The Bubble Of Prosperity

My life is a bubble; but how much solid cash it costs to keep that bubble floating.~Logan Pearsall Smith

When we appreciate the money that we have--no matter how little, and no matter how simple--we create a vibration of prosperity and an attitude of power.

This theme percolates in our subconscious mind, which is then stimulated to come up with money-making ideas and set in motion ways that we can prosper.

While it is easy to appreciate people and places and possessions, we all feel somewhat challenged to appreciate how we finance our lives. No matter how much or how low our funds, it never seems enough--because there is always more that we need and could use.

Ironically, the less we have and the more we express thankfulness and appreciativeness for what we do have, the more we begin the process of prospering.

Our appreciation opens up doors of opportunity, for it is a catalyst for further financial growth. Our sense of enjoying whatever wealth we possess invites us to venture boldly into more promising enterprises.

Of course the natural tendency when our funds are low and our expenses high is to worry and despair--neither of which do us any good at all.

Experiencing a distraught feeling is a signal for our subconscious to choose helplessness over initiative, apathy over ingenuity, and resignation over hope.

When the subconscious is thus disempowered, we stultify our imagination and rob ourselves of the inner power we need to transform outer circumstances.

Collectively, over time, your general feeling about money create your mental blueprint of how much you want to have in your life.

If your blueprint is set to a low amount, then you'll filter out information about how to improve your circumstances. You'll literally fail to see income-producing opportunities right in front of you. You'll subsist on loans and debt.

Conversely, if your blueprint is set to a high amount, then you'll actively seek out income and you'll see things that other people miss. Your imagination will be alive with the possibility of creative thinking. You'll see money for what it is--a medium of exchange--and a way for you to create new products and services that are revenue generating.

Poor people spend most of their time trying to stem losses, while rich people spend most of their time trying to make gains, but the difference in their blueprints and how they filter information is based on their depth of gratitude for what they do have.

"Wealth," said Benjamin Franklin, "is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."

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5 Key Ways to Attract Abundance and Prosperity

When you hear the words "abundance" and "prosperity", what immediately comes to mind?Is it money, fulfilling relationships, a lovely house to live in, peace of mind, a career/vocation that expresses your gifts?

It may be all or none of those things. It may mean something else to you. But if you want to attract more prosperity and abundance into your life, no matter how you define them, then this article outlines 5 key ways to do so.

1. Understand Attraction Law

This is better known as the Law of Attraction, as defined by Abraham Hicks, states that "you attract whatever you give your attention and energy to, whether wanted or unwanted".

So, if you're curious about what you're putting out there, look at what you are attracting, the visible results in your life. Knowing about and working with the the Law of Attraction will help you in manifesting, creating and attracting more abundance and prosperity in your life.

Once you understand it, there's no turning back.

2. You get what you focus on

One of the key concepts in the Law of Attraction is that you get what you focus on, whether that be money, relationships, employment etc). So when you focus on having less, that is the experience you create for yourself.

Saying that "I hate my job" will just draw even more attention to the aspects of the job that you don't like. Even if you look for another job, it'll be with that negative energy.

Just wanting something isn't enough, because you will still continue to think about what you don't have. Always focusing on what you lack means that you don't see the present and future opportunities, or begin to realise your true desires. You're getting in your own way!

3. Clear your head

..........to allow you to focus more effectively. Our minds are full of "stuff"; old, tired and limiting beliefs, which don't reflect who we are now, or who we want to become.

Set aside quiet time for yourself on a regular basis to get real clear about what you really want to attract in your life. Use this opportunity to ask yourself questions.

Ask yourself: "how can I create more prosperity and abundance in my life?". Once your head is clear, you will allow the answers to come to you. Meditation is a great way to start clearing the mind.

4. Appreciate life's abundance

Appreciating life's abundance is another way to opening yourself up to accept more abundance and prosperity in your life. When you fully appreciate what you have in your life, the Universe has a way of giving you more.

Keep a gratitude journal and at the end of each day, write down everything that you appreciate in your life. You'll begin to change your energy and vibration and become more internally aligned with what you want to create in your life.

5. Use prosperity affirmations

As you write your gratitude journal, it is an opportunity to write down prosperity affirmations as well. Affirmations are statements of acceptance that you use to manifest your destiny or what you want to create in your life. They are powerful, positive thoughts and words sent out to the universe.

If you want to use affirmations to create positive changes in your life, then you must first BELIEVE that this is possible. It shouldn't be a half hearted "well, I'll give this a go and see what happens".

To make affirmations more effective, put as much positive energy in writing and saying them as possible. Visualise what you want to create and let this inform your prosperity affirmations.

When you cease operating from a position of lack, you start to create the fertile conditions to make more informed decisions, identify greater opportunities and attract more abundance and prosperity into your life.

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Healing Your Relationship to Money and Abundance

Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. - Epicurus

Regardless of how much or how little material wealth we have, our relationship to money is likely to be distorted. Because money plays such an oversized role in our outer and inner landscapes, it is a powerful metaphor and magnet for our confusions and wounds. And since material resources are generally closely linked to our sense of personal power, freedom, and worth, exploring the distortions in our relationship to money is a fruitful way to uncover energetic leakages or blocks that also distort other aspects of our lives. In fact, Brad Laughlin, executive director of the spiritual organization Corelight, suggests that if we simply focus on clearing every aspect of our relationship to money, by the end of our work we will find ourselves nearly enlightened!

Money has a way of pointing us toward our internal contradictions, where we will invariably find imprints and parts of ourselves in need of attention. For instance, few readers of this book would consciously equate someone's financial status with his or her human worth or value - and it's obvious that such an equation would make no sense to our larger selves, since no person could possibly have any more or less worth than any other. Yet even when we consciously reject the equation between money and worth, we remain subject to its influence on subtle levels, and often this creates discord between different parts of the self - for instance, when one part of the self envies wealthy people and longs for more material privilege, while another part rebels against that value system, resents wealthy people and glorifies downward mobility.

In some spiritual circles, it has become popular to focus attention on peoples' fear of money or abundance, and promote magical thinking about what could occur if we freed ourselves of such fears. It's certainly true that many of us do have resistance to receiving what we want or need, and where such fears or imprints exist, it's important to heal and release them as part of our larger process of opening to universal support. However, the implication that this kind of healing will, could or should lead to material wealth for everyone who does it, is absurd. Attachment to wealth and fear of poverty is just as much a distortion as fear of wealth and attachment to conditions of lack. A truly aligned relationship with money is free of this kind of inner pushing and pulling in either, or in any, direction.

