Ph.D. Maria Nemeth - The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment

Maria Nemeths The Energy of Money is a compassionate and empowering book, filled with both practical exercises and philosophical insight. It will enhance the journey to financial wholeness for the millions of Americans who have been seeking a better game than more. Nemeths road map is detailed, explicit, interactive, thorough, and easy to read.

Vicki Robin

Coauthor with Joe Dominguez
of the New York Times bestseller
Your Money or Your Life

The Energy of Money is empowering and exciting. Anyone who has ever been concerned about money will find both the cause of the problem and the solution in these pages. I thoroughly enjoyed the practical and eye-opening exercises throughout the book. They are very effective at getting to the heart of our relationship with money and healing it.

Christiane Northrup, M.D.

Author of the national bestseller
Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom

A Ballantine Wellspring Book
Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group

Copyright 1997, 1999 by Maria Nemeth, Ph.D.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Ballantine is a registered trademark, and Ballantine Wellspring and the Ballantine Wellspring colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Portions of this work originally appeared in You and Money, published by Vildehiya Publications in 1997, and in an audio cassette course titled The Energy of Money, published by Sounds True in 1997.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc.: excerpt from Silence, Simplicity, and Solitude: A Guide for Spiritual Retreat by David Hannoch Cooper. Copyright 1992 by David Hanoch Cooper.

Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.: excerpt from The Story of Psychology by Morton Hunt. HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.: excerpt from The Enlightened Mind by Stephen Mitchell.
Copyright 1991 by Stephen Mitchell.

HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., and Rigpa Fellowship: excerpts from The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche. Copyright 1992, 1993 by Rigpa Fellowship.

Alfred A Knopf, Inc.: excerpt from Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather. Copyright 1927 by Willa Cather. Copyright renewed 1955 by the Executors of the Estate of Willa Cather.

Random House, Inc.: excerpt from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Copyright 1982 by Stephen Mitchell.

Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston: excerpt from The Wisdom of No Escape by Pema Chdrn. Copyright 1991.

W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.: excerpt from A Theory of Personality: The Psychology of Personal Constructs by George A. Kelly. Copyright 1955, 1963 by George A. Kelly, renewed 1983, 1991 by Gladys Kelly. Reprinted by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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Library of Congress Card Number: 99-91878

eISBN: 978-0-307-77604-4

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To Rita and Aunt Anna

Nothing is created without the support of others, especially anything that moves the heart and educates the soul. We all seek to make a contribution to the lives of those around us. So it is with this book and the work from which it derives.

Thousands of participants of the You and Money Course have contributed to clarifying the concepts and insights contained here. For years this work has spread by word of mouth. In a leap of faith, Tami Simon from Sounds True, the premier purveyor of transformational tapes, provided national exposure to these ideas by producing the Energy of Money tape series. Jennifer Woodhull, Sounds True talent scout and producer, made the introduction. I met Jennifer at a Pema Chdrn meditation retreat. I went to the Sounds True studio and sat for three days in a small sound recording room, while food was shoved under the door. Tamis skillful questioning allowed me to take the You and Money material more into its present conceptual framework.

Tami introduced me to Kim Witherspoon, an intrepid and persistent agent, who decided to take me on. I am so grateful. Tami was right: she is one of the most brilliant people around. Thanks to her and the staff at Witherspoon Associates, Gideon Weil and Josh Greenhut, for holding my hand through the process of negotiating our way with publishers to a final contract with Ballantine. Thanks also to my literary attorney, Laurie Emerson, who looked out after my interests every step of the way.

I couldnt have asked for a better editor than Leslie Meredith at Ballantine Wellspring. The project was on such a tight timeline. We laughed, gasped, worried, and rejoiced together. And always she hadfaith that wed get it done. She kept me going. Cathy Elliott, her assistant, was always available for my concerns and questions.

Thanks to Rhoda McKnight and Margarita Camarena for their generosity, creativity, and persistence in working on the illustrations.

This book and the You and Money work has gotten a lot of spiritual support. Thanks to Reverend Wayne Manning, Reverend Mary Tumpkin, Reverend Diane Sickler, and Reverend Shay St. John. Special thanks to my best friend, Reverend Beth Ann Suggs, who has always helped me to keep true to my spiritual center.

Three people helped me write this book: Rita Saenz, Carol Costello, and Donna Frazier. First, I want to thank Rita. She has been my business partner for twenty-two years and has held my kite string. None of this work would have been possible without her brilliance, courage, compassion, and faith in me. She has always known who I am, even when I forget. She is a true manifestation of abundance in my life.

Carol Costello, editor extraordinaire, incisive writer, true friend, gifted thinker, helped bring precision to this manuscript. She jumped in with a gentle hand, helped me separate everything that the book was not, thereby leaving the principles in their pristine form.

Donna Frazier, editor on the first phase of this book, helped me give it form. Her consistency, creativity, and guidance were invaluable in helping me clarify the Twelve Principles.

There would also have been no book without the support of people who were eager to lend a hand in a compassionate and empowering way. First, Charlotte Higgins, a busy author, actor, and playwright, and coach, helped me keep my promises in writing this manuscript, and never gave up on me. Wendy Jordan, through her generosity, has continued to support this work. Thanks to Sharon Taymor for enthusiastic encouragement in getting this book published. I deeply appreciate Lori Pelliccia and Walter Steinlauf for all the time they put into reasearch and copyediting for the book. My deep gratitude to all the Sacramento, San Francisco Bay Area, and Austin You and Money coaches for all theyve done to keep this work going.

Finally, to my family, who has always sustained me, I owe a debt of gratitude. Thank you for your love: Aunt Gloria, Uncle Arnold, Lisa, Chuck, Rachael and Bea Simon; Susie and Andrea Saenz; Bruce, Judy, Margot, and Natalie Parks; Nancy and Robert DeCandia; Toni and Jerry Yaffe.