Money Conscious

Our own consciousness is made of many smaller conscious entities or parts as described by Internal Family Systems (IFS). When a person is struggling with mental health, their parts are in disarray with each other. We can correlate this directly to our next known larger entity that we often partake of: organizations. Consider our own internal parts as employees in an company.

What makes an employee a productive element of a company is the same as what makes our minds cohesive, fulfilled, and happy. We must feel like we have a purpose—same with our parts. We must feel like we can make mistakes without being berated or let go. We must believe that we have something to offer when we speak up, that others around us enjoy our company, and that we all have each other's best interests in mind. These are all true of both individuals in a company and the parts in our own minds. Many organizations fail at these things as nearly half of the individuals are there for a paycheck rather than for shared intent and mutual enjoyment as a cohesive unit.

Imagine that each of our own parts are not interested in the direction of the human body we're operating in, but are instead focused only on their own entity. Part A just wants dopamine and Part B just wants adrenaline. Who cares how it affects the larger organism? Part A doesn't like B and vice versa and the larger entity consciousness—you—are ashamed of the behavior of both while you sleep all day unable to accomplish much. You want to exercise, but you don't because your parts won't let you. Your organization wants to output a product, but it can't because the individuals aren't working together and only care about their paychecks. It's all the same.

What makes an employee a productive element of a company is the same as what makes our minds cohesive, fulfilled, and happy.

What's interesting, is when we consider why things are so discombobulated. Perhaps I'm working for a paycheck rather than being fully in line with my company. Why would that be? Because my parts are fearful and we together recognize that money is how we survive. I'm no different than their individual desires for dopamine or adrenaline. My desire for money within the organization is no different than the organization itself. It's here to make money—not to grow and maintain a healthy organism. It's about the product and the profits, not the parts, and I am the same way. I'm about the money rather than the health of my parts. My parts are about the dopamine rather than cohesion or the health of their own constituents nor us as a whole. 

It goes higher than this as well. The companies are all about money so they participate in the cities, the states, the countries, and the world in the same way. It's all about money. If my parts chose to be all about cohesion, my mind would be perfectly suited to realize I ought not live for money. I would then not participate in an organization that is. I would then grow an organization that existed for the purpose of the health of its organism. It would then become a corporation that would try to focus on existing within or shaping the cities it finds itself in toward the same. It builds up, but it also builds down. If my company suddenly decided that it's all about the comfort, happiness, and peace of its employees, I would begin to be happy here and thrive. I would begin to orient toward the success of the company's survival rather than for a paycheck. I would then be at peace with less fear and have time to focus internally on supporting my own parts as supported by my organization. 

At any point, we can decide that we will head up our parts toward health. By so doing, we may find our individual self in places we don't prefer and make it more challenging to support our internal cohesion. We can then try to change them or start something new. But no matter how we slice it, our consciousness will indeed make up the consciousnesses we belong to. My company cannot help but behave in whatever way I influence it. My organization can, at any moment, decide that I do not belong to it and I will have to travel elsewhere and find a new belonging. An organization can also die when its members disseminate and go elsewhere. 

Up and down, it's all related and we can choose to be conscious about it. When we become conscious of our group consciousnesses, our groups become self-aware as well. It becomes a new level of consciousness. How amazing if our corporations became self-aware rather than money-focused. How amazing if I, myself, could become more self-aware than money focused. When I focus on truly being who I am rather than focusing on money, I can better contribute to places I can indeed align with and that organization will be better off.

If my company suddenly decided that it's all about the comfort, happiness, and peace of its employees, I would begin to be happy here and thrive.

The main message? We should become self-aware enough that we learn who we are to be authentic enough with ourselves that we treat our parts well and thus contribute to the things we fully well align with. Teach our parts to treat each other well and focus on the larger organism in cooperation and love. We then do the same to align with some larger organization and teach and treat our partners well for the love and support of our organization. That organization could be for profit or not, but we should find that it no longer exists for the money or the purpose. It exists for its own organism's health as primary and it functions toward an aligned goal that maintains the organism's purpose. Such an organization can live forever.

This is what our future has in store. Organizations that exist for the constituents of the organization itself. Fulfilled parts. Individuals who align with the organizations they belong to in full accord, and, in turn, align their own minds.