Many spiritually-oriented people misunderstand the Law of Attraction, interpreting it to mean that as we connect to our spiritual power, we are released from limits and therefore become able to create or attract unlimited quantities of material wealth. This misinterpretation conflates two different realms of being, the non-physical realm, which is limitless, and the physical realm in which limits are necessary and inevitable. It also reflects confusion about the nature of spiritual power. True spiritual power comes to us through aligning ourselves with the larger synergistic flow, trusting and resting within that flow, and opening to it - not dominating or manipulating it to try to grab a larger share of goodies for "ourselves." (In fact, the more connected we are to our spiritual power, the less likely we are to care so much about "ourselves" and our material circumstances.)

The physical universe cannot exist without limits, so the concept of "unlimited abundance" on this plane is necessarily a fairy tale and a distortion. A more appropriate understanding of abundance is the one offered by Leslie Temple-Thurston, who says simply, "Abundance is having what you need, when you need it."

On the spiritual level, all of us have access - abundant access! - to this kind of abundance. We can, in the non-physical realm, have exactly what we need, whenever we need it. Yet on the physical plane this is clearly not the case; vast numbers of people do not have the money or material privilege they need, while a very small number of people have wealth so great that it renders the concept of "need" obscene or absurd. This is no coincidence; our human economic systems have been deliberately designed - and/or manipulated - to maintain this kind of inequality. They actively require most people to have less so that others can have much more. It is simply not true, under current conditions, that everyone can have as much as they need - at least not while our sense of "need" is structured by a consciousness of separation, which is, of course, the only consciousness in which greed could possibly exist.

Therefore, it is not only our limiting beliefs and our wounds that keep people from having enough money or resources. We live within a system which actively creates and maintains unequal access to wealth. Yet it is also true that even within the constraints and biases of that external system, our beliefs and wounds do shape our experience, just as they do in all other spheres of life. How, then, are we to understand and work with the highly-charged issue of money?

We can begin by remembering that even here, there is a very important locus of power within us. Although we do not singlehandedly have the power to change the larger economic system, we do have the power to define our relationship to that system. For instance, we have complete power over the beliefs and imprints alive within us, including those beliefs linking our material wealth with our sense of value or worth. When we bring these beliefs to conscious awareness and recognize that they are not Truth, we can dissolve them. Spiritual and social justice activist Nichola Torbett founded a group called "Recovery from the Dominant Culture," modeled on 12-step programs, as a way to help people do precisely this kind of work.

We can also retrieve the parts of our souls that may have been wounded by lack of access to money - or by inconsistent access, manipulated or distorted access, or even excessive access to money (for instance, parents who gave us expensive gifts in place of time, love and presence, or relatives who abused us and then bought our silence with money.) We can release the imprints that make us see ourselves or others as unworthy or "less than" for any reason, including reasons having to do with money - and also those imprints that make us see ourselves or others as "better than" for any reason, or that inflate us with false pride.

It's also useful to dive beneath the surface of the issue and work directly with the many deeper issues with which money becomes entangled. By removing our blocks to, or our misconceptions about, freedom, support, receiving, deserving, love and related topics, we clear the pathways by which what we need can reach us - not only in the form of money, but in all other forms, as well. And as always, our inner teachers can help.

Here are some questions that can help you begin that process.

Self-Inquiry Related to Money - and More

Justice

How do I feel about living amid human injustice? Where there are "haves" and "have-nots," do I feel a need or obligation to be in one camp or the other - or a fear of being in one camp or the other? What is my right relationship to the financial injustice in the human world?

Freedom

How do I feel about having the freedom to do what I most want to do? Do I believe that I deserve it? Do I trust myself to use it in ways that serve my larger self?

Receiving Support

How do I feel about receiving my full complement of support from the benevolent universe? Do I believe that I deserve it? Can I be trusted with it? Do I have fears about what I might do - or fail to do - if I were fully supported? Do I believe that there would be a cost to receiving such support? - and if so, what do I believe that cost would be?

Intrinsic Worth

Do I know, with every fiber of my being, that I have intrinsic worth - that I belong in this world and am valued, accepted and cherished by this world, exactly as I am?

Safety

Am I willing to allow myself to feel safe? What does or would safety mean to me? Are there structures in my being which constrict against the possibility of relaxing into safety? Am I able to receive what comes to me without fear or hoarding, and let it go with confidence that more will come?

Abundance

How do I feel about having abundance - having all that I need, when I need it? Do I feel comfortable with that state of being? Why or why not? Would it feel safe to me to have all that I needed? What fears do I have about what might happen - within me, or outside of me - if I had abundance?

Love

Do I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I am loved - by the universe, my larger self and my guides, at the very least? Am I able to fully open to and take in that love? If not, what prevents that opening? Do I believe that others love me for myself, just as I am, or do I fear "hidden agendas," costs, conditions or requirements?

Working with these questions - and doing whatever healing work is revealed to be necessary by your answers - may well be a lengthy process. But as you do so, you will clear up whatever distortions are present in your financial life, as well as open inner pathways for receiving and experiencing more safety, love and freedom.

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Can Affirmation Really Work Or Is It Just A Lot Of Relinquished Dreams?

Have you ever made requests to the universal energy about your hopes, dreams and desires to create an abundance of money, love or even health? Has it worked? Did you get your desired outcome? While there are cases of instant successful results with the laws of attraction, generally it takes a while for the manifestation to build and appear in our lives. At worst most people see little or no results and give up.

What is an affirmation? It is a request expressed through a level of energy, expectancy and intent. Affirmations can alter your mind's blueprint but it is a very slow process and it takes persistent action to bring into effect.

One of the main reasons why people don't get what they want with the laws of attraction is that most people are trying on a conscious level, by saying affirmations, meditations making wish lists and placing their cosmic order to the universe.

Now I will tell you something that most self- help books won't tell you about affirmations and the laws of attraction. They will not let you know that it will take a great deal of work for the request to be accepted by the subconscious mind. It requires daily repetitive statements and lots of emotion behind your words.These methods will bring you results if they are in alignment with your subconscious and your blue print matches your request.

How do I know what my blueprint is?

Time to analyse what you say to yourself; start by listening to the way your inner self talks and you're thinking patterns. In other words, step outside yourself for just a minute and listen to what you are saying to yourself. Is it good for you, will your words and thoughts benefit you? Will this thinking bring you what you want? Make notes over a period of time. You may be surprised at the pattern.

Often this thinking will become an unconscious act, the self doubts, limiting and negative beliefs deep within your subconscious mind are holding you back from what you truly want. This can be a mind blowing experience of self- realization when you really hear what you are saying to yourself.

