WHAT'S THE PURPOSE OF INNER WORLDS?

The process of visualization takes you directly to the inner worlds. Beyond our physical life there are other planes of existence. Inner guides are available to lead us through these worlds and should be chosen carefully. A true guide will always act from the highest place and will always have your best interest at heart. Inner worlds are pathways to a higher consciousness. Why would we want to have a higher consciousness?

Viewing our life events from a different perspective, becoming more objective and less self centered is part of the process of growing spiritually. Being aware of those around us and having mutual respect even for those that you don't know, are some of the steps of spiritual maturity. Viewing every single person that we encounter as a valuable addition to the world is essential, because they are.

Many use visualizations to create. Being creative is a great thing. It is the essence of who we are and is one way we that can express ourselves. Sometimes we go after goals that in the end, don't make us happy at all.

People are looking for human connection. If you build an empire but can't relate to others and don't have meaningful relationships then your empire is a sham. Using visualization for the highest purposes and for the good of all without robbing another person of their experience is the best use of visualization. We need to focus on our own growth in visualizations and not to create a life for someone else that we want them to have. That might not be what they need or want for themselves.

Knowing when to let go is an essential ingredient for our own freedom. We can use visualizations and inner worlds to release the past, forgive, and move on. Anything that has been destroyed in life can always be rebuilt.







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DON'T STAY SMALL!

There are times in life when we get all these signs that we need to let go of something or someone. Events occur and we know what the message is but we don't listen to it. Then there is a window of opportunity to let go and we let the opportunity pass us by. Then years later we look back with regrets.

People will do anything to hold onto what is. About 95% of the people I encounter in my work and in my personal life do this. The universe is just waiting to give them something bigger and better but they hold on for dear life to what they have for two reasons. 1. They are afraid of what might happen if they give it up and 2. They want to keep everything the same.

Holding on keeps us stuck. We may not like the messages we are getting but we have to listen or else we will pay dearly for not listening. An example is that many people in NYC hold onto their rent control apartments. They live in a substandard building tolerating many unpleasant things and their apartment is usually substandard as well but "it only costs me ____/month. I can't let it go!". They accumulate money and they could invest in real estate at the right time and move into a bigger space with more amenities and what do they say? "I don't need a nicer place and those silly amenities". Boom, the opportunity has just slipped by. A few years later the building falls apart some more or the landlord does this and that to make their life unpleasant so they will leave. They look back and say "all these years I could have lived in that great place I looked at and now it is worth double what I would have paid for it"


This is just a metaphor for so many other examples. Jobs that get stale but have the trappings of "great" benefits. A relationship that is so disconnected that you are basically two people living under the same roof with separate lives, and on and on the examples go.

The next time the window cracks open and you get a whiff of that fresh air, lift the window all the way up and step through it.








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PROSPERITY AND SERVICE

I used to read prosperity books by Helen Ponder, Sanaya Roman, Shakti Gawain and titles like The Science of Getting Rich and The Tiger's Fang.

I think we are entering a new generation of prosperity work now. The world's needs have changed dramatically and people who have made spirituality a priority in their lives are looking for ways they can serve. Prosperity and service go hand in hand.

Some people give for the wrong reasons. They give because of what they hope they will get back. They give because of beliefs about what will happen to them when they die if they do a lot of good deeds in this life.

Giving needs to come from the right place. The heart. When we are moved to give or help another person, animal or plant, we experience an opening of the heart and love flows freely. When we are asked to do things that we don't want to do and we do it anyway, the chest tightens and we grin and bare it. That kind of giving often backfires. Giving for the wrong reasons or because of a desire to benefit in some way, is not the kind of service that is going to make you feel good.

Service and prosperity go hand in hand and are interdependant. You will know when you are giving for the right reasons by the way it feels in your heart. Concern, gestures of kindness and encouragement are often enough. The greatest gift you can give others is to listen. So often we stumble past someone who really needs to be heard. Not only friends and family but people who are asking for our assistance. Learn to listen with open ears and an open heart. Not foolishly so that you are misguided but trust your instincts about others.







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WHERE IS THAT PROSPEROUS FUTURE?

Since the title of my blog for years now has been "visualize a prosperous future" you might be wondering "well where is that prosperity now???". We are all having these lessons together. Things are being taken away from us. Why? Our 401k's and home values have dropped. I had Lehman stocks and when they observed the one year mark of Lehman's collapse, I remembered how devastated I was to lose those stocks all together a year ago. Then I had more financial devastation than I could ever imagine after that. Each hit was trumped by a bigger hit.

I have a different definition of prosperity than looking at my networth. I have abundance in my life. I think we are having these experiences now because we've lost sight (as a nation and globally) of how much we really do have and how filled our lives are with "stuff". I walked around a mall the other day and I was noticing young teenagers being pulled in by the newest technological toy. A young female about 15 was with her parents and they decided to splurge and buy her some sort of new phone or ipod. They were all hugging and she loved her parents for that moment. Parents want to express their love and it often is given in the form of material gifts. Those gifts are quickly forgotten and tossed aside. Then the bills have to be paid for items that were unnecessary in the first place.

Until we can widdle down our lives to the most basic of needs and show that we can live on what we have rather than on what we dream of having, we will not regain our financial balance. This is a spiritual concept, not an economic one. Spiritually we are being forced to give up the excesses. Until we do, we are going to keep losing what we've got.




