Discover a powerful new way to look at your money and your life. <br> <br>Where do our attitudes about money come from--and how do they influence our lives? How can we approach financial issues with honesty and without fear? <br> <br>In this groundbreaking book, renowned Buddhist teacher George Kinder, a Harvard-trained certified financial planner, demonstrates how we can literally transform our lives emotionally and financially by achieving "money maturity"--a full understanding of the spiritual and psychological issues surrounding our money lives. <br> <br>Drawing on ancient Buddhist wisdom and his years of financial practice, Kinder has created a revolutionary program that guides us through the Seven Stages of a revolutionary journey--one designed to help us uncover the roots of our attitudes about money, and attain true peace, freedom, and security in our financial lives. Learn how to: <br> <br> Understand feelings that impact taking financial action <br> Develop understanding and knowledge about money <br> Eliminate stress and anxiety around money <br> Let go of old patterns and painful habits <br> Approach money tasks with energy and optimism <br> Design a money life that is fulfilling both financially and spiritually <br> <br>Filled with practical information, market-tested, wealth-building skills, personal success stories, and spiritual guidance, <b>The Seven Stages of Money Maturity</b> is an invaluable guide to a rich--and richly lived--life. <br><br><br>1.        Innocence--The childhood state we are born in, devoid of any concept of money<br>2.        Pain--The discovery that we have more money than some and less than others, and that work is necessary to make a living<br>3.        Knowledge--The intellectual task of learning financial techniques such as saving, budgeting, and investing<br>4.        Understanding--The emotional work done in coming to terms with feelings around money, such as greed, envy, and resentment (which are rooted in Pain)<br>5.        Vigor--The energy (physical, emotional, and spiritual) that must be expended to reach financial goals<br>6.        Vision--The direction of Vigor outward toward the health and welfare of communities, with or without profit motive<br>7.        Aloha--The compassionate goodwill that allows one to use money to perform acts of kindness without expecting anything in return<br><br>Using THE SEVEN STAGES OF MONEY MATURITY, readers will understand each encounter with money as a step toward awakening; a lesson about the relationship they share with others as well as with the self. -->