Prosperity Boost 11 17 22

by Five PrinciplesProsperity

Manifesting your dreams is possible.

Successful manifestation requires you to get crystal clear on your specific goals. Make sure your goals are what you want – not what someone else wants for you.  They have to matter to you.  Then break the goals down into small steps that you can achieve.  That way you can see yourself doing something each day.

You have to believe in yourself.  You have to believe that you have the ability to actually do the small achievable steps and then that you can achieve your goal.  Henry Ford said, “If you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right.”  If you can’t believe in yourself then this is a place where you start to do some work.  We have to believe in our head, in our heart, and in our gut that we can grow and improve ourselves.

Finally, we have to take action.  All of this is great knowledge, but it has to be put to use for anything to happen in your life.  If you find yourself overwhelmed, break your goal down into even smaller steps.  When I wanted to be come a minister the big goal was overwhelming.  But calling to find out the requirements was a pretty easy first step.  Then I signed up and took the first class I needed.  It took me 5 years to reach my goal but step by step I got there.  And you can do that too.

Below are some tools that can help.

  1.  Make a treasure map or vision board.  This is a visual representation of your goals.  You might have one treasure map or vision board or several.  It is important that you are able to see it regularly.  On it you will want words and images that demonstrate the dreams, the energies, and the values you want in your life.  You may cut pictures from magazines or find images online.
  2. Keep a journal of your dreams or intentions.  You can work with this daily, weekly or even monthly.  Write out your dream, your goals and intentions.  Plot your future and make note of your progress.
  3. Pay attention to your beliefs.  Watch for signs of subconscious beliefs.  It is said that 95% of our lives are directed by our subconscious beliefs. Reflect on the beliefs and then work to transform the ones that no longer serve you.
  4. Keep a gratitude list or journal.  When you pay attention to the blessings in your life it is inspires you to think positively and to find more blessings.  Doing this is like saying “Thank You” to the Universal Mind of God that indwells us all.  Universal mind doesn’t need us to say thank you – we need us to say thank you so that we develop the practice of becoming more aware of the abundance we are already blessed with.  Gratitude is magnetic – because when we focus our attention on good things, we get more good things in our lives. It is a good way to end your day if you write down 5-10 things you are thankful for.
  5. And before you go to sleep not only paying attention to what we are grateful for, we can use this time to download new information into our minds.  Dr Bruce Lipton has proven that when we are in the relaxed state before sleeping it is a great time to reprogram our subconscious mind. We can use subliminal recordings and affirmations.
  6. Another tool is to write a letter from your future self.  Imagine that you are in the future – maybe 1 year, 5 years or even 10 years (any period you select – since it is 2022 maybe you want to write a letter from 2025.)  Imagine that you have achieved your dreams in that time period and begin to write as if you have already embodied and experienced everything you long for. Tell yourself what you’ve achieved.  Fill in as much detail as possible.  Address an envelope to yourself and keep it in a save place so that you can read it when that time comes.  You will be amazed what you set in motion with this tool.
  7. Use positive affirmations, such as:
    1. I am a beloved child of God and am worthy of receiving my heart’s desire.
    1. I trust the universe and its goodness.
    1. Daily I am moving towards my highest dreams.
    1. I am open and receptive to all the good that the Universe has for me.
    1. I am always learning, growing and evolving.
  8. Think outside the box.  Thomas Jefferson said, “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.”  Reread that – it’s powerful.  You and I have to make a conscious choice to move out of our comfort zone and we need to look for opportunities to do that daily. Maybe take a class, invite someone new to lunch or ask someone for help.
  9. Have a prayer practice.  Take at least 5-10 minutes a day to talk to the Universal Mind of God that lives in you.  Just talk about what you are grateful for and what you want help with.  After you have spent a few minutes talking – stop talking and just be open to listen.  You might not hear an answer in that very moment, but you will receive the insights and knowledge you need.  You just have to pay attention.

