Abundance:
Truth, Love,
and Energy
by José Stevens, Ph.D.
 What is prosperity? How can you be
more prosperous? 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.
1. Work out exactly what you want and write it down as a series of
goals.
2. 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.
3. Regularly visualize mentally being the way you want to, having
what you want, doing what you want.
4. Persist in doing this despite current circumstances and absence
of immediate results. It takes time for thoughts to manifest on the physical
plane.
5. 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?”
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.
This article is excerpted from:
Tao to Earth
by José Stevens.
This article was reprinted with permission from the book, Tao to Earth, published by Bear & Co., an imprint of Inner Traditions International. www.innertraditions.com.
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About The
Author
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 Earth to Tao and Transforming Your Dragons, and co-author of The Michael Handbook and Secrets of Shamanism.
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