All the blueprint programming is held as data in the subconscious mind. If your subconscious mind does not own the request or have similar in its blueprint, it will not assist you in moving forward with the concept. It will not attract through thought vibration so therefore there will be no materialization of your requests or desires. They must line up and there has to be synchronicity of the two minds for the vibration thought process to connect to the universe source energy.

When you're aligned this is how works;

When subconscious and conscious minds are in alignment then the vibration of the thought will connect to source energy, therefore it will manifest before your eyes. It's quite amazing, it just appears. The law of attraction is a principle that whatever we think about we draw in; like attracts like. You will continue to attract what you are thinking, therefore bringing it into your reality.

This is very important!

If you tell yourself I am fat, guess what? You will be fat. If you tell yourself you will be rich you will be, but rich in what? Your choice of words is essential to what you will receive so it is important to be clear on your words and the intent behind your request.If your request is coming from a place of pure greater good for you then there is a good chance you will have your desired request. If it comes from a place of not so good intentions you will find you may have it bounce back on you. So think carefully about what you request as you will receive exactly what you ask for- to the word. So what are you thinking? How is this affecting your life?

Now here is a chance to take control of our minds and make an effort to change our thought processes so that we can start to attract the things we want into our lives. Would you like to imagine being able to focus on something and have it come true, to have something manifest into your life by changing your thoughts? Remember faith will automatically reverse limitations.

Well this is the basic principles of the laws of attraction but in actual fact it is the laws of vibration of thought... whether it is money, physical items, success in business or personal goals, or even being able to attract your true heartfelt dreams. You have the power to be able to do this, all you have to do is just have faith to change it.

Have you ever made requests to the universal energy about your hopes, dreams and desires to create an abundance of money, love or even health? Has it worked? Did you get your desired outcome? While there are cases of instant successful results with the laws of attraction, generally it takes a while for the manifestation to build and appear in our lives. At worst most people see little or no results and give up.

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Activate the Law of Attraction! Three Simple Things You Need to Know!

The Law of Attraction, Cosmic Ordering and manifesting are all hot topics these days. A lot of people read The Secret, and many even saw the movie. The ideas presented were really appealing and deceptively simple, on the surface. The message seemed to promise easy riches, magical flying ponies and lots and lots of happy dance time. Simply set an intention and the universe will deliver all of your wishes upon silver platters, held aloft by smiling cherubs.

We have been led to believe that all we need to do is to "raise our vibration" to match the frequency of whatever it is that we desire. For the record, what exactly is the correct vibration for a magical flying pony, or in my case, Channing Tatum, stripped to the waist, fanning me with an ostrich plume and feeding me gourmet chocolates? But I digress; my point is that even though I loved the book, the road to your dreams may have a couple of potholes that need to be filled if you want to reach your happily ever after. The first thing you need to know is exactly what you want to attract.

Rule Number One: Know What You Want

What is it that you really want? You have to be specific here. Know what you really want and why you want it. Do not worry about the how at this point, just be clear about what it is that you truly desire. Write it down. Simply writing your goals down activates hidden power and sets things in motion. As you write it down, keep in mind that you want to state it in a positive way. For instance, I want Tatum Channing to feed me bonbons wearing nothing but his boxer briefs and a smile. I would picture that while I was feeling good about something.

Rule Number Two: Find Your Happy Place

That particular image tends to make me feel pretty darn good already, but the idea is to feel happy and not work from worry or fear. Which brings me to my next point, you want to link your goal with positive emotions. You do not get just what you focus on, you get what you feel, so connect to good feelings.

For instance, if you want to pay your rent, but you are feeling fearful, the emotion and the image you are setting do not match. They have to match. It is kind of like tumblers in a lock. Everything has to line up if you want to turn the key.

Rule Number Three: Do Something!

You must take action. If you want something, the universe will help you to attain and or attract it, but you have to get off of your butt and act upon your goals too. Rainbows and unicorns aside, you have to put in a little sweat equity here. Be willing to actually take action. You can wait a lifetime to have enough information to act, the trick is to do something, anything to start moving forward, which reminds me, I need to buy a box of chocolates and an ostrich feather.

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How Successful People Use the Law of Attraction in Their Lives and You Can Too!

Success doesn't come by chance but it is achieved by hard work and learning. The key to success is learning and mastering some skills that are crucial for being a successful person. Success can be gained in every aspect of your life that includes great health, financial success and strong relationships.

The law of attraction is an important criteria that describes the success of a person and how the law of attraction is used by successful people and incorporated in their life. This is vital for them to achieve their ambitions and goals.

It has helped many people transform their life in a significant and positive manner which would have been difficult to achieve otherwise.

The law of attraction has helped people to achieve their innermost dreams and desires and become successful in their respective fields.

It helps in attracting positive energy along with being optimistic in every situation of the life. A positive harmony is maintained as positive things enter your life that influence your feelings thoughts and mindset that you experience in your life.

This positive energy helps in bringing happiness in your life as it helps people to be attracted to you.

The law of attraction that successful people use in their life on an energetic level for manifesting their dreams effortlessly includes:

* Being clear of your objective in life - you should be clear as to what you are chasing in life as there are people who have vague idea about what to do in life. Be specific and certain of the things that you want to achieve in life.

* Be prepared to put in some effort - if you want to achieve your dreams it is important to put in some effort. Further learning and discipline are very vital ingredients that are required to achieve your dreams.

* Expect to get what you desire and be happy after receiving it - anticipating the arrival of things that you have desired and you will recognize that you are on a new path to reaching your destination.

* Always be positive - don't think negatively about all the reasons which will not let you achieve your dreams. Don't think about all the problems that you have faced before but think positively about the realization of your dreams.

* Be prepared to take responsibility - every solution is the path to the next challenge so don't be under the illusion that your every problem has been solved. The next set of problems is there for you to solve and therefore taking responsibility is very important so that you can solve the problems and move ahead in life.

The law of attraction that successful people follow in life helps them to move ahead in life and gain fame and recognition. Thus for being successful you should use the following ideas for affirmations for the law of attraction that are:

• Knowing what you want to achieve
• Knowing the ways to achieve whatever you desire
• Being positive in your thinking for realizing your dreams

Like successful people you should also have the passion and drive in your life so that you can accomplish your goals and get what you have dreamed to achieve.

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Advanced Manifesting

We have to learn the art of attuning ourselves to the Universal Laws by rectifying our thoughts, feelings, words and deeds; to bringing into our life all the things that we need. When we think positive thoughts we a line ourselves with positive opportunities and circumstances; which brings us to the things we need. When we have strong positive feelings we empower our creative thoughts and ideas to become reality. Our positive words guide the opportunities and the circumstances while they are manifesting. Our positive deeds are the steps and actions that we must take to secure the opportunities that solidify those manifestations.

