Positive Thinking and Your Money

November 1, 2009

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We've all heard the buzzwords that resonate with our pocketbooks. But what is the real magic to making it all happen? The basis of many of today's techniques for manifesting wealth, health and well-being is the power of positive thinking. As a core principal, it seems fairly easy to grasp. We all understand the words. But putting positive thinking into practice seems to meet with mixed results. To make matters more challenging, there are a variety of strategies. Which one will make the critical difference in your business venture or prosperity dream? And is the best strategy really a "one-size-fits-all"?

Prayer Circles

For those who believe in prayer or a deep devotion to Jesus or Buddha or any seminal master of positive thinking, miracles can happen at any time. Traditional and impromptu healing circles invoke prayers to rally behind friends and family members who are suffering. If you've ever seen miracles work for those in need of restored health, remind yourself that these same principles can work for your money as well. Yes, success in the workplace is reliant on concrete actions that involve doing, completing, shipping,

calling, consigning, detailing, purchasing, investing, marketing or looking for a new job, a small prayer circle can get you out of the grind. It can involve pizza, your women's book club or your men's knitting circle. Three or four participants can help you tap into that conscious abundance you've been sleepwalking through. Have a gathering and wrap your hands around it. By asking your friends to send out the good vibes for you (and you for them), you can strengthen your own beliefs and commit to your endeavors with newfound energy. Asking everyone to sit in circle and light a candle for your new eatery may be the only secret you need. If you're a circle of one, picture yourself surrounded by the positive people in your life.

Books and Tapes

There are numerous abundance methods, many of which involve visualizations, affirmations and Vedic mantras. You may be drawn to any number of these approaches. But if crystal shops and chants are not your style, and you'd prefer to go it alone, books or audiotapes like "The Secret", "The Biology of Belief" and Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers", the last of which is more of a sociological look at success and its relation to circumstance, are all worth a try. The ultimate messages these works espouse can open your mind to greater possibility. If you're having a rush of negative thoughts, which can be debilitating and unnerving, positive-thinking books and tapes can help you turn it around. The more you master your thoughts, the better you can breathe and the more easily you can invoke whatever you need to make it happen.

Keeping Good Company

If you surround yourself with doubters and naysayers, their words will be just one more hole in your wallet. If they're putting up roadblocks for you and limiting your scope, they may also be handing you fifty cents for every dollar you envision. Positive company is the kind that challenges you to keep your goals and expectations real while supporting your fullest potential. That kind of company wants to see you go as far as you yourself believe you can go.

As for what you can do today to bring abundance out of the forest and into your den, you can always begin by taking tremendous comfort in whatever it is you already have. Perhaps there are no real secrets here. Remembering that money is in effect an exchange of energies means accounting for everything in the plus column even when you're being bombarded by the minus.

Opening up to the plus can change your bottom line.

Perhaps the most crucial adage is that the fundamental key to manifesting abundance is believing that there's actually enough to go around. In a lopsided economy it can be difficult to see lots of gravy days for you and everyone else while you're limping through the lack. It takes a disciplined mind to remain steadfast and mindful of the fact that change is a natural part of life and that so many aspects are cyclical, including your wallet. Of course, the ultimate key is to amass substantial savings so that the next time the waters ebb, you'll still find yourself perched high on the rocks, dry and bright-eyed, living in style. NewsSip

Book Covers: The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell • The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton

The Secret by Rhonda Byrnes • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell •

The Science of the Mind by Ernest Holmes • The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman

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