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October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Blog | 2 Comments
Bestselling author and success guru Joe Vitale says you can spiritually atttract money to yourself now. A look at Joe Vitale’s strategy for attracting money. You probably already know about it. If not, go to http://www.attractmoneynow.com.
It reveals a seven-step formula that will help anyone who uses it.
Joe Vitale, nicknamed “Mr. Fire,” was made famous by the recent hit movie The Secret. A bestselling author of several books, including The Attractor Factor, Joe Vitale says you can attract money spiritually - starting right now.
Here are the five steps Joe Vitale recommends, as presented in “Spirit Money: Five Steps to Attract Money When You Have None,” a section of his compilaton book The E-Code: 33 Internet Superstars Reveal 43 Ways to Make Money Online Almost Instantly - Using Only E-mail.
1. Get the Lesson
Vitale says there’s a reason why you are in the situation you’re presently in. The sooner you truly understand and fully process that reason, the sooner you will be able to move your life forward. “If you are broke right now, ask yourself what the lesson in being broke is for you,” he writes. “Don’t settle on flip answers…And don’t blame others.” Instead, confront the question honestly and comprehensively.
2. Obey the Impulse
Do you feel an inner tug or nudge of some kind? Vitale explains that, deep down, most people realize they are being pulled in a direction. They need to meditate on that and then act. He says that when you intelligently act on this nudge, it’s an example of “inspired action.”
3. Demand Resolution
Vitale cites Jesus as an example of spiritual determination. “When Jesus healed the sick,” Vitale explains, “[Jesus] didn’t say, ‘I hope you get better.’ Instead, he said, ‘Rise and walk.’” That’s the kind of resolve that people must have today.
t is debatable that the real lesson of Jesus’ miracles is a call to greater self-determination. Jesus’ purpose was much greater than that. But Vitale nevertheless is correct that one must “exert [his or her] power” to truly see results.
4. Give Thanks
Vitale says it’s better to contemplate your life’s situation, relax, and be thankful for it — than it is to rebel against it. The latter is wasted energy and counter-productive. The former is a constructive way in which we can receive the “great gift” intended for us in our present condition.
5. Expect Miracles
Again, Vitale alludes to faith and Jesus. He refers to the “mustard seed” quote for which Jesus is so famous, and points out that a mustard seed has no identity problems. “A mustard seed has no doubt,” writes Vitale. “It is clear about what it is. Start being a mustard seed.”
Joe Vitale’s five-step plan for attracting money will probably be too mystical and “New Age” like for some, but it would be wrong to dismiss it completely. There is much merit to it, even from a Christian perspective. It was, after all, Jesus who said: “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.”
Rich Blessings
Ettore
October 21st, 2009 | Posted in Blog | 3 Comments
We as a human race have managed to build the internal combustion engine, eradicate polio, and make TV dinners you can heat in just minutes in the microwave. But we have not yet learned one of the most important things of all: how to form a healthy attitude toward money. We have to learn to be masters of our money, and not let it be the master of us. We must realize that the power to bring about real and positive change in this world is not in gold bullion, stocks, or bonds. Instead, the power is within us, as children of God, at the level of our spirituality.
Money is a means to an end, not the end itself. You cannot eat money, and it cannot keep you warm or cuddle you at night. Simply having money is not the goal. The goal is to use it to do whatever your heart leads you to do, and to do that which fulfills your divine purpose.
Many people who attend my workshops struggle with conflicting issues of morality and money. Perhaps you do, too. Perhaps you’ve been brought up to believe that money is evil. Perhaps you were taught the myth of noble poverty—that good people don’t dream about wealth and prosperity, because doing so is greedy. As a result, part of you chooses to remain poor, and your life feels constrained and unfulfilled. You may have a sense that your dreams will never be achieved, and you live with the fear that life is passing you by.
Then perhaps another part of you—the part that caused you to pick up this book—believes that God wants more for you, that it’s not God’s will for you to endlessly struggle from paycheck to paycheck. In your heart you know that God loves you and wants the best for you. You sense that God has a special plan for you, and that if only you had the financial means, you could be out in the world, doing God’s work and making a positive difference in the lives of other people, as well as fully making the most of this precious life that God has blessed you with.
