The top searches of all time on Google are the following terms or keywords, together receiving close to 23 million searches per month:
- [porn] – 11,100,00M
- [free porn] – 7,480,00M
- [sex] – 2,740,000M
- [porno] – 1,500,000M
23 million searches per month. This number is equivalent to every “single” person in the five largest cities in the U.S. (New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia), and then Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego and Dallas looking for some kind of sex at least once per month.
O.K. Then there’s money. I wanted to know what aspect of money received the largest numbers of searches. Ready for this? The mortgage calculator!
Doesn’t it all fit? First people calculate their mortgages. After regaining consciousness, they take in a dose of porn. Makes sense to me.
On a serious note, this dialogue is by no means a conventional one. The conversation is not about investments, how to prep your retirement plan, getting the most out of your 401K, understanding the markets or the likes thereof. There is a wealth of information about these topics on the web and at your workplace’s friendly human resources office.
What this dialogue is about is the shifting economic narrative and some resources that are available for assisting us in creating a new abundance life story.
It is the old story of money and finances from which most of us are seeking relief. We could say that we are making a conscious choice to shift our perspective from an economic system that is defined by scarcity, lack and limitation. But actually, it is that we have reached the limit of a system whose beliefs are no longer tenable. For some it is our arrival at those impassable borders of the old story that has become our motivation for laying aside all the beliefs about money that most of us learned under the separation. These are beliefs that we cherish and have practiced ad nauseam, and have insisted on passing along to our children. You know them, right? Money is the root of all evil, money doesn’t grow on trees, money corrupts, money is hard to come by, there is only so much money to go around, you have to work hard to save a buck, money changes people (almost always for the worse).
For other travelers who arrive at these impassable borders, it is a hopeless search for a method, a theory or anything that will move the borders one or two hundred years into the future. While the unsustainable old economic story gasps and coughs in the throes of death, some of us are frantically calling on the political gods to do something, anything, so that we do not have to pull the plug on the old story and face extinction. That is how deep and pervasive the fear of the lack of money and scarcity is under the separation.
All the while what has birthed in the field of human consciousness is the savior that we all need and have been looking for in our political leaders, the job market, retirement accounts and the stock markets. That savior is the awareness that abundance is a state of consciousness.
In the transition from the old economic story to the new abundance story, the recognition that abundance is a state of consciousness is the fuel for the movement from one way of living on this planet to another. We are becoming more aware that financial well-being is only one aspect of abundance. In the transition there are numerous dialogues, for example, on how expressing “gratitude” expands and increases abundance; expressing “appreciation” is becoming a well-known practice, also, for the creation of abundance. “Affirmations” that assist us is in shifting our focus (consciousness) is a popular practice in the transition from the old to the new story.
Many of us are looking for the guidance and information that will assist us in moving beyond the old story of money to the awareness of abundance. So I have put together a list of resources on creating abundance that I would like to share with you, with a word of caution.
Have you ever heard of something called “spot reducing”? It is the idea that you can, for example, change the weight or shape of the body in one spot, while leaving the rest of the body as is. It is called the myth of spot reduction. There is no way to reduce the size of the waist or eliminate bulging obliques without reducing overall body fat. The body is whole. So it is with abundance. It is an aspect of Unity consciousness and cannot be separated from all the other aspects of joyful living: vibrant health, loving relationships, peace, etc.
For those of us who are just coming into the awareness of the relationship between consciousness and experience, James Allen’s classic As A Man Thinketh is a great place to start. Allen’s book is poetical in its exegesis of the power of thought. Experience Your Good Now! Learning to Use Affirmations by Louise L. Hay contains easy ways to use affirmations to create abundance in all areas of our life experience. Hay’s approach is holistic and this text contains affirmations that address most of the problem areas where we feel we are stuck in an experience of “lack.” Catherine Ponder is considered the most prolific and prominent prosperity writer in the last half of the 20th century. Most all of her writings are on prosperity, what we are here calling abundance.
Open Your Mind to Prosperity and The Prospering Power of Love are accessible to anyone who does not have a background or who does not want a detailed background into the metaphysical workings of thought and energy. Ask and It is Given – Learning to Manifest your Desires, by Abraham Hicks (channeled by Ester Hicks). This is Abraham’s most popular text and workbook and contains fun and easy exercises from “focus wheels” to “scripting” to assist us in expanding and shifting our awareness in order to attract abundance.
The Secret is the book that introduced the relationship between thought and experience to the main stream. Since its publication and the film created to promote it, The Secret has been criticized for its lack of a detailed method for attracting abundance. As a result of these criticisms, many of the participants in The Secret have written books to fill in the gaps, so to speak. Here is what we may be interested in knowing about The Secret. Most of all the information that it contains comes directly out of The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel. For those of us who have been disappointed by The Secret, I would highly suggest securing a copy of the Haanel’s system. It is a total system, and not a quick read. It is in 24 parts, with text and exercises. It is a more doable program for refocusing, but requires some time and commitment.
Any of the works of Dr. Joseph Murphy are sufficient introductions to becoming aware of the state of abundance. Murphy focuses on how the subconscious mind is our assistant in making a shift.
Figure 2. Dr. Joe Dispenza, “Can you accept the notion that once you change your internal state, you don’t need the external world to provide you with a reason to feel joy, gratitude, appreciation or any other elevated emotion?”
Then there is Dr. Joe Dispenza. His focus is on the brain, and how we can change the brain by changing our minds. His most famous treatise, How to Evolve the Brain, while a little dense, is a guide to re-wiring neurological networks, which is an effect of shifting consciousness.
While all of these methods do indeed assist us in creating more abundance in our lives, again, be aware that shifting consciousness does not simply impact one area of our experience. Where there is discord and fear, those areas will be brought to conscious awareness for healing. In the final analysis, this is in part what shifting consciousness is all about, healing from the effects of separation consciousness, from conflict and discord in the body to conflict and discord in our financial experience.
So let’s take it slow and easy, and let’s have fun doing this. We can begin by becoming aware that we do have the power to release the old story beliefs and create a new one that includes an awareness of the true nature and origin of abundance.