These practices are very positive and good but there is a more powerful and dynamic set of principles that will bring forth the abundant inexhaustible manifestations into our life instantly; even before there is a chance to think that we have a need for them. These principles will magnetize our being with a raging river of endless possibilities and circumstances instantly; which will give us the freedom to live our life to the fullest. The powerful set of principles that we need to use is: the eliminations of attachments, desires and sentimentality in a physical and egotistical way. What does this really mean? Well this means that we can no longer allow ourselves to desire one person over another, but instead replacing our desires with positive needs and service of all beings and keeping our thoughts free of carnal lust and desire. We must rid ourselves of serving the self to only serving all other beings in the Universe. We must release ourselves of desiring materialistic things like money, houses, cars, electronics, etc; also we must rid ourselves of desiring one experience over another. When we have eliminated desire out of our being we will find that all the people, things and experiences that we need will be there when we really need them to fulfill our life purpose.

The second negative obstacle that we must extinguish is materialistic attachments; this means anything that we feel that we own, possess, control or cannot let go of. Some examples of these are: jewelry, money, collectables, gifts from loved ones, clothes, electronics, people, ideas, habits, feelings, and experience's, etc. The list can be endless. We can be attached to things whether they are good or bad. We must realize that we can never really possess anything. All things in the universe are there for all to use. All things are energy changing forms.

If we find ourselves attached to something and protecting or hiding it we are cutting ourselves off from the universal flow of abundance. The more that we try to hold onto something the quicker it will be taken from us. When we allow ourselves to have a mindset that all is universal energy changing form and that all things are there for all beings to use and enjoy; we become one with universal supply.

There is another obstacle that we must overcome to secure our connection with universal abundance and supply. This obstacle is sentimentality. What is sentimentality? It is a very low level carnal state of mind that is expressed through negative and positive egotistical emotions. These emotions are very controlling and if they are continuously expressed we will find ourselves cut off from Universal abundance and supply.

Some examples of negative egotistical emotions are: having sentimental feelings for someone, having sickness, physical distress, and emotional distress, tribulations or hardships of any kind; whether it is our family, a stranger, a friend, an associate, an animal or any other being.

Some examples of positive egotistical emotions are: having feelings of physical love, honor and respect for any being. Now that we have the basic understanding of negative or positive egotistical emotions, we will address what we should replace those emotions with. When we find ourselves feeling emotional about any being suffering illness, physical or emotional distress, or hardships we must change our feelings in a way that makes us a passive observer. What is a passive observer? It is the ability to observe a situation without being emotional about it. When we can be a passive observer with all situations we not only help the being with their problem, but we keep ourselves from being caught up in that negativity.

A question might arise like; how can we help a being that is suffering when we are just passively observing? Well there are specific universal laws that govern all circumstances and things; these laws help each being to purify their internal being by the elimination of dark substance. When a being suffers they eliminate a little bit of that dark substance. When we get emotional around a being that is suffering or when we try to eliminate their suffering we are working against universal law; which only postpones the beings suffering to a later date; also when we do this we obtain dark substance ourselves. When we become passive observers we align ourselves with Universal Law and we replace negative egotistical emotions with powerful energy frequencies of divine compassion; which brings forth health, harmony and peace. We must also replace positive egotistical emotions like; honor, respect, and physical love by being a passive observer; using divine compassion and expressing Unconditional Love, Unconditional Honor, and Unconditional Respect for all life and beings in the Universe.

How can we express Unconditional Love, and Unconditional Respect for all life and all beings in the universe?

There are many beings in the Universe that expresses a negative state of their being when they think, feel, speak or do things in a negative. Any time a being expresses negative thoughts, feelings, words or deeds they are not expressing their true self but are merely playing a role to satisfy a self-serving and false illusion of who and what they are. This can seem to be very deceiving and hurtful to all of us that do not understand the fact of who or what all beings are made of.

So when we cross paths with these self-serving negative beings we have to see them for what they truly are instead of the false illusion that they believe themselves to be. All beings are made of a high energy matter with a specific frequency that determines its size, shape and structure. This high energy matter is very intelligent because it is a representation of Universal substance and Consciousness.

When a being Awakens to it's true self they will no longer try to uphold a self-serving, false illusion of themselves and they will not think, feel, speak or do negative things anymore. When we awaken to our true self it is easy for us to express Unconditional Love, Unconditional Honor and Unconditional Respect for life and all beings in the Universe; because we understand that anything that seems to be negative is just a

illusion. As we continue to send out Unconditional Love, Unconditional Honor and Unconditional Respect to all beings we are eliminating negativity and connecting with Universal Consciousness and all things that we need will be given to us freely.

Here are a few examples of Unconditional Love: loving all people regardless of the way they look, think, feel, speak, write or do things. Loving all animals in the world, loving all trees and plants, loving the air that we breathe, loving the food we eat, loving all the water on earth, and loving all beings big or small throughout the universe.

Here are a few examples of Unconditional Honor and Unconditional Respect for all beings: we honor and respect the air we breathe when we acknowledge its being and we express our gratitude for its life giving abilities. We honor and respect the plants when we observe their beauty and acknowledge their intelligence, and realize that we cannot exist here without them. We honor and respect the water when we give thanks for its being and for our acknowledgement that it is the life blood for all life on this Earth.

We now have the tools for Advanced Manifesting; now we have to go out into the world and use these tools and all things that we need will come to us effortlessly.

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Service Using Our Thoughts, Feelings, Words and Deeds

As we move forward on our life journey, we come to an understanding that to be successful and prosperous in our lives on earth we have to work to provide ourselves, and the ones that we love and care for, with the resources that are necessary for all of our well-being. Many of us focus on the external world and we exhaust our mind and body with trivial thoughts and unnecessary labor that is of little use or value in accomplishing a satisfactory result in providing our basic needs. Many of us spend our entire lives searching for the answers to provide us with these basic needs which fill us with a sense of accomplishment, peace of mind, and happiness. The reason for our frustration and endless toil is that we have not understood the true meaning and application of "service" to all beings.

So let us look at the meaning and application of service. There are four sources of our existence that we can utilize to serve all beings.

Each one of these sources is connected and most services will require us to use all four. The first of these are our thoughts. This first source will enable the other three to function. The quality of our thought will determine the success of the others to provide the required services needed. The second source is our feelings. Our feelings reflect what we are thinking. If we are thinking positive then our feelings will be positive and good. The third source is our words spoken and written. When our thoughts and feelings are all positive, then our words, spoken or written, will be positive. We then have the fourth source which is our deeds, the physical things we do in life.

