Open Up Your Mind to Receive

“Today I am receptive to higher thoughts and I demonstrate greater good.” ~ www.ourabundantlife.com (Dr. Lloyd Tupper and Francine Huss)

I am so thankful for my friends at Our Abundant Life for this beautiful affirmation. Everyday they offer the most amazing quotes that create abundant living. Often, I will visit my inbox each morning to discover a “Daily Affirmation” that inspires or touches me deeply.

I appreciate your support of my blog, “A Poem A Day Brings Money My Way!” And, I thank you for telling your network of friends about it. Today, I am going to ask that you tell your friends about www.ourabundantlife.com. Their message is consistently uplifting and encouraging and I think the “Daily Affirmation” they offer is simply wonderful.

Prosperously yours,
Denise Allen

Overcoming Financial Challenges & Personal Setbacks

Perhaps you have been given a financial diagnosis that paints a grim picture for your future. Or, maybe you’ve suffered a major setback in your career and now it appears nothing will pull you out of this abyss. The Truth you must remember regardless of the condition you face is: There are no impossibilities; there are no incurables; there are no unattainables. Right now, you have the inner strength to handle whatever has appeared.

Inner strength is your inheritance as a human being. None of us is gifted with more or less strength than another person. Each of us has just what he/she needs to meet the challenges that sit before him/her.

So, calm yourself. Relax. Breathe deeply. Relax again. Close your eyes. Still your emotions. Worry, fear and self-doubt scatter your inner strength. Quieting your emotions conserves your inner strength and allows it to build up quickly. Remind yourself that there are no impossibilities; there are no incurables; there are no unattainables. You can handle whatever lies before you.

 

Suggested Spiritual Treatment for Wealth: There are no impossibilities; there are no incurables; there are no unattainables. I can handle whatever challenges I currently face!

Wealth Without Health is No Wealth At All

Everyone loves a wonderful gift. We excitedly open the package, anticipating the goodie that lies within. Let us take this approach to each day we wake up without some sickness or malady. Our health is truly our greatest gift. It allows us to move about without restriction. It is worth more than any amount of financial wealth. In fact, financial wealth in the absence of physical health is not really wealth at all. Do not take for granted the health you enjoy today. Take a moment to quietly give thanks for the fact that your body works properly.

Suggested Spiritual Treatment for Health: I am so grateful for this wonderful body. I make a conscious choice to cherish and appreciate my health. Perfect life now moves through me. With every breath I breathe, my body is renewed, my heart is uplifted and my soul is restored.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ~ Buddha

Spiritual Treatment: Works Like an Antibiotic

The word treatment is a perfect word because spiritual treatments work like an antibiotic. Just as you have medicine for the physical body, there is medicine for the mental body (or the mind). And, that medicine is the spiritual treatment.

You use spiritual treatment in the same way that you use antibiotics. When an infection first occurs, you begin taking an antibiotic. As the infection retreats, you continue taking the antibiotic. Any doctor will tell you that you should continue taking the antibiotic even after the physical symptoms of an infection have disappeared. In other words, you must finish your course of antibiotics even if the physical symptoms have disappeared. And the reasoning: you want to prevent a recurrence. 

The same principle applies to the use of a spiritual treatment. If you are treating for financial lack, you do not stop the treatment once the outward signs of financial lack have disappeared. Instead, you continue the spiritual treatment until it roots itself in your mind. The time it takes for a spiritual treatment to root itself within your mind varies from person to person. In general, your spiritual treatment has run its course when it ceases to evoke an emotional response from you.

Most doctors will give you a set of conditions or rules for taking your antibiotic: three times a day with food or drink a full glass of water after taking the pill or do not take after 9:00pm. You want to be just as regimented when applying your spiritual treatment. 1) Choose a time and space that you can commit to on a daily basis, and during which you will not be interrupted. I prefer to apply my spiritual treatment when I first wake up and before I go to sleep. 2) Be disciplined in your approach. If you are likely to forget to apply your mental medicine, develop reminders for yourself that you will adhere to. 3) Make no excuses. Only you can apply this mental medicine to your mind. No one else can do it for.

A colleague once taught me the valuable lesson of creating non-negotiables in my life. One morning, I was hiking down a hill when I bumped into her running up the same hill. She was many years older than I am. So, I was amazed that she was running uphill, while I was huffing and puffing walking downhill. I asked her how she did it. She told me that running for her was a non-negotiable. Before she did anything in her day, she put on her running shoes and workout clothes and she headed for the mountain that we were on that day. Exercising for her was just like brushing her teeth – it was a non-negotiable. She’d never think of leaving the house without brushing her teeth and she’d never think of starting her day without doing her run uphill.

I walked away from that experience changed. Now, when I want to do a thing in my life, I turn it into a non-negotiable. I encourage you to make spiritual treatments a non-negotiable in your life. You have virtual treasure in your mind. Spiritual treatments can unlock that treasure for you.

Go ahead. Give it shot and hit me back to let me know how it worked for you.

Spiritual Treatment: What Is It?

A spiritual treatment is a prayer of faith and understanding for healing, harmony, wisdom, prosperity, or any other good that you desire. The object of any treatment is to lift the thinking and feeling of the person being treated to a high spiritual consciousness through which healing is accomplished.

You can treat yourself. Spiritual treatments do not require a third party. You can take a set of affirmations (short, pithy statements of power) and verbally or silently repeat them over and over again to yourself, allowing this new thought to penetrate your consciousness.

