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In a previous article I wrote about change and specifically about change models in the process of creating abundance. Restating the basics, there are stages we Cycle through when making a change. If you have determined that you are ready to make a change because you have thought about and prepared a plan for that change, then you are ready to make a commitment.
A critical question to ask is who are you making that commitment to? I often hear people commenting about needing to be held accountable. In that context they are actually needing someone or something removed from themself to do the accounting to. However, the most vital one you must be accountable to is yourself.
Please understand me. Using a coach or master mind group can be a useful tool, but ultimately, we must be accountable to ourself. Why am I certain about this? What happens when the coach or group goes away? A vacation, a move, a death, a conflict are all potential ways that forces from the outside can impact us. If you rely on yourself, that cannot happen. You are the one constant in your life.
Let me get back on track about the subject of commitment. There is a famous quote that is worth repeating taken from The Scottish Himalayan Expedition by W. H. Murray. I’m only quoting one sentence. “Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.”
The operative word in that sentence is ineffectiveness. Without a full on commitment, there is hestiancy and the opportunity to draw back. How can that lead to anything but ineffectiveness? How does one make a commitment? One decides to. Then you stay with it until what you’ve committed to is completed.
Napoleon Hill called it among other names a definite purpose. You’re on fire with a passion that does not allow you to do anything but meet your objective whether your objective is finding a job, a pay raise or finding the love of your life.
When you make a commitment to yourself, it is essential that you keep that commitment. Why is it so critical? Every time you make a commitment to yourself and then don’t keep it, you send a message to your subconscious that you are not able to keep commitments. Do you believe that will impact the next commitment you make? Sure! If you send enough messages of that nature, do you think you will lose faith in yourself? You bet!
Be careful when you make a commitment, but once you do, follow it with all of your Being! It will be worth your effort in creating abundance and an abundant life.
Creating abundance through the use of visualization is worth knowing in your desire for an abundant life. The movement that brought visualization to widespread attention was spearheaded by Shakti Gawain in her book Creative Visualization published in 1979. At the time it was a new idea. Another person that brought visualization to the mainstream was Dr. Carl Simonton, an oncologist. His unusual efforts were used in healing work for cancer patients. Instead of the word visualization, he used the word imaging.
In a third field, the field of sports, we see visualization has benefits. Many studies have been carried out in a number of sports that give evidence that visualization improves athletic performance.
Today visualization is recognized as self-evident. How did that happen? Quite simply the results that people get are positive. The positive outcomes really shouldn’t surprise us because the right hemisphere of the brain functions through images rather than language. We also know that our brain cannot distinguish between real events and imagined ones.
How can you use visualization in your life? Let me use an example to illustrate. Let’s say you are in a work position that just isn’t giving you fulfillment. There’s nothing blatantly wrong with your position. You just don’t get feelings of accomplishment when you finish your day. Your passion really is in another field but you’ve always been scrared to follow your dream because it’s a common understanding that you can’t earn a living in this field.
One day you decide that life is too short to go on staying in your position feeling unfulfilled. You decide that you’re going to take the risk and follow your passion. Before you do, you can sit down and visualize in detail what that job would look like…where the job would be located, what your daily assignments would be, who you would interact with, who you would report to, etc.
Then you add how you would feel about the job to your visualization. You visualize how you feel about different aspects such as how you calm your anxieties your first day or you could picture how excited you’ll feel after 6 months or a year.
Perhaps you ask how all of this works to bring you the benefits you’re looking for. Actually, the energy that you put into the visualization has a vibration and it leaves you entering the Universe like a magnet. The energy attracts like energy and returns. It’s like placing an ad in a newspaper under the title: Job Wanted. The magical part is that the Universe exists to fulfill your visualization of a new position. How great is that?
Now, I do not, let me repeat, I do not desire that you take my word for it. Why should you? You don’t know who I am. So, if you can’t believe me that this has merit, what are you to do? You experiment. You play with this idea and have fun with it. One little tip…begin with a small visualization and work your way up step by step to something hu-normous. Visualize an improved friendship. Then step it up and visualize a pay raise or a weekend get away. Then go for the big time…a new job, the love of your life, the book you’ve always wanted to write. Remember, there are lots of ways of creating abundance and one of them is visualization.
