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May 4th, 2007

Focus on Money or Life?

There is a lot of talk in new consciousness communities
about money. How to make it how to manifest it, how to intend it, how to, how
to, how to. Interestingly one of the tenets of the Law of Attraction is not focusing
on “the how” but get a feeling sense of what you want, and feel it.

The challenge of manifesting something big is if you have no
previous template, you therefore have no feeling sense about something you have never had. So
what to do?

Well intend to feel the feelings of feeling what it feels
like to have the life of your dreams. Ok that was a little confusing. Let me
rephrase that. If you have never had a multi million dollar lifestyle and you now intend and want
it, a key way to achieve it is to feel what it feels like deep in your soul to
have it. In my experience, by doing that, you will start to have life
experiences that deliver that feeling sense to you. You will create experiences
that allow you to have a deeper felt sense of having money and that life dream.
So now you have a template of feeling to build on.

I think it is important to know that the feeling is a new
muscle that you have to develop and grow. Along those lines many of us have
deep seated issues around money, the actual green stuff. I have found that by
focusing on my dream life, I have had more success in the feeling part of it
and I have create some amazing things that have allowed me to continue to
strengthen my feeling muscle to then attract more. I have found it helps to focus on the following (instead
of focusing specifically on money):

· the lifestyle

· the kinds of people that are surrounding me
(what is their essence)

· the home I might have (what do I feel like living there, what does a "day in the life" look like?)

· the feelings I have as I am working at something
I love doing (not focused too much on the actual “job”… you don’t really know
what it is you will be doing)

· achieving work life balance etc.

Given my dysfunctional belief systems about money, when I
focus on money as a visualization activity I have had really mixed results. My
postulation is, at least for me, until I get to these dysfunctional money
beliefs I am going to instead focus on the things I do believe; my talents, my
work ethic, my ability to manifest a fun interesting life , then trust the
money will follow. So far it seems to be working I have manifested some truly
remarkable things.

Tithing

The only thing I have done that is allowing me to have a new
more positive relationship with money is tithing. Edwene
Gaines
wrote an amazing book about tithing and I had the privilege of
participating in her workshop. The idea is giving back to where you are spiritually
feed. That could be a speaker, a blogger, a waitress your church or spiritual community
or anyone the moves you spiritually. The idea is to give back 10% to the
spiritual part of you, the ultimate show of gratitude. In fact I just decided I
am going to tithe to Edwene, she helped me so much with this.

The day of her workshop someone came up to me at the half
way mark and handed me a check as a thank you for spiritually feeding them. That
was the truest affirmation of the power of tithing, minutes before I had made a
“pinky swear” with two other dear friends that we were going to try tithing 10%
for 6-months, and then I received this check.

Each time I tithe it is a process; as I write the check and
then feel the gratitude that I have the money to give and trust that its is a energetic
field of gratitude that I am creating to bring more things into my life to be grateful
for. I just feel so amazing afterward. Money as gratitude is a concept that
works for me. My life has changed pretty dramatically since I started tithing.

I do believe that some people don’t have these same issues with
money that I have and can simply focus on money and create it… they will likely
have other things that aren’t as “easy” to manifest that they need to find a “work
around” for.

This whole post was “manifested” through the following post
by Bradley
Woods
over at his
Conceive, Believe, Achieve Blog. I
think this is a great excersise:

Six Steps To Turn Desire Into Gold

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1. Determine
the exact amount of money you desire

2. Determine
what you intend to give in return for this money.

3. Establish
a definite date by which you intend to possess all this
money.

4. Create
a definite plan for achieving your desire and begin immediately to
take action.

5. Write
out a statement of the time limit, what you intend to give, and
describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate this money.

6. Read
your written statement aloud twice a day, in the morning and evening.
Put all the emotion you can behind this as you begin to see yourself
clearly in the possession of what you desire
.

END

I commented about my struggles with focusing on the financial
aspect of this and Bradley’s return comment on his blog was:

“I
didn’t post these steps just for intending money. These six steps can help you
to get anything. I use the word money here loosely to describe your own dreams
and desires. It was never my desire to put money on a pedestal. You bring up an
important point Jennifer. You obviously have to know what you want before you
can ever achieve it but the emotion you put behind this intention is also very
important.”

I think this exercise is worth a try and perhaps even using
it with the money aspect… let’s see how I do with my internal beliefs!

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Comments

  1. Mirriam says:

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  2. happymoney says:

    Liked your post, specially those six steps. They are so true, if you want something you must decide that and make a plan how you get it.

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  4. Junyang says:

    Hi Jennifer,
    I think this is absolutely great stuff that you are sharing here. I totally agree with you that what link the present us to the us-to-be is the desire, which seems to be one of the fundamental working forces in the Law of Attraction. If we don’t desire, why would we be attracted. These six steps that you posted is an incredible elementary guide to how to muster the law of attraction into practicality of our lives. Furthermore talking about the thought-revoking report that Mirriam mentioned, you might be interested to check out an equally interesting report that I came across, its free for download for the following URL; http://www.theofficiallawofattraction.com/rights/
    Hope you enjoy this sharing.
    Regards.

  5. Junyang says:

    Hi Jennifer,
    I think this is absolutely great stuff that you are sharing here. I totally agree with you that what link the present us to the us-to-be is the desire, which seems to be one of the fundamental working forces in the Law of Attraction. If we don’t desire, why would we be attracted. These six steps that you posted is an incredible elementary guide to how to muster the law of attraction into practicality of our lives. Furthermore talking about the thought-revoking report that Mirriam mentioned, you might be interested to check out an equally interesting report that I came across, its free for download for the following URL; http://www.theofficiallawofattraction.com/rights/
    Hope you enjoy this sharing.
    Regards.

  6. Junyang says:

    Hi Jennifer,
    I think this is absolutely great stuff that you are sharing here. I totally agree with you that what link the present us to the us-to-be is the desire, which seems to be one of the fundamental working forces in the Law of Attraction. If we don’t desire, why would we be attracted. These six steps that you posted is an incredible elementary guide to how to muster the law of attraction into practicality of our lives. Furthermore talking about the thought-revoking report that Mirriam mentioned, you might be interested to check out an equally interesting report that I came across, its free for download for the following URL; http://www.theofficiallawofattraction.com/rights/
    Hope you enjoy this sharing.
    Regards.

  7. Junyang says:

    Hi Jennifer,
    I think this is absolutely great stuff that you are sharing here. I totally agree with you that what link the present us to the us-to-be is the desire, which seems to be one of the fundamental working forces in the Law of Attraction. If we don’t desire, why would we be attracted. These six steps that you posted is an incredible elementary guide to how to muster the law of attraction into practicality of our lives. Furthermore talking about the thought-revoking report that Mirriam mentioned, you might be interested to check out an equally interesting report that I came across, its free for download for the following URL; http://www.theofficiallawofattraction.com/rights/
    Hope you enjoy this sharing.
    Regards.