Those of us that own, businesses we service people through selling, maintaining, building, improving, expanding, consulting, and investing, of ideas money and products. Then there are those of us that work in a carrier or job that provides service to people through selling, maintaining, building, improving, expanding, consulting, investing in ideas, money and products. Also there are those in service of people through spiritual ministering and counseling. All of these ways of service are necessary for us to be successful and happy, but they are only a small part of understanding the true meaning and application of service.

The four main categories of being that will be addressed in this chapter are: "Thoughts, Feelings, Words, and Deeds".

Thoughts

So let us look at the meaning and application of service using our thoughts. Thoughts that we entertain moment by moment determines the level of positive and productive service that we can provide, which in turn benefits all beings connected to that service. We must be in a mindset of positive and creative thoughts continuously. When we maintain positive thinking in everything that we do we unlock the natural law of manifestation, which in turn allows all circumstances, opportunities, people and resources to flow to us in great abundance, which brings us success, and happiness that we are meant to enjoy! Now let us take a look into this matter in great detail.

We awaken in the morning, and our thinking process begins, so we must not allow ourselves to fall into a negative state of thinking by observing or judging external events, circumstances, and all thing's which are negative throughout our day. Here are a few examples of this: getting up in the morning, looking out the window and seeing that the weather is windy, cloudy, and raining; we have a choice, we can either choose to think positively about the weather by thinking to ourselves this is a wonderful day to work inside; also, it is good that the trees, plants and soil are enriched with the rain. By thinking positive about the weather, we are in service to all beings connected to the events, circumstances, and things that we are thinking.

If we choose to think negatively about the wind, clouds, and rain; thinking things like; what a nasty, terrible, cold, wet, and windy day this is, we are not providing positive service to all beings connected. Instead, we are adding obstacles that will sabotage our successful and positive day!

Other examples of positive service to all beings would be thoughts like:

• This water tastes wonderful and it provides my body with good health.
• This food smells, tastes, and looks good; it also gives my body the nutrients it needs.
• I am happy and I feel great.
• I am in perfect heath
• Today is a successful day for me.

As our day progresses we will be confronted by different environment's, circumstances and people that may seem to be negative, we must keep ourselves from falling into thinking negative at all. When we do have a negative thought arise in our mind we must shift our thoughts to positive. A very productive way to keep our thoughts positive all the time is using positive affirmations. If we are dealing with thoughts of abundance, we use positive affirmations of abundance. If we are dealing with thoughts of health, we would use positive affirmations of health.

Here are some good examples of positive affirmations in different categories that we deal with every day in our lives. All throughout our day we should go over the affirmations from all of these categories to help us keep our thoughts positive.

Positive Affirmations

Personal goals: needs; success

• My thoughts are always positive
• I have a perfect memory
• I am very happy all the time
• I achieve all things that I want
• I am successful

Personal relationships: family; friends; associates

• I always have loving thoughts
• I attract positive friends and associates
• I always think positive things about others
• I have calm thoughts when I am with family and friends

Alternative medicine physical; mental and exercise

• I am in perfect physical health
• I sleep soundly every night
• I am physically fit
• Everyone is in perfect health

Resourcefulness: abundance

• I am abundance
• abundance comes to me effortlessly
• I have abundance
• Opportunities for abundance always come to me
• Earthly Missions: work
• I am happy with my career
• Career opportunities always come to me
• My career gets better every day
• I am receiving knowledge everyday
• My career provides me with more than enough money than I need

Recreation: adventures; joy; hobbies; sports

• I am able to travel anytime I want
• I am always full of joy
• I am happy with all of my hobbies
• I can go to sporting events anytime I want
• I love playing sports

Contributions: Community; Service; Giving; Helping Others

• I love helping others
• Everything that I do is an act of giving
• All of my thoughts serve my community

Spiritual: Meditation; Inner Self

• I am able to meditate deeply and easily
• All of my thoughts are positive
• My inner self is very powerful
• I love all beings

For us to be in service to all beings every minute of every day, keeps us in line to receive inexhaustible possibilities of ideas, opportunities, resources and happiness in all facets of our lives. Service to all beings is service to our selves. What we put out, is what we get back. So if we only put out positive thoughts, then we only receive positive back. This is aligning us with exact universal laws which are in place for the good of all beings. As we serve, we are served. Once we adapt the mind set of serving all beings with positive thoughts, life is easier, more productive, and we are able to know the outcome of all circumstances, success will flow to us effortlessly. The people, opportunities, and resources come to us as we need them. We will awaken to the fact that we are the masters of our life and our success. The rectification of our thoughts every day is a very important goal to work for. When we reach a point that all of our thoughts are all positive and creative, we will soon realize that the circumstances, events, environments, and people that come into our lives will be in line with our needs that bring success and happiness; this allows us to live the fullest and most productive life that is imaginable. When our thoughts are perfected, the universal laws serve us. Hardships disappear and opportunities come to us, our passions of life are fulfilled. It is like the whole world is working for us providing us everything, almost without effort! At the point our thoughts are all creative and positive our personnel goals have been fulfilled, personnel relationships will expand. Our health is perfected. We will be prosperous in our finances, our spiritual aspirations and abilities become unlimited and inexhaustible.

What we think is what we are. Moment by moment we construct our bodies, our minds and our environment's that we live in. our thoughts are powerful tools in constructing our future.

Every thought is energy with a certain frequency; just as everything seen or unseen is energy with a frequency. As we think we command those energies to do as we will; whether they are positive or negative. The universal laws are established and they are flawless, when our thoughts match the energy frequency of those things that we need the universal law has no other choice but to grant us that which we have thought and felt. If it is negative things that we are thinking and putting a lot of energy and faith that they are real, then we call them into our life. We must guard our thoughts endlessly and only allow the thoughts that we have to be positive or things that we need. If we spend our day complaining or worrying about negative things then the energy will bring us only negative things.

Feelings

We come to the second source of our existence. We will discuss in detail the meaning and application of our feelings used in service of all beings; most of the time our feelings: emotions are created by what thoughts we entertain. If our thoughts are positive then our feelings: emotions will be positive. If our thoughts are negative then our feelings will be negative. Our feelings are the dynamic force that empowers our thoughts to become reality. So if we are thinking only positive and creative thoughts then the feelings that we have will be positive and assure us the success of our ideas. The stronger or more intense our feelings; emotions are, the faster our thoughts and ideas become manifest.

