Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: abundance, divine, Lakshmi, music, personal growth, prosperity
Do you ever get a song stuck in your head? I currently have one of the songs from Jennifer Berezan’s album “Returning” playing in mine. Its rich, hypnotic, repeating rhythms echo in my mind, the perfect background for my current chant “<breathe in> Lakshmi <breathe out> Wealth <breathe in> Lakshmi <breathe out> Wealth …” Lakshmi is a Hindu Goddess of Abundance and Prosperity, one of the aspects of the Divine. I hear the words of this meditation as a song.
The chant can really be “Divine – Abundance,” the name of the Goddess is just a focusing device. But there’s something about why we have so many Gods & Goddesses in the world, to make the aspects real. All the Divine show up as omnipotent; it would be nice if they also showed up as reliable. Or perhaps I have a trust issue? Hmmm…maybe. Or maybe Life just isn’t that reliable, and the reason we as humans have created all of these aspects is to help explain the unexplainable.
Actually, given the number of water-based images I have in my meditations, I beginning to wonder if there’s something in my emotions to look at (water being an archetypal symbol for the emotions). I’m sure I need to. A friend of mine gave me the Prosperity Angel off of her altar to put onto mine. I’m feeling a huge emotion about that: I’m terrified that I might break it! Is that an indication of how I feel about Prosperity in general, that if given to me and accepted, that I might somehow break it? How can you “break” abundance?
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I have been finding it difficult to keep my mind off of “this world,” since some major bills are overdue, and at this moment I don’t have the funds in hand to pay them. I have found it easy, however, to focus on the Divine within, and have found myself closer than ever; there is a kind of singing within my soul, a sound of bright light, high and clear. I feel warmed and comforted by that Presence within and without, but I never feel as though that Divine Presence is doing anything other than just being there. I like the image of the Divine as the substance of all things – I have often thought that the Divine was within the spaces between the atoms, so that everything I see is filled with the Divine.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: abundance, heart light, John Randolph Price, Light Bridge, meditation, personal growth, prosperity, Roselyn Bruyere
It is very relaxing to not have to try to do anything to be prosperous, just be my own Divine Self and let it just happen. I feel myself becoming that Divine Fountain, one of the anchor points for the Bridge of Light.
The Bridge of Light is the name John Randolph Price uses to describe all the open hearts of the world connected together. I use a meditation from Roselyn Bruyere to get started. Imagine that you have a small light inside of your heart, glowing gently, but dimly. Now, imagine that you have a dial control for the brightness, and you can slowly turn up the glow, brighter and brighter, and brighter and brighter, until the glow is lighting up your chest area, and your entire abdomen. Imagine that the brightness in your heart gets transfered to the blood that flows through your heart, and carries that glow to every part of your body. As you dial up the brightness, all the places that get touched by the glow also get brighter and brighter. At last, every part of you, every organ, cell, and capillary in your body is glowing with a bright light; even your skin is glowing. Now, imagine that that glow expands outwardly, and meets with the glows that are happening right now, around the world, so that there are networks of light being created all the time at every moment.
I feel more and more of a connection to more and more people in the world, especially those that currently feel less prosperous: I send them Divine Light energy to help them get what they need, for their highest and best good.
I feel the energy coming/flowing from everything on the planet and beyond, all the plants and animals, all the rocks and water, even those things that were fashioned by humans: even those things have the energy that’s part of the same stuff as the stars.
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Many of us have had bad years; it seems like financial or emotional disaster from beginning to end. Everything we try to grow gets eaten by locusts. And when we focus on the lack and the loss, that’s all that shows up for us. When we keep our minds and hearts on our spiritual connection, then miracles happen. As I’ve said before, I experience the Divine within as a great golden-white glow within me, that emanates from me, and illuminates everything around me. My focus this year has been making myself conscious of that glow 24/7. And here’s my miracle: because of some problems with an investment last year, I took a loss in my businesses of over $15, 000. (Definite locust feast there!) Because of this loss, according to my CPA, I apparently can do something called a carry-back, and apply this loss to taxes I paid 2 years ago (I had to pay almost $10,000 in taxes 2 years ago, because of a different CPA and some investments that didn’t work out). So, I’m going to get back almost $10,000, restoring the years the locusts have eaten!
