| In the last week I've had several 'spiritual' discussions | | | | determine the charges and the direction of flow. Like |
| with people about money. Today, I got another one of | | | | attracts like. The 'Law' doesn't think, it doesn't |
| those money fairy emails, this one with a threat of | | | | determine worthiness, and it doesn't care about you. It |
| loved ones dying if I broke the chain! Seriously? People | | | | just is! Like attracts like. |
| have so many misconceptions and issues about | | | | Let's move on one more step to understanding some |
| money, finances, wealth and abundance. So desperate | | | | fundamental things about money.Money is not a |
| are we for meaning in our lives we flock to anything | | | | reward. Money does not reflect worthiness. Money |
| that might spiritually explain our place and worth in the | | | | does not reflect value. Money does not reflect |
| universal scheme of things. Add to that an | | | | character. Money is not an exchange of energy. |
| unquenchable thirst for stuff and material wealth and | | | | Money doesn't have energy. If you hide a stack of bills |
| you end up with a confused and frustrated population | | | | under your floor boards for a 150 years it will still be |
| easily influenced by superstition and phony baloney | | | | there when you come back in your next life to get it - |
| promises. We were absolutely ecstatic when suddenly | | | | if it hasn't rotted that is! It has no innate power. If you |
| the airwaves exploded with information on working | | | | believe that good behavior is rewarded financially, that |
| with The Law of Attraction. Suddenly it seemed that | | | | having money will tell the world how much you are |
| we were able to be spiritual and wealthy and that we | | | | worth as a person, that wealthy people have more |
| now had a formula to work with to get this balance | | | | value or are of strong character, you will suffer. |
| happening. | | | | Money (currency) was created to measure the value |
| Working with the Law of Attraction is a philosophy | | | | of an exchange of goods and services. That doesn't |
| that calms us into believing that we can attract our | | | | imply anything about fairness, equality, or balance! |
| heart's desire to us without having to take part in the | | | | Money has numerical value; not ethical, not moral, and |
| ruthless, detached world of high commerce. We are, | | | | not spiritual value! |
| after all, concerned with other things - like world peace! | | | | We evolved human beings assign the value and |
| We want everyone to experience happiness, | | | | intrinsic worth to our exchanges of assets. Money - |
| harmony, bliss, and inner peace. We spiritually minded | | | | having it or not having it strictly reflects your belief in |
| individuals are gentle souls, trusting and loving. The hype | | | | profit and your choices in dealing with that profit. You |
| with the Law is that everyone is deserving of | | | | don't cosmically deserve or un-deserve money either. |
| everything they envision for themselves; plus we are | | | | Many people around the world are putting in back |
| 'one', therefore none are more, or less, deserving than | | | | breaking hours of work every day and are well under |
| others; we are equal. | | | | assessed poverty lines. Lots of good, honest, |
| It's taught that all we have to do is state clearly what | | | | hardworking creative men and women are barely |
| we want in our lives and keep our focus on it. I've also | | | | getting by. You will have money proportionate to what |
| recently read that it is recommended to only ask once | | | | you really, truly believe you deserve and what you |
| otherwise you are really expressing doubt in your | | | | really, truly believe you need it for, i.e. paying bills and |
| worthiness and thereby jeopardize the whole process. | | | | getting by - (most people), trips, fancy cars, toys, |
| Yikes! | | | | entertainment, education, savings, growth, etc. |
| It appeals to us that we might be able to affect our | | | | Whatever means the most to you will be supported - |
| wealth without actually having to change anything | | | | and I don't mean what you want in your happy place. |
| except our thoughts. Most people don't understand | | | | And if you think you can't or won't be supported you |
| how significant this is. Do you really understand that | | | | won't be! Simple math! Our personal affluence is |
| you have to change your thoughts? Not just add | | | | determined by the belief we have around having more |
| happy new thoughts to the cacophony of thoughts | | | | than what's needed to survive in the present moment! |
| already spinning in your head. Do you get that if you | | | | Our financial worth is also determined by our true belief |
| are currently experiencing lack you have seriously bad | | | | around being wealthy or poverty stricken, of deserving |
| thinking patterns that keep you from experiencing that | | | | financial ease, of being able to handle it. Our internal |
| abundant flow of all the good stuff? You may be | | | | rivers of fear and doubt run deep and provide |
| locked in to an abundant mediocre flow, a nice safe | | | | sustenance to every thought we have around living |
| river of little risk and moderate abundance, trying to | | | | abundantly. |
| wish your way to happiness. "I think I can, I think I can..." | | | | So how do we do this then? If you are trying to |
| becomes the unspoken mantra. There are things you | | | | change your fortune, and most people are, you've got |
| need to understand to become a powerful co-creator | | | | to do an entire overhaul of your value and belief |
| of Universal Abundance. | | | | system. All of you, all your little wobbly bits, have to all |
