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For
many years I struggled with what
some call prosperity consciousness.
Despite all my efforts, hard
work, dedication, and fervent
desire to change my
circumstances, wealth, affluence
and worldly success eluded me. I
have been on a spiritual journey
for more than twenty years and
during that time, I have been
exposed to numerous 'techniques'
for reversing my situation, but
try as I may, nothing seemed to
work. A shortage of money with
all its attendant woes continued
to dog me. Maybe I'm a slow
learner or something, because it
really has been a struggle for
me to 'get it'! In
recent years, much has been
written about the Law of
Attraction. Even prior to The
Secret DVD, I studied
Wallace Wattles' 1910 book The
Science of Getting Rich
(which was the origin of The
Secret movie). Faithfully I read it
over and over, practicing his recommendations
on a daily basis. Nothing ever
changed. I
followed other 'get rich'
programs such as Stuart
Lichtman's How To Get Lots of
Money For Anything Fast and was
successful in using his
techniques to write a book in three weeks,
but I had very limited success with
anything of a monetary nature. When
The Secret DVD was
released, I enthusiastically
watched it dozens of times and
felt confident that this was the
answer to my prayers. It wasn't. Many
articles, interviews and books
came out around the same time
and I devoured them all hoping
that one of them would provide
me with the missing key to
unlock prosperity for me. The process has spanned
several years. There
have been ahas and insights along the
way, such as the time Dr. Hew
Len told me at a
Ho'oponopono course
that I had made many, many vows
of poverty in my life -
thousands, in fact - and this
was what held me
back. Shortly
afterwards, I had a recollection
of myself as a monk who had
relinquished all his worldly
goods to 'find God.' Was this
why I had made so many vows of
poverty? I believe so. Thank
goodness I had
Ho'oponopono to help me heal
that memory! Gradually,
as I practiced Ho'oponopono
daily, my situation
began to improve... very, very
slightly. There were other
milestones, but a
major breakthrough came when I
listened to an MP3 from a
wonderful, enlightened
individual by the name of
Marcia
Martin. In about 30 minutes, she
was able to clarify the process
of creation better than anyone
had ever done before... for me
anyway. As I said, I'm a slow
learner :). As
you may have heard, there is
never any time except Now. The
future doesn't exist except in
our thoughts about it. The past
doesn't exist except as
memories. The common denominator
is, of course, our mind. And we
can only access our thoughts
and memories Now. All we have is
this present moment and what
we do with it is crucial in
the creation process. If
your thoughts are focused on
memories and what has been,
you will continue to manifest the
experiences you have always
experienced. If you think about
the future wishing for this or
that, it will always be in the
future. In
order to have all that you desire,
you must BE what you desire and
you must BE 'that'
in this present moment. If you
wish to be a dancer, she says,
you can't think about all the
stuff you'll need to DO in
order to be a dancer, you must
think and act as if you are
already a dancer... IN YOUR
MIND. Marcia
also pointed out that our
ability to describe memories are
far, far better than our ability
to describe our future - mostly
because we fear it. Ask someone
to tell you about a past
relationship, she said, and
they'll go into infinite detail.
Ask them to tell you about the
perfect relationship they yearn
for and they'll have a hard time
coming up with two or even three
sketchy details. Isn't
that sad? So,
clue number one about creating
what you want is to BE what you want... in
your mind... NOW. Clue
number two is to start
thinking about and describing
your desire in as much detail as
possible: Drive the car, live
in the house, be in the
relationship, and experience
every nuance... in your mind
NOW. Abraham
Hicks tells us every prayer
and every request is ALWAYS
answered. ALWAYS. But only when
you feel it
and believe it Now will it
become your reality in the
future.
You can only do it Now!
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