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How to Attract Abundance and Prosperity?
Who among us doesn’t wish for a bigger salary, a larger home, a new car, and a carefree trip to the supermarket, knowing you can fill the cart to the brim without worry? Aviva Steinmetz reveals that abundance and prosperity don't originate from your wallet, but from your mindset. When we learn to think correctly, the channel of abundance will begin to flow towards us.
One of the things everyone wishes for themselves is financial prosperity. Although this ambition is common among all, its realization is not. Why?
It turns out that true abundance and prosperity start with feeling good about oneself. Prosperity means the freedom to do as we wish at the time we want, to fulfill our dreams and express our true selves as we perceive them. The expression of financial prosperity is never in the amount of money we hold, but in our mental state, as it is written "Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion." Prosperity, or its absence, is, in fact, an external expression of the ideas in our minds. Our prosperity consciousness doesn’t depend on money, but rather, the flow of money depends on our prosperity consciousness.
Let’s examine several statements and thoughts we associate with money. Circle the sentences you identify with: 1) I can’t save money. 2) I don’t earn enough. 3) Others always have more money. 4) I can’t make it through the month without debts. 5) I can’t pay off my debts. 6) Money doesn’t grow on trees. 7) Rich people are cheats, frauds, and exploiters. 8) Money can only be earned by hard work. 9) Easy come, easy go.
How many sentences did you mark as true for yourself? If you marked three or more, it appears you need to change your thought direction regarding money to allow abundance into your life.
A. What We Believe – Is What We Receive
Like every other life area, in financial matters, we operate from the subconscious, not the conscious. In the subconscious reside our beliefs, thoughts, expectations, and dreams. What we believe we will receive – that’s what we’ll receive in reality. In fact, we are the only ones creating our reality.
What do you believe concerning money? Do you believe there’s enough for everyone? Do you associate your self-worth with it? Do you think it will fulfill your dreams? Are you a friend of money, or is it your enemy? Do you think "Easy come, easy go" is true? Or that money requires hard work to obtain?
Each of the above sentences is an expression of a mindset that breeds belief. Such thinking is limited, restrictive, and outdated. Perhaps beliefs of this kind characterized your family’s perspective on money, since family beliefs often stay with us, subconsciously influencing us. You may have adopted them over time. You should know that if you want to draw prosperity into your life, you must consciously leave these "beliefs" behind. Our beliefs in our shortcomings and limitations are the only things limiting us. Check which beliefs are limiting you. You are the only person thinking in your mind, and you are solely responsible for your lack of prosperity.
The following exercise will help you begin to identify your beliefs about money and prosperity. Take a sheet of paper and write at the top: "My life with money" (so far...) A. Describe for half an hour your experiences with money up until now. B. What did you learn from your parents as a child regarding money? C. How have these beliefs affected you? D. What critical money-related experiences do you remember? E. What money-related behavior patterns would you like to change?
After answering these questions, you'll discover many things about yourself. You might find certain thought patterns you've become accustomed to, which now only interfere with your financial management and don't serve the purpose anymore. As such, it will be easier for you to get rid of them when you bring them to conscious thought and work on changing them.
B. Being Worthy
It’s not enough to have more money, we must learn to be worthy of the money we have and enjoy it. If we don’t accept the idea that we are "worthy" of prosperity, we will always find some way to refuse abundance, even when it falls into our laps.
The Creator made this world wonderfully. All His will is to benefit us unconditionally. Just as it wouldn’t occur to anyone to think they're worthy of air conditionally, so we must understand and become aware that we are worthy of all the good in the world without conditions. There is an inexhaustible store in the world. Start to become aware of it. Ensure you are not rejecting prosperity at present. If you are invited for a dinner or lunch, accept the invitation with enjoyment and delight. If you are given a gift, accept it gracefully. If the gift has no use for you, pass it on to someone else. Let life’s flow pass through you. Simply smile and say "thank you". This way, you announce to the world that you’re ready to receive the good. This acknowledgment creates wonderful energies to receive further abundance from Hashem.
C. Money = Self-Esteem?
Generally, we tie the subject of money to our self-esteem. The importance attributed to us or that we attribute to others is often measured by what’s in our wallets or theirs. The moment we link our self-worth to the money we have (or don’t have), we nullify our ability to experience joy, as we abandon our happiness to others. If they value us as wealthy, we feel important and good in their eyes, and vice versa. For this reason, we are constantly chasing after money, lest our value decrease.
Additionally, this chase prevents us from enjoying the money (which is only a means and not an end); we’re hindered from experiencing joy from purchasing things to make us happy or ease our lives.
D. Worry, Stress, and Confusion
Sometimes, we don’t notice that we add worry, stress, and confusion to ourselves. Worry about "enough" (questioning if I’ll have enough next month, or if I’ll succeed), worry about tomorrow and for the descendants. Confusion often arises from mixed messages received in childhood – extravagance versus frugality, abundance versus modesty, who gives the money? How is it given? To whom? To what extent do we need to give? These questions create tense energies, which create closure towards receiving abundance.
Tension and worry are distractions that prevent us from prosperity and abundance. Hashem, as if saying to us: "Are you worried? Please, you can worry. I’ll care for those who don’t worry". King David said in Tehillim: "Cast your burden upon Hashem and He will sustain you", meaning: when we cast ourselves upon Hashem (as Rashi explains – we throw ourselves onto Him), He gives us everything. As we bless in Birkat Hamazon: "in every way, with all, altogether".
Did Hashem, the creator of man, create us to spend our days in worry, or to experience stress and confusion? Or does He want us to live lives of joy, happiness, and satisfaction?
E. Money Depends on Awareness
When we don’t know how to manage our financial affairs, when we don’t know exactly (and not approximately) how much we spend and how much we earn, we cannot be in a state of prosperity. In order to efficiently manage the money in our possession, we must systematically learn how to do so. Today, there are many courses teaching how to manage a household budget. Knowledge of the subject leads to economic wellness, mental relaxation, the opening of positive energies, abundance, prosperity, and most importantly, family peace.
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F. Envy = Comparison = Competitiveness
Since the beginning of time, we have been ingrained with the traits of envy and comparison. Envy means "Why does the other have, and I don’t?" When we compare with the other, we come from three assumptions: A. There isn’t enough abundance in the world for everyone. B. There is discrimination by the Creator – the other is given, and I am not, or the other is given more than me. C. If I don’t grab or take, I won’t have any.
When we harbor thoughts of envy, comparison, and competition, we are drawn to think negatively of the other and act negatively towards them. Beyond harming our joy in life by engaging in the 'neighbor’s grass', it’s also very negative in the eyes of the Creator and draws scarcity and loss into our lives. Thoughts of appreciation, gratitude for the good we have, recognizing goodness, and joy, bring more good into our lives than we can imagine, and abundance flows into our lives in every aspect. As stated in Tehillim: "The one who trusts in Hashem – His kindness surrounds them with protection".
G. Living in Imagination
Most people live in the loop of "When I have, I will do... I will succeed... I will go...". Ask yourself when will "I have"? Life happens in the present, not in the future. The future exists only in imagination and at present prevents us from actions in the present that could bring abundance to us. We have many desires and aspirations, but if we don’t take actions to fulfill them, they will remain just in the imagination, creating stress, frustration, and disappointment.
Let’s open our thinking channels, shed the beliefs blocking us from receiving abundance, and allow ourselves to be in a state of prosperity and openness. No doubt, if we act this way, the Creator will bless us with great success in all our endeavors.