Prosperity Boost 10 20 22

by Five PrinciplesPrayerProsperity

4 Boxes & Golden Key

4 Boxes

Imagine 4 boxes or squares with an arrow from box 1 to box 2, and an arrow from box 2 to box 3: and an arrow from box 3 back to box 4, with an arrow from box 4 back to box 1.  Or imagine a circle with f points on the circle, each pointing to the next point (going clockwise).  The first box has the words Decision, Belief and Perception.  The second box has the words we gather evidence.  The third box has the words We act on the evidence and the fourth box has the words others react to us.

The purpose of this picture that I’m asking you to imagine is the cycle that you and I participate in all the time.  Whenever we hold a particular decision, belief or perception we unconsciously start gathering evidence that support that belief.  And then we act on the evidence and others react to us which reinforces the original belief. 

How does this apply to prosperity?  If our basic belief is that we ‘aren’t good enough’ we will look for evidence that supports that belief – even to the point of ignoring evidence that shows how worthy, we are.  That leads us to acting from that place of unworthiness and then others will react to us as unworthy, and our original belief of unworthiness will be reinforced. 

Which belief do you hold? Is your underlying belief that are unworthy, or do you hold the underlying belief that you are a beloved child of God who inherits all of the goodness of God’s kingdom. If you are unsure which is your subconscious belief, all you have to do is look around at your world.  Are you experiencing lack or abundance?

The Golden Key – by Emmet Fox

Scientific prayer will enable you to get yourself or anyone else, out of any difficulty. It is the golden key to harmony and happiness.

 To those who have no acquaintance with the mightiest power in existence, this may appear to be a rash claim, but it needs only a fair trial to prove that, without a shadow of doubt, it is a just one. You need take no one’s word for it, and you should not. Simply try it for yourself.

 God is omnipotent, and we are God’s image and likeness and have dominion over all things. This is the inspired teaching, and it is intended to be taken literally, at its face value. The ability to draw on this power is not the special prerogative of the mystic or the saint, as is so often supposed, or even of the highly trained practitioner. Everyone has this ability Whoever you are, wherever you may be, the golden key to harmony is in your hand now. This is because in scientific prayer it is God who works, and not you, and so your particular limitations or weaknesses are of no account in the process. You are only the channel through which the divine action takes place, and your treatment will be just the getting of yourself out of the way.

 Beginners often get startling results the first time, for all that is essential is to have an open mind and sufficient faith to try the experiment. Apart from that, you may hold any views on religion, or none.

 As for the actual method of working, like all fundamental things, it is simplicity itself. All you have to do is this: Stop thinking about the difficulty, whatever it is, and think about God instead. This is the complete rule, and if only you will do this, the trouble, whatever it is, will disappear. It makes no difference what kind of trouble it is. It may be a big thing or a little thing: it may concern health, finance, a lawsuit, a quarrel, an accident, or anything else conceivable: but whatever it is, stop thinking about it and think of God instead — that is all you have to do.

 It could not be simpler, could it? God could scarcely have made it simpler, and yet it never fails to work when given a fair trial.

 Do not try to form a picture of God, which is impossible. Work by rehearsing anything or everything that you know about God. God is wisdom, truth, inconceivable love. God is present everywhere, has infinite power, knows everything, and so on. It matters not how well you may think you understand these things: go over them repeatedly.

 But you must stop thinking of the trouble, whatever it is. The rule is, to think about God. If you are thinking about your difficulty, you are not thinking about God. To be continually glancing over your shoulder in order to see how matters are progressing is fatal, because it is thinking of the trouble, and you must think of God and nothing else. Your object is to drive the thought of the difficulty out of your consciousness, for a few moments at least, substituting for it the thought of God. This is the crux of the whole thing. If you can become so absorbed in this consideration of the spiritual world that you forget for a while about the difficulty, you will find that you are safely and comfortably out of your difficulty — that your demonstration is made.

 In order to “golden key” a troublesome person or a difficult situation, think. “Now 1 am going to ‘golden key’ John, or Mary. or that threatened danger”: then proceed to drive all thought of John, or Mary, or the danger out of your mind, replacing it with the thought of God.

