It's everywhere. Bad news is growing louder and stronger. Like changing an air quality rating from an orange alert to a red alert, the US White House finally upped the rating of the financial crisis to "recession." Do you THINK?

This is not a recession ladies and gentlemen, this is an all-out collapse of a way of life that has depended upon the smoke and mirrors world of credit. Or more accurately, we are finally experiencing the byproduct or consequence of living as though we are separate from the universal, creative life force that sustains life on this planet – life in our bodies. 

Both collectively and individually millions of people are experiencing appearances of absolute financial meltdown - pictures of layoffs, thousands of dollars of credit card debt, no job opportunities clearly visible in the very near or even near future. The stress is chipping away at marriages and as the fear escalates and grabs hold, health in the body begins to decline. It is a vicious cycle that is playing out right now at an epidemic proportion.

Seven years ago, I experienced my financial meltdown. I was choosing between buying firewood to heat our tiny 150-year-old stone farm house or buy food. Now, seven years later, amidst this storm of alarming scarcity, I am the most financially secure I have ever been. Not so much by the dollar amount I have in the bank but because of what I have built up in my spiritual bank account.

This global "house of cards" implosion will be a catalyst for change. How we choose to deal with both our own as well as how we hold the collective picture of collapse will be the determining factor as to what type of change that will be. Will you react to your own appearances of lack from fear or will you see them as an opportunity to retool your consciousness by aligning more with your spiritual nature and less of your ego nature? Will you see the global circumstances and point condemning fingers of blame and think the end of life is near?

Detachment is a powerful virtue we write about in our book, "Living the HeartLife... Letting Go Of The Hard Life." Detachment comes from a self-disciplined spiritual practice of separating your identity from your earthly ego nature and begin realigning, or identifying with more and more, your spiritual nature. Detachment comes from the practice of mastering your ability to take your attention off of the problematic side of life and on that which is based in love. Over time the discordant energies that permeate this world begin to have less and less of an effect on your well being - you become insulated from scarcity and you begin to live in the energy of love that knows only abundance... no matter what is happening around you.

You have an opportunity, right now, of quantum proportions. Will you use this world wide seeming catastrophe as a catalyst for spiritual growth and alignment with love, where you will find miraculous solutions to what ever you are facing, or will you fall into the pit of epidemic fear that the headlines are energizing and feel like there are no solutions, that all is lost and all you see at night is standing in bread lines.

The answers are within your heart, where your God intelligence resides within your body. Miraculous solutions exist at a higher vibration than the appearance of no money, no job and failing relationships. Only you however can call that higher vibration into existence into your world. Only you can clear your mind, emotions and body of thoughts and feelings of fear and despair and clear a space for your spirit to become an active force in creating miracles at this most auspicious time in the evolution of life here on earth.

Every day we make choices. Every day we get to decide to align with either fear and ego or love and our higher intelligence. We are seeing the results of the masses aligning with ego for millennia. Will you now choose to experience identifying with Spirit, with Love, with the Universal Creative Force and see what results will show up in your life tomorrow, next month, in 3 years?

Our book, "Living the HeartLife... Letting Go Of The Hard Life," is but one tool to show you how to begin the process of detaching from all that is troubling, all that has contributed to whatever stress you are experiencing right now.

I invite you to turn within and seek creative solutions and add to the collective transformation of this planet or you can continue to do it the hard way and live in the drama of a soap opera life. You've been given the gift of free will which was designed to be used to see how high you could climb - not how low you can go.