Un(b)lock wealth.

Nourishing Wealth

  • Body-Mind Peace

    What good is all the gold in the world if our minds and bodies are agitated? Material wealth can either enable or detract from our sense of peace. By default, it often detracts.

  • Nourishing Relationships

    When we center money in our relationships, we are often frustrated to find that we’re seen for our money. Building real human connection — which transcends money — can be a challenge.

  • Reverence

    Reverence happens when we let the beauty of the world land on us. Money can help with that. It can also enable gratuitous consumption that dulls our capacity for awe.

  • Stewardship

    When we have material wealth, we are the caretakers of a resource we have no choice but to pass on. So long as we cling to what we have, we will never have enough.

Your Invitation

Audit your wealth for yourself.

The following four categories are a good place to start assessing your wealth. You may have more, or less, than you think.

  • Nourishment

    Where do you find nourishment? Look to the places, people, activities, and sustenance that make you feel settled and joyful, especially when you are inhabiting them for yourself, not to be seen by others as having wealth.

  • Reactivity

    What causes reactivity in your life? For most of us, the list is long. People, current events, the future, the things you consume, your own body, being seen for what you really care about, money...

  • Relationships

    Who do you spend the most time around, and what is the effect? What behaviors and feelings do these people promote in you? Who do you care the most about, and how is that going?

  • Consumption

    What do you put into your body and mind, and what effect does it have? This includes food, drink, what you read, scroll, or watch, and what you buy.

The Foundation

Aiming your wealth, and the “never enough” challenge.

Think of wealth as surplus votes, both at a personal level, and for the world you’re stewarding.

Depending on the status of your own somatic state, the following voting patterns tend to emerge.

Reactive

The reactive style, which characterizes most of the way modern society approaches wealth, has three primary strategies:

  1. Love-seeking: We expect that our possession of material things will lead us to be accepted for who we are.
  2. Escape: We isolate ourselves to the company of wealthy people, or consume to distract ourselves from discomfort.
  3. Fortification: We become so attached to our wealth that our lives reorient around its defense.

All three of these strategies tend to accelerate a mind-body experience that is stressed, disconnected, and prone to reaction.

Nourished

Nourished wealth, which emerges from nourished humans, focuses on:

  1. Advancing nourishment: In both our own lives and those of others.
  2. At appropriate scale: Some of us prefer to act locally, while others like broader-scale problems.

One challenge that nourished humans face is that the default allocation of their capital tends to fund reactivity in the world.

Security & Collapse

It is fashionable to worry about the collapse of the current world order, whether through social unrest, climate crisis, economic upheaval, or geopolitical chaos.

It is also worth noting that the probability of these events seems significantly higher when we are in reactive cycles.

Most “But if I just had more money, I could opt out of suffering” thinking falls apart on sustained scrutiny.

However, if you are really worried about collapse, consider that your relationships and your nervous system are the most valuable assets in a full civilizational reset. Money in a world that no longer values it is of no value.

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