WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT AND DID from this moment on was positive and enhanced your success and prosperity? What if you now had all the knowledge, wisdom, and resources to achieve your wildest dreams? What if you were powerful beyond measure and there was really nothing, but your own mind, that could stop you?

How about starting to dream big, using all your faculties to imagine you can obtain your wildest, biggest, seemingly impossible dream? Now that you've imagined it, have you asked yourself how to get it? If not, that could be what is halting your forward progress.

"The more sensitive you are to your emotional state,
the more guidance you can receive from your inner wisdom.
The emotion that you feel will let you know. Positive emotion
is an indication that you are in alignment with your inner intentions.
Negative emotion is an indication that you are not."
~Eva

The mind is a wonderful thing. It works day and night to solve the things that are presented to it. In fact, it won't stop until we acknowledge that the result is to our liking. How often have you pushed something out of your consciousness only to have it resurface in your dreams? That's the mind still working on the solution that was requested.

Since questions predetermine answers, the problem that most of the population faces is they dream too small. How often have you found yourself asking for a new job, a 5% raise, or a couple of new clients? While you have effectively mastered asking and manifesting your requests, what if you began asking bigger questions, like "how do I become a millionaire?" In other words, think, dream, and question big! Imagine putting the mind to work on that one!

Joel sat by the water staring ahead but not seeing the glorious view or appreciating the beautiful day. Instead he was buried in distress. He had just a few days to come up with the money to pay his bills and he was horribly short. So he sat by the water trying to think of ways to secure the much needed cash. Borrowing the money was out. Overtime would provide the funds, but not in time. While he was contemplating his dilemma, an older gentleman of about 70 sat down at the other end of the bench. After a few moments he asked Joel why he had such a heavy heart. Joel replied that his finances were strained month after month, and this month was the worse yet.

The older gentleman looked at Joel for several seconds and replied, "So, what are you going to do about it?" To this Joel snapped, "Well, if I knew that, I wouldn't be sitting here!" The older gentleman thought for a moment and said, "I think that you have finally found the problem." To this Joel looked at him with exasperation clearly etched on his face.

"The more emotion behind a thought, the faster its physical manifestation -
whether the thoughts and emotions are positive or negative. Once you
understand that, you understand how you've created the life you are living."
~Eva

The older gentleman drew a deep breath and began to explain it slowly. "You see, young fellow, you have spent so much time dwelling on how to meet your monthly obligations, that you have not spent any time trying to solve your lifetime obligations. I don't mean the financial obligations to others, but the ones you owe to yourself. So, I suggest that you broaden your line of sight and try to determine how you're going to make your success for one year, ten years, twenty years, and finally a lifetime. Don't fret, ask the questions and the answers will come. In the meanwhile you'll find your daily, weekly and monthly expenses will take care of themselves."

The older gentleman got up from the bench, placed his hat on his head, tipped it to Joel and carefully made his way back down the path. At the end of the path Joel saw a chauffeur waiting patiently for the gentleman, with the door held wide. Joel looked after him for a few minutes and decided then and there to put the advice given to him to use. He figured he had nothing to lose, and the old gentleman must know a bit about what he suggested if he could afford a chauffeur-driven limousine.

Are you going to take the advice of the old gentleman too, and broaden your line of sight? Are you asking the BIG questions and letting the little ones fall into place on their own? Let your mind do what it does best and solve the problems for you. Just remember that you asked the question, so be on the lookout for the answer when it comes. Please note the verbiage - when it comes, not if, for the answer will come.

Do you question the notion that there is enough abundance to go around - for everyone? Why is that? Is it because we have been conditioned to believe that only a select few will reach the personal and financial goals to which they aspire? Or because we have bought into the saying that "if something seems too good to be true, it is", and believing that abundance abounds would certainly seem too good to be true.

What if abundance began and ended with you ... with your thoughts, your beliefs, and your actions? Would you be more apt to embrace the belief? Ironically, the abundance that shows up in your life, or the lack of it, is directly correlated to you and your beliefs.

Abundance is everywhere. Like Niagara Falls, in its natural state it is a constant flow, plentiful, only diminishing when tampered with.

Abundance follows the same principle. It exists for everyone that keeps an open mind and does not diminish the flow. Besides Niagara Falls, can you think of another example of abundance? What about the air we breathe? Or perhaps the choices that are ours to make? Both of these abound.

