The Emotional Charge of Money and Currencies of Worth
Money as we know it today is a system of exchange — but it is no longer a neutral system. It’s a sprawling, dominant monopoly that can leave individuals feeling worthless. Is there another way?
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Money as we know it today is a system of exchange — but it is no longer a neutral system. It’s a sprawling, dominant monopoly that can leave individuals feeling worthless. Is there another way?
There’s a glaring contradiction involved in the way counsellors work with people to enable them to affirm themselves and the way they can appear — either as saviours from above and beyond the daily struggle, as martyrs sacrificing themselves for others, or just as well-meaning people with no sense of their own value.
Bathing in my own attention, my breath, exercising the ‘coming back’ muscle whenever I get distracted, is what I call basic meditation. Every moment in this state is a moment of creative regeneration.
As a child, playing in the garden, the blissful absence of having to think or to worry seemed to me like my natural state. But now as an adult, all the conditions seem to be against finding something like that natural state.
In a business setting, just as in the rest of life, we neglect or suppress emotions at our peril. Therapy can provide a space for emotional intelligence in the workplace to develop and flourish.
Getting and keeping the right frame of mind and mood while working appears to have much to do with picking the right kind of music to play.
It turns out that in a way, money can buy happiness, but just having more of it won’t do the trick. That’s according to new research suggesting that it isn’t employment by itself which contributes to happiness.
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