When I am consciously connected to my Divine self, I am uplifted and prosperity and abundance are present everywhere in everything. Since everything was created by thought, my thoughts, focusing on my Divinity, automatically create abundance. I don’t have to ask for it, it simply is. Everything, from pen & paper, to the clothes I’m wearing, to the dresser they came out of, to the airplane flying overhead, are all symbols of the prosperity of my life, and those around me. If everyone has everything, there would be no war.
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I’ve got one, for all you math-challenged metaphysicians:
I am Divine.
The Divine is Abundance.
The Divine is Love.
Love = Abundance
Abundance = Love
Money = Energy (Joseph Campbell: “Money is congealed energy”)
Divine = Energy
Love = Energy
Money = Love = Divine = Energy = Abundance
A really simple equation when you get down to it. When you express more Love, when you acknowledge the Divine in your life, when you have more Energy, Money & Abundance naturally flow. When you deny Love and deny the Divine, you have a lot less energy, and Money & Abundance are nowhere to be found. It feels like hard work to get some, when it’s really very, very easy…
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I see it at first as a cooling burning white light within my solar plexus/heart chakras, expanded to fill my whole body. Have you ever thought about the substance of Spirit? Rather an oxymoron, isn’t it? But the whole point is how insubstantial and yet all-powerful an idea, a concept, can be. So the divine within could be this (warning to those who flinch at Christianity – Christ image ahead! Take a deep breath, and keep reading…): imagine a man, standing with his legs close together, his head flung back, facing upwards with an expression of pure joy and happiness radiating from his face, his arms open wide, and his whole body glowing with a white energy. Hold that image for a moment…now picture him and his glow in the heart of a cross, his legs and head forming the vertical and his arms within the cross bars. It looks as though he is radiating from within it. And now picture the cross as having subtle features of its own, a head and legs and arms. The cross is us, and the energy is within everyone.
The above was an early attempt of mine to reconcile the horror of an instrument of torture and death of being a symbol for a religion that tried to teach tolerance and love. I finally came to a kind of realization that the cross is the symbol for the transcendence of love over fear. It is not, for me, about the transcendence of life over death. Death always wins. However, what we make of our lives, and how our light shines out, is a measure of how close the game was. I look to the energy within, the Divine within to help me manifest energy in the outer world, and release it for the greatest good of all.
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Lavish again, only this time inside of me – hey, I’ve got my own personal Divine Sugar Daddy (or Momma!). Anything I want, even before I ask for it. All I have to do in return is say “Thank you” and mean it!.
Infinite prosperity – I see the infinity sign, which is my logo. What goes around (coming over the top left) comes around (looping around to come over the top right), and over and over again…
Filled with the Light of Truth: I see a “light tree” where the trunk and all the branches have been covered with lights so it looks like the tree is wearing the lights like a kind of sweater, or a different kind of bark. The Tree is the Source, and the branches are all of us, and we’re all connected by the Light, as well as the inner Sap (strength and truth are the Sap) running through us. Truth of Light, filled is consciousness!
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I see my Crown & Heart chakras opening and receiving Divine Source’s Light and touch. I’m not sure I understand, but I know myself as God/dess, and capable of manifesting everything in my life. Again, “Source” is a water image: remembering the source of the Sacramento River at Mount Shasta bubbling up, and remembering the sense of freedom I had there.
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Today, I declare to the Universe that I am Abundant! I am sharing my abundance in cyberspace, so that others may know that they too are abundant. No matter who you are, regardless of your place, your race, your health, or your circumstances, you ARE abundant, because the Universe is abundant. Stop noticing the lack, and start paying attention to the overwhelming prosperity. The Universe is eternal, lavish abundance.
What is “lavish abundance” to you? I see a smiling, plump woman, in rich robes (late medieval/early Renaissance), with open hands gesturing to a richly decorated dining room, with all kinds of food and drink on the enormous central table. The furnishings are all beautifully carved wood, gold & silver; the room is lit from multiple fireplaces burning, and many lights illuminating it all so it glows.
In my meditation, I saw a vision of round-cut diamonds, just a few, dropping onto me from above, as from a giant cloth sack. I changed my position so that my hands were open in front of me, and the diamonds began to pour down on me like rain.
I could not contain the meditation sitting down, so I got up and began to dance, swaying from side to side, sweeping my arms out in great broad flowing motions, like ocean waves. I then changed to “rocking motion” (from Tai Chi) and began to see myself as the Source, passing on and sharing my abundance with the world, especially in the season, when this hemisphere celebrates renewal and growth.
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