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A VISUALIZATION FOR THE FALL

September is here and the months ahead will race by and before you know it, it will be the holidays. Visualizations help us to gain some control of how our time is spent and to create our destiny. There are so many factors that we can't control in life and there is always the unknown, but the thoughts we have are the seeds to outcomes.

Think about the next three months, September, October and November. Picture the activities that you want to enjoy, the people that you want to see and most of all, what do you want to come into your life? Try to use pictures rather than words. The words come after the pictures. Previously I wrote "write it down" but first you have to create a picture in order to do that. Then when you write, you describe what you have seen or maybe you want to draw it instead or use magazine photos to express your dreams. Regardless of what works best for you, the beginning stage is the thought. The thought leads to ideas and ideas lead to pictures. You can reject the ones you don't want.

Don't feel that writing it down commits you to anything. It is a way of "trying on" a lifestyle for yourself and to then see how it feels to be in it.

What do you feel is missing from your life now and what can you do over the next 3 months to change that? See the answers with visual pictures.







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WRITE IT DOWN!

Once ideas, pictures, visualizations and stories are written down their manifestation can be expedited. Try turning your desired life into a story as if you were talking about someone else. Provide as many details as possible and be sure that you are happy with what you have created. If not, keep editting it until you are. This can be long or short. You might sit with it for awhile and realize that, that story really isn't what you want your life to be at all. You can learn a lot from this process. If you make this too complicated you won't follow up with it, so try to keep it simple but detailed. Add to it, subtract and rewrite every few days and then check back now and then to see how your life has changed. I wrote an ebook 3 years ago without thinking that I was writing about my own life. Now three years later that story in the book is manifesting for me. It can take a long time for things to align themselves so that you are ready for what you're asking for.








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INTEGRITY

The hardest people to deal with in life are those who lack integrity. Maybe you or I have even done that a few times unintentionally. It's hard to climb the slippery slope of doing the right thing and being the kind of person we want to and hope to become. Those who act without integrity would justify their actions and say it isn't so. How do we know that we haven't done that ourselves at some point? We love to justify our actions while believing the other person is "bad". There are definitely people who do malicious things and hurt people all the time. They may never change and we can't control their actions, only our own.

When someone tries to bring you down because they think that somehow you owe them something and they do it in the most devious ways imaginable it is hard to know what to do to respond. Do we hold them accountable? Can we? If someone continuously acts irresponsibly can we teach them anything? I don't think so. They have to learn from their own experiences. How many times will they be knocked on their heads before they get the lesson? No one can say.

Sometimes the most goodhearted people get taken advantage of because of their kindness and their willingness to trust. It that happens enough to us our hearts close and we learn to protect ourselves better but at a high price. You might be on the losing end, but if you have done nothing wrong then you haven't really lost. The "winner" in this scenario has a long way to go on their growth journey.








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REFLECTIONS OF CHANGE

As we work on ourselves and change our beliefs and thoughts and approaches to problems the outside starts to change to reflect our inner growth. For example, if you were presented 15 years ago with the challenges that you have today, how do you think you would have approached them then? If you had the problems today that you really had 15 years ago do you think that you would find better ways to problem solve?

The other day a friend and I parked in a beach parking lot. We were lucky to find a space right near the tunnel that led to the beach. When it was time to leave we followed the crowd through the tunnel and were faced with hundreds of parked cars. We both remembered the parking scenario differently. Either way, my car wasn't there. I kept looking at certain markers that didn't make sense. She was sure we had parked on the other side of the lot which was a long walk away. That, I was sure wasn't true. She was sure that I was wrong. We wandered for about an hour. Every other car was the same color and make as mine.

Finally we both seemed to come to the same conclusion at the same moment. What if there were more than one tunnel? Maybe this wasn't even the right parking lot! I looked around and it seemed like the entrance at both sides of the lot were identical. I was really worried, thinking maybe there were a number of lots that looked the same.

We left through the tunnel we had just come through and realized there was another one on the other side. As soon as we went through that tunnel, my car was right there. When I gave up the belief that I was right and was sure that she was wrong, the truth came to light. We were both wrong.

Life often presents challenges like this one. The tunnels and the lots were mirror images of each other. There was a clue that I kept ignoring. There was a stadium far in the distance that had actually been right in the parking lot where we parked. I kept thinking "why is it over there?". My mind wouldn't be logical because I was convinced that there was only one parking lot and one tunnel. It was unacceptable to receive the information that the stadium was no longer where it had been. This might seem really odd to you, but how often do we all do this? Months after the fact we look back and wonder why we didn't see something that was right in front of our noses. We are stubborn creatures by nature and we really like to be right and we never like to be wrong. Right and wrong are subjective and then there is always Truth.










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SEEKING PROSPERITY

In these hard times everyone is looking for a way to turn things around for themselves. Many of us today have already learned about the principals that were presented in The Secret and we understand the Law of Attraction. I think we are not only trying to get our "checks in balance " (so to speak) but we are seeking something much greater and more important than money. Contentment is the most important place to arrive in life and it is a constant struggle to get to it and also to maintain it. You might have a fleeting moment where all is right with the world and months later you find yourself in a darker place. We walk in and out of rooms with different shades of light. Our happiness, we realize, has nothing to do with our external reality. It's something that comes from a place within and when we feel it or find it, suddenly we start to attract the good stuff so we feel even happier.