There are countless spiritual treatments available. You may select a passage from some sacred Scripture or you may write out a few affirmations of your own. You know that you have a good spiritual treatment because it evokes an emotional response from you. The words make you feel something. If you find a particularly clever or well written spiritual treatment but it fails to make you feel something, then you would do well to discard it and find another one that is more potent.

A simple treatment for prosperity that I use often is:

Money is God’s Idea of circulation.

This idea I accept.

This idea I now accept.

This idea I now accept as the basis of all my financial affairs.

I like money.

I believe that it is God’s Activity; that it is good.

I use it with wisdom.

I release it with joy.

I send it forth without fear.

For I know that under a Divine Law, it comes back to me increased and multiplied.

Have you used spiritual treatments before? I’d like to hear from you about your experience with them. In the next entry, I’ll share some techniques for using them effectively. 

Prosperously yours,

Denise Allen

Denise’s 10 Rules for Managing Money

I shared ten rules for managing money in a recent interview, which I adapted from Dr. Schuler’s Ten Rules for Living and Working.

Rule #1 The financial lives we live are the financial lives we create.

In this financial climate, it can be tempting to throw up our hands as if we do not have control over what happens to us. Many people are frustrated and have given up looking for employment. But, we are not helpless. We can still make responsible financial decisions. Regardless of what happens with our economy, every financial decision we make has an impact. Make a conscious decision to stay in control (or, if you’ve thrown up your hands in frustration, resume control) of your finances. Set achievable goals to help you create the life you want.

Rule #2 Health and productivity go hand in hand.

Worrying about our finances, decreases our productivity and increases our stress. It may be emotionally tough to look at your finances when you do not see enough money to cover your expenses. Do it anyway. Carve out time, put on an upbeat tune and sit down with your bills and put them in order.

Rule #3 Don’t wait for solutions; create them.

Instead of waiting for the right solution to come along, seek it out. Dr. Schuler says it well: Identify your problem, assess the situation, research options and implement a solution. We are not the first people to experience an economic downturn, and we will not be the last. Now is not the time to withdraw. Reach out to your neighbors. Brainstorm creative ways to create additional income. Most of all, do not give up.

Rule #4 Negativity kills.

We all know about the law of attraction. I addressed this law in the article set, “Affirmations 101″ and I published a great book of powerful wealth affirmations that you can use everyday. Thoughts act like magnets. Think any thought – positive or negative – and it will draw like thoughts to itself.

Rule #5 In the end, we are all more or less human.

None of us enjoys making mistakes. But the moment you learn the lesson, it is no longer a mistake. We are all works in progress. Use financial missteps and setbacks as opportunities to learn more about yourself and your finances.

From Good to Great

There is a difference between being just good and being really great.

Think about the things you are good at. Now, take that image of what you do well and imagine yourself as the ABSOLUTE BEST at it. When people speak of you, they use words like “legendary,” “once-in-a-lifetime,” and “transcendent” to describe your talent. You become the benchmark for excellence. And, when others enter the same field, they study your style, your technique, your choices. They want to understand how it is that you do what you do.

Do you know the real difference between just being good and being really great? Enthusiasm. The real difference between good and great is enthusiasm. Seems simple, right? Genius – or greatness – is the accumulated enthusiasm of the individual in some chosen field. The difference between you now and you as the greatest at what you do is the amount of accumulated enthusiasm you have for what you do.

Consider two football teams playing for a title. Perhaps they came to the Super Bowl with the same number of wins in the regular season. Or, perhaps both were undefeated. However they match up, only one will win the title, Super Bowl Champion.

Talent gets you a shot at the title. But, enthusiasm determines whether you take home the Super Bowl ring.

Another word for enthusiasm is heart.

Talent is not the determining factor for success. Many predicted that the Indianapolis Colts would win yesterday’s game. Talent only tells you where success can happen. Enthusiasm – or heart – determines whether success will happen. Heart determines whether you go home the winner or the runner-up. The New Orleans Saints proved that.

Heart determines whether you will be merely good or the absolute best.

What do you have the heart to be the absolute best at? Post a comment below to let everyone know where you are ready to marry heart + talent.

The Urge Toward Wealth

Wouldn’t it be great to instill in myself the urge toward wealth? What if I instinctually made choices every day that propelled me toward a complete and total wealth experience?

Take your choice

There are many things that I instinctually do. I instinctually brush my teeth everyday. I instinctually bathe and clothe myself everyday. I instinctually eat healthy food everyday.

These are all very good habits. But, what about those habits that are not so good? Hmmm…let’s see…one of my favorite indulgences is Diet Dr. Pepper. Recently, I realized that when I get in my car, I instinctually feel the urge to stop by a convenience store and buy a Diet Dr. Pepper. It doesn’t matter how far I’m going or where I’m going. Whenever I get in the car, I feel that urge and I often act on it.

I first noticed this compulsion (and that’s the best way I know how to describe it: a compulsion) after I followed David Bach’s advice and identified my latte factor. To avoid embarrassment, I won’t reveal the size of my latte factor. But, let’s just say, my latte factor gives me more than enough cash to play the stock market daily.

Where did I pick up this habit? How long have I been compulsively buying Diet Dr. Peppers whenever I get in my car?

As a child, we didn’t keep unhealthy snacks in the house. My mom was adamant about only keeping fruit and other healthy items in the house. But, as a treat, she would stop by the local convenience store and allow us to buy a soda or other treat on our way home from school.

Twenty+ years later, I instinctually buy “a treat” from the local convenience store. I don’t keep snacks in the house but every time I get in my car, I allow myself “a treat.” Over the years, the “treat” has changed. It’s gone from a bag of M&Ms to chips to granola bars to sodas to diet sodas. But, while the treats are healthier, I still get “a treat” every time.