Growth Online > Knowledge Base > Personal/Spiritual Growth > Individual's Capacities that Enable Achievement> Relating to, Attracting Money Relating to, Attracting Money The Nature of Money | How We Relate to Money Methods of Attracting Money   The Nature of Money   Money as Universal Force Money is not merely a thing; a means of exchange, but a force, a universal power that is infinite.   Money Laws and Principles Money is a force. It is a concentrated symbol of energy and power in life. Like all forces in the universe, money obeys certain universal laws or principles. By understanding those laws and acting appropriately, we gain a great power over money, enabling wealth and prosperity to come our way. Thoughts on the Nature, Evolution, and Future of Money   How We Relate to Money Money as Universal Force of Infinite Power We relate to money as a thing, like a rock or any material object. Our perception is shaded by our ability to earn it, or to present conditions weighing on us, and other factors that seem beyond our control. But that is not what money is. Rather it is a force, a universal power that is infinite in its scope and possibility. When we move out of our smallness, possessiveness, and selfishness, and open to that wider field, we become instruments for the flow of that money power into our lives. Wealth Comes from Within; Based on Human Value All wealth comes from inner status, but we perceive it as the status accorded by wealth from outer work. The wealth of someone is based on and is proportionate to his own perception of human value. (MSS)   Money and Our Inner Status What every successful individual has learnt is that money does not come from outside but from one's inner status that attracts the outer. (Paraphrase of MSS)   Money Value -Mentally humans are slaves of money.   -One who does not focus his value on money, can possess it; while one who values it is possessed by it. -The highest medium through which money can pass for the highest growth is the consciousness of man who is not possessed by money. -The highest consciousness an individual can have to attract the greatest amount of money is the consciousness of not being possessed by it. (MSS) Vital Reactions and Money When issues of money arise, the vital/emotional ego gets engaged. Few men are immune from reacting this way from any pressures that come to one that relates to money. The deeper one's consciousness, the more one can act from calm, where the ego, and its irrational behaviors, limiting attitudes, get engaged. If centered deeper still the pressures turn into good fortune and opportunities.   Methods of Attracting Money Subtle Methods of Attracting Money Most of us are aware of the importance of hard work, determination, and drive to attract money. However, there are also other, more hidden and subtle ways to attract money, wealth, and prosperity. When followed, these methods have a tendency to instantly attract money from seemingly out of nowhere, defying our normal notions of cause and effect, and what is logical and possible. Such sudden and abundant results are indications of the wondrous phenomenon of �life response� at work. On Attracting Money One attracts money by giving it greater attention (e.g. keep all accounts up to date); by paying off all debts as soon as one can possibly do it; by circulating it, rather than hording it; by increasing the level of orderliness and cleanliness around one; by speaking softly in a low voice and with few words; by changing a negative attitude that is in opposition to one's success; by moving from tightness to generosity; by making the necessary and required physical and psychological effort; and by refraining from engaging in activities that deplete one's energies, amongst other methods. Such inner and outer movement cause life to respond -- positively, abundantly, quickly, and miraculously, as good fortune or direct monetary increase, coming from seemingly out of nowhere, defying logic, and all common notions of cause and effect, and space and time.   Right Actions Related to Money Attracts Positive Life Response One attracts money by giving it greater attention (e.g. keep all accounts up to date); by paying off all debts as soon as one can possibly do it; by circulating it, rather than hording it; by increasing the level of orderliness and cleanliness around one; by speaking softly in a low voice and with few words; by changing a negative attitude that is in opposition to one's success; by moving from tightness to generosity; by making the necessary and required physical and psychological effort; and by refraining from engaging in activities that deplete one's energies, amongst other methods. LIFE RESPONSE EXAMPLES -One small business owner decided to give attention to his accounts, balanced eight months of back bank statements, and miraculously received $5000 from nowhere the next day. (Power of attention) -One individual owed a friend money for over twenty years. As soon as he committed to paying one particular old debt within a few minutes he was told that he had found a new place to live, after having being stuck in the same place for twenty years! (Taking care of old debts) -A web site owner was hesitant to move up to a better web site because of the added expense, even though the required funds were available. The web host provider had suggested the better site a number of times. When the web site owner finally overcame his reluctance to spend, he discovered to his surprise that the web host provider had suddenly the day before begun offering this better site at a cost almost the same as his current site. (Circulating money) -An instructor had not been contacted for new work for weeks, and was in desperate straits. He decided to apply the idea of cleanliness. His apartment was normally quite clean, but he wanted to take cleanliness a step further. He decided to clean his refrigerator, something he was reluctant to do. At the exact moment he finished putting things back into the refrigerator after cleaning, he heard a message on his answering machine from the his training company offering him new work. The response from life was instantaneous! (Cleanliness and orderliness) -A 39 year old wealthy American businessman lost all 60 employees and was prepared to file bankruptcy. He and his wife practiced attention, cleanliness, harmony, and soft speech. Two years later he was in a position to retire for life in prosperity. (Soft speech) Strategies to Attract Money 1. Raise the level of cleanliness in your home/work to the highest possible level � no compromise. 