Category Archives: Spirit

Finding the Infinite Bank (#1)

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Most techniques and philosophies about creating money and abundance don’t go far enough. Creating vision boards and thinking positively about desired things are helpful, but these tools can be incomplete.

It is easy to build up inner charge (and tension) around the so-called positive. If there is any sense of avoiding the negative or clutching the positive – a state seen as desirable by many schools of thought – there is no inner freedom. There is still tension and a sense of limitation.

I have only ever found inner freedom to be the most “abundant” state. It releases the attachment to what we decide is “abundance” (if you can’t abide not having it, how are you free?) which opens up tremendous energy.

It calls forth the part of us that is beyond all concepts, attachments, memory and outcomes, including numbers in our bank account. It doesn’t discount or deflect any outcome – we tend to think it does – it just doesn’t grab.

That aspect of Being is already free. Be “that.”

Saying Yes – Part 1

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I recently read Michael Singer’s book The Surrender Experiment.  I admire his intense commitment to discover the nature of spiritual reality and not live within the dictates of his ego brain (chatter). His willingness to say “yes” to whatever appeared in his physical reality is astonishing.

If something showed up in his life, he trusted it was sent by “life” and therefore worthy of his “yes.”  If his ego chattered about it (or anything), he would ignore it.

While I do agree it is useful or even necessary to say “yes” to more in life, I do not agree that everything that shows up in life deserves a “yes.”   If someone just up and started living on my land – which happened to him – they would encounter the most decisive “no” you can imagine.  However, as artists (of all kinds) how do we use his technique of ignoring ego/brain chatter?

First, we must identify what this “voice” is.  This is your first task.  You do this by observing, by listening to what is going on in your head.  If it helps to take a few minutes (o.k., maybe one minute) to write down every thought in your mind, do that.

Also, sensations invariably accompany thoughts, so watch what feelings are coming up.  Once you get the hang of it, see if you can trace the feelings to the thoughts.  Thoughts are very (very) fast, so you might need to work on this a bit.

(More to come…..)

Wallpaper

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Wallpaper by lilfairy

At times I have found it is easy to release on the subject of money yet still miss some of the fundamental beliefs.  It can feel so freeing (and delightful) to chuck out the whole subject!  But beliefs and reality constructs that have pain attached can stay unexamined, like wallpaper in a room.  They seem “just there.”
It’s necessary to drop attachment to (what seems like) the whole subject of money and identities related to it, but it’s also necessary to be aware of any hidden beliefs that appear to be “just the way it is.”  No condition or belief is “just the way it is.”

What beliefs might be your “wallpaper?”

 

The Carver

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“Words do not label things already there.  Words are like the knife of a carver.  They free the idea, the thing, from the general formlessness of the outside.  As a man speaks, not only is his language in a state of birth, but also the very thing about which he is talking.”

– Inuit Wisdom

Wealth

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True wealth exists within us.  It is state of being that is intact, complete and undeniable.  It lives in the present.  When thoughts enter they usually rob us of wealth.

The state of true wealth has no cost or price.  It is freely and wholly yours.  It is freely and wholly mine.  Its nature is love and therefore, you are that.