10.10.07
Living in Abundance Part 2
(Continued from Yesterday)
**Note: This section are simply notes for the talk.
Living abundantly is a relative idea. Everyone may have a different concept in mind when they think of what it means to live in abundance. Some might think it means having enough to pay the bills, others might think it means be healthy enough to be able to take a walk outside, one person might think it means having enough money to build an arts center to help enrich the culture of the world, and some might think it means having good friends. Whatever it means to the individual doesn’t matter. Learning to function in abundance requires the same formula.
1) Decide what it is you want to have more abundantly in your life.
2) Take some time to have a self honest discussion with your self about if you are really ready to commit to the changes you may be called to make in order to experience it. As demonstrated by my own example this is very important, because one of two things can happen if you don’t. One, you won’t get what you want because you don’t make any changes affirming your choice, or two, you will get what you want and if your not paying attention when it starts to come into your life it may overwhelm you temporarily.
3) You may also want to take a look at how much you might secretly pride yourself on suffering by not having enough, and how you can endure on so little better than others who have more. As I mentioned earlier, I was somewhat prideful on this point and after much studying the subject of prosperity and applying what I have learned I realized that having more money and more free time by doing what I loved would allow me to be of much greater service to the world. I would be free to travel and give talks, work with people on a donation basis. I would be free to do my work without the worry of if I had enough money to pay my bills. That is what abundance is really about, having the full support of the universe so you can do what you came here to do. Making it hard on yourself by maintaining a sense of lack doesn’t get you points on the score board, it just wastes your time.
4) Once you have a clear idea and you have committed to a course of action, imagine what it would feel like to have the abundance you desire. By this I don’t mean you have to affirm it constantly and force yourself to think about it always. Think about a person who’s always had lots of money or good health. They don’t think it’s strange that they have lots of money or good health. That’s just the way it is. You need to start living as though what you want in your life is just the way it is, which is nothing special and nothing to be groped for. People who always live in abundance vs. those who do not, think differently than someone who is not, but it actually goes beyond their thinking, their BEING is actually different.
5) Then go about your life doing what you know is necessary to support the realization of your goal. Now keep in mind, just because you want something badly doesn’t mean you innately know how to experience it. It may require reading books, finding out how others accomplished what you want, etc. You need to get the methods in your consciousness so that you have the proper tools to make your dreams possible, and believe me…ANYTHING is possible.
6) Remember, “There is nothing wrong with you that changing your self completely couldn’t fix.”
Now all that I’ve discussed so far relates to the relative objective world, the world we can experience with our senses. It is helpful to remember the source of that world when aspiring to live a life of abundance. If we are not centered in the source of creation, nothing in creation will ever satisfy us and so abundance will just be a painfully unattainable concept. To fully become conscious and accepting of all the resources available to us as we traverse the seas of life requires that we learn what we are at the core of our being. By learning that we are one in God and one in the self of all things and beings nothing which is meant to be ours will ever be denied us.
To do this, we give up the results of all our actions to God or whatever we conceive the highest power to be. We accept that all our actions, our successes and failures, are God working through us, God working as us. By doing this we give up our attachment and our fear, because then God’s will is directing his creation flawlessly. God knows how to take care of God’s creation. In times of inner reflection we can simply be as God is. If we don’t know fully what God is we can ask, and to take it a step further we can ask what our relationship is to God. With the repeated contemplation and intention to fully know our relationship in God the realization comes that we are fully one in God and that all our needs are provided. We are able to see our selves clearly and act appropriately in God. This is the true meaning of abundance. Once God is realized, there is nothing more to have or do except be as we are directed.
***Closing Meditation, opening our heart and minds to the infinite and knowing our complete connection to the infinite resources in the universe. And accepting that there may be things to learn and do for us to properly manage those resources.