| Let's start with understanding energy. Everything is | | | | be going in the same direction. Consider that each and |
| energy; that is to say that all things on this earth are | | | | every thought you have, every emotion, and every |
| made up of molecules vibrating at specific frequencies | | | | action comprise a 'You' that is a team. All the team |
| creating electro-magnetic energy. This is not the same | | | | players have to be headed for the same goal if the |
| as spiritual energy, or life force energy, or chi, or ki, or | | | | body wants to get there. And if some part doesn't |
| mana, or prana - you get the picture. | | | | agree then the rest of the team must be strong |
| A chair has energy, a very low dense energy with no | | | | enough in their conviction to carry the weaker pieces. |
| vital life force. A rock or a crystal has a higher | | | | Working with the Law of Attraction is really a case of |
| frequency of energy, and while they can hold and | | | | embodiment. Your heart and mind work in concert to |
| amplify energy they have no life force energy and no | | | | create the life you currently have with all factors |
| creative energy. A tree or plant has an energy system | | | | considered. All happiness, self worth, self-esteem and |
| that is of a higher frequency than a chair as well. It | | | | bliss start in your soul's centre of being. If you think |
| does have a life force and as such a level of | | | | money is going to bring you these things you are |
| consciousness - but it has no mind. An animal has an | | | | wrong. Nothing outside of you will ever change what is |
| active life force, has a mind capable of making | | | | inside you. A designer suit hanging on your outside |
| choices, and therefore has a higher, much more active | | | | won't convince an inner soul dressed in rags that you |
| level of consciousness. Now the human being, wonder | | | | are suddenly rich! Life will only validate what you |
| of all sentient beings, has a highly evolved energy | | | | believe in your heart center. However, discovering true |
| system, is acutely sensitive to all other expressions of | | | | joy and worthiness, self respect and compassion |
| energy around him, has a complex mind and reasoning | | | | within your own core will bring you to many |
| ability and therefore - obviously - is the most highly | | | | opportunities of wealth and abundance and many will |
| evolved species on this planet. Or at least should be. | | | | involve money! Financial abundance and prosperity will |
| Unfortunately, we often sure don't act like it. We must | | | | often follow a spiritual awakening when body, mind and |
| also understand that there are laws that govern the | | | | soul are harmoniously participating to create a life well |
| movement of energy and furthermore that since they | | | | lived. |
| are laws we are subject to work within them. We | | | | If you ever want to realize financial success there are |
| can't just pick and choose, where, when, why and how | | | | 2 ways to do it:i) chase the money and do what ever |
| we want to participate. They govern. | | | | you have to do to get it and keep it, with all your |
| Now, let's move on to The Law of Attraction. | | | | issues fully intact. Don't even think of ever opening that |
| Understand this - the Law of Attraction is a Law - like | | | | soul-searching can of spiritual worms! After you've |
| the Law of Gravity or the Law of Thermodynamics. It | | | | made the cash you can spend it anyway you want; |
| is one of the functioning laws of our dualistic universe. | | | | blow it in a bar or feed a starving village. It's your |
| The Law of Attraction is simple: Like attracts like. | | | | choice!ii) learn to shift your frame of thinking towards |
| That's it. It is omnipotent and omnipresent. It is never | | | | believing in being abundant. Spiritual abundance does |
| not active. The Law of Attraction will not be | | | | not necessarily extend to our bank account balances. |
| manipulated and it does not respond to what you want | | | | Start building self worth, love and compassion and you |
| - it is a dynamic force that reflects what you are. All | | | | will be abundantly rewarded. Many poor, poor people |
| that you see happening in your life today is the Law in | | | | live richly abundant lives, grounded in purpose, heart |
| action; the outer manifestation of your life is exactly | | | | and mind. They get it. Many well off successful people |
| resonant with your energy system which is manifested | | | | feel a deep pervasive emptiness that threatens their |
| between all the layers of your being; your thoughts - all | | | | very existence. The difference lies in how rich the soul |
| of them, not just the ones you like, your feelings - again | | | | feels it is. An impoverished soul will never comprehend |
| all of them, and your actions - or lack of. If you want to | | | | what it means to be abundant and will never be able |
| change what you get in your life - you have to change | | | | to sustain material wealth. An abundant soul will never |
| how you think, feel and behave. Wishful thinking doesn't | | | | see itself as poor! |
| cut it. Vision boards and goal setting don't do it either. | | | | But whatever you do don't fool yourself into thinking |
| You have to be the change you want. The Law is | | | | that just because you have a pure heart and are |
| purely determined by negative, positive and neutral | | | | spiritually aware and do a ton of good work that you |
| charges. Everything in our world is either being | | | | deserve to be sustained and provided for in riches by |
| attracted or repulsed or in a state of inertia. You | | | | an abundant Universe. It just doesn't work that way! |