As we interact with other people, our thoughts and feelings will shift. By maintaining a positive and serene emotional being, we are assured a successful outcome of all circumstances in our lives. Each day we are subject to thousands and thousands of subliminal messages through TVs. radio, newspapers, magazines, books, computers, videogames, billboards, road signs, store displays and product packaging. Our thoughts are overwhelmed by these subliminals' that cause our emotions to pass through many positive and negative states of being. If we allow ourselves to be subject to these subliminal's, we will not be in control of our future. For these subliminals keep us focused on negative things or in a "consumer mind set" make more money, and buy more things. If we are always taking into ourselves negative news and negative entertainment, we are setting ourselves up for negative to come into our lives. We must awaken to the fact that these subliminals are not good for our mind or our feelings: emotions because they will set an energy frequency of failure for us. They will keep us in a state of fear, depression, pain, sadness, wanting and the pursuit of money.

Here are a few examples of the harmful subliminal frequencies that we are subject to every day. TV, news, reports of killings, rape, disasters, crime, wars, bad economy, no jobs, and disease. Negative TV, Movies, and shows about murder, gore, rape, drugs, hate, war, fighting, crime, gambling, fear, holocaust, evil, arson, and depression; also, TV and radio commercials of all kinds. Other examples of the harmful subliminal frequencies are product advertising on billboards, signs, store displays, product packaging, magazines and newspapers. All of these subliminal sources are ever present broadcasting their negative energy frequencies. These subliminals' distract us from feeling good or being happy. If we allow them to they will control our emotions and interrupt us in our way of thinking, feeling, speaking, and that which keeps us from claiming our inheritance. We will be prisoners of a negative and pitiful existence. We will never have enough time or money. We will struggle in careers or jobs that we do not like. We will never be satisfied with the things we have. We will be driven forward with endless desires and wants that are never fulfilled. We will be subjected to negative and harmful circumstances and environments that we must endure. We will be frustrated and sad. We will be in constant contact with negative and evil beings. We will suffer many pains, sicknesses and even death. We have explored the vast negative subliminal sources, their dismal frequencies and the harmful effects that they inflict upon us. Now we will discuss how to free ourselves of these negative subliminal frequencies. First, we must avoid as many of the negative subliminal sources that we can. Each day we must not allow ourselves to watch, listen, read or feel their influences. If we watch TV, we should watch good quality programs and movies that have positive, informative, or uplifting dialog which makes us feel happy and good. When we are happy and feel good, we are in service to all beings. When we work on the internet, read books, magazines, and newspapers they must be positive, informative, and uplifting. We must love our work, because if we don't love our work, we are allowing ourselves to dwell in environment's that we don't belong in." We must find our passion in our work by finding our work in our passion." As we find our passion: our life calling, we find happiness providing service to all beings. Living our passion brings fourth all of the resources that we need in great abundance. When we have a need for food or material things, most of us have to rely on getting this food and products from grocery stores or large department store's that are established for making large amounts of money. There are many professionals that work for these companies that are there to create new ways to design these stores to entice, manipulate and trick each and every customer into buying their products, by using sound, visual effects, colors, advertisements, attractive displays and fancy product packaging arranged on the shelves to maximize their profits. Their job is to mesmerize each person into spending their hard earned money on food or products that are unnecessary or of little or no true value. The products have very colorful and visual stimulating designs that work on our feelings: emotions, they promise quality and durability at a low cost. They lead us to believe our life will be improved by having them. Our health and vitality will increase. Also they make us feel that we cannot live without them. But the truth is, most of those claims are nothing but lies. We cannot allow ourselves to be taken advantage of by these subliminal frequencies that manipulate our feelings into negativity. We can rid ourselves of this negativity by writing lists of the products we need before we go to these negative environments. We should only purchase the products that we have on our lists. We can make sure that we research the products before we go to buy them to make sure that they are truly worthwhile. Once we understand all of the subliminal sources and their frequencies we free ourselves of their power over us. We take charge of our feeling: emotions and we are able to feel the things that make us feel alive, healthy, prosperous, and happy. When our feelings are positive we become more creative and our lives flow almost effortlessly toward success. It is very important for us to have positive feelings: emotions all the time. For all the things we feel to be true becomes true. The feelings that we entertain will empower the thoughts that we have and desire them forward with great power. A positive feeling heals our minds and bodies; they bring to us our experiences, friends, associates and opportunities. They construct our environments and solidify our desires which pave our way to success.

Words

The third source of our existence, that we use to service all beings are words. Let us go over the meaning and application of the use of spoken and written words used in service of all beings. Words are the most used and versatile tools to communicate to others our thoughts and feelings. These tools can be used constructively or destructively. Words can be creative and powerful; they can explain ideas, tell stories, reveal secrets, unlock our mind and heal our bodies.

If we use negative words to communicate to other people we are calling negativity into our lives. We should always refrain from speaking or writing profanity of any kind because it broadcast's negative frequencies that surrounds us and stirs up negative emotions in others. An example of the harmful effects of verbalizing profanity would be: when we call someone a profane name they would immediately take up a defensive stance, their thoughts would be negative because they would feel attacked, so their feelings would be hurt which would cause them to lash out with negative words of profanity. The likely outcome would be a fight between you and the other person. So when we eliminate profane words from our vocabulary we yield more positive energy when we communicate.

Another area that will harm us and keep us from living positive, productive lives is negative statements like;

• I am depressed,
• my back hurts,
• I am sick,
• I don't have much money,
• I am always tired,
• I have to many bills,
• My life sucks,
• My car is always breaking down,
• I have a headache.

There are statements that sound positive but they are also negative. Examples are;

• I am not tired anymore,
• I am not depressed,
• My back does not hurt anymore,
• I used to have money problems,
• I never get sick.

Statements like these basically bring to us those things that we are denying. So we should never include negative words in our statements.

A few of these negative words are; never, sick, problems, does not, hate, fear, pain, hurt, depressed, alone, poor, unhealthy, frustrated, broke, etc.

If we always use positive words when we speak or write we are serving all beings and our rewards will be magnificent. All of the things that we lacked will come to us through sources that are infinite. Positive words that are spoken or written are powerful and they awaken universal laws that are absolute. When our words are positive and flow from us through creative thoughts and good feelings, the universal laws are activated. Our words become intelligent energy frequencies that call the necessary resources, people, environments, and circumstances to come to us to obey our command.

Think about this, every word spoken or written is created from a thought backed by a feeling that will become manifest to benefit us or harm us. So we must be very careful to speak and write words and statements created from positive thoughts and feelings to insure our success in all endeavors. When our statements are a combination of positive and negative words they will cancel each other out and will produce undesirable or pitiful results. If our verbal and written statements are positive, but our thoughts and feelings are negative or weak then they will back the necessary energy frequency to bring to us a good outcome to our desire. When our verbal or written words or statements are negative created by negative thinking and emotions we can be certain that tribulations, pain, sadness and disappointment will follow.

