The Law of Prosperity

And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. -- Hesiod

The Law of Prosperity states that when one prospers, all prosper.  Your level of prosperity will be in direct proportion to your responses about another person’s prosperity.  Most people do not understand that if you are secretly taking private pleasure in another person’s misfortune or begrudging another person’s prosperity, you are affecting your own possibilities of generating prosperity.  Everything works on vibration. The feelings of jealousy and resentment you harbor about another’s well-being will keep you locked into a lower vibrational frequency of lack.  Smile upon someone else’s success and good fortune, and you are smiling upon your own.  For example, your friend gets a major job promotion and has now increased their income into the six figures.  They call you, and excitedly tell you all about it.  You are so happy for them that you are bursting at the seams with joy.  Your joy in this other person’s success means that you will also prosper because there is a vibrational match.

The opposite happens when you are upset or envious about someone else’s prosperity.  In your resentment you create a vibrational mismatch and you will diminish your prosperity.  Let us go back

The Law of Reflection

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If there is anything we could change in a child, we should first examine and see whether it is not something that could be better changed in ourselves. – Carl Jung

The Law of Reflection deals with the fact that everything you see is only a mirror reflection of that which is within you.  This is one of the hardest laws for people to understand and accept because we like to think that it is outside people or circumstances that are causing us to be happy or angry.  Since everything is vibration it is you who is attracting these external situations to you.  Hence, that individual who irritates you has come into your life because that is an active vibration within you.  That irritable person is mirroring that which exists within you. 

 Under the Law of Reflection you cannot place the blame on any external person, situation or circumstance.  You simply cannot say that someone makes you angry or irritated if you are not already angry and irritated within yourself.  It is not the other person who is making you angry.  It is you who is making yourself angry and majority of the time it is because you are trying to change, control or manipulate a person or situation.  In reality, you cannot change the outer until you deal with the inner.

When working with the Law of Reflection, it is important to understand that sometimes the mirror may not be a direct reflection of what is within you.  It may be a reflection of your polar opposite.  Such is the case where you are overly kind and through your kindness, you are continually attract people and situations that take advantage of your kindness.  You may be attracting these people into your life so that you can see where your kindness is being motivated by your own guilt or the need to get people to like you.  Being kind in all situations and circumstances is not always an honorable trait for sometimes we are forgetting to value and appreciate ourselves.

Another analogy can be seen if you are upset with people begging for money on street corners.  You may be angry because these individuals are representing some part of yourself that is begging for something in your life.  You may be begging for recognition from your boss.  Perhaps, you are begging for love from your spouse.  As a politician, you may be begging for votes from the electorate. 

Everyone and every circumstance or situation in your life is providing you with the opportunity to learn something about yourself.  It may be a reflection showing some of your more positive traits or it may be showing you where you need to make some changes.  If it is showing you a negative quality, you will know you have balanced that trait when you no longer have any irritations with regards to the person or situation.  Sometimes when this happens the person will disappear from your life.  They will no longer be a vibrational match to you.

So, next time you find you are angry or irritated with someone or a circumstance stop and ask yourself:  What state of being is this person reflecting about me?  Where in my own life am I exhibiting this behavior?  What is it that I do not want to reveal about myself to myself?

 

Why do I keep thinking about this?

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Many of my clients have experienced what I commonly refer to as the monkey mind.  It’s when your mind continually rehashes a problem over and over again.  Usually the subject of these dialogues deals with something in our life that we are not happy with.  It could be a disagreement with someone.  It could be a work, financial or health situation.  Whatever it is that incessant dialogue in your head won’t stop and the more you tell yourself not to think about it, the more you think about it.  It is called the law of resistance and that which you resist will persist.

Here is the reason why we find it difficult to shift our thinking process.  Our minds like to be kept busy and are continually nattering on about something from the past or projecting something into the future.  Our minds do not operate in the present.

Here is a simple experiment for you to try. Next time you wake up in the morning lay there in bed for a few moments. Become aware of your thoughts.  What you will discover is your mind will search for the last thought you had before you fell asleep.  The mind always returns to the vibration you last left it at.  So if you fell asleep thinking about an argument you had with a friend, the mind will return to that set point to begin your day.  This principle also applies to everyday situations and people.  Ever went home to a family reunion and found yourself acting in ways which were contrary to who you are today?  What happened is you went back to the old vibration.

In order for you modify a thought process you have to understand it takes 17 seconds for a thought to create a point of attraction.  When you hold that thought for 17 seconds another thought of a similar vibration will join it. If the thinking process is allowed to continue for 68 seconds then that train of thought becomes your dominant vibration and attracts to you persons or situations of similar thought.  So if the thoughts you are thinking are positive, change nothing.  If they are negative, you have to shift to another train of thoughts and hold that thought stream for at least 68 seconds.

So how do you shift to another train of thoughts? First you have to recognize that you have to work at it.  You can’t just do it once and expect your life to change.  The mind is extremely stubborn and once it gets hold of something it is like a dog chasing its tail. 

Here are a few exercises you can try.

1.   Give the mind a diversion and go do something else.  Go for a walk.  Pet your dog.  Go to the movies. Take a nap.  Search through YouTube and find something that makes you laugh.   

 

 

2.  Practice mediation. If you find that your mind will not shut up while you are trying to meditate focus on a noise in your environment or use a chant.

3.  Think a better feeling thought.  Think about someone you love and all the things you appreciate about them. Think about a beautiful sunset.