We have been going through some tough times lately and many of us try to make sense of it all. We can only be responsible for ourselves and digging ourselves out of whatever holes we have created. There's nothing wrong with reaching for the help of others as we dig ourselves out but it is our responsibility to turn our lives around and only we can do that. Wouldn't it be nice to hand the shovel to someone else and say, "I'll take a rest and you dig", and then sit back while they do all the work? If that were the case, we wouldn't learn the lessons we were meant to learn. It's like paying someone to take a test for you (and that is not as uncommon as you might think).

People can only get away with such things up to a point and then it starts to catch up with them. At some point we all have to pay the piper. The upside of this is that we begin to realize just how much control we do have over what we can achieve and what we can do to prevent our own ruin. There is always a destructive force that is working it's way into our hearts and we have to be strong and fight it every minute of everyday. We have to turn ourselves toward the light and make right choices as often as we can. Results come from right action. Prosperity comes when we clean up our act and make room for all the good that wants to come into our lives. Prosperity is merely a shift in consciousness.



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INNER PEACE AND CLARITY

We can't really have inner peace without clarity and we can't gain clarity without coming from a peaceful place within ourselves. Some people are unable to create the time to sit in contemplation or to reflect on their lives and on their own behavior in situations. They live in a flurry of activity and create chaos and drama everywhere they go. Clarity comes from a process of going within and then taking actions toward the ideas that come to us during these periods of reflection. If we are unable to be quiet and still and look for our center and listen to our inner guidance, then we will never have peace or clarity.

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PATIENCE

Be patient. We cannot receive what we aren't ready to receive even though it's waiting for us. It will come around again when we're ready. Some things are manifested years after thought because we weren't able to handle it at the time

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HOW DOES VISUALIZATION REALLY WORK?

How Does Visualization Work?

Visualization goes beyond imagination. That is a hard concept for some to grasp. Suppose for a moment that we knew for a fact that when we "imagine" an inner healing center, we aren't just imagining it but we are actually visiting a place that exists on another plane of existence.

Imagine that some of the dreams that you have when you sleep are real. Perhaps you had a conversation with a friend in a dream, and the content was fuzzy but the location was clear. Lets suppose for now, that that conversation had really occurred on some level other than "here". What if your friend then told you that they had spoken with you in a dream and as you put the pieces together you found out that your dreams matched.

If certain places or themes keep showing up in your dreams, what do you think they are telling you? You might be the best interpreter of your own dreams. I have a recurring dream that I am riding a bicycle throughout the city and have forgotten to bring a lock. I arrive at places where I need to bring my bike inside so it won't be stolen. My interpretation of this is that I am being warned of leaving myself wide open and vulnerable. The dream crops up every now and then. Sometimes years will pass between the dreams but they come back when they are relevant to certain events that are going on right now.

If you continue with these concepts and take them a step further, think of how you could apply this to your own life in order to create a life that is better, more successful and more fulfilling. There is so much inner help available to us that we don't access. We hear stories of help coming at just the right moment and miraculous occurrences but unless you experience that first hand, you might continue to be skeptical. It doesn't matter if you believe any of this but it would be useful to proceed as though it were all true.

The inner guidance that we all have access to is a pot of gold. If you sit or lie still and ask for an answer to a question such as "what doctor should I go to for this medical problem?" Or "how do I deal with this issue my child is having?" Or, "how will I know when I find the home that I will like and be happy in and where is it?"

These are everyday, ordinary questions that all of us have in some form. Imagine now that you ask a question and then close your eyes and wait. Don't create the answer yourself but allow yourself to be led to it. Become familiar with your body's responses to correct answers. You have a "yes" and a "no" inside of you. We feel them in different ways. Sometimes it's impossible to describe but we know what a "gut feeling is" and how it feels in our bodies. After answers come or suggestions are made to check something out or ask a particular person for help, the rest is up to you. Nothing gets handed to us without at least some foot work on our part. We can look back at various outcomes in our life and say "I was led to that place or person or job".

Follow your intuition and inner guidance in order to go in the right direction. Going in the right direction is more satisfying than getting to the destination. One example is wondering what foods you can and cannot eat. This changes over our lifetime. The way you ate 10 years ago doesn't work for you anymore and you might want to know how you should be eating now. Listen inwardly and also integrate all of the information that you are getting outside. These two things combined will give you your answers. You might not follow them all the time, but you will probably make some improvements that will help your health and vitality.

Pictures are being shown to us all the time. Become more aware of them when they appear. Visualizations are the gifts from the inner worlds helping us to bring them out here into the open. Many buildings and paintings were created based on an image that was seen by the person unconsciously.

We want to make the unconscious, conscious. We want to become conscious beings instead of hiding from the truth. That takes a lot of courage. It means always walking against or ahead of the pack. It means not being a blind follower or taking everything at face value. It requires analyzing the facts and making decisions on your own, not the kinds of decisions everyone makes because everyone makes them. Being your own person is one of the hardest ways to exist in this world. Caring how others react to your ideas will slow you down. You have to know what's right for you and no one else can tell you without polluting their advice with their own perspectives on life.

You have a private world between the outer you and the inner you. No one else can go there. Use these techniques for good. Use them to help yourself and not to change the course of another person's life. Use them to get the answers to your problems. You will feel less despair and you won't ever get lost.

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CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY

Remember. No matter what is going on in your outer life you always have control over how you react to it. You can always choose to be happy in spite of everything. Make more healthy decisions each day and your life will continue to improve.


