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An inner temple (also referred to as an inner sanctuary) is an environment built in your imagination for the purpose of spiritual retreat and work. It does not have to be a ‘temple building’ as such, but it can be any place where you will feel relaxed, at peace and able to focus your energy on a regular basis. Here are some inner environments which are commonly used for temple work:
- A log cabin situated next to a babbling mountain brook. Here the sky is clear blue, the mountains green and the air fresh and invigorating. Inside, the cabin is simply furnished with an open fire, a comfortable chair, and any other items you find necessary to make this inner temple appealing.
- A stretch of coastline, unmarred by human construction. Your temple in this case is not confined to a building. Instead, your spiritual work and play is enjoyed on the sandy beach as you watch the surf of the clear blue ocean lap back and forth.
- A ‘Garden of Eden’, with all manner of exotic plants and wildlife helping to surround you with the beauty of nature. In this kind of inner temple, there is often an open glade area where you can sit and carry out your energy work.
There are many other kinds of inner temples which you can choose to build, but the three examples that I have just provided should illustrate that your temple doesn’t have to be a building in the conventional sense. With that fact established, you should now start creating your inner temple – your personal oasis of spiritual peace, power and enjoyment. To do this, simply follow the guidelines below:
- Go to a place which is quiet and where you will be free from distractions for at least half an hour.
- Sit or lay in a comfortable position, close your eyes and spend a few minutes relaxing your body.
- When you feel totally relaxed, imagine your inner temple as clearly as you can. For example, if your temple is to be a log cabin in the mountains, see the cabin from the outside. Look at the scenery around you. Breath in the fresh, crisp air. Hear the babbling brook nearby.
- Now enter your temple and look around. Notice the flickering fireplace. Sit down in the comfortable chair in your temple space and simply enjoy being in this new place.
- Now affirm: ‘This is my inner temple. This is my personal oasis where I can come and be at peace with myself and the universe. This is where I can focus my spiritual energy for the benefit of my ongoing evolvement as a spiritual being.’
- When you feel that you have spent long enough in your temple, decide to return to normal waking consciousness and open your eyes.
Repeat this simple exercise every day for a week or two and your inner temple will soon begin to feel very real. This is because it is real as far as the inner plane of reality is concerned. You have built a personal oasis in your imagination – an oasis you should feel able to retreat to whenever you wish for the purpose of carrying out spiritual work or simply relaxing and enjoying the environment.
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.
Some Law of Attraction teachers say that all you have to do to create good things in your life is imagine good things happening and wait for the universe to deliver. Unfortunately, life doesn’t work quite like that, and it is also necessary to take physical actions to make the manifestation of your desires possible.
Just as you can only receive a telephone call by taking the action of picking up the phone when it rings, so you can only experience the manifestation of your desires by taking the actions that make such receiving possible. If you simply sit back and do nothing, then that’s exactly what you will get.
The good news is that the Law of Attraction often makes physical actions a lot more effective than it ever would be if you had not first created your future internally as described in the previous post. When you create your future in the way that I have been explaining, you can expect all sorts of coincidences to show up in your life that help you to manifest your desires faster and easier than you might currently think possible. So what kind of actions should you start taking?
I think it is a good idea to borrow the philosophy of many spiritual thinkers throughout history in this respect. ‘Pray as if it all depends on God,’ they said, ‘and act as if it all depends on you.’ In other words, you should simply take whatever actions would be necessary to achieve the goal even if the Law of Attraction didn’t exist.
If you want to lose weight, start eating more sensibly and get regular exercise. If you want to get a promotion at work, focus on being more productive and enthusiastic about your job. And if you want more wealth in your life, start looking for ways in which you can increase your income – perhaps by investing in training materials or even in personal development materials that will help you develop a more abundant state of mind.
Don’t think of these actions as being anything negative because they aren’t. Think of them as your way of showing the universe that you are serious about what you want and that you are going to use every resource available to bring it into your life. When you do this you are effectively participating in a process of ‘active receiving’ and your efforts will not be wasted.
At this point we can summarise the Create Your Future process quite simply:
• Design Your Future by deciding what you really want.