2. Money responds positively to attention. Start keeping perfectly accurate accounts of every single penny you spend � no exceptions. Perfecting accounting is attention to money. 3. Practice silence: Reduce the loudness of your voice to a bear minimum required for clear communication. Reduce the number of words spoken to the bear minimum required for effective communication. Money is energy. Speech is energy. Speech conserved will come to you as money. (MSS) Money Attracting Strategies Here are basic strategies for attracting money: 1. Raise the level of cleanliness in your home/work to the highest possible level � no compromise. 2. Money responds positively to attention. Start keeping perfectly accurate accounts of every single penny you spend � no exceptions. Perfecting accounting is attention to money. 3. Practice silence: Reduce the loudness of your voice to a bare minimum required for clear communication. Reduce the number of words spoken to the bare minimum required for effective communication. Money is energy. Speech is energy. Speech conserved will come to you as money. 4. Pay all the money you owe exactly on time. 5. Pay off/make arrangements on all old debts that have been neglected! 6. Circulate the money you have; do not horde it. 7. Avoid vital intensities. 8. Collect all sums owed to you, down to the penny. 9. Be generous, self-giving in money matters. 10. Avoid wastage of all kind. 11. Remain cheerful through any troubling money matter, difficulty. 12. Consecrate every money related transaction, issue, problem, etc. Life will respond with sudden good fortune to any and all of these. Attitudes of Those with Perennial Money Problems Generally, those who have perennial money difficulties will have the following attitudes: 1) As soon as some cash comes in, they will spend it on some new want of theirs, 2) they will pay off more pressing debts than the one for which it is earmarked, 3) any cleverer person around will take off the money. (MSS) Withdrawing Attachment that Attracts Money When one takes care of the details of money, yet withdraw the emotional attachment or bother related to it, money suddenly flows in your direction. Money Power that Comes through Trust and Detachment People are beginning to understand that the journey is the reward. That can be interpreted in one sense is that the things you accomplish is all important, not the money. I.e. the money will follow if you focus intently on what needs to be done to lift up yourself, the world. E.g., the more you innovate and catch the emerging waves of society, the more money will follow in the wake of your efforts. Silicon Valley companies like Apple and Google are examples. They just want to change the world through innovative, breakthrough products and service in the computer and Internet domains. As a result, money follows them in buckets! They are garnering infinite-like cash on hand without any long-term debt. It shows the emergence of self-multiplication power of money in society. Money is a power of trust. The more trust, the more it circulates. The banking system is one example when they lend out money. One extension of this trust power is the availability of micro credits to poor women in Asia. Money's ultimate power comes through ultimate trust. When we connect to the deepest realms within, and thereby move away from ego and separateness, we enable the greatest trust. I.e., we have the trust of the divine in action. In between, many stages and manifestation of trust will appear in society. Those who tap into that will prosper beyond their wildest dreams. Money comes to those not attached to it. Man is mostly a slave to it. It is mostly in the hands of dark forces, but that is changing. We can overcome the situation by changing our consciousness, including our relation to and view of money. Money is a vast social power that the world misses. If we align ourselves with that emerging social power, we align with the infinite money potential. ARTICLE: Strategies to Instantly Attract Money into Your Life     Attention Attracts Money Attention It is a basic law of life that everything �- whether it is a physical object or a human being -- responds to greater attention. Money is no exception. The best way to give attention to money is to account for it accurately and in a timely manner. Keeping precise and up-to-date accounts of money is a powerful mechanism for suddenly attracting more of it.  -One small business owner balanced eight months of back bank statements in a weekend, and received $5000 from nowhere the next day.  -An individual noticed that an idle machine had become run-down, so he decided to clean and fix it. Within a few days, a new work project suddenly sprung up where this very machine was required. The project, using that machine, became a huge new source of income for the business. Strategies to Attract Money 1. Raise the level of cleanliness in your home/work to the highest possible level � no compromise. 2. Money responds positively to attention. Start keeping perfectly accurate accounts of every single penny you spend � no exceptions. Perfecting accounting is attention to money. 