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ENJOYING THE JOURNEY EVERYDAY

Sometimes there is a time lag between our vision and its manifestation. In fact, there is often a long time lag. We each move forward at our own pace. Some people are able to know their passion or goal immediately and carry out all the necessary steps right away in order to get there. They are focused, determined and won't allow any distractions or human conditions to get in the way. They aren't always the healthiest people either.

Lucky for those who can easily manifest and in some areas we are better than others, but there are also those things that come up in life that side track us and make us fall back a few yards. Injuries, family emergencies, important events of loved ones, etc. These are the things that force us to set down our goals and focus on something or someone else. Injuries make us stop right away unless we ignore them (in which case they will only get worse). They are telling us that we need to rest and have pushed ourselves to the point of injuring our bodies, or that we are rushing and over committed and therefore fall or trip. Illness also makes our whole world stop and our focus changes. If our illness creates pain then all we can think of is getting rid of it.

Life doesn't let us walk in straight lines, although I've known a few people who must always stay on track at the expense of everything else. They are the most rigid people of all and are often the most physically, mentally and spiritually unhealthy, too. They might appear to be outwardly successful but they aren't balanced. They tend to be lonely because people and relationships weren't a priority in their lives.

Life is a fluid process. Success isn't defined by reaching the goal. Success is finding joy and balance in the everyday process toward the goals. It's finding joy and happiness even when things are rotten and we can't move in the direction that we wanted. We need to redefine success and then we will all realize that we are quite successful at living life.

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BEING A VEHICLE

When we offer ourselves as vehicles for the energy of "Spirit" to pass through us the flow and force can be so intense and powerful at times that anything is possible.

If more and more people were to do this and make a serious commitment to it allowing for purification/cleansing/the removal of toxins from their life and body, then anything in this world is possible.

Choosing the spiritual way for living is not the easy choice. Purification is often painful and unpleasant ... so is going to the dentist. If we understand why we're doing what we're doing and why what is happening is happening then it is a little easier to tolerate.





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THE ENDLESS SUPPLY OF ABUNDANCE

I read something the other day about the "endless supply of abundance". It's kind of an irony. Abundance exists in abundance. It's true. It isn't just there for some and not others. It isn't there in a limited supply that is going to run out when some "take" it. Abundance is available if we can allow it in. It's merely a shift in perspecitive. In 2 seconds your perspective can change from one of lack to one of gain and prosperity. If you can see how prosperous your life is at this moment just as it is, you will then attract even more abundance into it.




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SPIRITUAL ABUNDANCE

Ultimately the search for abundance is really about finding spiritual abundance. Spiritual abundance supersedes all other forms of abundance. Spirit by nature is an abundant source available to every living creature. It goes hand in hand with prosperity. Material wealth is one form of acquiring abundance. There are so many more ways to experience life if money is not a big motivator in your life. Being open to new experiences is a step toward a fuller life. The next time you catch yourself saying "no thanks", think about what life would be like if you always said yes to opportunities and invitations. We stop ourselves and we cheat ourselves of having the richest possible life out of fear of the unknown. Moving in the direction of our dreams is the fulfillment, not the dream itself. Stagnation is the beginning of the end and the start of disease.

Spirit is the highest level of consciousness available to us. Call It God, the King, whatever you want, but spirit is energy and a force greater than anything that we can envision. Spiritual abundance is a multitude of experiences that lead us to a greater awareness about life, truth and ourselves.




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VISUALIZE TO MANIFEST

an article I wrote on ezinearticles.com






Visualize to Manifest
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Debbie_Simon]Debbie Simon

Visualization and guided imagery are very powerful tools that can change the patterns we're stuck in.

Visualizations use metaphors that translate into what we're trying to create. For instance, if you're feeling isolated and disconnected from the people you're close with you can imagine a simple metaphor like hundreds of strings coming out of the center of your chest (this is the heart center). The strings then attach you to the people that you are feeling distant from. You can even imagine those strings reaching toward people you don't know yet but would like to meet. The picture of you being connected to others by these strings is a metaphor. You might be surprised at how fast an image like this will work in your outer life. You can find a metaphor that works for you around a particular topic and then practice it often. When it starts to manifest you can try a different one or keep using it. When the images or scenarios that you imagine start to take on a life of their own, let them flow in the direction they're going in. These images are trying to show you something. Allow yourself to be led. If you don't like where it's going then stop it and recreate a different image. Notice what you feel when you do these visualizations.

Guided imagery usually involves a 3rd party. A trained professional talks the client through a scene or a story that has a series of steps. The purpose is to help the client heal around a particular issue or to decrease anxiety. Some clients don't want to be guided too much. If there is too much detail their own creative ability doesn't have a chance to express itself. The inner guidance that needs to come through has no room if the practitioner keeps talking and giving minute details. The practitioners needs only to lay the groundwork and then the participant will fill in the details.

We are connected by energy to others and to experiences. We can live on a separate continent from a person and still be connected. We can be estranged from or divorced from a person and still be very much connected inwardly. Distance knows no boundaries. Visualizations make us more aware of the connection that already exists.

Think of your own metaphors for what you're trying to create and put them into practice.

Debbie Simon, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, NY State Licensed Psychotherapist and Life Coach. Specializing in visualization/manifestation; 20 years experience; seasoned, skilled and intuitive. http://www.visualprosperity.com

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PLUGGING INTO A HIGH VIBRATION

People tell me that the blogs that I write that they like the best offer a visualization. With that in mind, I will try to stay with visualizations that enhance prosperity. Whatever prosperity means to you; you can have it and visualizations will help you get there.

