God is my only Hope, my Love and my Life. God created me as an extension of His Love, and He gave me a purpose. Lately I have been in a terrible quandry, wondering what my purpose in life is. I lost my job four years ago. I have tried and tried to get another job, with no “luck”. As the days go by, my worldly resources have dwindled. I am jobless and broke. At this point, I don’t know what to do, and I find myself in fear about the future. What am I going to do? What is my true purpose, and how does that have anything to do with my “real” life?

I recently read a book called “Busting Loose from the Money Game” by Robert Scheinfeld. Having been a student of A Course in Miracles for many years, I was quite familiar with the belief that our world is an illusion that I am projecting, but I was not ready to look at the world in the same way that Scheinfeld proposed. All of these years I have been looking at ego and the illusion as an enemy, not remembering that I had made it using my own God given creative power.

This is not "The Secret" - it is not about manifesting what we want - it is about what we choose to see in our illusion - we are playing a game - we make up the rules.  It is about changing how we see the rules.  Scheinfeld proposes that I can change my perception, take that power back, and use it to create an experience that is worthy of a perfect and innocent Son of God.  So, instead of believing I am a victim of the world I see – I can be the creator of a world that is wholly perfect, loving and supportive of my life and learning. I can create a world that is perfect for the healing of my mind. All it takes is the willingness to change my mind; I ALREADY HAVE THE POWER!

Remember the movie The Matrix? Watch this short clip and ask yourself, “Am I ready to truly believe this?”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXtO5dMqEI

If this resonates with you, then I invite you to BUST LOOSE from the ego Game. Let’s all learn the Process to bust loose from the illusion.

So how does this work? This is not about The Secret, The Law of Attraction, or another spin on manifesting, affirmations, visualization or other popular personal growth, self improvement, or personal development technique. By applying the simple “what to do” and “how to do it” process, you can transform your daily experience in ways and at levels far beyond what you may imagine to be possible, no matter how large or small your perceived problems are.

First of all How do you view the things you want to bust loose from? For instance, my relationship with money is something I have found to be a very bothersome, especially since I lost my job. But even before that, I tended to be reluctant to give away my ‘hard earned’ cash, especially if I couldn’t see an instantly gratifying result from that contribution. For example, I had no problem paying for groceries or clothes or gasoline, because I was going to use them soon, and I had a tangible result of my spending. But I did have trouble paying paying a credit card bill for something that was long gone, whether that was a vacation, a meal at a restaurant or the tuition for a class. I would pay the bare minimum always, not even caring about the interest that was accumulating. After all, if it wasn’t immediately costing me any more, and I would be able to take care of the bill sometime in ‘the future’. My logic always assumed that the people had provided me the service or the products had been paid, therefore, the rest of the money went to the money hungry, ultra rich, credit card companies. I needed to see that my thoughts about money were all backwards. I was looking at my money problems as the cause of my unhappiness, rather than seeing my unhappiness as the cause of my money problems. I needed to see that I was using money as a placebo to make me feel better about the problems in my life, buying things I didn’t need or even really want, and then finding myself even more miserable when the bills came in. I was in a very vicious cycle, and I didn’t know what to do to get myself out.

If this sounds familiar, then I hope that we can bust loose together from this seeming ‘impossible’ situation. We can learn together to see money as a means of expressing ‘Appreciation’, instead of as a sparse means of bartering our souls for brief moments of joy, heavily interspersed with grudging hours of hard work. Wouldn’t I be happier if I could see another way? If you want to join me in this journey, stay tuned for my future blogs on Bustin’ Loose from the ego Game.