How Can Everyone Lower Their Cost of Living Easily?

Saving thousands of dollars a month, raising living standards, feeling like we are realizing our potential and doing meaningful actions. Does that sound good? All such goodness lies in a network of mutual responsibility between people.

Today's world is not easy to live in. Prices are rising, and economic crises are looming on the horizon. Add to that the fact that there are struggles everywhere, whether in the media, on social networks, on roads, and even in our children’s schools. It feels like life has become a war. Exhausting. At night, we collapse into bed. In the morning, the alarm clock brings frustration.

Is this the kind of life we dreamed of as kids?

With such a great burden on our shoulders today, let us try to break down this multi-dimensional problem into small steps.

Before starting with the steps, we should take into consideration a key "Don't." We should not pin our hopes for improving our lives on people in places of seeming influence to fix our society. In other words, we should not expect state institutions, the government, and local authorities to do this work for us. Instead, we first and foremost need to understand that if we can impact any form of positive change, it is up to us to take responsibility for dealing with our problems, and build a social network of mutual guarantee.

The first stage in this process is to create positive human connections in every field of our activity: in our apartment buildings, neighborhoods, at work, and in our communities.

Connection workshops are a special format of dialog, with speaking and listening rules that allow for building a deep, close, and warm bond between people. We can greatly enhance the quality of positive human connections with the use of these workshops in our various fields of activity where we depend on others to maximize our quality of life. While this is not the place to go into detail, the integral method of education teaches exactly how to work with this tool and with other connecting means.

In the second stage, after the creation of a feeling of connection among the participants, we should think together about how to upgrade our living conditions. Suppose we discuss the street or neighborhood where we live. We should decide on how to organize community activities and initiatives that would save us all a lot of money.

The guiding principle is general participation. Everyone applies their own unique individual participation in constructing such a social network and can then enjoy its many benefits. For example, one is a doctor, another a musician, the third a programmer. They each have free time during the week, which they can dedicate to the construction of the mutual responsibility network. This could be in their professional field, or in other needed areas. Most importantly, everyone participates, and through everyone's participation, people draw closer to each other.

We can organize, of free courses and classes for children and adults, second-hand items to give away, joint purchases at reduced prices, cultural, leisure, and sports events, singing evenings, picnics and trips. At a more advanced level, we could set up small storage areas with tools, equipment, or furniture that we can lend out as needed. Another idea is to take responsibility for cleaning the street and neighborhood in exchange for reduced property taxes and the allocation of budgets for our community’s needs.

At the same time, we should act creatively to raise awareness about general savings, avoid wasting electricity, water, and so on. This too will reduce monthly expenses. There could be countless other ideas; and over time we will feel what fits best.

Along the way, it is important to appreciate and respect the people who give their whole hearts to building this network. As mutual responsibility rises in importance and impacts positive changes in our system of social values, everyone will receive motivation and strength to participate in this process.

Gradually, people will feel that every participation in the network connects them to a great harmonious force of unity and complementarity. It is a force that brings security, confidence, meaning, and joy, and which expands the heart and fills the soul.

In a broad view, a lifestyle of mutual responsibility is humanity's future. Why? It is because the world is becoming more and more interconnected, mutual dependence is growing, and every move someone makes threatens to sink the boat we are all in. At the same time, the ego is reaching massively overblown proportions. When no one can see beyond themselves, a very dangerous threat looms. Whether in ecology, economy, security, health, or culture, tomorrow's world is solely one of connection. Accordingly, we will require an upgrade in how we perceive the relationship between individual and collective. Just as the surrounding nature is unified, with all of its parts composing a perfect integral mechanism, so must we, human beings, learn to live. By doing it ourselves, through scrutiny, choice, and awareness, we will rise to the next evolutionary level.

Our nation has already tasted life in mutual responsibility. Based on the idea of being as one man with one heart, “All of Israel are friends,” and “Love your neighbor as yourself,” we originally became a special nation. Later, the ego took over and baseless hatred emerged, but we still carry within us the impression of that warm connection. After 2,000 years, we are here again, and we can establish the laboratory for exploring the right code of connection between person and person. We are very different, opinionated, and egoistic, which is excellent. If we crack the matter here, it will spread easily to every nation. Accordingly, we will gain the world's affection and support when they feel that light finally flows from Israel to the world.

Based on "New Life" episode 50 with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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