I like to keep visualizations general and focused on a theme instead of specific images of what you want. I believe that anyone who goes through at least five sessions with me will notice major positive changes in their lives. The key to a powerful visualization is where you plug in. What is the vibration that you are plugging into? Are you able to do this yourself or can you benefit from a facilitator?

If you can imagine the highest possible energy in the universe, that is the place to begin. Just practice plugging into what you imagine to be the highest vibration possible. Do this for 7 days in a row and see what happens.





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WHAT WE ALL WANT

I can't really speak for others but generally when I write I think about what people want to hear versus what I want to say. The two have nothing in common. I think that readers want to know how to reverse the current down trend for themselves. If they are feeling impoverished, they want to feel prosperous instead. The problem is not a shortage of techniques to use to change your current state, but sometimes we have to go through something in order to grow and get the lesson. Herein the conflict lies.

If a group of people get together and practice a prosperity visualization, I am certain that they will all experience some immediate increase in their life. If you don't believe that, try it out with 3 other people. Receiving more is wonderful and I'm all for it. But if the lesson is missed, if the point is not gotten, then you are only putting a band aid on the real problem. Focus on expansion and prosperity and do it in a group, and increase will come.

Here's an analogy for what we are going through today. A person is on a diet and beginning to lose weight and eat healthy. Then they go on a vacation and throw caution to the wind. They want to indulge because when else will they get the chance to try such interesting foods? After 7 days their clothes are tight, they return home and feel awful. This is what most people call a vacation.

They try to get back into the pattern they were following before the trip, but they can't. They beat themselves up for falling off the wagon and start eating out of anger at themselves. Another 5 pounds is gained. Eventually, maybe...they get back into the groove and are back on track after many months and they now have more weight to lose than before the first diet started.

Dieting is always a good analogy for money concerns.

As we all beg and bargain with God to return our abundant state of being, maybe we need to stay in this experience and figure out why we are having it. Some permanent changes are needed in our thinking and our behavior. Our excuses need to disappear. We need to gain a sense of responsibility for the suffering of others. When people start to come out of their cocoons and look to the people to the left and those to the right of them (and I don't mean politically) things will start to improve. A lack of concern for others is much worse than the swine flu.







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JIGSAW PUZZLE

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle. The joy isn't in finishing the puzzle, it's in finding which pieces fit together and watching the picture emerge









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REALLY SIMPLE TO DO

Imagine a bucket of dirty water is being emptied out. That is what we are doing now in this financial crisis, emptying our buckets. Then the water runs freely and place the bucket under the faucet and fill it up with clear, clean water. That's the process of purification.

Notice any changes as you practice this.





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TRUTH AND PROSPERITY

In today's economic crisis we need to ask ourselves the question "what is true prosperity?". I know that half the readers just stopped reading. Those who have stayed are not looking for the quick fix and the get rich now and the dream your biggest dream ever schemes. I have had my share of those, too. This is for those who seek spiritual truth, not material enormity.

There is so much available to us spiritually. It's there for the taking and only a small percentage of people are open to that or seek that. "Spirituality" means a variety of things to people but whatever it means to you - that is the correct definition. That's the problem. We try to define another person's spirituality. Spiritual Freedom is allowing others to believe whatever they want to believe.

How many children are raised in homes where they don't agree with their parent's belief, or the opposite, they don't question those beliefs and just follow along without ever asking themselves "What is my truth? What do I believe?". My two sons have both gone 360 degrees away from my beliefs, but I would never force them to follow a path that doesn't resonate with them. My path is not their path. I've always given them that kind of space. This has allowed them to become themselves rather than who I would want them to be. As long as they have faith and a belief in God or some concept of what that means, I'm happy. As long as they treat others with respect and also practice self love and self care, I'm happy.

Life doles out many problems and difficulties. Faith provides the answers for why these things happen. When your Faith stops doing that, it's time to look elsewhere. There are paths that provide the answers. There are principals to live by and not only feel good about ourselves and our contributions to life, but also get along with those who have different beliefs.

The truth about prosperity is that Truth IS Prosperity



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VISUALIZATION FOR PROSPERITY

REPRINT OF OCT 11 2008


Prosperity is really nothing more than receiving. Receiving love, money, health, good things and of course, love. For various reasons we all have certain walls that protect us from the hurts in the past. These walls prevent us from receiving our "good". Any visualization that knocks down walls will allow a more positive flow. The question is, are you ready to receive more? Many are comfortable with giving but fall short on the receiving end. This leaves us in a state of depletion most of the time. First allow yourself to receive by making a statement such as "I deserve to receive", then simply, picture yourself surrounded by a bubble. The size of the bubble expands and expands and it goes from being impenetrable to being porous. Finally, as it expands past your ability to see it, it finally bursts and allows a flood of positive energy, love, money and healing to flow over you. If you are not used to receiving this can really throw things off balance. Be aware of your reluctance to receive and go slowly. Learn to let a little bit in and then a little bit more.
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GAINING CLARITY

How do we obtain our goals if we don't first assess where we are now and have a CLEAR picture of where we are going in order to get to there. The most difficult part for most people is being honest about where they are (ie, getting on a scale before starting a diet) and knowing exactly where it is that they want to end up. How often have you changed your vision in your lifetime. Think of the times that you were very clear about what you wanted and the steps that took you there. Clarity is the key.

