What Is Abundance?

Amanda G. Goldston

Abundance is having more than enough of everything you want in life, as well as the time and excellent health to enjoy it.

Abundance comes from that wonderful feeling of leaping out of bed with a smile on your face, knowing that you:-
? are doing the work you choose and love,
? have money in the bank,
? are in a wonderful, passionate loving relationship,
? are brimming over with energy and vibrant health
? enjoy your hobbies
? have the time to enjoy it all
? are living the life of your dreams

Our natural states are love, joy, peace, happiness, passion, prosperity, health and fun. We were not meant to be struggling and under stress all our lives. We have been conditioned from very young that life is supposed to be a struggle and we are supposed to learn our lessons by pain and through things being difficult.

How do we create Abundance?

Firstly it is very important to look at our beliefs around Abundance in any area of our lives. For this reader, we will focus on money because that is one of the most negatively charged words in our language today.

Complete the sentences, with the first thoughts that come to mind:-
? Money is…… ?
Rich People are……..
? In order to have money you must…….
? I can’t have money because………….

Think of something you want in your life and ask yourself:

"Why don’t I yet have it?"

The answers to both exercises will bring up your blocks and limiting beliefs. Once you have identified them, you can clear them and choose new beliefs.

Create new statements with " I AM…." (e.g I am a money magnet, money flows to me ). INCANT them out loud with FEELING & EMOTION. Shout them out while you exercise, or in front of the mirror. It is important to use your whole body and get movement, as well as sound and feeling.

These are the truth about you, and you want to get the feeling and emotion into every part of you- mind, body, spirit and into every cell.

Beware of "Reality"

When you start to clear limiting beliefs and replace them with things you choose to believe, you will find that the words "reality" and "realistic" will often crop up. These will come both from your friends and loved ones, and from your own very loud Inner Critic.

It is important to be able to silence this voice. At heart it wants to protect you from harm, from falling flat on your face, from people laughing at you or from you not being loved or being good enough and it has a million and one reasons why you "can’t, shouldn’t, don’t dare, mustn’t etc etc etc"

Some Suggestions

Remember, we live in an Abundant Universe and there really is no limit on who we can be or what we can do or have. The Universe wants us to have all our heart’s desires. The trouble is, we get in our own way and block the flow with feelings of:
? I don’t deserve
? I am not worthy
? I am not lovable
? I am not good enough
? Good things only happen to others
? I am unlucky

We create our reality with our thoughts, and attract what we focus on, so we often end up getting what we DON’T want in our lives.
1. Focus on what you DO want- Write it as I AM, I HAVE, I OWN, I DO, I FEEL…..
2. Put in the details which are vitally important to you, otherwise use the phrase "Please send me this, or something better, for the highest good of all concerned, as soon as possible. Thank You"
3. ASK, EXPECT , TRUST and be GRATEFUL that it is on its way
4. LISTEN for Inner Wisdom promptings for ACTION to take
5. Create a GRATITUDE Diary for all the wonderful things you already have. "Thank you, Universe, for all the blessings I have and all the blessings I am receiving-
6. Create a collage of pictures of things you want, write out your Dream Life, record it on tape and listen to it frequently
7. Create a success journal of things you have done and add to it every day
8. Start your day with "Something really wonderful is going to happen to me today!" and start noticing happy, positive, fantastic moments and record them
9. Know that you DESERVE everything you want, and EXPECT it to come to you
10. SMILE

An Abundant life is made up of Magic Moments. If we allow ourselves to experience Joy, Love, Happiness, Peace and Abundance just for this moment, and then just for the next- as we get to it, then we will create extraordinary lives of Abundance for ourselves

Wishing you love & abundant blessings
Amanda

The Source of True Happiness

By Gangaji

I have discovered that it is actually impossible to find happiness. As long as you are seeking to find happiness somewhere, you are overlooking where happiness is. Since I have stopped searching for fulfillment in the mind or in external circumstances, my life is now lived on a ground of joy. There are moments of unhappiness, anger, and distress - moods that pass through- yet all is occurring on a ground of joy. No mood needs to be feared, no moment needs to be avoided. Finally, I see that all moods, all states of mind, all feelings, anything that is truly investigated, points back to the same source - that pristine sky of fulfilled consciousness that is the truth of who I am, and the truth of who you are.

As long as you are seeking to find Spirit someplace else, you are overlooking the essential truth of Spirit, which is omnipresence. And, when you seek to find happiness someplace else, you are overlooking your true nature, which is happiness. You are overlooking yourself.

I would like to offer you the invitation and the challenge to stop overlooking yourself, to simply, radically, and absolutely be still-to put aside, at least for a moment, all of your ideas of where Spirit is, or where truth is, or where you are. I am asking you to be still in pure presence. Not to create that, not even to invite it, but simply to recognize what is always here, who you always are, where Spirit always is.

Ignorance is the root of suffering. When I use the word "ignorance," I am speaking about ignoring the truth of who you are in favor of some problem or identification with suffering. Ignoring the limitless truth of yourself, ignoring the eternal presence of divinity, of being-ness itself, is the very source of continued suffering. Continued suffering occurs when your concepts of happiness, truth and freedom are seen as separate from who you already are.

I am not speaking of the compassionate suffering experienced when one witnesses the anguish in the world. In the acknowledgment of that anguish, suffering can be experienced.

This is part of the texture of life, and it is appropriate. By continued suffering, I am referring to what could be called "unnecessary" suffering, when you are wrapped up in replaying your own or the world's dramatic stories over and over in your mind. Unnecessary suffering can be dropped in an instant, yet it is usually perpetuated through cycles of mental and emotional activity as an attempt to escape the direct experience of emotional pain.

To be finished with suffering does not mean to ignore suffering. To be true to the eternal truth of who you are is not to ignore anything. It means recognizing that you have the capacity to realize yourself as not separate from the totality of life. The degree to which you are willing to stop ignoring is the degree to which you are willing to truly know yourself.

Whether you are searching for peace and happiness in a relationship, in a better job, or even in world peace, just for one moment, stop absolutely. There is nothing wrong with these pursuits, but if you are engaging in them to get peace or to get happiness, you are overlooking what is already here. If you will simply be utterly still, even for one instant, you will recognize the inherent spaciousness of your being that is already happy and at peace with itself.

Once you discover this ground of peace, whatever pursuits you then engage in will be informed by your discovery. You will naturally bring what you have discovered to the world, to politics, to all your relationships. Because of our conditioning, we normally dismiss this ground of peace with an immediate, "Yes, but what about my life? I have responsibilities. I need to keep busy.

The absolute doesn't relate to my world, my existence." These conditioned thoughts just reinforce further conditioning. But, if you will take a moment to recognize the peace that is already alive within you, you then actually have the choice to trust it in all your endeavors.

This doesn't mean that your life will be swept clean of conflicts, challenges, or pain. It means that you will have recognized a sanctuary where the truth of yourself is present, where the truth of Spirit is present, regardless of the physical, mental, or emotional circumstances of your life. We cannot possess truth; that would be the mind's idea. But truth can claim its possession, which is us - each soul, each being.

This is an invitation into the core of your being. It is not about religion or lack of religion. It is not even about enlightenment or ignorance. It is about the truth of who you are, which is closer and deeper than anything that can be named or imagined. What we imagine as fulfillment has to do with less pain, less conflict, more pleasure, more peace, more acknowledgment, more love.

But, true fulfillment cannot be imagined; it can only be realized.