Easy, Fun Ways to Feel Prosperous
When the Economy Screams 'Poverty!'
by Heather Gray
I would start this list with, "Stop watching the news!" but these days that is just about impossible. In New York City, where I live, there are back seat television screens in cabs, elevator flat screens, and RSS feeds everywhere with headlines of unemployment rates, bailouts, caving consumer confidence and recession, recession, recession.
Given this daily dosage of fear and poverty consciousness, I want to arm you with some easy, fun ways to guide yourself back to feeling and being prosperous.
1.) Do Headline Back Flips.
Change negative headlines to their opposites and enjoy the positive vibes.
For example, I took these very real (and gloomy) headlines:
- As Fears Grow, Wall St. Titans See Shares Fall
- Money Market Funds Enter a World of Risk
- Financial Turmoil
I flipped them and, voila...
- As courage grows, the noble and the good see investments rise.
- Money Market Funds enter a world of hope.
- Financial harmony, order and peace.
2.) Stretch your Creativity.
Creativity is a resource that gets richer the more it is used. Creativity thrives on action and builds on itself. I love writing, so I am challenging myself to a self-created game of writing 100 articles in 100 days (this is article #1). Part of the joy is not knowing where the creativity adventure will take you. For my creative stretch, I can only put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and start with the first word, which becomes a sting of words, and eventually completed articles.
What creative activities do you enjoy? Tap in and start stretching your creativity. It's a free resource that can lead you out of negative mind traps and into opportunities for prosperity that your "anxious and worried" mind would never think of.
3.) Take the high dive plunge into your fear.
When the feeling of fear does comes over you ("OMG, I am one blip away from being penniless...") -- don't stuff it. Instead, stop and stay with the feeling. Dive into the feeling. Where in your body do you feel it? If it had a texture, temperature or color what would that be?
Once you feel it fully, ask yourself, "Can I let this go?" (Allow the answer to rise up from within. If it's "no," feel it some more before repeating the question again.) Once you get an authentic "yes," allow the feeling to release. Feel it release. Ahhh.
Emotions get stuck at a cellular level. Instead of becoming the economy's walking wounded use this simple exercise to release and let go of the fear.
4.) Play with your personal light saber -- send out secret blessings.
This is one of my favorites. If you've watched "What the Bleep Do We Know" or read any quantum physics, then my best explanation for why this works is that there's a whole lot happening on the quantum level and we really don't know "bleep"!
Ways to use blessings for finances: bless your bills ("Thank you Con Edison for supplying me with light"); bless all of your financial statements and any money coming in (never see it as too small or not enough, bless it and thank the universe for this abundance, there is more where it came from); and finally bless any money going out ("Thank you Starbucks for this vanilla latte, and the machines that made it, the workers who showed up to serve me, the cow who was milked, and the coffee beans that were grown. And all for $4.95 Wow. I bless you all.") The doors of prosperity open to you now.
5.) Become a kid again.
As a child, did you worry about your 401k? You were a lot more present and living moment to moment. Life is an adventure. We are all in this together. Remember these time proven truths: you are not your net worth; what goes up, must come down (and visa-versa); and there is nothing to fear but fear itself.
Blessings to you on your true path. You are a child of god, all is well and prosperity is your natural state of being.
(c) 2008 Heather Gray, All rights reserved.

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