How can we gain clarity about our vision when we haven't even started to take the first essential steps toward exploring the possibilities? Clarity is the result of a process. Someone at lunch the other day said "I have always wanted to go to Tibet. It's my life dream to go to Tibet". So I said
"then set up the trip and go". But he went blank and looked at me as if I was speaking a different language. Maybe he doesn't really want to go, I don't know.

Some people are clear about their goals, but the majority aren't. It's more common than not for people to approach coaching, workshops or therapy with a vague notion of what they want. What people often say is that they seek "Clarity". Achieving it will be a relief. Connecting to our true vision will give us a feeling of "ahhhhhhhh that's it"! But we might have to take several steps to get there.

We might have a sense of what our vision is but
(1) it gets muddled with what we think it should be and
(2) We talk ourselves out of it.

We use our children, spouse, job, obligations and parents as an excuse for not going for it. We convince ourselves that we can't have our dream and we opt to come up with another plan that isn't really what we want but "will do". Then life becomes mediocre, we don't like what we're doing and we feel frustrated and angry at the people who we perceive as holding us back.

Pursuing possibilities is exhilarating and makes us feel like we are moving in the right direction. It can also create fear at the same time. Sitting with both excitement and fear is a good thing to get used to. As I become clearer about my own vision I realize that I have been moving in that direction all along and didn't even realize it. Feeling worthy of your dream is the first and most important step toward attaining it.



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FREEDOM

What kind of freedom do you seek? Is it freedom from mortgage payments and other bills? Is it the freedom from a structured work day or a boss or a corporation? What would freedom feel like? What happens to your body when you think about being "free" whatever that means to you?

Imagine that you are a caged bird. You share the cage with many other birds. It is too small and crowded and you can't do what you do naturally...fly. You never had a chance to fly because you were born in this cage.

Imagine that the cage door opens and none of the other birds dare exit the cage. You are bold and courageous so you poke your beak out first, then you stand on the ledge of the door. You look around and your wings want to fly but you aren't conscious of that. Your little bird body takes flight and you are in it. You fly around this house that you have lived in for years but never saw. The window opens and you cautiously approach it. Again, you take tiny steps on the window perch. Fresh air is something new to you. So you breathe it in for the first time.

Then you fly.





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A BETTER LIFE

In order for our lives to improve we have to go through periods of chaotic reorganization. When this happens it is a sign that we have grown and can't tolerate the old way of being. Our world becomes like a cage that we've outgrown. We break through it's barriers and we explode into a bigger world. The process is painful and treacherous. If you want a better life you have to take all that comes with getting there.










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PARADOX

Sometimes a visualization is so powerful that it will send your life into a tailspin. You might not even connect what's happening with the visualization because it might appear to be the opposite of what you asked for or were trying to create. Getting the opposite is a good sign. It is the beginning of clearning the space, dropping the old and making room for the new, better situation.









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YIELD TO ONCOMING TRAFFIC

I have noticed lately that many young people haven't been taught what my generation learned. That is, when walking on a sidewalk that is narrow and there is only room for one, to let the other person pass. Especially if that person is older than you, the elder goes first.

In the West Village there are some very narrow streets and I am shocked at how young students in their 20s come barreling down the pavement hardly noticing or caring that I am there too. We both are faced with the same dilemma. Who will step aside? Only they don't feel there is a dilemma. Clearly, they deserve to go first in their own eyes. They simply strut by as though the other person is not worthy of their attention or consideration. If you don't get knocked over in the process of their oblivion, you are lucky.

I heard someone say that "yielding is a sign of spiritual maturity". Knowing when to yield and step back when the other person is ignorant of those around them can be a survival mechanism. There are some primitive people in NYC who don't value another person's life. I don't care if they don't value their own but I want them to at least see me as a human being that deserves a little respect. They only see their own quest and feel that it is the most important factor in their lives. I've noticed this especially in young women and I wonder, "what did their parents(especially their mothers) teach them?". Kids usually imitate what their parents do, so who are their parents and what have they been telling their daughters? What kind of messages are being conveyed?

Passivity is allowing yourself to be stepped on and over. It's allowing yourself to be abused without putting up a fight or defending yourself. Assertiveness, is taking action and looking out for yourself but not at another person's expense. Most people don't have a clue about how to work in a group or how to be supportive and caring toward others.

A family is a type of group, too. When everyone is in competition with each other and love is not the primary factor, or some members of the family are incapable of love, then a very ugly and unhealthy group dynamic forms. A group is only as strong as its members.

A community or a city is also only as strong as its members' capacity to care for each other. Something critical has been lost in these empty, ambitious young women who come barreling down the sidewalk without any concern for other human beings and especially those who are older than themselves.

The next time you find yourself face to face with someone on the sidewalk think about your reaction and your behavior. Do you yield? Are you passive? Are you assertive or are you down right selfish?











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HAVING

As many readers know, it's those deep rooted, unnecessary beliefs that we have that prevent us from having the best that life has to offer. In most cases if our parents felt unentitled then, no matter what they might have said to us, we also internalize this belief.

For those who struggle with this, I am struggling right along with you. I know that there are many techniques that will move you from point A to point B but that one core belief "I'm not entitled to this" or "I don't deserve to have what other people have" will prevent us from breaking through that wall that divides what we want from what we have.

So often we settle for less than what we know we deserve to have. Then we are frustrated and unhappy. The first step toward healing this wound is to acknowledge that it is there without judgment. Very often we got these messages at a young age and they simply don't serve us in any kind of constructive way. How can you allow yourself to have what you really want without acknowledging that there is a part of you that doesn't believe you deserve it?