3. Practice silence: Reduce the loudness of your voice to a bear minimum required for clear communication. Reduce the number of words spoken to the bear minimum required for effective communication. Money is energy. Speech is energy. Speech conserved will come to you as money. (MSS)   Higher Levels of Cleanliness, Orderliness Attracts Money Cleanliness, Orderliness Perhaps the simplest and most dramatic way to attract money is to raise your level of physical cleanliness at home or at work. Many individuals and businesses have followed this practice, and seen money suddenly rush in from all sides, often from the most unlikely sources! -An instructor had not been contacted for new work for weeks, and was in desperate straits. He decided to apply the principle of higher cleanliness. His apartment was normally clean, but he wanted to take cleanliness a step further. So he decided to clean his refrigerator; something he was ordinarily reluctant to do. At the exact moment he finished putting the foodstuffs back into the refrigerator after the cleaning, he heard a message on his answering machine from his training company offering him abundant new work. The response from life was instantaneous to the completion of the cleaning! -A consultant suggested that before he made any business recommendations to his client that they immediately clean up their showroom and backyard area. Time passed. The next time the consultant visited the company, he learned that there had been an unexpected sudden surge in new orders. This came just after the company implemented the consultant�s advice about cleanliness. We recommend that anyone looking to attract more money take up this strategy immediately. There is no faster way to attract positive good fortune -- including fresh new sources of money -- than by raising the level of cleanliness and orderliness. Strategies to Attract Money 1. Raise the level of cleanliness in your home/work to the highest possible level � no compromise. 2. Money responds positively to attention. Start keeping perfectly accurate accounts of every single penny you spend � no exceptions. Perfecting accounting is attention to money. 3. Practice silence: Reduce the loudness of your voice to a bear minimum required for clear communication. Reduce the number of words spoken to the bear minimum required for effective communication. Money is energy. Speech is energy. Speech conserved will come to you as money. (MSS) Discharging Neglected Debts Attracts Money Long-term Debt Owed Very often those who suffer from money problems have borrowed in the past and have forgotten to repay, even when they had the opportunity to do so.  One individual owed a friend money for over twenty years. An instance after he committed to paying off the old debt, he received news that he had been offered a better place to live, after having lived in the same cramped apartment for over twenty years! In addition, he experienced a sudden surge in his workload, which included higher-paying type work. We see from this example how very important it is that you pay off old outstanding debts. Not doing so may very well prevent you from ever moving beyond your current situation. Life Response of Paying off a Due Debt Suppose someone has debts from forty people totaling Rs 87 lakhs and he is now faced with an emergency of a serious type for three lakhs of rupees, his getting that amount is not possible. When someone offers him that money on an understanding that the next collection will pay it off, the temptation is not to repay it but to meet earlier emergencies. What is involved is not money only. It is the personality. Should the person pay off whatever little amount he gets towards the promised payment, all his 87 lakhs will soon be paid off. If you vow to return the money as you promised to yourself, your personality gets strengthened and attracts more money. In no time, all the Rs 87 lakhs of debt dissolves. (MSS) Life Responds to Discharging Your Past Duties Very few people realise the full spiritual value of completely discharging their duties. Man acts freely as long as he is not checked by social pressure. If you are spiritually perceptive, take a list of every one of your works that stalls, stalls for week or years. Exercise your memory painstakingly. You will come upon the exact act you have done to someone. Almost all the details will tally. Now regret having done it. At once the present block will be removed. Hundreds of devotees have this experience. Only that they do not like it even after getting the result. Acts have life. Willful acts have virulent life. Mind, if it is understanding or good, has the capacity to reverse the old movement. A family was ruined. They had a few hundred creditors. Imagine the daily harassment. Eight years ago they came to Mother. New comforts arise, but old tortures remain. It took them time to realise this rule of the effective past life. They understood, but were incapable of fully reversing in their minds the old acts. Vast opportunities arose on the horizon. But they stand outside the door. Much of their gruesome suffering is relieved. But creditors, their calls, their visits, their harassment are a nightmare. Mother has reduced the hundred events to ten. Even one is enough to shatter a man. Many good things happened in the family, but the little tortures remain unremoved. The boy got a job on a good salary. The family needs every rupee urgently. But from his first salary, he voluntarily sent the bank an installment of his educational loan. It is spiritual wisdom. (MSS) Life Responds to Discharging Your Past Duties Very few people realise the full spiritual value of completely discharging their duties. Man acts freely as long as he is not checked by social pressure. If you are spiritually perceptive, take a list of every one of your works that stalls, stalls for week or years. Exercise your memory painstakingly. You will come upon the exact act you have done to someone. Almost all the details will tally. Now regret having done it. At once the present block will be removed. Hundreds of devotees have this experience. Only that they do not like it even after getting the result. Acts have life. Willful acts have virulent life. Mind, if it is