A lot of us are torn between these two sides of ourselves because of the contradictory messages we’ve gotten our whole lives concerning spirituality and money. It’s no wonder that when it comes to our finances, so many people feel conflicted and confused.
LEARNING TO ACCEPT OUR DESIRES
Many people want something—a house, a car, a new pair of shoes—but feel that they can’t afford it. So they feel virtuous when they let themselves off the hook by saying, “Oh, I don’t really want that thing. And anyway, I shouldn’t be so materialistic.”
Contrary to popular belief, God doesn’t love a martyr. I should know; I played one for many years. Denying our material desires is not what God wants us to do. What we could choose to do instead is grow, develop our courage and faith, and stand up and say without guilt or hesitation, “This is what I want!”
If you desire something, and then you deny that you desire it, that’s cowardice and spiritual laziness. And what’s more, it’s a lie.
God wants us to do more, to have more, to play big. God doesn’t want us to deny our desires. After all, God put those desires in us, and we must celebrate them! Life is not about struggling, and being unhappy, and then dying. It is about enjoying and appreciating everything life has to offer. Through joy, we glorify God.
These ideas may be new to you. They often are to the people who attend my seminars, and those people often have lots of questions. Let me pose some of the most common questions and share my ideas about them.
“WHAT IS MONEY, ANYWAY?”
There is a lot written about what money is. Some scholars say it is “deferred service.” Some say it is energy. Some believe that money is a spiritual symbol of invisible spiritual substance. Spiritual substance is what the mystics call the invisible body of God out of which all things are created—your clothes, your jewelry, your shoes, and the chair you are sitting in. It’s all created out of one invisible substance called the body of God.
Money is an energy system we are using right now, which I believe will one day disappear. Money will no longer be necessary. Because, as Charles Fillmore, the cofounder of the Unity Church, says, “We shall serve for the joy of serving.” And when we do, everything that we need and want will flow to us. So we won’t need money.
But money is not going to disappear until we have mastered it, until we know that there is really no power in it, that it’s here as an item to serve us, and that we don’t have to earn it, or struggle for it, or do anything we don’t want to do to get money. We certainly don’t have to work a job we hate for it.
I believe that God is not way high up, way far away. I believe God is within us. I believe God is a part of everything we see and do, no matter how mundane. And what is more mundane than money? We touch it and handle it every day, in so many big and small different ways. You carry it with you. Every single piece of our money, down to the lowly penny, has a prayer on it: In God we trust.
“IS IT GREEDY TO DESIRE MATERIAL GOODS?”
Being rich doesn’t mean you’re greedy or bad. Still, when we think of accumulating wealth, many of us think of Ebenezer Scrooge, counting his coins in a cold, unlit room, and we don’t want to be like that. We may instinctively dislike and distrust people when we feel that they want everything for themselves, and nothing for anyone else.
But this need not be the case. Let’s take as an example Oprah Winfrey, who has far, far more money than any one person could ever need or possibly spend. If great wealth is an indicator of greed, then she must be one of the greediest people on the planet. But do we think that Oprah is greedy and materialistic because she lives in lavish mansions? Of course not! We’re too busy paying rapt attention to how she went to South Africa to work with AIDS orphans. We admire her for her genuine care for other people and for her giving and generous spirit.
Greed is when you say, “I want this, and I don’t want you to have it.” It’s not greedy to say, “I want lots, and I want you to have lots, too.” If you believe that there is no end to God’s abundance, then everyone should have all that they want, and then more.
Money is like love: The more you give away, the more you have. Love is a limitless resource, and so is money, and both were created by God to enrich our lives and allow us to live fully, joyfully, and completely. And you’re going to discover the truth of the law of compensation, that you cannot outgive God. Emerson said that: You cannot outgive God. And he was absolutely correct.
Excerpted from The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity : A Simple Guide to Unlimited Abundance
By Edwene Gaines
Rich Blessings
Ettore
September 9th, 2009 | Posted in Blog | 2 Comments
The Metaphysics of Money
And four steps to changing your relationship to money
Most people consider MONEY a measure of life force. By expending life force, i.e. working, a person receives a certain amount of money in return. This is what I call materialistic money. This view has a very limiting belief system that says there are those who have and those who don’t have.
