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What is abundance to you? Redefine it.

So many people are focused (now more than ever) on money, finances, abundance..it seems that a majority of the population (in the United States currently) is in survival mode because of the current shift in the economy. I have felt my personal emotions on the subject fluctuate and have also experienced my own "scarcity" consciousness as these shifts have occured as well.

However, I know that when I truly shift my focus from lack to what I want to create instead, the energy moves and shifts right along with me.

How I came to realize this even deeper in my life is in my recent life events, this past October I did a great deal of traveling and also had visitors that took me "away" (or shifted my focus from) building and running my business. As I started to get back from all the traveling into my normal life, I realized how much the momentum of my business had died down because of where my focus was. I started to get nervous, angry and frustrated that the steady business I had before I had left was diminishing - I knew I had to quit the mental complaining and get my act in gear!

So I decided to shift my focus back to how I could add value to what I offered and put attention on what I wanted to create, rather than the lack I was experiencing, and what I wanted started to happen.

The reason I am sharing this story is because it has recently created *quite* a bit of value for me in turning my thoughts/reality around - especially regarding finances.

Today, I was listening to an archived talk by Darius Barazandeh and Jeneth Blackert of Wealth Revelations (http://www.NewWealthExperience.com). They were interviewing a gentleman by the name of Randy Spelling (the son of recently deceased, Aaron Spelling) on abundance, his concepts and spiritual ideas on the topic since he had background in this area being an actor, living in Hollywood and by his family, already having a good deal of money abundance.

Randy was sharing how having a lot of money will *not* solve all your problems nor will it even change you all that much when you break it down. He offered wonderful quotes on the subject and also an exercise that I want to share with you today. I had been offered exercises like this in the past, yet this one in particular really spoke to me and inspired me to start writing it down immediately!

I was so moved by this exercise, I wanted to share it with you. If you are reading this now, it's because it may be time for you to do this exercise on your own, so go ahead, grab that pen and paper and start writing!

EXERCISE:

-What do you want that you do not have?

-If you had that "thing(s)" how would your life change?

-What types of things would you then be doing?

-Upon doing those things, do they bring you joy?

-If so, what is stopping you from doing them NOW?

-Why is money an important factor? Why are you waiting for money to come before you start indulging in what you want?

OR

If someone were to give you 1 million dollars today, what would you be doing now that you are not already doing?

Also, what would a million dollars FEEL like?

This brings in another concept - I have come to realize that to a degree we really do not actually want the thing that we think the money will bring, yet we actually long for the FEELING of what we think that thing will bring us.

So, with that being said, what would that million dollars FEEL like? For example, more choice? Joy? Pleasure?

After you break it down, then you can ask yourself why aren't you feeling those things now? If you aren't, I would invite you to start connecting to those feelings today so you can create the possibility what you truly want to arrive.

Maybe, in this essence of money and finances, perhaps we do not really want more money, yet desire the feeling that a large amount of money could perceivably bring us - FREEDOM.

Wishing you much joy, FREEDOM and spiritual prosperity!

Posted by FLUIDGIRL on 2009-11-06 17:59:11 | Rating: