We must warn you! Meditation is addictive! It feels really good. Once you reach the point where you will allow yourself this pleasure and peace, well, you will want to do it every day that you can. There is something intrinsically valuable in every life experience. In meditation, you learn to notice what that something is. In meditation, you learn to observe yourself. You become the dreamer dreaming. We do not suggest any one form of meditation. Indeed, we suggest you try as many as you can think of. Follow your whim and intuition for the form that most suits you in the moment. If you establish a comfortable contact with us or with some other portion of your higher self, ask as you enter a relaxed state of quiet, what form you might follow each time. If you have the chance to go out walking alone, let your vision go soft, aware enough to keep moving safely. Let yourself drift into a meditative state. With your body so occupied, you can gain access to your inner consciousness very easily. Freely ask any questions that your life may generate day to day and listen intently for the answers, knowing they will come, if not immediately then in the next little while as life unfolds.
Look around your life and begin to notice what statements it is making about your worth. What you see before you is what you believe you deserve. It is quite that clear and simple. Like it or not, you have precisely what you want. If you have the courage to believe that you deserve better, God will support your new statement. We suggest that you can make miracles. The world does not work the way you have been taught that it does. It does not unfold moment by moment. If you could muster a complete change in your beliefs in the flash of a single moment, life would instantly change to fulfill that new belief. The resistance to this lies solely within you. This resistance is based solely on fear and is deeply ingrained in the human psyche. That does not mean that it cannot be overcome of course. It only means that practice is needed to become conscious of it and to begin to live in a state of freedom. So, let's begin to practice now.
Now that you have your dreams down on paper, pick up the first document with the assessment of what is. Before you even look at it, acknowledge that it is a statement of what you believe you deserve. Denying the truth of who you are is not very effective. If you aren't willing to accept that you are totally responsible for the situation, your victimhood will lock you into it. Blaming someone else, from your parents and ancestors to God Himself will keep you from having the power to change. So, with this acknowledgement in mind, look again at what you've written. Look for the statements you have made about who you are. See how those statements conflict with who you want to be. With each conflict you find, replace the statement that sums up your situation with your new belief about who you are and what you deserve. For example, let's say that you have written, "There is a person in my life who hates me and treats me badly." You, however want to believe, "I am a wonderful child of God who deserves to be loved." The most glaring conflict in these thoughts is that no one can hate someone who deserves to be loved. Therefore, this other person either doesn't know you and thus hates a stranger to you both or you don't really believe your own statement about your worth and this person is merely showing you how you really feel about yourself. Most likely a combination of these possibilities is at play. Now, you cannot really change that other person. They are not to blame for the situation. They are giving you what you are sending out. So, you must set about changing yourself. Look carefully at exactly what that person is showing you with their behavior. Be honest about what you see. If that behavior was not something you yourself have within you, you would not see it outside you. Perhaps, their perception of their behavior is vastly different than yours? Once you find within yourself the actions and feelings you are seeing in the other, apply your new belief, "I am a wonderful child of God who deserves to be loved." Love those aspects of yourself that the other person has shown you. Look at the fear inside you that sparks those acts. Embrace the fear as you would a frightened child. Love yourself for being who you are in this moment, a person capable of such fear and the actions that spring from such fear. Forgive yourself for bringing such pain into your life. This other person has done you a grand service. They have shown you a fear that has ruled you and that you can forgive and accept and no longer need to be unconscious of. Be very grateful for their help in your growth and education. Look at them with new eyes now; eyes that love the you that you see in them. When you encounter them again, know that it is you that you are seeing. Shower that visage of yourself with all the love you believe you deserve. This other one has the opportunity to know who you really are now. Don't hide that anymore. You truly do deserve to be loved. Show the whole world who you really are and know that love is precisely what you will get back. See every action on the part of another as an expression of love. That is what you deserve. Even the crustiest of people will be expressing love for you in the best way that they know how in the moment. See yourself in each of those others and love what you see as yourself, a wonderful child of God. Your world is about to change!
Having said all this, if you insist on playing out this game of poverty/wealth, there are certain principles involved that may prove valuable. Indeed, value is a crucial term. Begin to think of your money oriented behaviors in terms of value more than price and cost. How much do you value what you receive for your money? How much do you value the effort you invest in earning your money? Is what you get reflected in the equation? Does the amount of money equal the value you place on a particular service or object? Do you really value your possessions or your own effort? It is in the act of fulfilling your values that real happiness can be found. The consumer economy of your culture only mirrors this principle. Feeling wealthy does not require more money than you have; only more money than you need. When you recognize that your internal state of being is the most important commodity you own, any abundance beyond subsistence becomes gravy. You have the power in this eternal moment to change your state of being. Remember that the universe exists to support your state of being and whatever proclamation you make to the universe of who you are will be reflected back to you by your environment. Look around you at how much more you have than what you need to survive. Look at how easily you make that living. Do you have to work 16 hours in every day like your ancestors did to survive? You have the time to read these words after all. See the truth of your life in the present moment. Appreciate and value it highly. Be very grateful for what you HAVE and turn your focus away from what you perceive that you lack. As you begin to treasure yourself and your life, you will find out how very secure you really are. There has always been enough for you to survive, obviously. There will always be. Your universe is infinite. Once you have begun to adjust your values, granting yourself permission to be happy, start to break away from the messages of your culture that proclaim that ownership equals security and happiness. Your inner state of being is the only thing you truly own. Your trust in yourself is the only genuine security. Every time you have a thought or feeling which contradicts that trust such as, "I can't afford such and so," replace that thought with your new model of the universe. "I do not choose to spend my resources on such and so." Understand that what you can and cannot afford is a function of your value system. Make sure that it is "your" value system and not someone else's. You do not have to be influenced by advertising if you so choose. You do not have to accept the messages of your culture. Choose your own values. Replace your thought that there is not enough money with the thought, "There is plenty more where that came from." Trust that there is enough to make your dreams come true. Do not hesitate to have what you honestly believe that you deserve. The money will come to you. It is as abundant as the air you breath. This new attitude will bring to the surface all of the internal conflicts that you have about wealth and how much you "deserve" to have. Confront each conflict in just this manner and you can release yourself from the bondage of insufficiency. Your faith in this benevolent universe will grow. All areas of your life will begin to reflect such faith. Pay attention to each change which appears and enjoy it as much as you can. That will accelerate the movement towards happiness and your growing awareness of self.
As the images and feelings begin to fade, remind yourself that you are whole. A few repetitions of this affirmation, "I am whole!", would be advantageous at this point. Let your awareness drift a little as you relax back into your comfortable present self. When you are complete with this experience, open your eyes (wipe the tears away) and once more peek at the clock and make a note of the hour. Consider the difference, if any, between the perception of time you spent in reverie and the "actual" time which has passed on the clock. Now consider that you have just experienced you past selves as very much present. Your body has responded to these past portions of you as though they were very much right now. Your emotions engaged in this event with as much energy as you experience in any other present moment. You have just compressed time. With practice, you can bring all of your past experience into your present moment. Your entire past is contained in your energy field right now and is accessible to you in the NOW. Not only are you all that you have ever been, but you are also all that you will become. the future too is contained in the present moment. Consider your aspirations. Who do you want to become? Can you remember a time in your life when you had no aspirations, did not want to become someone "more" than who you were then? This sense of becoming, common to all created forms be it human or otherwise, is the future calling. You already are who you will become and that you (all those you's) are beckoning to you in the present, presenting you with your dreams. What we have been offering you in this chapter is the chance to shift in time and bring your future self into the now. Each moment you focus on your aspirations, what you want to become, even if what you want to become is rich, you step outside your habitual perception of time. You draw past and future into your present and make yourself larger and more real. We urge you to reach for your grandest dreams because in your future those dreams have come true. Indeed, you have myriad futures to choose from. What you dream today, you might say, might never come true for you. We say that that is a choice you make by doubting yourself. If you did not experience this dream in your future, you would not be able to dream it in the present. Your soul experiences every possibility you consider. It has done so in your past (which shocks you as much as that it might do so in your future) as well. Each path not taken as you have walked on your journey through life, has been followed by your soul. Each lesson learned by these alternate you's is available to the you that you presently know. These lessons have a hand in shaping your awareness in as much as you have allowed your intuition to come through. Each possible future that you consider as you live your life is investigated by your soul and the wash of its lessons is available to your awareness as well. So, dream as large as you can. Dream ecstasy for yourself. Dream your soul! Dream your infinite loving self. Bring that dream of your future awareness into your present moment as strongly and as often as you can remember to do so. Dream the happiest dream you can imagine and know that you dream true. Your dream is already real. You could not imagine it if it were not!
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