If abundance seems to be missing in your life, what is your current state of mind? Are you addressing all the things you would like to have but do not? If so, you are perpetuating lack and pushing abundance further from your reality. In The One Minute Millionaire, Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen provide an exercise designed to help change your state of mind to one of abundance. They suggest that it be done twice a day, just before going to sleep and getting out of bed each morning.

The four statements should not just be repeated, but should be said with belief and conviction:

Do you feel the power emanating from these statements? Do you believe them? If you are finding it difficult to accept them, give it time, but continue on with the exercise. It generally takes three to four weeks for a repetitive action to become a habit, and for a belief to gel. In time the affirmations will become your reality and you will find yourself recognizing abundance all around you.

Can you think of people who have abundance showing up on a regular basis? What do they do to have this always present in their lives? There are many admired celebrities that live the principle of abundance. Take Oprah, for example. One of the wealthiest women in the world who has made the commitment to give back - The Angel Network, The Book Club, and bringing to the forefront things that can help everyone create better lives for themselves and those around them. Oprah has embraced abundance, and clearly she continues to magnetize it. Can we take a life lesson from her? Should we? YES!

Stop buying into the "not enough" principle. There is enough ... more than enough for all of us. It may just take a little effort on your part to change your state of mind from lack to abundance. Don't you think it's worth it?

Can you feel it? The freedom to live life as you choose? To make decisions based on your desires instead of necessity? The opportunity to live life to the fullest and experience all of the things you thought were out of reach? Does this sound too good to be true? It's not!

Freedom is available to you at any time ... even now. When you decide to pursue a lifestyle full of freedom, you make a commitment to be successful in your life dealings to W-I-N at all your endeavors. Like everything, it begins with you.

The ability to attract wealth is the starting gun in the freedom race. Why wealth? Because while money does not guarantee happiness, it does pave the way over the bumps that cause many to stumble. It helps eliminate the stress and worry associated with bills and debt, and takes away the "shoulds" and "musts" that accompany thoughts of lack.

What follows wealth? The freedom of time. Does just the thought make you sigh? Imagine the time to do what you would like to do, not what you feel pressured to do. To have the time to pursue a hobby, spend unlimited amounts of time with your loved ones, or to go on a trip or for a walk for the sheer enjoyment of the experience? To have the chance to pursue your passions because you no longer come from a place of not enough money or time? Are you beginning to feel the energy of freedom? Intoxicating, isn't it?

Next there is health. While good health is vital to the pursuit of freedom, without money to ease stress and time to put good healthful practices into place, the ability to achieve the best possible health is often impossible. Would you enjoy the freedom to have a home gym and the time to devote to training for a marathon? Or the ability to schedule childcare for a session with a personal trainer or to hire a dietary nutritionist for meal planning and cooking lessons. Health freedom, when coupled with wealth and time is the most valuable form of freedom there is. To have the freedom to do the best that you can for yourself for the rest of your life, and to help those around you do the same.

What about spirituality? How about having all the time to explore your beliefs, pursue them and integrate them into your life? Beliefs, no matter what they are, are important. It's one of the things that many never have time to pursue due to daily demands and pressures. Something that lives in hearts, but is not allowed to blossom outside of the person. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to embrace and unleash your spirit too?

When one has the freedom of wealth, time, health and spirituality, one has what can best be described as ultimate freedom. What does this term mean to you? Close your eyes and imagine a life with all of these freedoms already present. Can you feel it and embrace it? Are ideas for new projects, experiences, and concepts bursting forth? Are visions of happy faces and feelings of contentment filling your heart? Ultimate freedom provides you with all of the core tools necessary to propel you towards your passion and destiny.

Coach's Corner
Take out a sheet of paper and write down the things that have been showing up thus far in your life, and the things you believe will show when you practice the Laws of Attraction. Just so you know, you will run out of paper as your list will have an infinite number of possibilities that have been just waiting to flow from the tip of your pen. What an awesome habit to pick up, the habit of embracing abundance

Make the commitment today. Put the Laws of Attraction to work and take the first step towards wealth, time, health and spirituality with ultimate freedom being your eventual goal. It's not elusive at all. You can soar to freedom!



This concludes Eva Gregory's series based on her book The Feel Good Guide to Prosperity

© Eva Gregory, Leading Edge Publishers, 2005.

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