Worship

With the release of The Secret a few years ago, there’s been an ongoing buzz in ever widening circles beyond the New Age strata about the art and science of manifestation. 

From the get-go I believed the authors of The Secret were capitalizing on the unexpected cult success of What the Bleep?, and put together a watered down version of teachings that have been available for millennia.  While the principles of manifestation may now be explained using quantum physics, the power of mind has produced in human beings fantastic results for ages.  Witness the great pyramids, Stonehenge, and Machu Picchu, to name a few. 

How we choose to engage our minds, and to invest our related emotional energies directly affects whether we create in our lives prosperity or scarcity.  Universal laws, such as the Law of Attraction, dictate what becomes manifest is a result of the attention and energy in which we invest our minds and emotions. 

We have all heard of and have seen the powerful results of visualization.  World-class athletes have been using visualization techniques to stretch the limits of human achievement for decades.  While miracles of all sorts have been attributed to divine intervention, it is not without the express intention applied by human beings that directly affects the end results.

In business, we also see miracles whose inception begin with people’s focused intentions that direct their minds to begin selecting opportunities to create their expressed desires.  This, in a nutshell, is what I believe distinguishes successful entrepreneurs from those with chronic struggles.  Of course, in every business, challenges arise.  But the difference between those business owners who have prosperous, profitable companies and those with chronic losses, is their state of mind.

Prosperity consciousness is the state of mind in individuals who not only expect their desired results, but who focus their positive mental energy on engaging in activities that will support their success.  High emotional intelligence supports how they select opportunities that further their goals. Inner confidence and trust in guiding spiritual principles support behaviors that engender prosperity that can be measured in whatever ways are meaningful to each individual.

A scarcity mentality accompanies many businesses whose owners always seem to be barely surviving.  Vendors are consistently paid  late.  The owners have perennial fears about being able to meet payroll.  In looking at the historical financials, one sees a business run on the backs of its creditors.  Often the owners are lacking basic skills, yet never make the time to become educated or trained properly to execute good business practices.  I wonder whether they have a deep, perhaps unconscious feeling on unworthiness.  Conversely to prosperous business owners who focus on they most desire, those who consistently struggle, attract what they also focus upon, what they most fear. 

Making the change from scarcity to prosperity is not as simple as just changing one’s mind.  Our emotional patterns run deeply beneath our consciousness.  If you are running a business and have always seemed to be struggling to make ends meet, before you continue thinking that all you need is more money, consider investing first in yourself.  Find a life coach who can help you identify the root of your scarcity mentality, and who will provide appropriate tools to help you make the shift in consciousness that can create in you a true desire for the prosperity you can indeed manifest.

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