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JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE EARTH

I find that the hardest part of moving from the life we have today to the life that we want to have is 1. knowing where we are going and 2. knowing how we are going to get there.

I have found that generalized visualizations are very powerful. I often have given visualizations that include bridges here in this blog. Once again I am going to suggest you try something similar to that.

There is a building across the street from me, a federal court. There was a small, plain building there for many years. Rather than tear it down, they built a very tall, modern federal building next to it and then attached the two with one of those high bridges that you see between two buildings. I think that's a great image for what many of us are trying to create. First write down the vision of what your life will look like. Do it in the form of a story. Start with where you are and all the things that are going to happen and where you will end up. Now you have your "today" picture and your "go to" picture. Now connect them by doing a quiet meditation for about 20 minutes. Imagine where you are and where you are going in the form of the two buildings. Connect them with a bridge and see yourself crossing the bridge with the guidance that you will need to get to the other side.

This is an example of how the journey is more important than the destination.




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INNER WORLDS

Many think that inner worlds are just places that our imagination create. Actually, the inner worlds are real worlds and are the first place to go in order to create something new and different for ourselves.

Psychotherapy has its limitations because it only focuses on one life. The reality is that we have passed through many lives and we evolve more fully with each one. Much of our suffering today relates to things that happened in other lives.








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A VISUALIZATION FOR TURNING A BAD SITUATION AROUND

Some things are not meant to be and no matter how hard you try to make them work, they won't. You get as much as you can from the situation and then you move on. Here is a visualization for when you feel that you are in a deep hole and can't get out. It's important to practice self love during such a time and no matter what landed you down in that hole, you need to love yourself to get out.

One technique for getting into a relaxed state to do the visualization is to close your eyes while seated or lying down and breath slowly for awhile. Then count. Breathe in and as you breathe out count to yourself "one", then again, breathing out and saying "two". Do this all the way up to the number ten. By ten your breath should be calm and slow.

Imagine that you are in the situation where you are today and you are sitting in a chair under a dome of white light. The light keeps you warm and protected. It propels you with the energy to deal with this situation. You are lifted up and out of the situation that is causing you so much grief.

See the next place that you would like to go to. Imagine that you can float from where you are today to the new situation that will be healthier for you. Allow the chair to gently land in this new situation. Feel how different the atmosphere is there and how much better you feel being placed there.

Practice this daily and notice the little changes that occur along the way.




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PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS

Unfortunately, the process of moving forward with our lives and rising to a new level, involves releasing and leaving behind, people, places and things. I don't know what is harder, leaving the people or the places and things.

It takes courage, "stick with-it-ness", and determination to keep moving forward while those people, places and things cry for us to come back. We will even hold ourselves back in order to avoid the pain of moving forward. Then we do the 2 steps forward-one step back cha cha. I am an expert at that. It is a way of moving forward but it is a very painful and belaboring way to proceed.



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A BOOK RECOMMENDATION

Yes, it has been awhile, but here I am.

Last January I read Debbie Ford's book on creating Your Best Year Yet. It's an excellent book but I didn't really follow the steps or the worksheet and within weeks its important lessons were forgotten. I proceeded to have an awful year.

Now I have returned to her book and I am seeing it with brand new eyes. If I hadn't had the experiences of last year I wouldn't be in a place where I could fully appreciate the words on the pages. It's like I never read it before and I certainly missed a lot of the primary points. One thing that she says that I love is that we have to stay in reality 100% of the time. That's a challenge. She talks about fantasy goals vs. real goals that can and will be achieved. She talks about how we often reach our goals but still are not satisfied. Happiness comes today or it doesn't come at all. That is always a challenge to create. Read the book. You'll be glad you did.







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AN EASY VISUALIZATION

Pretend you stand before a time machine. The dials point to whatever year you want to go to. Start at your date of birth and move the dial slowly to the pinnacle years in your life all the way up to today. Then move it forward a year or two. You can walk through the tunnel-like machine and arrive at your life in 20... You can come out, change the dial and go back in with ease. If you believe in future lives, you can take this as far as you want






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GETTING OUT ANY WHICH WAY

A new year, new lessons. We know logically that there is nothing different about Jan 1st and May 1st but somehow, Jan 1st is when we start planning for the next 365 days. I face this coming year with some challenges that I'm not looking forward to dealing with. Then I realize that throughout my life I have faced challenges that felt impossible. I often found a way out but not the best way out. It's so easy in hindsight to see how we could have solved these problems with different solutions because our consciousness changes with time. It's only from the higher consciousness that we can see better solutions. What I do realize though, is that it's better to take "a" way out rather than wait for the best possible solution. It often won't come at all. The way we solve problems today is actually the best that we can do today. It's the best idea that we can come up with given our current circumstances and awareness. Others might think it's easy to solve our problems but it really never is easy. If it was, they wouldn't be problems. Finding "a" way out is the best way out.











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Nurturing Our Spirit

This year, my main focus is to nurture my spirit. What does that really mean? I mean what is a spirit anyway? We all kind of know what I'm talking about but can anyone define it? I know how to nurture my spirit and you know what nurtures your spirit, but how often do we make that a priority?

I know that when the spirit dies the body follows. I experienced that years ago and found renewal through various healing modalities. My "spirit" emerged and I remembered who I was. Who I had been; the part that was lost.

For 2009, there is only one thing that I want. I will focus on polishing, purifying and renewing my spirit.