 By working in this way about a person, you are not seeking to influence his conduct in any way, except that you prevent him from injuring or annoying you, and you do him nothing but good. Thereafter, he is certain to be in some degree a better, wiser, and more spiritual person, just because you have “golden keyed” him. A pending lawsuit or other difficulty would probably fade out harmlessly without coming to a crisis, justice being done to all parties concerned.

 If you find that you can do this very quickly, you may repeat the operation several times a day with intervals between. Be sure, however, each time you have done it, that you drop all thought of the matter until the next time. This is important.

 We have said that the golden key is simple, and so it is, but of course it is not always easy to turn. If you are very frightened or worried, at first it may be difficult to get your thoughts away from material things. But by constantly repeating a statement of absolute Truth, such as: There is no power but God: I am the child of God, filled and surrounded by the perfect peace of God: God is love; God is guiding me now; or, perhaps best and simplest of all. God is with me — however mechanical or trite it may seem — you will soon find that the treatment has begun to “take.” And that your mind is clearing. Do not struggle violently; be quiet, but insistent. Each time you find your attention wandering, switch it back to God.

 Do not try to think in advance what the solution to your difficulty will be. This is called “outlining” and will only delay the demonstration. Leave the question of ways and means to God. You want to get out of your difficulty that is sufficient. You do your half, and God will never fail to do God’s.

 “Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Acts 2:21).

Prosperity Boost 10/13/22

by Five PrinciplesPrayerProsperity

A verse from the Old Testament says, “Choose this day who you will serve.”  Choose this day.  Will we serve God or will we serve the world.  Will we get caught up in the world’s beliefs?  It is conscious choice that you and I make.  And it means that literally in every now moment, no matter how it looks, will we make a stand right there?  Will I be an opening for God, for love, for peace to come through?  Or will I go with my first reaction? 

And we make that choice every time by where we place our attention.  There is a spiritual law, it operates every time, what we focus on increases. 

God doesn’t change.  God is always present.  But if we choose to focus on a problem or a challenge, as long as we focus on that problem the problem increases.  As long as we focus on what is wrong, we aren’t open and receptive to the solution.  When we focus on God, more love and more peace must come through.  Whatever we focus on we get to experience more of.  We get to prove our belief systems.  All there is God.  God is the big Truth.  Everything less than God is our opinion.  You and I get to experience our opinion over and over and over again.

         If our opinion is that God is less than or that God is lacking in any way that is what we get to experience.  But that doesn’t limit God.  Michael Beckwith a new thought minister says, “Take your limits off of God and God will take his limits off of you.”  Because God already is the perfection, the wholeness, everywhere present.  But your opinion is your beliefs.  And so, every moment in our lives gives us a chance to choose again.

         Before I came into Unity, I didn’t know I had a choice.  Many of us really didn’t know that God was a Spirit that lives within me.  An omnipresent Spirit that was all powerful.  I didn’t know that.  Maybe there were times in your life when you didn’t know this.  But we know this now.  And so now we have the opportunity to practice what we know.  Now we not only know it, but we also make it the experience of our lives by doing it.  What we are talking about is a Spiritual Practice.

Psychologists tell us that it takes 21 days to lay down a habit.  Our brain works on habit.  Some people are habitually up – that’s because it is a habit.  If we want to transform our lives, we have to find a way to break our cycle of thinking.  We aren’t patterned that way.  We have to practice.  We have to lay down a new pattern.  Eventually with a new pattern it will become automatic to turn to God.  To look for God in every situation.  And we will find God in every experience.  But we have to practice it.  We have to realize we have a choice.  C – H – O – I – C -E.  Right in the middle – “Oh! I see.”  When the ship hits the sand, we have to have a queue to help us remember this Golden Key.  I want to suggest “Oh! I See” – this is another opportunity for me to make a choice.  If someone cuts in front of us on the highway we can say “OH! I see” this is another opportunity to learn patience.  This is another opportunity to think about God.