understanding or good, has the capacity to reverse the old movement. A family was ruined. They had a few hundred creditors. Imagine the daily harassment. Eight years ago they came to Mother. New comforts arise, but old tortures remain. It took them time to realise this rule of the effective past life. They understood, but were incapable of fully reversing in their minds the old acts. Vast opportunities arose on the horizon. But they stand outside the door. Much of their gruesome suffering is relieved. But creditors, their calls, their visits, their harassment are a nightmare. Mother has reduced the hundred events to ten. Even one is enough to shatter a man. Many good things happened in the family, but the little tortures remain unremoved. The boy got a job on a good salary. The family needs every rupee urgently. But from his first salary, he voluntarily sent the bank an installment of his educational loan. It is spiritual wisdom. (MSS) The Unregenerate Vital Nature that Does Not Want to Pay Love gives. It cannot take. It can only give. Maybe, �Man takes, he can only take and he cannot give� is an uncharitable statement to make about mankind. At least in our own personal experience, we would have seen one example of such a person. Having read the words of Sri Aurobindo about the unregenerate vital not wanting to be under an obligation, I began to collect evidences for it from my readings of history and literature. During the course of my research, I came across precious examples in life and in literature for another principle with which this article opens. My main focus was how much I am qualified under these rules, how unregenerate my vital is and how unwilling I have been to pay where payment was due. It was instructive. Someone suffering an incurable disease came across another person in whom she developed a hope. She offered half her property to him. In half an hour of conversation, her hopes rose and she offered all her property. She was cured. Rather, she was transformed from the ghost she was to a girl of good looks. Her offer was no longer in the air. A man entrusted a friend with all his money. The friend invested it and raised it to a value of 30 times in 18 months. It never occurred to the man that the friend could also be given a trifle out of the good fortune he had created. Two rich men bought a large coffee estate together. One man paid his share. The other man did not. The buyer did not ask for the payment. The seller did not pay, nor did he give a receipt for the money for five years. It is inconceivable, but I was a witness to it. I can write here up to 15 such instances directly from the events I experienced or was a witness to. Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories and 4 novels with Sherlock Holmes as the hero. It seems he made an experiment of his work to study this principle in life. Holmes never asks for payment. No one paid him, but everyone, before the work was over, copiously promised to pay. A Lord came representing the throne and assured his payment, but never paid. A gold king asked him to burn money if necessary, but never paid. A poor girl offered to pay if she got her property. She got it but never paid. The police took Holmes� help but would not even pay his expenses. An Austrian King and a Duke from whom Holmes demanded payment paid. A banker lost a crown and offered to pay its whole value, but never mentioned payment on its recovery. Sri Aurobindo says it never occurs to Man that a payment is due for service rendered or goods received. Love that is incapable of taking expresses through the mind or body. The body is physical and is possessive. Even when the body expresses DIVINE LOVE that cannot take, in the beginning it wants to take for a period before it starts giving. If you see someone coming forward to pay AFTER the work is over and without being asked, you can be sure he is NOT physical. Yoga is to move from Mind to Supermind. There is the necessity for some of us to move from the vital to the mental. A few people may find themselves in the physical. They too can move. The power of the Force is wherever you are, you will be moved to the top, as in politics when the party wants, a person is moved from anywhere to everywhere. Man does not want to pay is a human reality. (MSS) Circulation Attracts Money   Circulation Like any force, money needs to move freely in order to sustain itself. Holding back on paying, or otherwise hoarding money, prevents the free flow of energy, and thus the free flow of money. For example, we have seen a number of instances where individuals were unwilling to pay the bills they owed until they first received payments of money due to them. Reversing such an attitude can bring a sudden abundant positive response from life. A programmer, who had little cash on hand, was unwilling to write out checks for current bills due until he received money owed him from his clients. He had been waiting for a number of days for this payment to come in. He then reversed his attitude, and went ahead and wrote out the checks for the money he owed anyway. When he went to pick up his mail ten minutes later, he was surprised to discover the check he had yearned for in his mailbox. We have also seen instances where individuals were unwilling to spend their current funds for important necessities. Even when they had plenty of cash on hand, they hoarded it, often because of some unfounded fear. When they reversed themselves, life responded in extraordinary ways. -A web site owner was hesitant to upgrade to a better web site because of the added expense, even though he had the required funds. The web host provider had suggested the better site a number of times in the past. When the web site owner finally overcame his reluctance to spend, he discovered to his surprise that the web host provider had suddenly, the day before begun offering this better, higher-priced sit, at a cost virtually the same as his current site! -There was a man who was