4.  Write out the letters of the alphabet and beside each letter think of a good feeling word. For example, a=appreciation, b=best, c=charming, d=delicious...

5.  Another diversion you can do is sing musical scale or use a non-descript phrase or sound. 

Next post I show you how your beliefs affect your life.

Vibrational Matches

We live in a vibrational universe and everything is energy vibrating at different frequencies around us and within us.  You are more than the physical body that is sitting on that chair.  At this moment you are probably thinking, “This woman has lost it. Cause everything looks pretty solid to me.”  Yes everything around you does look pretty solid. 

Science, through quantum physics, is showing us that at the sub-atomic level everything is pure energy. All energy is continually moving and it emits frequency.  It is that frequency which creates form.  If you were to take a high powered microscope and look at your hand what you would see are molecules buzzing around.  Everything that is physically manifested vibrates within a certain range of frequency in order for us to perceive it.  What limits us from perceiving something is the vibrational match in our frequency to something else.

Ever lost your keys and then found them in the first place you looked?  What happened was that your belief in the loss of the keys matched your vibrational frequency.  There were no fairies of the universe that mysteriously hide them.  Instead your perception that you lost your keys created the experience of not seeing your keys.  You could not perceive that which you believed.  You believed your keys were lost.

Part of the reason for this is we have been conditioned to only accept information taken in through our five senses.  We have been lead to believe that if we can’t see, touch, hear, smell or taste it then it does not exist.  Yet all of these senses are just interpreters of vibration.

Another example of this is when the explorers came to the Americas.  The Indigenous people kept asking the explorers where they had come from.  The explorers kept pointing to the ships that were anchored in the bay.  The more the explorers pointed to the ships, the more the Indigenous people could not see them.  It was only when the shaman of tribe became attuned to the vibrational frequency that he could assist the other members of the tribe to see the ships.   In other words, they could not perceive in something that they had never experienced.

A simpler example which all of us has experienced is when we are trying to explain something to someone else.  No matter how many ways we try to explain something the person just doesn’t get it.  Many times we will say, ‘they are on a different wavelength’.  What we are actually saying is the person is not a vibrational match to us. 

Your mood or emotions attracts the experiences that are a reflection of that mood.  Ever had one of those days?  You wake up and everything seems to be going wrong from the moment you climb out of bed.  You stub your foot as you get out of bed.  You spill your coffee.  As you brush your teeth you dribble toothpaste down the front of your shirt. You have a closet full of shirts and in your haste to get to work you grab the one shirt that is missing a button.  You get out in traffic and you hit every red light.  Someone flips you the finger in traffic because you didn’t move fast enough through the intersection and now you are blocking traffic.  You stop and get a coffee and manage to get into the line that isn’t moving.  At this point, most people start thinking, “Can this day get much worse?   What else can possibly go wrong?”   Well, when you ask a question like that the universe delivers.   And why you ask?

It gets worse because the vibrational frequency you are emitting acts like an attractor.  In essence, it sends out an energy beam from you and everyone else who is on the same wavelength rendezvous with you.  It is the Law of Attraction in action and basically you get what you give out.

So how do I change my vibrational frequency? 

It is quite easy.  You stop reacting to situations and experiences and start responding.  When you react to situations the internal chatter in your mind usually kicks into high gear and your thoughts start snowballing.  Since most of us were never taught to police our thoughts, we usually end up going down the negative road.  One thought connects to another thought and the fuel that intensifies our thinking is our emotions.

Here is an exercise that you try:

The One-Minute Meditation

Throughout the day, stop and tell yourself to breath.  On the inhale, count to three as you take a long, slow deep breath in and pretend you are filling a balloon located just below your bellybutton.  On the exhale, pretend you are deflating the balloon and use a count of five.  Do this for one minute or more before you react to something.  Or you can practice it anywhere and at anytime.  You can do it in a meeting, the classroom, on the bus, while sitting at a red light in your car...no one needs to know what you are doing.  Just watch what happens when do it.  You might be pleasantly surprised and here is the reason.

Your breathing is not only connected to each of your emotions; it is also affects every other system in your body and influences your vibrational frequency.  Breathing is the most important body function and most people go through life never giving it a second thought.  Yet if you learn to control it; it can become one of your greatest allies in the manifestation process.

There are two parts to your breathing, and both parts should be done through your nose.  There is the inhalation and the exhalation.  Both affect your well-being.  If you are not taking in enough oxygen, you are not providing your body with the most vital nutrient it needs for its survival.  If you are not exhaling all the carbon dioxide, you are leaving stale air in your body and not allowing room for new nutrients to come into your being.  The impacts from improper breathing are abundant and can range from: tense and tighten muscles, constricted blood flow, elevated your heartbeat, a stimulation of stress hormones within your body and an accumulation of lactic acid in your muscles.   You become a walking toxin; and you deplete your energy.  Learn to breathe properly and you can improve your health and well-being.

In addition of the proper way to breathe, one must also be aware that all of your emotions are tied to your breathing patterns.  For instance, get angry your breathing becomes faster.  Become relaxed and your breathing slows down.  Get depressed, your breathing gets heavy.  Become anxious and your breathing is in short quick breaths.  Through altering your breathing patterns you can increase or diminish your vibrational frequency.   

Enough for today…next time I will show you how the thoughts you are thinking affect what you attract into your life.