Thinking Rich

By controlling brain centers, we can draw to ourselves health, wealth, and prosperity. It is relatively easy to heal the body by keeping our energies balanced as we direct beneficial vibrations to meet a variety of healing needs. Prosperity, however, is often slightly more involved, even confusing, since we are conditioned to believe that the "accumulation of money automatically guarantees financial security and success." Since the acquisition of money is the most physical of all earthly events, it is difficult to see how the metaphysical process can work in creating a big bank account or in landing that big business deal.

One metaphysical principle states that awareness precedes physical manifestation. Thus, awareness of wealth initiates the flow of money and prosperity. This tells you that one must have a consciousness of these financial rewards before the physical appearance of money actually occurs. People who harbor guilt or who have faced monetary deprivation at some time in their lives often have difficulty thinking about prosperity and wealth in a positive way.

It is also believed that if one thinks rich and visualizes abundance before it actually appears, that money will be the byproduct of such action. A great example is the story of King Midas who constantly thought of gold. Midas reinforced the prosperity principle through continuous counting which perpetuated his hoard of wealth. The parable is slightly different, however, in working with people and the brain centers. One must not hold on as tightly to wealth as the famous king because the process of possession may contribute to actual loss. Although it is very important to visualize a wealthy status, undue focusing is not as rewarding as the maintenance of an attitude of positive expectancy. This makes the state of prosperity an ongoing experience. When we visualize the abundance rather than lack or limitation, central thoughts of expectations almost always come to pass, assuming they are a part of a greater cosmic plan. We can never have materially what is the extent of our visualizations. Yet intuitive sense usually tells us what is realistic, keeping us from imposssible or grandiose ideas that are not within our scheme of reality.

Often people have said no matter how much they wish or pray for abundance, wealth never seems to come. Such individuals spend many hours of the day focusing on the desire for money or manipulating business matters so that money will appear. An undue concentration on physical things, to the exclusion of all else may cause one to cling so tightly to the idea of prosperity that the prosperous flow is actually blocked. It is better to work diligently at a task visualizing wealth, and then let the idea go. Releasing the energy and letting the event happen by divine plan. When the centers of the brain becomes obsessed with an idea but fails to release it, an energy block occurs which prevents the desired action from manifesting in the physical plain. Releasing these ideas is often difficult to do because we sometimes feel that without continuous concentration on our goals they will elude us. Few people learn to keep ideas flowing. Rather, they keep every thought and desire in a premeditated state. This causes the energy to back up and prevents the free flow of prosperity. Such a blockage can even take the form of illness. Ultimately the stoppage of this thought energy results in a defeat of the desired goals of prosperity and a change in the harmonious balance of the individual himself.