In a previous article I wrote about money memories and money messages. To recap these are the subconscious programs that are running your current mindset in regard to money and creating abundance. If the messages are of a positive nature, great. If not, there is a way to turn the negative messages into positive ones! Take a moment to identify one negative message. I’ll give you a quick example: I never have enough.
Now that you’ve identified one of your money messages that does not serve you in your desire and journey of attracting abundance, it’s time to change things up. How do you turn them from a negative message into a positive one? You create a positive statement or affirmation by going 180 degrees away. To change “money doesn’t grow on trees” you could write: a never-ending stream of money flows into my bank account. The choices are plentiful.
Your new money messages must be clear, concise, positive statements that are worded in the present tense. Borrowing someone else’s money message will work; however, the best money messages are ones that you create for yourself.
The next step is making the new money message a part of your reality. Use it as an affirmation, saying it throughout your day. At first the new message might feel awkward and uncomfortable…as if you’re making it up. With time and conviction you will begin to believe what you are affirming.
You can also write the affirmations as a daily exercise to enhance your results. You want to create success through baby steps instead of trying to change your entire life in a day or a week by writing affirmations to change every possible detail that’s not working. Be easy on yourself by choosing only 1 or 2 affirmations to focus on. Write each one 10 – 20 times per day. To form a new vibrational match, do this exercise for 30 days. If you skip a day of writing then start again. The object is to write for 30 consecutive days. Experiment with it. After thirty days evaluate what worked and what didn’t. Tweak it and play and evaluate again. Remember this is a a journey. Although the destination is the goal, have fun on the trip! Make it joyful.
Most importantly the new message must move from being just a thought in your mind to becoming a part of your essence. If you need more help, the subject of beliefs and belief systems is another area for you to look at.
Remember…
Abundance is Your Birthright!
Thoughts are things. It’s the title of the first chapter in Think and Grow Rich. Not long ago that concept was novel. Now it is believed to be self evident and a crucial part of creating abundance.
The significance of our thoughts being concrete things is two-fold: how do thoughts effect our lives and how do we then use our thoughts in a constructive way. Let me first address the effect that this knowledge brings to our lives.
The character of our thoughts has a direct effect. Simply put, thoughts of a positive nature bring positive benefits and thoughts of a negative nature bring negative consequences. This thought process seems clear enough but the obvious does not necessarily translate into easily managed.
Let’s begin with…where do thoughts come from? Well, they are either internal or external. If they are from within, they are coming from a variety of sources such as influential people in our lives, from society such as the media or entertainment, from government and from our peers. Internal sources are our self talk or the voices in our head. Those come from our meditation or prayers or time in nature in other words our internal dialog.
A single thought without emotion is not going to effect anyone to any degree. However, when we think a thought repeatedly and put emotion into it, we begin to organize our thoughts together to create a belief and then a belief system.
It will be easier for you to understand if I give you an example. Since environmental issues are important today I’ll use the example of the electric car. Not that many years ago, the concept of an electric car was thought to be unachievable. One of the main reasons was that the battery charge was not enough to take us as far as we wanted to drive.
Then the price of gas started to climb to outrageous amounts giving an additional incentive to make alternative energy work. Technology advanced. Styles changed. Today the belief system around owning an electric car has changed immensely.
Hybrids have made this transition easier but now a totally electric car is not only practical, it is also desirable. If you want to purchase one, you have to reserve one. There will be no price haggling. You will pay the full sticker price and with pleasure.
What does all of that mean to you? This is a present day example of how we construct and apply our beliefs. An example from the past was the belief that the earth was the center of the Universe with the sun rotating around the earth. This belief challenged the existing belief to the extent that its advocate, Galileo, was ordered to stand trial for heresy and was found guilty. His sentence was imprisonment which was later commuted to house arrest.
With strong emotions, beliefs develop into convictions. So much so that people exhibit extreme behaviors as a consequence of their convictions. Our country is founded on the convictions of such a group of men, men who valued freedom above all else. On the other hand we have a new term to describe a person who will die for his or her convictions concerning religion and politics. That term is suicide bomber, but regrettably, this person will kill by-standers while taking his or her own life.
The phrase, thoughts are things, brings with it a responsibility, but the responsibility is one’s own. We each owe ourself the ability to control our thoughts to achieve positive benefits into one’s life. When you are creating abundance, it is a distinct benefit to create positive beliefs and belief systems.