and create inner chaos, in order for a reassessment around self-worth to ensue. I had to willingly detach from the old money paradigm I once embraced. I had to choose a new game to play.

Just as the butterfly fights for liberation, I had to face the struggle. I chose to surrender to the process of transforming my belief systems in order to play a more connected and collaborative abundance game.

Expressions of Value
On the other side of this liberation from the traditional money model, I was able to take a Big Picture view of what humanity has valued through the ages.

Here’s the main point: Money has not always been the currency humans valued or exchanged. The money model is relatively new. We’re so far removed from this truth in our modern age that we can have tunnel vision around our true worth. It’s good to remember that money is a relatively recent exchange system expressing value. There will be new models as we evolve as a species.

In the early stage of human development, fire was a kind of currency that allowed human development to make a significant leap forward. If you had fire, you were able to take survival to the next level.

Next, creative impulses, tools and symbolic language gave humans a new way to express themselves. This expression on cave walls and rocks around the globe still fascinates us, as we extract the meaning and the minds behind the depictions.

Language itself can be viewed as a kind of currency. Rather than living only through instincts for survival, language meant humans could expand mental processing. They could communicate choice, express desire, negotiate, and develop burgeoning intelligence. This developmental stage brought thought and language forward to help balance our fight or flight survival instincts with mental reasoning.

Water was, and still is, an important fluid currency. The value of water was that it allowed humans to put down roots, grow their own food and to flourish. This path of development was central to the emergence of modern civilization structure, to the form of community we recognize today.

What is the next currency or value system?
The days of money as the highest-value currency are waning. It is time to release money-related beliefs that actually lower humanity’s collective sense of self-worth and it’s perceptions of “what is enough.”

We are at the point in which traditional money systems no longer facilitate human development. Progressively, a person at a time, we are consciously releasing the need to chase the next carrot (linear thinking) and move into more holistic thinking about our true worth and what we have to give and receive, to exchange.

Breaking from money cocoon
For humans to collectively make the next leap forward we need to reassign value more diversely and expansively. We need to liberate our abilities and our immense creativity. The new currency system must facilitate what we long to co-create and collectively manifest as a reflection of evolving collective consciousness.

Expanded collective expression (collective voice) will be part of the next currency
I believe that expanded human expression through the power of relationship is the currency we need to make the next big leap toward being a species that is more noble, more kind and more generous.

Expanded human expression will be reflected in kinder self-talk, more balanced partnerships, more inclusive group collaborations, and in our diverse societies and communities that allow everyone to express their genius (personal currency). Only by valuing our interrelatedness, our unity, will currency systems facilitate the sharing and exchange of inner and outer resources in a more balanced way.

New systems for giving and receiving that align to a more sustainable lifestyle are being shaped.

The new systems will better reflect value driven from a healthy regard for multidimensional self-worth and interrelated worth to community. New exchange systems will better express humanity’s true potential.

This is what I newly I believe. What do you believe?

Melissa Wadsworth is the author of Collective Manifestation: Heart-Centered Blueprints for Creating Intentional Community. Read the first chapter at http://www.collectivemanifestation.com