I truly love and appreciate what money enables me to do...
It is a way to have things that enrich and uplift my life, like the wonderfully scented candle filling my home with a sensuous smell of vanilla and orange, fulfilling a promise I made over a year ago, treating myself to the colourful towel I've been eying up in TK Maxx and some pretty earrings. These things don't make me happy, but they give me something nice I can focus on and give thanks for. They remind me that I deserve good stuff to come into my life.
Today I also recognised that it can be used as a means by which i connect with others in higher vibration ways, such as taking a friend out for a nice meal, or simply catching a taxi home when I missed the bus and would have to wait an hour for the next one (and I experienced a miracle because I gave that gift to myself without worrying about how much it would cost, or if it was a waste of money - self care is NEVER a waste of money).
It is a tool that enables me to express myself in a different way, in a new way by trying a new look, with clothes or make up. Change is good.
Money isn't abundance, but an effect of feeling abundant, and having plenty of money is the outcome of having an abundant focus on life. Loving life and all it brings.
Along my journey I let go of much of the materialism and craving for more money that threatened my happiness on a daily basis in my "past life". I stopped buying new clothes for a while. I sold or gave away pretty much everything that reminded me of the "old days" and started again with nothing. After almost four years of being "homeless" I got a home at the end of 2009, but had no money for furniture or anything, and the universe blessed me beyond belief.
Therefore, I am sharing my current love and appreciation for money because I have experienced times of such lack that I couldn't even breathe. Also in the past there were times of such abundance which I never appreciated. My life's been like that.
When I left my job as a management consultant in 2009 people thought I was crazy. But I knew it was the only thing I could do to heal and grow in the way I needed to. Just under 6 years later I recognise how much I have learned by letting go of "earning money" in the way society expects and wants me to, I understand just what it means to have faith in a "higher power" because there is no way I could have gotten through the last 6 years if I hadn't been taken care of by a power greater than myself.
As I bask in the scent of lushness, and lie on my comfy bed, I know how blessed I am. Even more so because I have had so many contrasting life experiences that have brought me to this exact time and place.
Putting my attention on all I have in my life is changing my perspective on many things. The act of giving thanks is something I have been struggling with recently, and is very a powerful way to change negative thought patterns into positive ones, and to create new neuro pathways in the mind. Thus freeing myself from the old habitual fear based thinking, which seemed to be hanging round me like a bad smell at the recently.
A process that has completely changed many things in my life is writing lists of positive aspects about things that are going well in my life. The process that has changed it even more is writing lists of the positive aspects of the things I am finding challenging. It's a process I picked up from the Abraham Hicks book Ask And It Is Given, and I've been using it for a few years.
The other day I purchased a new lined pad, didn't know why, just knew I needed a new pad. That is now going to be my new lists of positive aspects pad. And I am going to use it like its life or death. Because right now, as I go through one of the most challenging opportunities for growth I've experienced on this journey so far, practicing appreciation and doing whatever it takes to find and focus on the good in a situation is actually a lifeline for me. And one I am going to hold onto for dear life.
(Sorry, went off on a talent again...doh)
So, all you do is write as many things you like/love/don't mind about a thing, person or experience you're having. If you can, do it as soon as you realise you're feeling triggered into negative thoughts. Don't allow your mind to gather momentum and collect (thanks to the law of attraction) more negative thoughts, which come easier because (for me anyway) they are the most practiced, and therefore easiest to access, thoughts.
Try and write at least ten every night before you go to bed. Write ten positive aspects on three different subjects. Make one of them yourself. Do it every day, as many times as you need to, and see how the situations and relationships happening around you begin to change.
As always I thought I was gonna write about one thing, and it ended up being about something else.
Leave a comment or share if you resonated with anything here.
Focus on the good
Release old habits of thinking
Welcome your blessings with open arms
Namaste 🙏
"I don't know what it's like to be a millionaire, but I know I'd be a darling at it."
- Dorothy Parker