hesitant to spend money on a deserving friend. When he changed his position and did so, he saw that money came back to him in the exact amount he had spent on his friend! If you give up such attitudes and let money circulate, energy will flow, and life will reward you with good fortune, including the constant flow of money in your direction. This is proof of the subtle principle of �inner-outer correspondence�; i.e. life reflects on the outside your psychological condition inside within yourself. If you make your feelings or attitudes more positive, such as overcoming an unwillingness to pay a bill or the hoarding of money, life on the outside will respond positively to you in kind. Money Should Circulate For the individual who is of an expansive nature, is living the higher life, the more money he spends, the more will inflow. Hording only stifles flow and circulation that prevents wealth and prosperity in life. For a miser, who wishes to become rich, the opposite may be true; hoarding makes him rich, but he is a miserable rich. Money Circulation Not only individuals, but the peoples of the nations of the world need to circulate their money; i.e. not horde it, to eliminate energy blockage, and to enable its multiplier effect to take root. Spending Liberally Attracts Boom In Income One endowed with the wisdom of common sense who re-orients his present expenses on the right priorities as liberally as his circumstances permit, will witness a boom in his income. In delaying difficult payments and in meeting the expenses urgently required on hand, there is deceit as we take advantage of the creditor who is indulgent and we INDULGE our own preferences. Liberal right spending removes the blot of deceit from our character. When you spend liberally on what is due, the recipient is rightly exulting, thus releasing a spiritual power in him. [On the other hand] This does not permit expenditure for vanity or personal preference, styled as necessity, the necessity of the hour.  (MSS) Collect Sums Owed; Overcome Neglected Duties Attracts Sums Owed to You It is also important to collect all money owed to you, including the minutest of sums sum. If you do so, money will suddenly come to you from all directions. -An individual understood that one should not neglect collecting even the smallest amount owed to one. He then decided to practice it CONSCIOUSLY, and see for himself what would happen. So he collected even the smallest amounts due to him from others (such as 10 cents and 20 cents!). After he successfully collected on these, in the following few days he received Rs.300,000 ($7,500) for various receipts coming from unexpected sources. -An individual had exhausted his bank account. He was in desperate straits. He remembered that if you collect every penny still due to you, money can come. He then contacted the sole debt he had on his books, which went back nearly six years! He contacted that person to secure the payment. The next morning he received a most unexpected purchase and payment from another source that instantly resolved his quandary. Taking Care of Neglected Duties There are circumstances where money will not come your way until you take care of neglected areas of your life. Once you give those areas the attention they deserve, money or other good fortune can instantaneously come your way. A payment for new services rendered was anticipated by a software company, but got delayed for various technical reason. The individual in charge remembered that several older clients had still not sent their payment. He had neglected to stay on top of that matter. Now with the current situation of the new potential client, he felt there was a correlation between the receivables he neglected to keep up on and the new payment that was having technical problems coming in. Thus, he immediately contacted both of the older clients that owed receivables to find out their latest status. Instantly, thereafter (literally within seconds of hanging up on the phone with the older clients) the money for the new client properly cleared and came in. A Life Response Money Day Today was a �Life Response Money Day.�  I received an amount equal to 2/3 of a month�s worth of $ remuneration in five minutes. How did this response from life occur?  Part 1:  I thought about the idea of how difficult it is to shift from the work we like to do, e.g.  writing or organizing or performing our normally perceived important tasks -- vs. something one might not be so eager to do, such as emptying the dishwasher. I thought that our ability to accept the givens of life is based on our attitudes about such things. When we have the right attitude, we tend to do that work energetically and joyfully.  Then I wondered how can one get to this state of right attitude of doing what life puts before you, no matter how small, or seemingly less important relative to what we were doing earlier. I.e. I was wondering what my condition should be so that I have the right attitude, and more easily make the transition from an important thing to the perceived lesser one. I once again remembered Sri Aurobindo's claim that when we live in the depths of our being, from a deeper poise within, we tend to be One with the world around us -- i.e. we have the wherewithal to perceive the multiplicity of things occurring in the environment, and we are more in tune with the needs and interests of others. I thought I could apply this principle and approach to doing the things we are reluctant to take on. I.e. if we are centered in a deeper poise, it will be much easier to shift from one task to another, no matter what their perceived relative importance. I did not actually apply this approach at that moment, but merely thought about it. A minute later, I checked my computer and from out of nowhere I received an order equal to a 1/3 of my $ remunerations for the entire month. It was a stunning development for me. Then I saw the connection between my aspiration to discover what it is I can