Prosperity begins in the mind
How would you feel and act RIGHT NOW if you had everything you want?
Well, let’s pause for a moment and visualize this: Right now, ‘see’ yourself acting ‘as if’ you have everything you wanted. See yourself acting that way; capture the feeling of fulfillment and satisfaction that you would have. Enjoy that thought! What a wonderful feeling that is, and it is possible!
But first let’s ask ourselves… how do we manifest prosperity?
It is a fact that prosperity BEGINS in the mind. First as an idea, and then it takes shape. “As within, so without,” as the most well-known saying and quote goes, “as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.”
In Robert A. Russell’s wonderful and highly recommended book on this important topic, “You Too Can Be Prosperous”, he gives us the great spiritual secrets to achieving abundance and prosperity. This timeless wisdom has transformed millions of lives and can transform yours too by learning and implementing it in your life.
As I say on all my radio shows, thoughts are things and YOUR thoughts create your reality. This, then, is absolutely true and is in exact correlation with having enormous wealth and prosperity in your life. You can only have things that are in harmony with your thoughts and beliefs. That is a Universal Law.
The great spiritual truth regarding our wealth and prosperity is that God is the Source and Substance of its supply and people are merely channels!
What does that mean?
Well, it is true on this human plane that it is people who hire us for our jobs, give us our paychecks, bonuses and the like, but GOD is the only true SOURCE. When you become aware of this wonderful spiritual truth and bring it into your consciousness, you will begin to stop clinging to people, jobs, and things with such tenacity and fear because they really represent only ONE of the many, many channels available to us. Stop giving away your power to these people and things and affirm, “This or something better.” Smooth.
When we meditate and pray for more wealth and abundance in our lives, we don’t necessarily know where it will come from and we don’t need to. That is up to Infinite Intelligence/God, who can see a MUCH bigger picture than we could as humans. Knowing this, we will be able to release a tremendous amount of fear, struggle and worry, when we trust and KNOW that God is the source of our supply and that people are simply channels and there are a multitude of channels available to us. . Some we know and some we don’t, but as I mentioned before, we don’t need to know where our good comes from, we just need to TRUST!
For those of you who are now out and about interviewing for a new job, this is of particular importance to you. Who hasn’t gone after a job claiming it’s ‘my’ job and I ‘must’ have it… only to be bitterly disappointed when we don’t get it? But somehow, later on, an even better job came our way. This has happened to me many times before when I started working in the business world and then finally ‘got it!’ So I started going to interviews without any anxiety or a ‘have’ to have that specific job no matter how much I wanted it, and you know what? I was much more relaxed, more confident, more eloquent, calmer, and presented myself in a more authentic and professional manner. I increased my chances of getting the job tenfold and I knew in my soul that if I didn’t get the job it was because there was something equal or better out there for me.
This wonderful ‘knowing; it gives us an enormous feeling of freedom… of calm… and peace of mind. Knowing that God is the source and substance of your supply and that people are mere channels is absolutely KEY to your happiness, success and prosperity.
The next important point to get more prosperity in your life is to start affirming that you are prosperous. For those of you who are not familiar with affirmations or why they are important to your success, just think of them as positive affirmations that we can use to change our minds, belief systems, attitudes, and actions and therefore gain the results we want. A fabulous affirmation for prosperity would be: “Day and night I am being prospered in all my ways!” Another great affirmation is: “I am now in the process of attracting more abundance, prosperity and success into my life in all that I am undertaking!”
So this wonderful prosperity author, Robert A. Russell, suggests something else that is absolutely wonderful on how to successfully program your mind to continue thinking about prosperity throughout the day and it goes like this:
For the next 7 days, each time you do something routinely, such as start your car engine, brush your teeth, pick up a pen to write on, or wash your hands, or take a drink of water, say each time you do this, “I am prosperity!” Let these daily tasks remind you that you are continually thinking about abundance and prosperity. He calls it the ‘association method’. He says that if you do this intelligently and systematically, for a period of seven days, you will be amazed at the beneficial changes and blessings that will come into your life!
Make no mistake, once you begin to instill this prosperity consciousness in your mind, everything in your life will begin to change. At that moment everything starts to improve, because your thoughts improve. Say over and over again, “I am Prosperity” and say it with meaning!
In addition to deliberately and persistently working with this idea, the authors ask you to monitor your attitude, thoughts, feelings, and conversations during that period of time to ensure that you never once return to your old ways of thinking and feeling. . He knows what he wants and declare it with conviction. If others start talking about lack, limitation, and failure, absolutely REFUSE to comment or participate in the conversation. Don’t let your new “I am Prosperity” vibe go down the drain with negative thoughts or conversations with other people!
If, over the next seven days, you detect negative or contradictory thoughts creeping in (and they will), check yourself in and REFUSE to entertain them. Say: “I am not going to think about sickness…that job…those unpaid bills…that apartment. I am going to think only about wealth and health. I AM PROSPERITY! This is the new thought pattern and habit of my life.
What does he mean by that? Well, I take it to mean that each of us has the gift of free will or the freedom to think whatever thought we choose to focus more on throughout each day. Ask yourself right now, what thoughts is he concentrating on right now? Are you thinking about prosperity and success in your life or are you thinking about lack and limitation? Your environment and your feelings… especially your feelings… will let you know exactly what you are thinking because they are an exact replica of your thoughts and beliefs.
It is true that no one can think about prosperity all day and we all agree on that. What Robert A. Russell suggests is that you should make it one of your “running” thoughts throughout the day until it is fully ingrained in your consciousness. As Emerson said, “A man is what he thinks about all day.” Your primary thoughts, the ones you focus on the most, will be what you will see in the people you attract to you, as well as in the circumstances of your life. One of the most popular sayings is ‘change your thoughts and change your life’, but of course Rome wasn’t built in a day! It will take time to replace your habitual thoughts that are negative with more positive ones, but you can do it!
It is also important that you FEEL what you are saying and thinking in your mind. You can’t just repeat these affirmations and think these new thoughts without actually ‘feeling’ them too or it won’t work. This is why there are so many books on visualization and why so many successful athletes visualize to achieve their best performances. They do it because it works and it will work for you too!
A great minister I knew, Dr. Domenic Polifrone, gave me a great example of this when he told us that if we wanted a new car, we had to go to the showroom and test drive it. He said it didn’t matter if we didn’t have a penny in the bank. Just go to that showroom, get behind the wheel of that car and test drive it! Get some brochures to keep. LOOK and FEEL yourself driving and owning this beautiful new car. Step into the consciousness of “I am prosperity and I am in the process of buying and owning this beautiful new car!” Try it. This experiment works!
It’s the same with taking a trip. Go to a travel agency and collect brochures about the destination you want to travel to. Put them around your house and FEEL you are there. Close your eyes and see yourself on the plane that takes you there, landing, going to your luxurious hotel. Imagine it, feel it, immerse yourself in it and it will set off a vibration to manifest in your life! There is a wonderful saying: “An idea that is held in the mind, backed by faith, attracts the necessary conditions for its fulfillment.”
So know right now that your mind is one of your most prized possessions. It has been said that you are the architect of your life. Ask yourself right now… what kind of life are you building for yourself? A magnificent life or a limited life? Everything that has been available to everyone is also available to you. There is a wonderful quote by Balzac that underscores this fact. He said: “None are greater than what you could become!”
It begins knowing that the potential of one is the potential of all. If someone has wealth, you can have wealth; if someone has a beautiful house, you can have a beautiful house. LIFE IS A STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. ‘What is a man’s thought in his heart, such is he.
Change your consciousness and change your world.