If you have money do you feel you need to spend it?
Do you continue to shop and shop and shop and shop?
How many clothes, shoes, knick knacks, electronics, and grown-folks toys do you really need?
If you shop just for something to do, then you are in the danger zone. That means that your credit cards are (about) at the limit, that your closets are overflowing, your garage needs cleaning, and you can’t dust all the stuff you own quick enough.
Do you have more things than you’ll ever need?
Do you have several sizes of clothes (small, medium, and large)?
Do you buy the latest “must have” things that you see advertised?
Do you shop for stress relief?
Are you spending money that could be better spent, saved, or even invested?
Before you buy anything else, ask yourself what it will be worth at your next yard sale or if you will need to advertise it online FOR FREE just to get rid of it.
When you are accustomed to living on empty in your relationships, in your personal life, in your work life, financially, and in your head — it’s hard to really come to terms when abundance starts to happen.
What abundance may look like (it’s different for each of us) – you meet someone who is perfect for you, you get the job offer you’ve always wanted, and money starts to come from unexpected places.
Then what happens?
You start to question it.
Is this person the right person? Is this the right job? Will I blow investing this money? Will I screw this up? Will this all turn to dust? When is the rug going to be pulled from under me? This can’t be happening to me? On and on goes your mind…the mind that’s use to Running on Empty.
You’ve HOPED things were going to change.
You’ve WANTED things to change.
Then things start changing and you wonder if you can trust it.
You’ve been Living on Empty for so long (some people for all of their lives) this is what you think is normal.
Get Ready for a “New” Normal
When you stop being afraid of letting go of what is, who and what may NOT be for you – things that keep you off-balance – then the UNIVERSE starts to work FOR YOU. Things that ARE for you start coming to you — EFFORTLESSLY!
It is hard to accept this, if you’re not use to it.
It’s NEW.
It doesn’t seem Normal.
All this time you’ve been struggling trying to make this happen, or that happen, then you decide to just stop struggling. Once you realize that life is not a struggle, the struggle is over , then everything starts to fall into place.
First – You Have To Let Go In Order For Abundance To Come
All of this alignment with abundance only happens when you are okay with letting go of control, letting go of people, letting go of things, of hoping, wishing and praying for what YOU think you want and who YOU think you want.
If it’s a struggle… if it ain’t working out…then it ain’t for you. Let it go. Just let it go. Stop trying to make it work out. Even though, technically, things that CAN’T be sustained WILL end, you don’t have to wait for it to die a natural death…that could take YEARS! If it is a “real” struggle (that’s a clue for things to let go of), if it feels like putting a square block in a hole meant for a circle, then you need to start the process of letting it go once you realize that.
Second- Expect Your Mind to Freak You Out
When you let go, expect your mind to go into free fall and freak you out with FEAR about letting go of what or who you have in your life. You’ll start thinking a bunch of negative thoughts about change, lost, holding on, keeping, at least you have this or that, don’t rock the boat, ect.
You have to let go first in order for things to start to change and for things to get in alignment in YOUR life.
You’ll find that somehow you’ve made it through something that seems like a tunnel. It’s dark, It’s dank, It’s scary, It’s the unknown, It’s the abyss, and It seems like it will never end. Then all of a sudden you wake up and you’re on the other side. You’re through the tunnel. Things have changed. Things have worked out. It’s AMAZING. But in order to get through that tunnel you have to allow your mind to freak you out. It will try to scare you into NOT letting go, but just allow it and go through that tunnel.
Third- Accept and Allow Abundance in Your Life
Expect things to improve and when they start to improve, ALLOW them to improve.
Don’t question it. Don’t wonder if you deserve it. You do. Why not you? Why can’t you be in a fantastic relationship? (Someone who compliments you in every way – spiritually, emotionally, socially, financially and sexually). Why can’t your career and job be one that you enjoy doing? (Something that uses your key talents and skills and that pays well.) Why can’t your business idea work out, be profitable and help the world out? (Even if all the last 100 ideas you have had didn’t work out over the years — why not this one?). Why can’t you have money in the bank, savings, investments, nice rental property and be able to go and do what you want and need to do that requires money?