Many people project their unresolved issues onto money, including religion, sex, power, family, unresolved karma, self worth and a host of other highly creative possibilities. If, for example, you feel unworthy of love from your family and you’ve projected family issues onto money, then you won’t allow yourself to receive. Or you’ll energetically give off the information that you’re not worthy, ensuring that people don’t pay you for your services.
The way we think it is….
When you work with money materialistically, you perceive the source of money outside of yourself in a form that is constantly judging you. This means your life force energy flows out horizontally in front of your low belly to a false form that you consider the source of money. This might be the government, your boss, clients, parents or to whomever you give away your power. Energetically this creates a reversed flow to growth and evolution. In other words, it limits and restricts the inflow of money.
The way it really is…
If you strip money to its purest essence, it represents an energy flow from the Creator Source. It nourishes the life force within us. We live in an abundant world and universe, with plenty of life nourishing energy for all of us. When this concept is known throughout every fiber of your being then money transforms from a materialistic level to a spiritualized one. It becomes an expression of life force not a measure of it.
Life force energy naturally moves through us vertically while we are in our human bodies. To have greater amounts of money in your life, simply increase the flow of vital life force energy through your body. Your intentions will decide the form of expression that the life force energy takes, including money. What creates vital life force energy is joy and reverence for life. When you express your life force energy with joy and reverence, money will naturally follow. Below are four simple, but profound steps to apply this principle and increase the flow of money in your life:
Affirm the abundance of life force in your life. All that is in your life is an expression of what you have created from life force energy. If you are only noticing the lack of money, you are affirming a story that there is not enough life force. This reduces the flow through you as whatever you place your attention increases. Your home, car, food, clothes, family, work, health can all be areas that you can affirm as a positive and abundant life force flow. The traditional form for affirming is to express appreciation from your heart to the Creator Source for all that you have.
Acknowledge the forms that nourish you spiritually and emotionally. That might be a religious or other spiritual organization. It might also be an organization that affirms your reverence for life as it works to end world hunger, bring aid to those who need medical help or provides homes for the homeless. Whatever the form that spiritually nourishes you, it should be something that you feel passionate about. The traditional form for acknowledgement is donating money.
Pay it forward. By generously donating money at the beginning of the month before all the bills are paid, you are making a powerful statement that you are in a place of thriving not just surviving. Generosity opens the channels for life force flow. Energetically you are also calibrating your field to that which spiritually nourishes the life force within you. This magnetizes your field. Since money is highly magnetic then you attract more of it to you. You also attract other forms of abundance as well.
Add intention to your money. When you work with spiritualized money you are free from those agencies that try to control you. Each time you spend money, you are making an energetic statement about what you stand for, what you value. You can take this concept even further. When you pay the electric bill, your taxes, or a credit card, your money can carry your spiritual values with it and become an agent for change…no pun intended! Simply link your check or money to your spiritual values with an intention. Want to see your tax money support education, peace, tolerance? Tell your check to do that.
Rich Blessings
Ettore
August 4th, 2009 | Posted in Blog | 5 Comments
You’ve already proven your intelligence, talent, and tenacity. You work hard, and you have so much to offer, so why isn’t your value reflected in your pocketbook?
You could be repelling money with unconscious beliefs and behaviors.
Here are five quick tips to attract more money into your life:
1. Appreciate money! If even a penny shows up on the sidewalk, thank Money for the gift. Don’t worry about denomination; appreciate everything. Think of how good you feel when you are valued for even a small gesture. It’s the same for Money. Every time you practice receiving and appreciating, you train the universe to send you more.
2. Strengthen your Boundaries. I define boundaries as the courage to say “yes” to what you want and “no” to what you don’t want. You teach the universe how you want to be treated with every choice you make. Let go of what others think about you, and be true to yourself. Clear the clutter and energy drains in your life. Weak boundaries attract exploitation, resentment, and a sense of powerlessness. Strong boundaries build your self esteem, and they free you to focus on what is important to you. This is very attractive.
3. Make a Wish List. Make a list of 100 things you would be, do or have if money were no object. The length of the list stretches you out of scarcity thinking. The items on the list put what you want on your radar. Wish lists are magical. Through a mental process called Reticular Activation, your mind will start to discover opportunities to manifest the items on your list that may have been invisible to you before. Notice how things on your list will “show up” with the means to pay for them!
