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Prosperity consciousness is something that anyone who wants to experience greater levels of wealth and abundance must learn to develop. A prosperity consciousness is a mental, emotional and spiritual attitude to money that includes the following aspects:
A belief that we live in a genuinely abundant universe and that there is more than enough to enable all human beings to live lives of plenty and prosperity. Getting rich doesn’t mean that anyone else has to get poor in the process – instead we can all get rich and enjoy the abundance that is available to us.
An appreciation for the wealth and abundance that we already have in our lives. Many people don’t pause to notice how wealthy they really are, and that ignorance effectively prevents them from receiving even more.
A sense of trust in the benevolence of the universe, and a sense of knowing that we can have whatever we need to live our lives to the full and to help others do the same.
It could be said that we are all born with a prosperity consciousness and that we are conditioned to lose that attitude as we grow older. Consider how many children think that money is no big deal and act as if there is an endless supply of the stuff. That’s a prosperity consciousness, but adults are quick to ‘teach’ those children that money is a much rarer commodity than they think. In fact, we teach children to develop the opposite of a prosperity consciousness – we teach them to have a scarcity consciousness and to treat money as if it were most difficult thing in the world to obtain.
Although it is important to teach children to respect the value of money and the work and productivity that goes into creating wealth on a financial level, we certainly shouldn’t encourage scarcity thinking. Human beings achieve in life only as much as they believe they are able to achieve, so limiting the way that our children think effectively limits what they will be able to experience in life.
Developing a prosperity consciousness is not something that requires us to ‘add’ to our adult understanding, but only that we go back to how we originally viewed things as children. We need to go back to the point where we could look at the natural world and appreciate the wealth of space that is available to us for exploration and fun. We need to look at the wealth of opportunities that there are to provide a myriad of products and services to our fellow human beings. Then we need to dare to dream big dreams, make big plans and proceed with the faith that we will achieve all the things that we want to achieve.
NOTE: If you liked this article then be sure to study my seven-part series of posts on The Secret Science of Wealth Creation.
When you meet your inner guide, you are actually coming into contact with the God-Force within you. You are meeting that aspect of yourself which is pure divinity. Therefore your guide has your best interests in mind at all times. He or she is there to help you live life to the full and to become all that you have the potential of becoming. Your guide can give you information, knowledge, insights and words of wisdom which apply specifically to your problems, your life and your situations.
To get the most out of your meetings with your inner guide, or your “conversations with God” if you will, there are a few simple guidelines which you would do well to adhere to. The first of these is:
#1 – Visit with your inner guide on a regular basis
If you had a hot-line to God, the creative force of the universe, and you had access to this force twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, how often would you use it? How often would you pick up the phone, give God a call and chat about your life? How often would you ask for help, inspiration, insight, ideas, suggestions, knowledge or wisdom?
The chances are that if you had such a hot-line you would use it regularly. You would want to make contact with the God-Force on at least a daily basis because by doing this you would be able to live life more fully and get the maximum “juice” out of your waking hours.
Well, you do have such a hot-line! Your inner guide, being a mental representation of the God-Force within you, is available twenty-four hours a day, seven days each week, and he or she will always be pleased to see you. You should therefore visit your inner guide often – at least on a daily basis. Talk about life, your family, your finances, your relationships, your career, your health, your spirituality. Talk about the wonder of creation, the higher planes of existence, the abundance of the universe, and whatever else you have on your mind.
Your inner guide, being the God-Force within you, will be with you for eternity. Your guide has been with you from the very beginning and will always continue to be with you – even after your physical body expires and your spirit progresses on to the next stage of its natural and eternal evolution. This alone is a very good reason to get to know your guide better through regular meetings and conversations!
All spiritual masters commune with their inner guides. Jesus of Nazareth called his “the Father within”. Others call the inner voice The Helper, their Higher Self, their Cosmic Consciousness, their Universal Intelligence and so on. What you call your inner guide is irrelevant. All that matters is that you listen to it!
If you have studied the law of attraction or metaphysical techniques in the past then you may already realise that the human imagination is the bridge between the world of the seen and the unseen. It is the imaginative faculty which enables us to go beyond the material plane of existence and begin to explore the worlds within us. This is why dreams, visions and visualisations – all products of the imaginative faculty – feature so prominently in the teachings of all truly knowledgeable adepts, from the Buddha and Jesus to modern-day teachers such as Deepak Chopra, Daniel Keaton, Stuart Wilde, and others like them.
The techniques presented in this series therefore utilise the imaginative facility which you already possess. It is important to realise that even if you are not able to visualise (imagine a picture in your head) you can still use your imagination in other ways. You can imagine the smell of roses as you walk through the garden of your soul. You can imagine the feel of the cool wet grass underneath your bare feet. You can imagine the sound of the waterfall in the background. Of course, if you are able to imagine visually then your inner walk will be enhanced with pictures, but this is by no means essential.
Here then, is a technique which all of you can use to come into contact with your inner guide, whether you can visualise or not. Study it thoroughly and you should be successful to at least some extent the very first time you use it.
Meeting Your Inner Guide
The first step to meeting your inner guide is to become as relaxed and comfortable as possible. Sit in a chair and close your eyes. Take several deep breaths and then deliberately relax every part of your body. Start with your feet and then work your way up slowly to the crown of your head. Make sure that you relax your facial muscles as fully as possible. If your head lolls forward a little then don’t worry – this just means that you are relaxed fully.
Now imagine that you are walking through a beautiful inner garden. Hear birds singing in the foreground and a waterfall in the background. Breath in the invigorating air, and feel it purifying you both inside and out. Feel the warm rays of the sun shine against your body. Smell the scent of your favourite flowers. Spend several minutes enjoying the tranquillity and serenity of this garden.