It is very clear that we should always guard our spoken or written words so that every word that we speak or write becomes opportunities to serve all beings in a positive way.

Here are some examples of positive statements that we can use every day to awaken to the truth that we are masters of our life.

• Every thought that I have is positive,
• Every feeling that I have is positive,
• Every word or statement I speak is positive,
• My words are loving,
• My words are powerful,
• My mind is calm,
• I am healthy and happy,
• I am surrounded by love,
• Wealth is pouring into my life,
• I am wise,
• Abundance flows to me and through me,
• I am peaceful,
• I am living my passion,
• I am thankful for all things,
• I love all,
• The universe provides me with only beneficial circumstances,
• I speak only truth,
• I am always kind and helpful,
• I am successful.

Here were just a few of the many positive statements we can use every day. We should do our best to make every statement that we speak or write to be creative and positive. I would like to share with you a series of short positive statements that I use every day which I find to be very useful and powerful;

I am whole, I am perfect, I am powerful, I am strong, I am loving, I am harmonious, and I am happy.

We call these statements positive affirmations, which can be used anytime that we wish to reinforce our thoughts and feelings with positive energy frequencies. If we are in a negative situation or environment we can speak multiple affirmations in a sequence. We can say a single affirmation repetitively or only one time, whatever works to help bring our thoughts and feelings to a creative and positive frequency.

The more that we use affirmations in our daily lives, the more that our words and statements will contain creative and positive energy frequencies, which enables us to serve all beings, and at the same time it attracts to us the circumstances, people, resources, and environment's that we need for our own success.

Deeds

Deeds are the fourth source of our existence that we are going to look into to get a better understanding of its meaning and application, along with its use of service to all beings. Most of us are used to understanding good deeds as helping others with this work, or assisting those who are in need like the homeless, elderly people, and children. There are many examples of things that we can do which would be considered "good deeds" like, giving money to someone in need, teaching someone to read, picking up groceries for grandma, taking out the garbage for mom, filling out tax forms for a friend, giving your wife a massage or opening a door for a stranger. The list of good deeds could go on forever. All of the deeds that we have mentioned are good and very useful in our service to all beings. If we keep our-selves alert to the many opportunities to serve others through good deeds, we will begin to understand the basics to its meaning and application. Do you know that with every breath and every step we take we are in service of all beings? When we use any of our five physical senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch in a positive way we are in service of all beings. The first physical sense we are going to focus on is sight. When we observe any being within our realm of vision we are broadcasting energy frequencies to those beings that we observe, according to the thoughts or feeling that we are having at that moment. If our thoughts and feelings are positive, then we are in service to those beings that we are observing. Let us say; (for example) that we are observing a flower? Are we thinking positive things about that flower like," you are a very beautiful, healthy and colorful flower." If we are thinking and feeling positive things while we are observing this flower, then we are in service to this flower and all beings. A question might arise. How are we in service to this flower and all beings when we are looking at the flower with positive thoughts and feelings? Well the answer to this question is; when we observe with positive thoughts and feelings we are generating positive energy frequencies that affect the flower and everything around it on an energetic level. The reason that this happens is because all thing's that exist are made up of intelligent energy particles with specific frequencies that are affected by positive or negative thoughts and feelings which are the most powerful energy frequencies in the universe. So when we observe this flower it makes us feel good and happy, its positive energy frequencies has affected us so we acknowledge it with positive thoughts and feelings to let it know that it is important. Other beings that are close by when we empower this flower, they are affected with this exchange of energy and a cycle of positivity has been created.

The cycle of positivity is service to all beings involved. The second sense that we are going to discuss concerning service to all beings is sound. Just like the sense of sight, sound is also used to transfer energy frequencies. For example, when we take a walk in nature we can listen to all the sounds around us with positive thoughts and feelings, acknowledging the beings that make them with delight. When we allow ourselves to listen to the beautiful sounds of those beings with positive thoughts and feelings we are creating a cycle of positivity that services all beings.

The third and fourth senses that can be included in our service to all beings are smell and taste. When we are outside smelling the wildflowers in the spring, we are acknowledging the wonderful aroma of flowers with positive thoughts and feelings; we are creating cycles of positivity which is servicing all beings. We need to have good thoughts and positive emotions when we are enjoying our food. We need to make sure we take our time when we consume our food. We should take a mental note of the smells and the taste as we eat. For example; you are happy and your mind is clear of negativity, you pick up a big red apple, you look at it, you smell its wonderful aroma, you say to yourself, "this beautiful red apple smells great," then you take a bite, it is juicy and sweet, your taste buds get a rush of flavor, which makes you feel great, you take care in chewing every mouthful slowly to savor each and every bite. You feel good because by consuming our food in this way, we are creating a cycle of positivity between ourselves and the apple. Our positive thoughts and feelings coupled with our strict attention in care of smelling and tasting every bite; we have empowered the apple with positive energy frequencies that we take inside ourselves. That positive energy will nourish trillions of cells within our body. We have served the apple because we have acknowledged its being. By consuming the apple in such a positive way we have created a very powerful cycle of positivity that has serviced many.

Now we come to the fifth physical sense that we can use to service all beings, and that is touch. Our sense of touch can be used in so many ways in servicing all beings, and we will address a few of the less common practices. Every time that we inhale or exhale a breath of air, we are in service of other beings. So by always maintaining a positive and creative state of mind and emotional being with everything we do we will be servicing all. Now let us look at a few ways to serve by using the physical sense of touch. As we take a breath of air into our nose and lungs we pay close attention to feel the cool air as it passes through our nasal passage and into our windpipe as it makes its way to our lungs. We feel our lungs expanding, as the air enters our lungs the Avila collects the molecules of oxygen and transports those molecules throughout our body by way of our blood and the vast network of blood vessels to every cell within us. Then we feel the air come out of our lungs, into our windpipe, across our tongue, and through our lips; but the air that has come out of us is not the same air that went inside of us when we inhaled. The difference is its chemical composition. The exhaled air has a lot less oxygen, and it's full of carbon dioxide and other toxins that our body is getting rid of. All of this takes place in two seconds. If during the process of inhaling and exhaling we are of a positive and tranquil mind, taking account of the breath process and life-sustaining elements contained within the air to provide all the trillions of cells in our body with the energy molecules to sustain their existence, then we are creating cycles of positivity that services many, including ourselves.

