Why
do people have trouble with prosperity? Many of you automatically
think of prosperity as something primarily financial. However,
this is simply not so. Prosperity encompasses much more than
money.
In
fact prosperity is synonymous with self-esteem. Prosperity is
manifesting what you feel you are worth.
It
is success by your standards: it could mean lying in the sun
for an hour a day without having to feel you should be somewhere
else; knowing that you can lie there and congratulate yourself
on having your life so well handled that lying in the sun is
a celebration.
Prosperity
or havingness (the ability to have) is a pervasive thing. You
limit your success according what you think you are worth. This
occurs unconsciously and it so happens that you have that level
of success or richness of relationships that matches your self-esteem.
Imagine
a family with low self-esteem winning a million dollars in a
lottery. Within twelve months it is all gone and they are back
to the old lifestyle. They couldn't have that level of success
because their self-esteem was not high enough. Their energy level
could not contain the huge increase. Limits to prosperity are
imposed by the false personality and come from fear. There are
real and specific fears of what may happen to you if you have
high, high havingness.
For
instance, people kill other people for their possessions. If
you don't have much you won't get killed. One can look at the
specific fears in your conscious mind and dispose of them. The
converse of this is that if you love yourself then all things
are possible. So, prosperity is about feeling worthy enough to
have life be the way you want it.
On
this account prosperity fills lack; lack of time, lack of things,
lack of relationships, lack of love, lack of creativity, and
so on. Prosperity is then about having an abundance of anything
you wish you had more of, including more spiritual insight.
Prosperity
and Higher Centers
Spiritual
prosperity, as with spiritual power, has to do with being in
higher centers, gaining that distanced perspective on yourself
and your life to see how it all fits together. It is about feeling
a sense of oneness with other people. Not surprisingly, prosperity
is a matter of how you handle the three components of the higher
centers and of the universe -- truth, love, and energy.
Truth The
focus of higher intellectual center is truth. Prosperity is a
matter of having truth in your life. You can tell the truth to
your friends and family and they can tell the truth to you. This
is the prosperity that truth bestows. When you have told the
truth and have heard the truth you can then act on it. You can
then decide what relationships you want in your life. When you
tell yourself the truth about your job, you can decide to change
it or to keep it. Having done this weeding out you are automatically
a more powerful person. You are not spending time with people
you don't want to, so you have more time and more energy. In
short you have higher havingness. Having seen where you fit in,
you can then see the whole, and open yourself up as a spirit
without boundaries to your guides, channeling, and connectedness,
and away from pain, fear, and suffering. From this space you
can make powerful choices.
Love Remember
that higher emotional center manifests unconditional love. Prosperity
is dependent on having more love in your life. It is about feeling
that you deserve it and loving yourself enough to let yourself
have it. Fear blocks higher havingness levels and the remedy
is learning how to love yourself. Love yourself and all things
are possible.
Energy Prosperity
is about having the energy to manifest what you want. The energetic
quality of the higher moving center makes the integration of
truth and love possible. When truth and love work together in
your life, you can become as prosperous as you wish. Remember
the example of the family with low self esteem who could not
take advantage of their good fortune. The energy of higher moving
center raises your capacity to have, do, and be more.
Becoming
More Prosperous
In
order to become more prosperous in an integrated way, balance
is required. There must be inspiration, expression, action, and
assimilation. Inspiration needs action. Action needs expression.
Expression requires assimilation first, and so on. All are interrelated.
Each axis must come into play. When satisfying prosperity is
blocked, usually one of these four axes have not come into play.
Imagine that you are inspired by a vision of what you want your
life to be like. You assimilate the vision and express it to
other people. However without a plan of action it is unlikely
that your vision will manifest to any degree. Likewise if you
go into action without an inspirational vision you will probably
only manifest chaos.
What
To Do
The
following is a pragmatic step-by-step approach to having, doing,
and being more in your life.
Work
out exactly what you want and write it down as a series of goals.
Create positive affirmations about these, stating them in present
terms, as "I am now enjoying wonderful health and good relationships." This
will instantly bring up the negative beliefs that have held you
back in this area. Those beliefs can then be listed, acknowledged,
and let go of. New positive affirmations can take the place of
each one.
Regularly
visualize mentally being the way you want to, having what you
want, doing what you want. Persist in doing this despite current
circumstances and absence of immediate results. It takes time
for thoughts to manifest on the physical plane. Make a plan of
how to meet the goals. Check off each step as accomplished.
Limitations
to Prosperity
Know
what your comfort zone is. Pushing beyond your comfort zone and
having more can be quite uncomfortable, believe it or not. Do
you truly want another forty thousand a year? Do you truly want
a committed love relationship? Are you prepared to handle whatever
discomfort comes with it? Ask yourself first? "Can I have it?"
· too
much
· comfort
zone
· too
little
Look
at what you have to give up to get above the comfort zone limits
of your ego. List the items. Look at how other people rely on
you to not increase your havingness. If you do it, they will
have to look at theirs because they are often competitive. This
may make them angry with you. You need to give up the belief
that you can't have it.
Note
that your ego simply wants to be right.
There
are two attitudes to money:
Spend
now and trust - make the space for it. (positive)
Expense
control - governed by the fear of running out (negative)
Note
that these work in a kind of dynamic tension with one another.
One does not work without the other. Look at the structure of
the universe. Does anything run out? No, it doesn't. The law
of the universe is that it will replace whatever you spend. What
you sow you shall reap.
Look
at your experience. You can run low on things and stay there,
but you never actually run out. You never actually starve to
death unless you have specifically chosen an environment to promote
this experience. You can trust in this process. One of the governing
principles of this teaching is neutrality, that is, not hanging
on to things. There may be pleasures, sadness, money, or whatever.
The aim is to experience them as they occur. Let them in and
let them out. Often people dealing in huge sums of money work
no harder than those in menial jobs. The energy input is the
same. The difference is in the mental tapes they play. Their
beliefs about money are different. One believes you have to work
hard for a little of it. The other believes you can have lots
of it for relatively little effort. They make it fun. They don't
seek to hold on to money. They are philosophical about it. They
work hard at working out what they want, and persist until they
get there.
| Authors
Details:
José Stevens
José Stevens,
Ph.D., is the founder of Essence Psychology and lectures
internationally on essence and personality, shamanism,
and prosperity. He is the author of Tao To
Earth and Transforming
Your Dragons and Secrets of Shamanism. The
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