All of these abundance-minded things are there for you. (Abundance will mean different things to different people – maybe abundance to you means living in cave reading books all day…whatever abundance means for you and to you then it’s there for you, but you have to expect it, accept it and allow it into your life)
NOW – Be Grateful
When your tank starts going from Empty to 1/3 of a tank to 1/2 of a tank, to 3/4 of a tank to a FULL TANK — Just Be Grateful. Know that you deserve it and that you are FINALLY in the flow of “your life”.
If you are someone who has been meditating for a while then you may have seen thebluelight.
Sometimes when you are meditating a blue light appears. Sometimes it comes in immediately, other times it fades in. It comes in the space right between your eyebrows.
It is the size of a pea.
It can get larger when you focus on it, BUT you can’t focus on it too hard (it’s a paradox of sorts). If you focus too hard it will slowly close (like an eye shutting, or a door closing). Then, you can not make it come back right away. Not even if you try really hard. It usually doesn’t appear by sheer will. It’s like the wind. It’s there, then it’s gone.
It has occurred to me that the blue light is some sort of portal (opening) to the light that is within. It’s a light that is within everyone and it is so beautiful.
When the blue light comes you know that it is always shining. Most times it seems to be covered by some sort of film. You know it’s shining really brightly although it is behind a covering.
Sunrise over Charlotte Douglas International Airport
The sun coming up and then going behind the clouds.
That’s what that blue light is like. It’s there. It’s always there, but you can’t always see it. Our body, our thoughts, and our emotions, are like the clouds. If we can clear away all of that (the focus on the body, the thoughts, and the emotions), then we will see the light.
You can live knowing there is light within. You can let your “little light shine”. It’s there. You can call the blue light anything you want. Valentine’s Day is coming soon…so let’s just call it LOVE.
This week just live your life knowing (even if you’ve never seen it) that there is a beautiful and vibrant yet calming energy of light that lives deep inside of you.
Let go of worrying about the future.
Let go of regretting the past.
Let go of getting lost in your thoughts and emotions.
Can you be still and quiet for 15 minutes at one time?
Try it now.
Try it tomorrow.
Just try it.
The first time you try it, it might be downright painful. Your mind will be jumping from one thing to another. That ‘s the monkey mind. Don’t worry, it can be stilled. You can train your mind to be still. And here’s what you will find…You will find that quiet place inside of yourself where there is nothing but peace, love and oneness with everything, everyone and a higher being or universal consciousness.
BE STILL
Can you be still?
Can you find a quiet place to go?
Can you stand the thoughts that run across your mind?
Can you let those thoughts go?
Can you just watch those thoughts float by?
Can you resist the urge to move or to get up?
Can you hear that still small voice within?
Can you just be still?
Can you Just Quit acting religious and go on your spiritual journey?
Look within, and you will find the God that you seek.
“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” ~Raymond Lindquist~
Is whatever you are doing, thinking, wondering, or questioning about spiritual matters getting you closer to knowing about a Higher Being or Universal Consciousness ?
Do you know this Being or Consciousness? Do you have a close connection with this Being or Consciousness?
Are you sure?
Is it a personal connection or is it something else? Can you describe it or is it undescribable?
Isn’t it okay to wonder, ponder, question these things? Who say’s that it’s not okay?
Isn’t it mostly those who’s livelihood depend on you NOT questioning these things?
Remember this is your life, and no matter what any one says, or how many degrees they have, or how great they sound in the pulpit, or how quilty they make you feel for questioning things — you are going to die alone.
Why can’t or shouldn’t you ask questions, so you can seek and find the answers.
The answer is in the questioning. If you don’t ask a question you won’t get an answer – — so ask good guestions.
There is a correlation between being grateful and letting go. When you are grateful you see what is good. When you are grateful you see what is great. When you are grateful you see the best in others. When you are grateful you re-focus your energy. When you are grateful you are okay with the present. When you are grateful you honor the past and the things of the past. When you are grateful your future looks brighter.
By being grateful you can see the “good” in the “bad”.
(Honestly there doesn’t seem to be good or bad, just gratefulness for what is.)
By being grateful you can see loss, as not loss, but as growth and change. By being grateful change is a way of life and not something to dread. By being grateful you look forward to the next day. By being grateful you forget about your problems, because problems aren’t the focus. By being grateful things that you need to “let go” of start to fall away or go away. Gratitude allows you to let go of things, people, circumstances, thoughts, feelings, ect. that don’t serve your greater good. Gratitude is one of the tools for learning to let go.