do to more permanently overcome the attitude of reluctance, and the instantaneous response of life through the unexpected arrival of large sum of money. Part 2:  (3 minutes later) Then I thought, why not be brave and check the status of another bill that is well overdue. Rather than wait to be informed of the result � i.e. what the customer had lately intended to do or was doing on the matter -- I decided to take action and see what has actually transpired through my bank account, since the client has not responded to me in the way I had hoped. As I was checking my account, I decided that I will open to the spiritual Force. In this particular case, as the very moment rolled around, I was a little afraid that the response I had hoped for would not come through my consecrated effort, and therefore I would lose a tiny bit of faith. Then I controlled my doubt, blocked out everything else, and held deeply within my thought of the Divine Mother. I was then informed over the phone that the long-delayed funds has suddenly arrived.  Voila! Now within 5 minutes I drew a considerable amount of money through an inner effort. Out of nothing, I had created everything I hoped for. Through inner psychological and spiritual effort, I instantaneously changed the course of events around me. I was reminded again of the power we have within to change the world around us.  When we concentrate that effort, life responds from all quarters!   Silence, Soft Speech Attracts   Strategies to Attract Money 1. Raise the level of cleanliness in your home/work to the highest possible level � no compromise. 2. Money responds positively to attention. Start keeping perfectly accurate accounts of every single penny you spend � no exceptions. Perfecting accounting is attention to money. 3. Practice silence: Reduce the loudness of your voice to a bear minimum required for clear communication. Reduce the number of words spoken to the bear minimum required for effective communication. Money is energy. Speech is energy. Speech conserved will come to you as money. (MSS)     Generosity, Goodwill Attracts   Generosity Whenever you shift your perspective from yourself to others, energy increases, and conditions for success reveal themselves in the form of sudden and abundant positive life responses. This includes a movement on your part away from stinginess and tightfistedness, and towards generosity. Even the smallest movement in that direction can attract sudden good fortune coming your way, including the attraction of more money. A somewhat tightfisted man decided to pay for the trip of his friend, who was in a little bit of financial straits. It was something he would not ordinarily do. The next day he received an unexpected payment for an invoice that he did not expect to arrive for quite a while. (In this event, he perceived the correlation between the overcoming of his tightness and the corresponding positive response from life. In addition, he also noted the trend that the amount he would generously give another was almost precisely equal to the amount that suddenly came back to him thereafter!) Goodwill and Generosity Too -- A related way to attract sudden good fortune is to feel goodwill and gratitude towards others. One individual inwardly sent goodwill and gratitude to various clients and friends. Soon thereafter, there was an avalanche of good news from them in terms of sales, money, and other forms of good fortune. Goodwill in Work Another great way to attract money is having goodwill to others around us as well as the situation and circumstance around us. Better still if there is goodwill in one's work. That will attract the greatest response for money to flow in. Floods of money enter your life if your goodwill flows out in floods. For example, a contract instructor who puts his heart and soul into a class, will see thereafter, perhaps the next day, a sudden rush in his good fortune in the form of more work, more money, more opportunities, etc. Consider this example of an individual who used an "inner" technique to project goodwill, and the resulting positive responses he got from life as it related to money and success. One recent morning I sat concentrating to generate an attitude of goodwill to specific people and aspects of work or life that I was related with. During the day, I received a whole series of good news related to the very things I had been concentrating on as well as on some other aspects of work that I wanted to complete but had set aside for the time being as beyond my present capacities to achieve due to shortage of time. I had been sending goodwill to a client company I was working with and praying their revenues should increase. During the day, they closed a good sized order that had been in doubt. The previous day I had asked a marketing manager at the company about the progress on a proposed collaboration with another company that could generate big dividends for my client. The manager had said he has not made any progress on the proposal for the last six weeks. During the day, he reported that the other company had contacted him and proposed flying into our city for the first meeting within five days time. Beyond these responses, there were two encouraging responses from projects I had not been thinking about but were high on the list of priorities for work in the near future. In one case I was seated on the plane exactly across the aisle from the head of a non-profit organization I had met nine years before. During the flight, he introduced himself and expressed serious interest in a development project that we had been wanting to promote but had not found the right agency. His agency would be the ideal candidate. In the other case, a newspaper headline carried information that another project we had been working to promote for the past one year may be well received by the concerned parties.   