• Create Your Future Internally with visualization and affirmations.
• Create Your Future Externally by taking action toward your goals.
Apply this process in your life and the Law of Attraction will do the rest.
In my last post I explained that the first step to creating the life of your dreams was to design your future. If you have done that you are ready to proceed to the next step, which is to create your future internally. This involves using a couple of techniques to bring you to the point where you completely believe that your future success has already been achieved on an internal level.
The first technique I recommend, and one that will be very familiar to anyone who is familiar with the Law of Attraction, is visualization. Visualizing is traditionally defined as ‘to imagine in pictures’, but getting the feeling of having accomplished something is just as important as imagining scenes of accomplishment, so don’t get too hung up on the visual side of things. Instead, concentrate on developing a feeling that the future you have created has already come to pass on an inner level.
To do this, close your eyes and allow yourself to ‘make believe’ that the future you have designed has magically come true. Imagine that you have the physique of your dreams, that your bank balance is as high as you ever wanted it to be, that you already live in your ideal home, and so on. Spend several minutes doing this and make sure that you enjoy every second, then make sure that you repeat the exercise at least three times each day. View it as ‘visiting your creation in advance’.
Astute readers will note that I asked you to ‘make believe’ rather than fantasize. That’s because what you are doing here is literally making a new belief about your reality, and when your belief is formed the magic of believing comes into play to speed up the manifestation process.
The second technique that you should use to create your future internally is affirmation, which involves saying positive statements with as much conviction and belief as possible. I suggest that you use the statements that you wrote down in Step 3 of the Design Your Future exercise and that you get into the habit of speak them out loud several times a day. Also speak them quietly to yourself when you find yourself with nothing particular to do, such as when queuing in a store or waiting for a friend.
Concentrate on using these two techniques of visualization and affirmation on a daily basis and always aim to develop the emotional feeling of having rather than wanting. By making the belief that you already have what you want, you effectively create your future internally and put yourself in a great position for the third and final phase, which I will discuss next time.
If you want to know how to predict the future then you’re in luck, because I can tell you. The most reliable way of predicting the future doesn’t involve crystal balls, tarot cards, tea leaves or any other kind of fortune-telling paraphernalia. That’s because the best way to predict the future is to create it.
Most people allow the future to unfold all by itself, and as a result they find themselves being led by the circumstances of life. If their employer offers them a promotion they take it and move up the career ladder. If he doesn’t then they stay exactly where they are. If the fashion world decides that the colour of the season is green then they end up wearing green for a few months. And if the colour is blue they wear blue. In other words, most people allow life to boss them around.
Allowing life to boss you around makes your future very unpredictable, because you have no idea what’s coming next. This can make you feel insecure, anxious and literally clueless about where you will be one, five or ten years down the line. Some people might say that they are quite happy to ‘go wherever life leads them’ but to me that kind of approach is a complete waste of conscious intelligence and makes it very difficult for anyone to live life to the full.
If you want to predict the future with a much greater degree of certainty, and trade anxiety and insecurity for confidence, you need to start creating your future instead of just waiting for it to happen. This involves deciding exactly what you want to experience and achieve in your life, establishing the desired outcome in your mind as if it were already a reality, and then taking the actions that are required to shift your creation in the mental universe into the physical universe.
Over the next few posts I will discuss each of these elements so that you are in no doubt about how to proceed. This will allow you to start creating your future as you want it to be – something that makes predicting the future easier than you ever thought possible!
The Secret Science of Wealth Creation is a matrix of seven simple but extremely powerful metaphysical principles. Here is the third principle:
Wealth Creation Principle #3 – Create A Wealth Talisman
There is a lot of mumbo-jumbo spoken about talismans, but one should never throw the baby out with the bathwater just because a few over-zealous people get their facts wrong.
The truth is that talismans can have a lot of power, but only when you charge them with spiritual energy yourself. This is because a talisman is a very personal object and what might work wonders for one person may not work for you simply because your personal energies are not compatible.
