Gifting from the heart

Fundraising is interesting and challenging work. When I fundraise for a cause that touches my heart and my soul, it is easy. Of late I have been realizing the limiting beliefs others and I have around money. There seems to be a feeling of lack, scarcity, when what I am beginning to see and feel in my own life is that I am sufficient, I have purpose and I have freedom. 

I always have enough; this is a realization I have made over the years. As a single mother I worried about supporting my little family, until one day I realized that the fridge always had food in it, the electricity meter was running, the car had fuel and we had a roof over our heads...it was always my projection of lack that made me feel that lack. Now I can see money as one part of my life, not all of my life. I have so many other wonderful 'resources' in my life that I am sufficient; my family, my friends, the air around me, the sky, simple pleasures that do not relate to how much money I have. 

This belief system of not enough, need more is outdated. We must change our relationship with money. Money does not define who I am: how I spend my money defines who I am, how I live my life defines who I am. 

So when I am given an opportunity to fundraise (for Work for Love www.workforlove.co.za) I know that with each pledge that is given that the community investment will be at work for ever, not used up, but continuously returning worth to everyone in this community.

These moments of connection through our money are deeper perhaps than we imagine possible; and when, in those instances, we act from the heart, then our money communicates that heart, which is our true wealth.

The drugs do work…. but they don’t half @**% us up!

I have been working with a few children who have been told to take ritalin. (This is a  drug used to treat ADD/ADHD and is been ‘offered’ as an almost standard treatment in many schools all over the world). The homoeopathic work has been successful, none of the children who I have worked with takes ritalin anymore and most have not had to take any at all. I have mainly used constitutional remedies, diet changes and any form of artistic expression.

A woman, who has made huge changes over the short period of time of working with me, was talking to me about children and parents at her children’s school. 'The children on ritalin are all skinny' she mentioned (one of the side affects of an amphetamine-like prescription: you do not get hungry) 'and the parents seem to be very happy that their children are sitting still, being quiet, paying attention in and out of school'.

Now this causes huge problems in my brain: children are not by nature, quiet, still nor do they want to sit for hours at a desk without time to play and explore. Also, if we subject our children to mind/emotion altering drugs at such a young age how will they deal with their mind/emotions in the future? Are we not creating a (more) drug dependant society? The long term picture is not pretty. A world of people out of touch with themselves. I suppose it is helpful to have a drug dependant society: so much easier to control.