Why Money Responds to Goodwill and Self-giving Karmayogi frequently writes that money comes to those with goodwill who practice self-giving. Why? To understand why, we have to keep in mind that money is not a thing, it is a force. What is the purpose of that force? The purpose is to promote mutually beneficial relationships between human beings -- so people can exchange the fruits of the labor. Money is a force for human interaction and interchange. It enables one person to work hard growing food and exchange it for another person's labor making products or providing services. Money is like language. It is intended to facilitate human interaction. Imagine a person who says that he will not speak to anyone because he wants to keep all his words to himself. What good is his language to him then? Money is the same. Language grows and becomes valuable only when we relate to other people. The more we try to relate and communicate, the more valuable language is and the more proficient we become in utilizing it. Language has the power to enable a single person to communicate with the whole of humanity. We do not hoard language. We do not try to take away the language of other people. We naturally understand that the more people speak our language, the easier it is for us to communicate. The same is true of money. Think of money in the same way as a means for communication and fostering positive relations with others. Money grows when we relate positively to other people -- not when we want to take what they have or acquire more than others or feel superior to them -- but when we feel happy that everyone around us prospers and when we take active initiative to promote the prosperity of those we meet. Conscious acts of goodwill and self-giving put us in touch with the universal power of money and attract the force of money to flow toward, in and through us to the world around. The more we feel the urge to give it, the more it comes to us. (MSS) Non-Dependence on Others Dependence on Others for Prosperity The real power to attract money in life comes from within one's self, not from an outer dependence on other's support. Developing an inner determination and will to attain, developing one's own strength and fortitude and action derived thereof is what accomplishes; is what attracts money to you in great abundance. With this in mind then consider how dependent of others you are of others for funds, and change that attitude to self-dependency. Note that the power to attract money comes from the psychological thought and feeling that I am the determiner of the fate of my prosperity, not others. Life may immediately respond just from perceiving the truth of this perspective. It will surely respond if one acts sincerely from this point of view. Dependence on Others We always hold the power to determine our own destiny. Likewise, the real power to attract money comes from our own self-reliance, determination, and will; not from any dependence on another�s help and support. The power to attract money comes from the psychological viewpoint that I am the ultimate determinant of my fate. If this is the case, then consider if you are dependent in others for funds, or similar forms of help, and change your position from one of dependence to self-dependency. Wealth and prosperity will move in your direction. Opening to Spirit, the Force Attracts The Ultimate Solution: Using Spirit The single most powerful way to attract more money in your life is to use the power of Spirit. If, for example, you open yourself to the Higher Power before commencing an important activity, substantial results -- including more wealth and prosperity � are likely to quickly and abundantly come your way. Often the results are simply overwhelming!   A woman, who was developing a school for children, was considering the price she was willing to pay her friend to do the work. After a discussion, she secured the somewhat lower price that she had hoped for. She then paid that amount so the work could begin. However, shortly thereafter, she reconsidered, and decided to �offer� the entire situation to the Higher Power. A very short time later, the engineer -- out of gratitude for being able to build a school for children -- volunteered to return all of the money he charged!   If you open to the higher spiritual power before starting an event, or when in the midst of a situation, life will respond dramatically in kind. If you also overcome a wanting attitude, life can respond overwhelming. Spiritual Strategies Towards Money Consecrate any transaction related to money. I.e. make it a self-offering to the Divine. The Force will act. See money as a Divine power, and aspire for its manifestation on earth to bring divine benefits -- to enable Truth and Conscious life in the world. See money and its transactions as the instrument of the coming spiritual supramental unfolding in life. Develop the Vision of Brahman, of the absolute unity and integration of Spirit and Matter, of the Unmanifest and Manifest, of the One and the Many, the Being and Becoming, and see money and your transaction as a reflection of that unity and power. Go within to the Psychic, i.e. one�s the evolving soul, which will enable you to develop ultimate trust in others, society in all ways related to money transactions. Be completely self-giving in all manners related to money. List out and give up every negative attitude and value you have towards money. Feel spiritual strength in all money matters. I.e. you have infinite quantities at your disposal. No small matter related to money will make you fear or cower. Visualize the Divine Mother as the owner of the money; or accumulating ever more money for the sake of the progress of the earth. Other Cheerfulness and Prosperity Cheerfulness and Prosperity Cheerfulness is an excellent foundation for prosperity. This is true for the individual, the family, and society. For example, we see how the foundation of the Bennet family in the novel Pride and Prejudice serves them well as they move from their current condition to far greater prosperity at the end of the story. Personal Values Power of Values to Earn Money Earning money is an act, like any other act of winning the elections, passing an exam, etc. The components of an act are energy that comes from interest, goal that gives the direction, organisation from which power issues, and skills that convert that power into results.   