A talisman is, when all is said and done, a symbol. A wealth talisman is a symbol of wealth and every time you see it you will subconsciously release a thought-form of wealth and prosperity into the surrounding ether. After a few days of emitting such thought-forms you will find that the flow of wealth and abundance into your life gradually gets stronger. After a few weeks the flow will be so established that only a concerted effort will be able to stop your financial situation from improving.
Creating a wealth talisman is a simple process, but not one which should be rushed. You should set aside half an hour and proceed as follows:
• Take a coin and clean it thoroughly. The shinier the coin is, the better.
• Place the coin on the palm of your right hand.
• Close your eyes and relax completely.
• Imagine that your right hand is beginning to glow with bright yellow energy, and that the coin is absorbing this energy. Do not be surprised if your hand seems to tingle when you do this, but do not be concerned if it doesn’t.
• With your eyes still closed, say the following phrase out loud:
This coin symbolises the abundance which is mine.
I charge it with spiritual power and declare it
to be my personal talisman of wealth.
Attract abundance now.
Now close your right hand around the coin and imagine that the glowing stops. The coin is now charged as a talisman of wealth.
Using the talisman is very simple. Just place it in your purse or wallet (ensuring that it will not get mixed with other coins) and leave it there. Whenever you see it, give thanks silently for the wealth and abundance which is already yours. If you wish, you may visualise it glowing from time to time, but this is by no means essential.
Carry the talisman with you for a time and you will soon notice your financial situation improving. The longer you use it and the more faith you have in its ability to store the God-Power within you, the better the results will be.
The Secret Science of Wealth Creation is a matrix of seven simple but extremely powerful metaphysical principles. Here is the second principle:
Wealth Creation Principle #2 – Be Grateful
Believe us when we tell you that this principle has enormous power to change your financial situation around virtually immediately. It is a principle which has been used for millennia, and which no-one who wishes to reach his full potential can afford to ignore. It is the principle which tells you to:
Be grateful for your abundance.
Now many people will say that it is ludicrous to give thanks for something which hasn’t yet manifested on the material plane. From a flesh and blood point of view we would agree. But look at things from the spiritual point of view and you will soon discover that giving thanks is what enables the manifestation to take place.
Let us explain:
You may have already learned that one of the keys to making things happen is to believe that they have already happened. What better way is there to express this belief than to give thanks for what you have asked for? By giving thanks in advance you are proclaiming that you already have what you want, and this way of thinking unleashes tremendous spiritual power.
Consider the multiplication miracles which Jesus of Nazareth performed during his lifetime and you will see this principle being used to excellent effect.
‘Then Jesus took the loaves of bread, thanked God for them and gave them to the people who were sitting there. He did the same with the fish, giving as much as the people wanted. When they had all had enough to eat, Jesus said to his followers, “Gather the leftover pieces of fish and bread so that nothing is wasted.” So they gathered up the pieces and filled twelve baskets with the pieces left from the five barley loaves.’ (John 6:11-13)
This is how Jesus fed over five thousand people with just a few loaves and a few fish – he expressed his gratitude. The gratitude was two-fold. He was giving thanks for what he already had – the few loaves and fish – but he was also giving thanks for the miracle of multiplication which he was about to perform. In his minds eye, the miracle had already taken place, so giving thanks was natural.
To unleash the power of this principle in your own life, you too need to get into the habit of expressing two-fold gratitude. Give thanks for what you already have, and then give thanks that a whole lot more is coming your way. In doing this you are preparing the way for a torrent of wealth and abundance to enter your life.
We suggest that you begin this habit by taking your wallet or purse and opening it. Look at the money inside – even if it is just a few coins – and then express your gratitude to the God-Power within you for providing you with this money. When you have done this, express your gratitude for the fact that even more wealth is winging its way towards you at this very moment – a veritable flood of wealth which can never be stopped.
This is an extremely simple principle to put into place, but it is absolutely and vitally important. The more you express gratitude for what you have and for what is to come, the faster wealth will manifest in your life. Ignore this principle and your lack of gratitude will actually hold back the flood of prosperity which is waiting to arrive in your life. So be grateful!