There is a little booklet, by Emmet Fox published by Unity, called the Golden Key.  It is one of the most concise, easy to understand descriptions of how to overcome any problem.  It begins with “Scientific prayer will enable you to get yourself, or anyone else, out of any difficulty.”  This process is aptly described as scientific because it is verifiable and repeatable just like any other scientific procedure… like any other scientific law.  God has no favorites; it works for you and me alike.

         And it is so easy.  There are only two steps.

         I’d like for you to think about your problem, or that person who really pushes your button.  Do you know who or what I’m talking about? 

OK, step one is STOP!  Just like Diana Ross’s song – Stop in the name of Love.  You have to find a way to stop thinking about that problem, that difficulty, that person or whatever or whoever it is.

         And step two, Start thinking about God Instead.  Just start thinking about what you know about God.  It doesn’t have to be a big chant or a dissertation.  whatever you know about God.  All you know might be a verse from a song like Jesus loves me – don’t worry that’s enough.

         That’s it!  nothing could be simpler.  It doesn’t matter what the problem is.  I don’t have a job.  My roof is damaged.  My house is flooded.  She drives me crazy.  It might be a little thing, or it might be a big thing.  It might concern health, finance, a lawsuit, a quarrel, an accident, or anything else.  It doesn’t matter what it is, whenever we begin to worry, all we have to do is stop thinking about the problem and think about God instead.

         What do we know about God?  We know that God is present everywhere. We don’t have a problem bigger than God.  I’ve known people that could talk about an ingrown toenail over and over until it was so big you would think that it was like children starving in India.   We know that God has infinite power.  We know that God isn’t less than this problem.  We know that God knows everything.  That God is all good, that God is wisdom, truth, inconceivable love.  What matters is that we are thinking about God.

         The object is for us to push any worry thoughts out of our consciousness, substituting those worry thoughts with thoughts about God.  It sounds so simple, and it is.  This method is simple, but it isn’t easy.  It takes practice.  And it is hard to stop thinking about what worries us.  But with practice we can learn to respond with God thoughts automatically whenever we are faced with a worry thought or any thought of lack or limitation. 

When I came into Unity and began to know the Unity Principles, I thought that if I could just get them down right, I’d never have another problem.  If I just walked down the spiritual path life would be a bed of roses like in a fairy tale.  You know I had looked for prince charming so I could live happily ever after and that didn’t work.  When I embrace Unity and our income quadrupled, I thought wow this is wonderful We’ll never have another problem.  Have any of you ever thought that?  Was I ever wrong.  What Unity does is teach me how to get beyond the problem.  It teaches me how to be calm in spite of the storm.

Even as we begin our spiritual journey, we have many unconscious beliefs that we are unworthy, all of the race conscious beliefs, thoughts that we are unloved, not good enough, ideas of lack and limitation.  And they are in our consciousness.  And when they come up is the very moment we must choose for God.  We must say: “Oh, I see.  Wow, there is an old belief.  I must choose for God.  Now is when I must turn my attention to God.

         If I’m applying for a job and get another rejection letter I can say “Oh I see, this is another opportunity for me to learn to love myself. This is one step closer to my perfect placement.  It is a call for me to turn my attention to God with thoughts like I am a beloved child of God called to do God’s work.  God is guiding me now.  God is with me now.”

         In the tough times, when the storms like Ian blow into our lives, when our relationships seem to be falling apart, when we lose our jobs, when someone we love dies – that is when we must turn to God.  And when we do that is when the miracles happen.  That is when the old belief systems begin to crumble, and our lives are transformed.  We don’t have any problem bigger than God.  We don’t have a problem that God’s grace can’t solve.  We have to learn that in every now moment we have a choice, especially when those moments seem tough.  In each moment we can say “Oh, I see,” there is a mystery going on here, I don’t understand this, but I know that God is present.  Oh, I see now is the time for me to pray.  Oh, I see, now is the time for me to read my daily word.  Oh, I see, now is the time for an affirmation. 

         In the days to come I invite you to use the Golden Key method.  I invite you to practice this phrase Oh, I see whenever anything happens this is an opportunity to turn my thoughts away from my problem, or my loved one’s problem and turn my thoughts to God.