ENJOY WHILE YOU CAN

Sometimes we need to put all of our troubles and concerns aside and just enjoy the holidays in anyway we can. The less money we spend the more we will enjoy it.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE.


I will return on January 5th to this blog











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LOOKING BACK

It's the end of the year and a great time to review how far we've come (or not). I've given a visualization with a bridge before, symbolizing transitions, and a mountain peak to look one way at the past and the other at the future, while standing in the present.

In order to review 2008 try this. Before going to sleep when you are lying flat and are relaxed, take some breaths and concentrate on your "heart center" (the middle of your chest). When you feel centered imagine you are flipping a wall calendar slowly. Look at January 2008, flip it to February, March and so on. Take a lot of time with each month. Even count each day, for example "January first, January second..." and so on. Do this in a fluid way so that you can skip around and return to months when you need to (like, "oh yeah, I forgot, back in March I..."). It's a fun exercise and might make you feel better about the year and remember some successes that you may have forgotten.




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LOOKING AHEAD

I guess there is no point in trying to figure out how we got into a mess, but rather to decide how we are going to get out of it.





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THOSE JOYOUS HOLIDAYS

"The" holidays... year after year, there are many similarities and it's also a way to measure our growth or lack of growth. We can always remember something about last year at this time. Personally, I was in a different place than I am now. Was it a better or worse place? Just different, that's all.

Our feelings about the holidays depend on the religion we grew up and our spiritual beliefs today. It also depends on whether family holidays were good things or nightmares. Those who experienced the nightmares as children will know exactly what I mean. Not everyone has happy memories.

I've always noticed how people will drop their disciplines at this time of year, and this is exactly when the opposite should happen. There's more food, sweets and alcohol available now, and if you are someone who is trying to avoid those things or keep them to a minimum, it's a challenging time. I always think about where I want to be in January and that keeps me in tow during December. What are we really craving? Why are we filling ourselves up with everything but what it is we really want at this time of year?









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CHOICES

Every decision we make today really does create our tomorrows. If we can just change the percentages so that we are making better decisions than we have in the past, then we are already creating a different future than we would have if we kept making the same decisions.

That goes for what foods we eat, the people we choose to allow in our lives and what they bring into our lives as a result, certain behaviors like smoking, medications, drugs and finally exercise. I'm sure there are many other examples but those seem to me to be the most common. These are things that we do have control over.

Some people get nervous at the prospect of "controlling" their future and have mixed feelings about taking that control. Of course there are always going to be so many things that are completely out of our control, but we can impact our lives by making better choices. If we keep making bad choices then it is wise to do some introspective work with a therapist or through some sort of personal growth modality, to understand why we do that to ourselves.

Some people suffer needlessly because they think they are supposed to suffer through life.









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WHAT'S NEXT

Now that the prosperity principles, law of attraction and the secret have become so trendy, what's the next step? Many of us were into these things in the 1980s and 90s. When things like this become mainstream it means that the consciousness is higher than it was then. So where are we all moving to after this? You can put your comments here, if you want.

I think that we are looking for answers and fulfillment. Many think that wealth is going to give them that. Materiality will only take you so far. If wealth equaled happiness then all the celebrities would be happy people.

I think we are all seeking connection, acceptance and understanding. There's nothing worse than trying to explain your dilemma to someone who doesn't get it at all.

So again, I ask you, the reader, what comes next in your opinion?








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WHEN THE CLOUDS CLEAR

A visualization that will help us move past these tough times and back into the sunlight.

Imagine that you are walking through a storm during the day. Even though it's daytime it's dark outside and it's raining and windy and people's umbrellas are breaking and blowing away. Notice every detail of the exercise. Then suddenly the rain stops, the wind dies down and the sun starts to burn off the clouds. Now everything around you looks different. It's sunny and bright outside, no more clouds, no more rain.

If you doubt the power that a visualization like this one can have, try it and see what happens






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A VISUALIZATION TO CREATE CHANGE

Begin the visualization with relaxation techniques that will put you in the right frame of mind to do the visualization, this includes deep breathing and keeping your eyes closed.

See pictures of your life as it is today. Include every facet that you can think of, do a scan of the different parts of your life and notice what pictures come up, then slowly begin to change the pictures to the way you want them to look rather than the way they actually do look. This can work with your body image, relationships and most goals.

For more information on how to visualize see my ebook intro which teaches you how at www.visualprosperity.com/ebook.

Also, How To Visualize











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A TWIST ON GRATITUDE

So here we are, going into the week of Thanksgiving in America. Of course we reflect on what we are grateful for and no matter where we are in our lives, we can always think of something, like, "I'm breathing, I have my sight, I have my legs" and stuff like that. Those are the years when things are really at an all time low.

But one of the tricks of the trade is to be grateful for what hasn't come into our lives yet and to feel the gratitude as though it has. So have fun, make a list of all that you want to be grateful for but don't actually have yet and let yourself fill with that great feeling that comes with gratitude.










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HARD TIMES

Times are hard right now. A visualization can really change the energy and turn things around. A simple one to try is this. Imagine a waterfall in a tropical paradise. Stand under it and allow the water to stream over your head and body. Imagine that the water is the life force and as it seeps in, your energy is increasing, your magnetism is increasing and your ability to receive increases.
When you feel energized you can stop. You can return to this stream of life anytime that you need to. When you're in that state of mind you can see more clearly, make better choices and enjoy life more.








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