Each component goes to decide the quantum of money earned, but the earning itself depends on the harmonious functioning of all these components. None of these components can be missed or supplied in half-measure. When all the components are adequately present and harmoniously functioning, the result, the amount of money earned, is decided by the values of each component. This is so because values are spiritual.   One who is earning Rs.10,000 or 1,00,000 a month can raise that income five fold, if he introduces values at every stage and gently raises them to their maximum. By this approach a company that is marginally losing will at once become marginally profitable. The profits can be raised further by raising the values or organising better or employing any other method the company needs.   There is no work where values do not arise. Attention, organisation, comprehension, integrity, truthfulness, etc. are just a few of the values we know. The list can be endless.   A family presided over by a person whose priority is his own wants practices selfish values. If he decides to meet the needs of all others before meeting his own needs, he practises selfless values. Or, he may decide to practise Self-giving, which means going all out to meet everyone�s needs which lie within the ambit of his duty or not. Soon he will witness a burst of income.   Owners of companies taking such an approach will discover the ORDERS for which they have been searching all over, like a needle in a haystack, will start coming on their own.   Values are spiritual. They can earn a vast quantity of good money. (MSS, slightly modified)   Other   Learning Attracts The fact that someone can learn something implies that there is a way to earn (money) through that learning. (MSS) Money Coming and Work Money does not come as a life response to anticipated paid work, but to work that is actually done or completed. Wealth and Self-Employment Wealth lies in self-employment, not in salaried jobs. E.g. in India the talents have gravitated to the security of salaried jobs in the government where the present as well as the future is secure. Security banishes the accomplishment of the entrepreneur, the self-employed adventurer. The majority of people who have started an industry on their own have become bankrupt because they are driven by ambition and are not endowed with the capacities for organisation. Prosperity involves risk. Adventure is of the Spirit. Security is physical. Bodily labour and physical skill receive the least reward. The higher rewards are reserved for the Spirit. The higher values of the Spirit, viz. Truthfulness, Honesty, etc. expressed in daily life avoid the risks of venture and offer unfailing success. That way, self-employment removes failure and offers secure wealth. (Paraphrase of MSS)   Bridging Material Prosperity and Spiritual Realization in the Hour of God It has been said that the Hour of God is here. On earth it is fulfilled by relating the two ends of Material Prosperity and Spiritual Realization. One person can join these two ends, and through his experience present the Formula of Life for all the world to take up, enabling the rapid fulfillment of this auspicious time for Man. (Paraphrase of MSS) Confusion, Strain, and Tension that Causes Lacking Funds Confusion, strain, and tension can bring about lack of funds (money) for an individual or institution. End the confusion, strain, and tension in some manner, and the funds will begin to replenish from seemingly out of nowhere as positive responses from life.   On Lending Money to Another Money lent to a friend is lost. It is also helps you to lose the friend is the wisdom of the world. Many rediscover this truth in their own experience. Money is power. Lending to a close friend is a generous act of compassion. Power when extended to another strengthens his hands and naturally leads to his assertion. He takes no initiative to part with that extra dose of power on his own. Necessity makes the lender ask for the money back. Sometimes it is returned. At other times due to bad temperament, the relationship is broken and the money lost. Compassionate or cultured people are unable to bring themselves to ask for the money and keep quiet. As the money is power and power acts according to its rule, the original act of lending is a generous one and evokes a generous response from life, which brings in very generous return to the lender. In one case when the receiver felt the full power of money and vulgarly asserted against the lender, the lender vowed NOT to ask for it back. After a few years the entire amount came back unasked. The lender�s capacity not to curse the friend inwardly had an even greater beneficial effect. A sum exactly ten times the amount was put into the lender�s hand by a friend of his for an investment. In view of the fact that that sum was a thousand-fold his present salary, he was able to appreciate the generosity of Life. To withhold negative feeling at the physical level of not asking had an effect of positive life response. Withdrawing negative feeling at the emotional level had an even greater affect. A complete withholding of the verify thought or consecrating the thought to spirit would have an ultimate affect. (MSS, somewhat modified, with some addition)   Moving Money to the Forces of Light Money is in the hands of the forces of darkness. It can be brought under the Force of light by bringing the spirit and Force to bear.   For additional thoughts on the nature and evolution of money, click here.       New Insights into Personal Growth & Evolution A Growth Online Portal Visit Now Contact Us  | Growth Online Knowledge Base