4. Become an excellent money manager. Automatically divert a percentage of your income into a wealth building/financial freedom account. Get in the habit of building wealth, even if you are paying down debt. And set aside something to give to the charities and causes you care about. Nothing builds a sense of abundance like the ability to give to others!
5. Surround yourself with the people who have mastered what you want to learn, and you will evolve yourself that much faster. I call this Success by Association. We naturally take on characteristics of the people we are around the most. If you want to be financially free, spend your time with financially successful people who share your values. Pick up their mindset and practices for wealth building. Your worldview and your behavior will naturally shift to support more abundance.
Rich Blessings
Ettore
July 21st, 2009 | Posted in Blog | 1 Comment
THE ROAD TO RICHES
Riches are of the mind. Let us suppose for a moment that a physician’s diploma was stolen to gether with his office equipment. I am sure you would agree that his wealth was in his mind. He could still carry on, diagnose disease, prescribe, operate, and lecture on materia medica. Only his symbols were stolen; he could always get additional supplies. His riches were in his mental ca pacity, knowledge to help others, and his ability to contribute to humanity in general.
You will always be wealthy when you have an intense desire to contribute to the good of man kind. Your urge for service—i.e., to give of your talents to the world—will always find a response in the heart of the universe.
I knew a man in New York during the financial crisis of 1929, who lost everything he had in cluding his home and all his life’s savings. I met him after a lecture which I had given at one of the hotels in the city. This was what he said: “I lost everything. I made a million dollars in four years. I will make it again. All I have lost is a symbol. I can again attract the symbol of wealth in the same way that honey attracts flies.”
I followed the career of this man for several years to discover the key to his success. The key may seem strange to you; yet it is a very old one. The name he gave the key was, “Change water into wine!” He read this passage in the Bible, and he knew it was the answer to perfect health, happiness, peace of mind, and prosperity.
Wine in the Bible always means the realization of your desires, urges, plans, dreams, proposi tions, etc.; in other words, it is the things you wish to accomplish, achieve, and bring forth.
Water in the Bible usually refers to your mind or consciousness. Water takes the shape of any vessel into which it is poured; likewise, whatever you feel and believe as true will become manifest in your world; thus you are always changing water into wine.
The Bible was written by illumined men; it teaches practical, everyday psychology and a way of life. One of the cardinal tenets of the Bible is that you determine, mould, fashion, and shape your own destiny through right thought, feeling, and beliefs. It teaches you that you can solve any problem, overcome any situation, and that you are born to succeed, to win, and to triumph. In order to discover the Royal Road to Riches, and receive the strength and security necessary to ad vance in life, you must cease viewing the Bible in the traditional way.
The above man who was in a financial crisis used to say to himself frequently during the days when he was without funds, “I can change water into wine!” These words meant to him, “I can exchange the poverty ideas in my mind for the realization of my present desires or needs which are wealth and financial supply.”
His mental attitude (water) was, “Once I made a fortune honestly. I will make it again (wine).” His regular affirm-ation consisted of, “I attracted the symbol (money) once, I am at tracting it again. I know this, and feel it is true (wine).”
This man went to work as a salesman for a chemical organization. Ideas for the better pro motion of their products came to him; he passed them on to his organization. It was not long until he became vice president. Within four years the company made him president. His constant men tal attitude was, “I can change water into wine!”
Look upon the story in John of changing water into wine in a figurative way, and say to yourself as the above mentioned chemical salesman did: “I can make the invisible ideas, urges, dreams, and desires of mine visible, because I have discovered a simple, universal law of mind.”
The law he demonstrated is the law of action and reaction. It means your external world, body, circumstances, environment, and financial status are always a perfect reflection of your inner thinking, beliefs, feelings, and convictions. This being true, you can now change your inner pat tern of thought by dwelling on the idea of success, wealth, and peace of mind. As you busy your mind with these latter concepts, these ideas will gradually seep into your mentality like seeds planted in the ground. As all seeds (thoughts and ideas) grow after their kind, so will your habitual thinking and feeling manifest in prosperity, success, and peace of mind. Wise thought (action) is followed by right action (reaction).
You can acquire riches when you become aware of the fact that prayer is a marriage feast. The feast is a psychological one; you meditate on (mentally eat of) your good or your desire until you become one with it.
Rich Blessings
Ettore
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