FINANCIAL ACCEPTANCE

It is probably a defense mechanism when your first reaction to a situation is one of denial. It takes time for the mind to accept a new reality because a new round of integration must take place. We must relearn things from what they have been previously. Denial is the first step into acceptance. Denial is an attempt to evade a new reality. We think that this cannot be happening. This is all a bad dream and I will wake up and everything will be as it was before.

When things do not change, but actually worsen, then our next mental step is to think, it might be true. The signs are obvious for all to see even if the causes are not. This intermediary step is half way between denial and acceptance. If you were walking a flight of steps, you foot would be half way between the previous step and the next step. You are beginning to think differently about the present situation. Your mind has almost completed the integration process.

When the integration process is complete, you come to the point of acceptance of the new situation. Your mind comes to peace about the situation. This is the point where you think, I knew this all the time. You probably had a foreboding at the beginning of the new situation that the ending result would be what it presently is. How long it takes to go from denial to acceptance depends upon how quickly an individual integrates the new situation in his mind.

Staying in a state of denial without acceptance is not mentally healthy. It demonstrates an inability to integrate concretes into concepts. I have come to grips with the incredible price inflation that we have been experiencing. I have come to accept that prices are not going to go down anytime soon. I do not know if the recent price inflation is a result of shortages, increased demand, or monetary inflation, or a combination of all three. All that I know is that I have accepted it.

Acceptance does not mean that we are satisfied with the present situation. It is time to look for causes for the price increases and seek ways to see that they are reduced. We live in a world of cause and effect. There are logical reasons why prices are increasing. If they are because of government intervention in the market, it is time to scale back the government’s involvement to what the government should be, a police man.

If the market is allowed to function properly, then supply and demand will come more in line. It is when the government gets involved that things get skewed. This is because a government operates on different principles than a business. A business is involved in the positive, where the government is concerned with the negative. A business grows by earning a profit. A government is financed by taxes. The government needs to be reigned in and limited so that prices can decrease and we can begin a new round of integration that is psychologically pleasant. The price increases have caused much psychological pain. I am tired of pain. I prefer financial peace.