Day 38: 40 Day Abundance Meditations--Do something different

 My consciousness of the Spirit within me as my unlimited Source is the Divine Power to restore the years the locusts have eaten, to make all things new, to lift me up to the High Road of abundant prosperity.  This awareness, understanding and knowledge of Spirit appears as every visible form and experience that I could possibly desire.*

All things new--what does that really mean?  To me it means that I only have this one minute, this one day.  It may be Saturday, January 19th, 2013.  It may be my son's 18th birthday (happy birthday, Nick!).  It may be the 38th day of a 40 day abundance meditation series.  It is certainly today.  It is certainly now.  This is the only time I have and I have the choice today to begin again and be new.  

We acknowledge that and celebrate it on New Year's Day and create resolutions for all sorts of ways we're going to change.  By January 19th, we may have let go of a number of our resolutions.   The truth is that I can turn on a dime and starting today, I can choose to do things differently for myself.  I can let go of habits that weren't serving me (how about just one?) and I can embrace habits that serve (again, just one?) and make all things new.

I heard an interview with Deepak Chopra on NPR the other day where he suggested just doing one thing differently than usually do to challenge your brain.  If you always buckle your belt on the left, turn it around and buckle it on the right.  If you always take a given route to work in your car, drive a different way (or better yet, bike or take a bus to work).  Do something different (and new) today.

*If you are just joining our show in progress, meditate on this for 15 minutes today.  You can start the meditations any day, don't worry about the day it says it is, but then do it for 40 days.  At any time you can look ahead or behind and see how it works by going to this link:  How to do the 40 day Meditation Program

Day 37: 40 Day Abundance Meditations--be confident in letting go!

The Divine Consciousness that I am is forever expressing its true nature of Abundance.  This is its responsibility, not mine.  My only responsibility is to be aware of this Truth.  Therefore, I am totally confident in letting go and letting God appear as the abundant all-sufficiency in my life and affairs.*

What is striking me today is the word "confidence."  I have often been known I should let go and let God.  I have sometimes been willing to do so.  And sometimes I have even done it, but have I been confident--rarely.  

Well, I take that back, there are areas where I AM confident.  I am always clear that for every problem there is a solution.  I am clear that I often don't know what the solution is.  And I am clear that the solution will come.  I have a LOT of trust in the creative process because I have noticed in years of writing term papers, meeting deadlines, and paying bills that even when I have no idea where the paper, the energy, the idea or the money is going to come from, it does come and it generally comes on time.

Yet right now, while I'm on leave from work due to debilitating energy depletion, I am super frustrated by not knowing when I'm going to be well, what I can do and what I can't do.  I want to try to control things so that I can feel ok and I have no control whatsoever--I know that there will be answers and things will resolve, but I feel like I lack the confidence to simply let go.  Well, I guess I have to do it anyway.

*If you are just joining our show in progress, meditate on this for 15 minutes today.  You can start the meditations any day, don't worry about the day it says it is, but then do it for 40 days.  At any time you can look ahead or behind and see how it works by going to this link:  How to do the 40 day Meditation Program

Day 36: 40 Day Abundance Meditations--gratitude is transformative

My inner supply instantly and constantly takes on form and experience according to my needs and desires, and as the Principle of Supply in action, it is impossible for me to have any needs or unfulfilled desires.*

This reminds me of my most transformative spiritual practice which is gratitude.  I write 20 things I'm grateful for every day.  I make them unique to that day.  Like, I'm not just grateful for my children every day, I'm grateful for something specific that my children did that day or that I thought about them.  The worst thing that happens that day, I try to find several things to be grateful for.  Sometimes if that "bad" thing is really weighing on me, I'll use all 20 on it and just keep listing things I'm grateful for until it shifts and I feel it.  When I started this practice I had a life beyond my wildest dreams, but I didn't know it.  Now I know it.  It is not difficult to have my needs and desires fulfilled if I pay attention.

 *If you are just joining our show in progress, meditate on this for 15 minutes today.  You can start the meditations any day, don't worry about the day it says it is, but then do it for 40 days.  At any time you can look ahead or behind and see how it works by going to this link:  How to do the 40 day Meditation Program

Day 35: 40 Day Abundance Meditations--Truth is streaming live 24 hours a day

Money is not my supply.  No person, place or condition is my supply.  My knowledge of the all-providing activity of the Divine Mind within me is my supply.  My consciousness of this Truth is unlimited; therefore, my supply is unlimited.*

Like Netflix, I can stream consciousness 24 hours a day.  Unlike Netflix, there is an unlimited selection of what I can stream and I don't have to pay a monthly fee (unless you count tithing my time, talent and treasure to my spiritual source).  How fast I get it depends on my connection.

*If you are just joining our show in progress, meditate on this for 15 minutes today.  You can start the meditations any day, don't worry about the day it says it is, but then do it for 40 days.  At any time you can look ahead or behind and see how it works by going to this link:  How to do the 40 day Meditation Program

Day 34: 40 Day Abundance Meditations--I am fully supplied

Through my consciousness of my Godself, the Christ within, as my Source, I draw into my mind and feeling nature the very substance of Spirit.  This substance is my supply, thus my consciousness of the Presence of God within me is my supply.

For some reason this is making me think of a website I wasted time reading the other day specifying what post-apocalyptic supplies I should lay in.  As I started to think I needed to go to Target at 9:30 at night with the list (can you get bullets and cartons of cigarettes--crucial for barter--at Target?), I realized, hey, I'm a backpacker.  I've got a sleeping bag, pad, water filter, camp stove, backpack, tent and LOTS of duct tape (you can't imagine how vital a role duct tape can play in your survival, people!) in my alley storage.  If I only move all the camping supplies in house and add some food (plus the bullets and cigarettes, see above), I'm good to go.

This is how God works.  My supply is already here (possibly in off-site storage, meaning I'm not using it daily), close at hand and available.  I don't need to go to a big box store (church) to find God.   I can.  But it's already here and the relief I feel knowing that I'm protected and loved and have plenty of cigarettes and bullets to barter is incalculable.

*If you are just joining our show in progress, meditate on this for 15 minutes today.  You can start the meditations any day, don't worry about the day it says it is, but then do it for 40 days.  At any time you can look ahead or behind and see how it works by going to this link:  How to do the 40 day Meditation Program