MONEY SPOILS WELLNESS

FWR says: Money and Wellness Don’t Mix

We live in a money world. It is hard to think of anything that is not seriously influenced by money.

Our lives are chained to the banks because we borrow rather than save. Business sells lots of useless stuff and suddenly lays off 200 people. The media feed us a tsunami of half truths because they always have one eye on the profits.

All this means slavery to the dollar for families. This happens while their first job is supposed to be the wellness of their children. The family has sole responsibility for wellness in children.

The Family Wellness Rainbow identifies the six big ingredients in family and child wellness. Here is what money is doing to our wellness:

Fitness: We are so smothered by commercial wellness gimmicks we neglect the basics of wellness like regular exercise

Relationships: Let money in and relationships become deals, competition for power and stuff

Knowledge: The avalanche of information from the new technologies spin half truths to meet media financial goals

Family: When money is the driving force, family life becomes a competition that destroys the vital bonds - hence, fragmentation

Values: Money determines jobs and careers that pursue income rather than service and callings

Faith: Money is destroying the churches because they have allowed their expenses to overshadow their mission

FWR says: Money is the bad elephant in the living room