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Healing Your Relationship to Money and Abundance

Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. - Epicurus

Regardless of how much or how little material wealth we have, our relationship to money is likely to be distorted. Because money plays such an oversized role in our outer and inner landscapes, it is a powerful metaphor and magnet for our confusions and wounds. And since material resources are generally closely linked to our sense of personal power, freedom, and worth, exploring the distortions in our relationship to money is a fruitful way to uncover energetic leakages or blocks that also distort other aspects of our lives. In fact, Brad Laughlin, executive director of the spiritual organization Corelight, suggests that if we simply focus on clearing every aspect of our relationship to money, by the end of our work we will find ourselves nearly enlightened!

Money has a way of pointing us toward our internal contradictions, where we will invariably find imprints and parts of ourselves in need of attention. For instance, few readers of this book would consciously equate someone's financial status with his or her human worth or value - and it's obvious that such an equation would make no sense to our larger selves, since no person could possibly have any more or less worth than any other. Yet even when we consciously reject the equation between money and worth, we remain subject to its influence on subtle levels, and often this creates discord between different parts of the self - for instance, when one part of the self envies wealthy people and longs for more material privilege, while another part rebels against that value system, resents wealthy people and glorifies downward mobility.

In some spiritual circles, it has become popular to focus attention on peoples' fear of money or abundance, and promote magical thinking about what could occur if we freed ourselves of such fears. It's certainly true that many of us do have resistance to receiving what we want or need, and where such fears or imprints exist, it's important to heal and release them as part of our larger process of opening to universal support. However, the implication that this kind of healing will, could or should lead to material wealth for everyone who does it, is absurd. Attachment to wealth and fear of poverty is just as much a distortion as fear of wealth and attachment to conditions of lack. A truly aligned relationship with money is free of this kind of inner pushing and pulling in either, or in any, direction.

Many spiritually-oriented people misunderstand the Law of Attraction, interpreting it to mean that as we connect to our spiritual power, we are released from limits and therefore become able to create or attract unlimited quantities of material wealth. This misinterpretation conflates two different realms of being, the non-physical realm, which is limitless, and the physical realm in which limits are necessary and inevitable. It also reflects confusion about the nature of spiritual power. True spiritual power comes to us through aligning ourselves with the larger synergistic flow, trusting and resting within that flow, and opening to it - not dominating or manipulating it to try to grab a larger share of goodies for "ourselves." (In fact, the more connected we are to our spiritual power, the less likely we are to care so much about "ourselves" and our material circumstances.)

The physical universe cannot exist without limits, so the concept of "unlimited abundance" on this plane is necessarily a fairy tale and a distortion. A more appropriate understanding of abundance is the one offered by Leslie Temple-Thurston, who says simply, "Abundance is having what you need, when you need it."

On the spiritual level, all of us have access - abundant access! - to this kind of abundance. We can, in the non-physical realm, have exactly what we need, whenever we need it. Yet on the physical plane this is clearly not the case; vast numbers of people do not have the money or material privilege they need, while a very small number of people have wealth so great that it renders the concept of "need" obscene or absurd. This is no coincidence; our human economic systems have been deliberately designed - and/or manipulated - to maintain this kind of inequality. They actively require most people to have less so that others can have much more. It is simply not true, under current conditions, that everyone can have as much as they need - at least not while our sense of "need" is structured by a consciousness of separation, which is, of course, the only consciousness in which greed could possibly exist.

Therefore, it is not only our limiting beliefs and our wounds that keep people from having enough money or resources. We live within a system which actively creates and maintains unequal access to wealth. Yet it is also true that even within the constraints and biases of that external system, our beliefs and wounds do shape our experience, just as they do in all other spheres of life. How, then, are we to understand and work with the highly-charged issue of money?

We can begin by remembering that even here, there is a very important locus of power within us. Although we do not singlehandedly have the power to change the larger economic system, we do have the power to define our relationship to that system. For instance, we have complete power over the beliefs and imprints alive within us, including those beliefs linking our material wealth with our sense of value or worth. When we bring these beliefs to conscious awareness and recognize that they are not Truth, we can dissolve them. Spiritual and social justice activist Nichola Torbett founded a group called "Recovery from the Dominant Culture," modeled on 12-step programs, as a way to help people do precisely this kind of work.

We can also retrieve the parts of our souls that may have been wounded by lack of access to money - or by inconsistent access, manipulated or distorted access, or even excessive access to money (for instance, parents who gave us expensive gifts in place of time, love and presence, or relatives who abused us and then bought our silence with money.) We can release the imprints that make us see ourselves or others as unworthy or "less than" for any reason, including reasons having to do with money - and also those imprints that make us see ourselves or others as "better than" for any reason, or that inflate us with false pride.

It's also useful to dive beneath the surface of the issue and work directly with the many deeper issues with which money becomes entangled. By removing our blocks to, or our misconceptions about, freedom, support, receiving, deserving, love and related topics, we clear the pathways by which what we need can reach us - not only in the form of money, but in all other forms, as well. And as always, our inner teachers can help.

Here are some questions that can help you begin that process.

Self-Inquiry Related to Money - and More

Justice

How do I feel about living amid human injustice? Where there are "haves" and "have-nots," do I feel a need or obligation to be in one camp or the other - or a fear of being in one camp or the other? What is my right relationship to the financial injustice in the human world?

Freedom

How do I feel about having the freedom to do what I most want to do? Do I believe that I deserve it? Do I trust myself to use it in ways that serve my larger self?

Receiving Support

How do I feel about receiving my full complement of support from the benevolent universe? Do I believe that I deserve it? Can I be trusted with it? Do I have fears about what I might do - or fail to do - if I were fully supported? Do I believe that there would be a cost to receiving such support? - and if so, what do I believe that cost would be?

Intrinsic Worth

Do I know, with every fiber of my being, that I have intrinsic worth - that I belong in this world and am valued, accepted and cherished by this world, exactly as I am?

Safety

Am I willing to allow myself to feel safe? What does or would safety mean to me? Are there structures in my being which constrict against the possibility of relaxing into safety? Am I able to receive what comes to me without fear or hoarding, and let it go with confidence that more will come?

Abundance

How do I feel about having abundance - having all that I need, when I need it? Do I feel comfortable with that state of being? Why or why not? Would it feel safe to me to have all that I needed? What fears do I have about what might happen - within me, or outside of me - if I had abundance?

Love

Do I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I am loved - by the universe, my larger self and my guides, at the very least? Am I able to fully open to and take in that love? If not, what prevents that opening? Do I believe that others love me for myself, just as I am, or do I fear "hidden agendas," costs, conditions or requirements?

Working with these questions - and doing whatever healing work is revealed to be necessary by your answers - may well be a lengthy process. But as you do so, you will clear up whatever distortions are present in your financial life, as well as open inner pathways for receiving and experiencing more safety, love and freedom.

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