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.
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.
Sums Owed to You
It is also important to collect all money
owed to you, including the minutest of sums. 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 reasons. 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.
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.
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Wasting, Squandering Funds
One
of the best strategies for keeping a sure flow of funds is to avoid
wasting money. Those who squander away funds or pay exorbitant amounts
for things that can be purchased more cheaply will repel the arrival of
more funds. However, if you discover what it is that you waste your
money on, and overcome that habit life is likely to quickly respond with
instances of good fortune.
Soft Speech
One surprising way to attract money is to
control our speech. Speech
is an expression of our life energy. Unfortunately, we expend a
tremendous amount of nervous energy in our verbal communications; much
more than is necessary to convey our thoughts. It turns out that one of
the most powerful ways to attract wealth and prosperity is to reduce the
volume of one's speech.
A 39-year-old wealthy American businessperson lost all 60
of his employees, and was prepared to file bankruptcy. At a relative's
suggestion, he and his wife practiced the psychological and spiritual
disciplines of greater attention to things, higher levels of
cleanliness, bringing about greater higher harmony amongst the
individuals, and soft speech. Two years later, he was in a
financial position to retire for life.
When we follow the
method of soft speech, or when we reduce the quantity of the words we
express in our speech, we bring our own life energies under control,
which create the condition for great fortune to come our way.
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Changing an Attitude
A
feeling or attitude is also an expression of life energy. Positive
attitudes attract energy and money; negative attitudes do the opposite.
If you overcome a negative attitude -- such as an unwillingness or
reluctance to do something, or the harboring of bad will towards another
-- new, fresh energies are released, which subtly move out into the
world, returning as positive good fortune, including attraction of
money.
-The president of a software company was fretting about a
contract he was negotiating with a client. He felt he was being pushed
too hard, which raised negative feelings in him toward certain
individuals at the client company. At one point, he realized that having
this attitude was not helpful, so he immediately tried to block out
these thoughts and feelings. Moments later, he received a check in the
mail from another client for a large sum of money. It turned out to be a
payment for invoice that was six months overdue; the longest overdue the
company ever had.
-A man changed his attitude about working weekends at a
computer store. During his employment at the store, he had been at the
low end of sales amongst the dozen or two salesperson working at the
mini-chain. After thinking about the situation, he changed his attitude,
as he saw the benefit of working on weekends. When he opened the store
that Saturday, a man walked in and made a huge purchase from the
salesperson, enabling him to establish the highest one-month sales of
anyone in the history of the four-store franchise. As a result, he also
had the highest one-month income he ever had in his life.
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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 on 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.
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!)
Focusing on, Giving Attention to the Work at Hand
We have often seen that if you focus yourself on the work at hand, i.e.
what life is presenting you, rather than on the work that you would like
to be doing, additional work, including fresh sources of money will fly
in your direction.
An instructor taught a wide variety of software
applications in his classes. One day he decided to shift his attitude
from indifference to one of real concern and interest in that day's
database class. Soon into the session, he noticed that the class was
very upbeat and vibrant, as students were fully engaged in all manner of
discussions. Then after the class, he heard from a client whom he had
not heard from in years. The client was interested in having him work on
a database program, which involved the very same topic area as
the day's class. The new work was potentially very lucrative.
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Follow the Process of
Accomplishment to Rise to Higher Level in Life
A
great way to attract more money is by developing a plan for improvement
in your life. Decide what it is that you really want to achieve,
organize the details of your vision, and carry it out with a positive
attitude, and with great determination, commitment, and effort. If you
follow this process, you are sure to reach your goal; i.e. success,
wealth, and prosperity will come your way. Sometimes life will respond
and bring you fast results even before you have made an effort. The
mere decision to act can attract a response from life.
Following this process is an example of the self-conceptive power of
Mind to lead our lives, rather than being led by the whims of
Nature. To follow this self-directed method of improvement is to follow
the fundamental process of growth and accomplishment in life. If having
more money, wealth and prosperity is your goal, then following this
process from beginning to end will be a full-proof method for achieving
that aim.
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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 overwhelmingly.
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In summary,
we can say that anything that we do that increases energy, attracts
money; while anything that we do that depletes or squanders energy
blocks money from coming our way.
Giving physical
objects, systems, and people more attention, circulating money instead
of squandering it, paying off current and old debts instead of ignoring
them, focusing on the work at hand instead of the work you want to do,
applying higher levels of cleanliness and orderliness in your home or
work, changing a negative attitude towards others or towards life, using
soft and reduced speech, being self-reliant and not depending on others
for monetary help, moving towards generosity, goodness, and gratitude,
and opening to spirit to consecrate an event are all powerful strategies
for releasing energy, and attracting abundant money from life.
For additional Growth Online thoughts on issues
related to prosperity in life, click
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Further Reading:
-For more on the topic of "life
response" (You Can Make Life Respond),
click here
-To read about how to create luck in your
life, click here.
-To learn about what money means in terms
of the development of our society, click
here.