Sit down on the grass in the garden of your soul and invite your inner guide to come to visit with you. Ask your guide to come in a form which you will find comfortable and pleasing.
Now wait. Listen for your guide approaching. Hear your guide slowly walk towards you from the far end of the garden. Imagine that your inner guide sits down in front of you. If you can visualise then you may wish to note what your guide looks like, but this is by no means essential.
At this point you can ask your guide’s name. Wait for an answer. This will usually just pop into your consciousness. Thank your guide for accepting your invitation and say that you would like to sit and talk for a while. Hear your guide’s response to this.
Spend as long as you wish talking with your inner guide. Ask a question and then wait for an answer. Often the answer, like the name of your guide, will just pop into your consciousness. The voice of your guide may sound like your own voice, or it may sound totally different. Just accept the voice and the words it carries. Ask more questions. Talk about anything that is troubling you and ask for possible solutions. Talk about your life and ask for comments from your guide.
When you are ready to leave the garden of your soul, thank your guide for this precious time and stand up. Walk back out of the garden the way you came and then open your eyes.
This first encounter with your guide can be incredibly special, but some people may doubt its validity. You may wonder if the encounter was merely a product of your imagination. The answer to this is that it was and it wasn’t. You used your imagination to create the garden of your soul and meet with your guide, but your conversation with your guide was impromptu. Indeed, the answers your guide gave you may not have made you feel comfortable. Your guide may have told you to get yourself together, to forgive someone you hold a grudge against, or to do something which you wouldn’t ordinarily think of doing.
In addition to the three core concepts we discussed in the previous post (see The Conscious Universe), there are also several “natural laws” which govern the way the universe works. These include:
The Law of One
In the realm of physicality, the human race appears to be made up of separate individuals. Whilst it is true that we all have unique personalities, opinions and so on, from a spiritual perspective we are all one. Think of individual people (and animals too) as being different facets of a single, glorious diamond and you will go a long way towards comprehending this.
It is because of this Law that the world’s greatest teachers have advised us to love others as ourselves – because we are, on a deeper level – very much connected to each other.
The Law of Cause and Effect
We sometimes like to believe that we can think, say and do things without it affecting anyone or anything. This is not true. Every cause has an associated effect, and whatever we “put out” into the universe will come back to us many times over. This is good news if we routinely think positive thoughts, speak encouraging words and perform helpful, loving deeds. But if we are negative in thought, word and deed then all of that negativity will come back into our lives one way or the other. We reap what we sow – always.
The Law of Sustained Focus
Whatever you focus on regularly will expand in your life. If you focus on all the good things that you have with a sense of gratitude then you will soon have even more good things to be thankful for. If you worry or think constantly about all the things that you don’t have, then you will just as surely have even greater lack.
The more sustained your focus, the more powerful this Law seems to be. This is not good news if you tend to think negatively, because you will only end up manifesting even more things to be negative about. However, this Law provides tremendous potential, because the more we deliberately focus on good things, the more good we will experience in life. By developing our ability to focus clearly, we will begin to enjoy something called, “the miracle-power of doubtless faith”. We will of course talk more specifically about this in a future post.
The Law of Detachment
This is a tricky law to understand, because it seems so paradoxical, but basically it can be said that the less attached we are to getting something, the faster we will attract it into our lives.
It is because so few people understand this law that they fail to get results even from sound metaphysical techniques and principles. They want results so desperately that they actually drive what they want away from them. If these people would only learn to detach themselves from their desire, what they want would show up a great deal faster. Again, we will discuss this fully in the future.
The Concepts and Laws that we have outlined here are not comprehensive. There are many other “lesser” truths which are just as useful to know and understand.
Our aim in these first two posts has simply been to provide the necessary groundwork so that we can go on to discuss these things in more detail in the future.
Until then, take a little longer to ponder over the material just presented. It may well be that your understanding of “why things happen the way they do” is already becoming much clearer.
The universe as we know it goes far beyond the laws of physics. In fact it could be said that the physical universe is just the tip of the iceberg. Behind the atoms, protons and electrons of physical energy and matter there is a much more subtle spiritual force. Yet despite its subtlety, it is awesomely powerful.
This spiritual force has been given many names. Some traditions have personalised it and called it God, the Father and the Almighty. Others refer to it as Infinite Intelligence, the Creative Force and the Conscious Universe. And of course, there are many other labels which are used the world over.
It doesn’t matter what we call the spiritual force (although we will call it the Conscious Universe simply for ease of reading). What matters is that we recognise and work with it. If we do this – if we get in harmony with the universe – we will find that life because a much more pleasurable and meaningful experience.
Before we can begin to develop such a harmony with the universe, we first need to become familiar with certain key concepts and natural laws. We will discuss these more fully over the coming months so that we can learn to make use of them and not just indulge in idle talk, but for now the major points which you need to begin thinking about can be summarised as follows:
Concept 1 - You are an eternal spiritual being
Although you have a physical body of flesh and blood, the real you is spiritual in nature. Because spirit is eternal, so you are eternal, and although your physical body will one day cease to function, the real you will never die. Instead it will soar free and continue on a new, magnificent adventure.
Concept 2 – There is a purpose for everything
You were not born into this world by accident, but you came here for a reason. In the same way, although sometimes events and circumstances may appear to be random and maybe even cruel, there is always a purpose for everything that happens in your life and in the world as a whole.
Concept 3 – You have great creative potential
Because you are a spiritual being, you were never designed to be a victim of life. On the contrary. You have incredible creative abilities which you can learn to use to dramatically improve your quality of life.
